Talk:MTV Unplugged

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Contents 1 Merge Unplugged into MTV Unplugged 2 Eric Clapton, other early appearances? 3 removed proposed merge tag 4 Unplugged and Acoustic music 5 Really unplugged? 6 First Spanish show was not Shakira's? 7 Not Shakira's Unplugged=

[edit] Merge Unplugged into MTV Unplugged

Any comments? - Kio 02:41, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

I don't think so, MTV Unplugged means quality live performances, eventhough its tempting to do so, but one is a genre and MTV Unplugged is more of a legacy. This is like saying all reality based TV show pages should be merged into the main reality show page.

I vote against the merger... RadicalSatDude 11:26, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Unplugged is an acoustic version of a blues/rock/pop song. If its not just a song, but an entire album it mostly has a form of a "Live Acoustic The Best Of". If you want to merge these two articles than m,erge them into Unplugged whick will have a section === MTV Unplugged series === --Milan Tešovic 14:58, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Against. They are two different things. "unplugged" is a specific genre of live performance. "MTV Unplugged" is a TV show featuring such performances. The genre itself - which is the acoustic presentation of songs initially familiar to audiences by virtue of performance with electric instruments - existed prior to the TV show.

The first MAJOR usage that attracted public attention was by Pete Townshend in 1979. (There were undoubtedly earlier such performances that were less celebrated.) The genre itself was not described by that word. The terminology was usually something like: "a live acoustic version of..." When the word "unplugged" was coined in 1989 to describe such performances - the term was then applied retro-actively to earlier such performances. Davidpatrick 18:47, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

OK...Then what about acoustic music and unplugged together? If I understood correctly, unplugged would be a "subcategory" of acoustic. Kio 20:10, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Eric Clapton, other early appearances?

Shouldn't greater prominence be given to the history of the show, and earlier performances, particlarly that of Eric Clapton, that turned Unplugged into an institution of sorts. Hmmm? ProhibitOnions 00:37, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

If you have any references, it would be a great addition! Kio 03:14, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] removed proposed merge tag

While MTV Unplugged consists of acoustic music, it would make no sense to merge these pages. Acoustic music is a concept that's far greater than the scope of a single show on MTV. Per WP:BB, I've removed the proposed merger due to an utter lack of support. quadratic 03:13, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unplugged and Acoustic music

It now seems clear to me thar the music genre is called acoustic music and should NOT be merged with MTV Unplugged. Nevertheless, I tried searching a little bit about the term Unplugged (which I thought was is an MTV Networks trademark) hoping to find lots of references, but all I could find was this page [1]. Is "Unplugged" (without "MTV") really an MTV trademark? - Kio 07:40, 7 May 2006 (UTC) ~I don't think so. Try googleing "unplugged is a trademark" and you'll find that it's part of other trademarks. Perhaps when it's put in a certain font it is theirs? The font could have been lost on the page you linked. ~Mila

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[edit] Really unplugged?

This article needs info about how Unplugged was not really purely acoustic. As far as I know, there's some controversy over this, but a source is needed. --Ldrhcp 02:17, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] First Spanish show was not Shakira's?

Charly Garcia's MTV Unplugged was the first all-Spanish language show AFAIK, since it was done in 1995. You can look the references up in Charly_Garcia and Spanish Wikipedia. Arciooh (talk) 18:58, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Not Shakira's Unplugged=

Well, I'm from Mexico and I consider myself as a big MTV Unplugged fan. I can tell you that before Shakira's Unplugged (1999) I enjoyed Mana's Unplugged in the same year, so that's a proof it was not the first Spanish Unplugged at all. 9 years before Shakira's performance, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, a former ska-rock band from Argentina opened the Spanish version of the show (1990), just a year after English Unplugged shows were aired, so Charly Garcia wasn't the first artist to play his songs "unplugged" either.

You can check on the MTV Latinoamerica's official site. [2]

BahíaBoy 15:17, 10 June 2008 (UTC)