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[-] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

They did give at least a solid twelve years of music. The best unplugged episodes were in the early nineties.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The early 90's is also when they started showing less and less music and more shit like The Real World, Road Trip and Beavis & Butt-Head. Even when I was a kid and saw Nirvana's Unplugged set (arguably the best episode of Unplugged), the saying that "MTV doesn't have music videos" was already a popular joke.

[-] profdc9@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Music Television doesn't necessarily have to be showing videos, but showing something at least tangentially related to music would be nice. MTV is now what every channel is: put whatever is required in front of the viewer to sell ads. All channels are the same shit now.

[-] Moops@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I still break out a few of those unplugged jams from time to time.

[-] t_berium@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I love the series. I still regularly watch/listen to a couple of gigs.

KISS Unplugged is simply awesome. And Pearl Jam. And Alice in Chains. And... sigh good times, man.

[-] myrrh@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

...at least through ninety-five they still ran music videos overnight and weekly themed shows (120 minutes, headbanger's ball, MTV raps) at specific timeslots, but by the mid-nineties music videos had been relegated to graveyard-shift filler as the network increasingly focused on conventional programming...

...fourteen years is a pretty fair assessment, methinks...

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I loved the Unplugged series! Still my favorite version of a few Nirvana tracks.

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