Will Hodge (Unplugged Revisited)

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Dude, thanks so much for listening! It really means the world to me. Fingers always crossed with R.E.M. as the conversations thankfully continue with them. For now, I’ll just have to…

**VINYL GIVEAWAY** Reminder as we head into the weekend: We’re running a vinyl giveaway for the new 20th anniversary reissue of Alicia Keys stellar Unplugged album (out today).

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Looking for a fun Friday/weekend podcast? Don’t miss my newest Unplugged Revisited about The Cranberries MTV Unplugged from ‘95 with my special guest - Cranberries drummer Fergal Lawler! Lots of great music and ‘90s nostalgic fuzziness in this one!
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YES!! 120 Minutes was an absolute goldmine of a buzzy, blissful musical dreamland. If by chance you were also a fan of MTV Unplugged, you might dig my MTV Unplugged podcast where I interview artists who played the show:
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His ‘91 MTV Unplugged session is a definite fav of mine. It was in the era right before they started releasing some episodes as albums, but we at least got a VHS/Laserdisc(!) release and a handful of the setlist later showed up as b-sides. Phenomenal acoustic takes on his solo and Police gems!

**VINYL GIVEAWAY** We’ve also partnered with Sony to run a vinyl giveaway for a copy of the new 20th anniversary reissue of Alicia Keys stellar Unplugged album (out this Friday, 10/3).

Entry details outlined in the pic and in today’s Unplugged Revisited episode: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u...

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Yeah, absolutely “You Oughta Know” by a mile on the impact/legacy front. Plus, while “Ironic” is still a great song, it doesn’t have that ‘94-‘95 Flea/Navarro special sauce on it!

As a fellow childhood Carmen consumer, happy “A Witch’s Invitation” season to you and yours!

I also feel like “You Oughta Know” is more explicitly linked to Alanis, while “Ironic” has its own “lyrical textual analysis” thread that’s engaged with outside of Alanis. So maybe “Ironic” is the bigger song (by some metrics) but “You Oughta Know” is the bigger “Alanis song” (and my fav of the two)

NEW EPISODE! Fergal Lawler of The Cranberries joins the show to discuss the band’s phenomenal 1995 MTV Unplugged and it finally getting released as an album (out 11/7)! Come for the Cranberries talk, stay for the double My So-Called Life drops!
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Thanks so much for checking out the podcast, Jason! Mike was such a blast to chat with and such a genuinely cool person. So glad he’s still out there making incredible music and having such a good time performing it!

I interviewed Coolio for the Grammys a few years back when “Gangsta’s Paradise” turned 25 and he loved it when I called him “the Kenny Loggins of the ‘90s” for all his soundtrack contributions (also Clueless, Panther, Poetic Justice, Jerky Boys, etc.) He was a trip!
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Oh man, gonna have to pick up the 40th anniversary reissue of this Descendents classic for the reworked Blue Note inspired cover art alone! Will be nice to retire my dusty old copy as well.

Great picks! Those are both SO UNBELIEVABLY GOOD - sonically and visually!

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Right?!? So many of them still sound so fresh and inspired. It’s cool to see some of the eps that didn’t get an album the first time around finally see the light of day. You might dig my MTV Unplugged podcast (Unplugged Revisited) if you give it a test spin.
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Man, a full album of their Woodstock ‘94 set would be AMAZING! The Green Day one for Record Store Day awhile back set a killer precedent so hopefully they’ll follow suit!

And just because who doesn’t love MORE new Unplugged goodness… Neil Young has finally pressed up his ‘93 Unplugged for US audiences but so far it’s only available as part of his ORS#6 boxset (out 10/23). Luckily it’s paired with other perfections!
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Also a heads up that Alicia Keys is repressing her 2005 Unplugged to vinyl for the first time since its original run! Her cover of Prince’s “How Come You Don’t Call Me” is worth the pick-up alone. It’s coming out in early-to-mid October and preorders are up now!
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Yes!!! 30 years later The Cranberries are finally blessing us with their MTV Unplugged session getting a proper standalone album (out 11/7). It was cool to get the 9-song set as bonus tracks on the No Need To Argue reissue earlier this year but this is aces!
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This looks so amazingly good! I’m really stoked for this new Ally Pankiw directed, Dan Levy produced doc about Lilith Fair to hit Hulu and Disney+ next week. Lilith was a genuinely revolutionary concept and I’m so stoked it’s getting this well deserved deep dive documentary.
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Yes!! What an insta-classic to this day! I always loved the way they amped it up on their MTV Unplugged episode (with Joe Public as their live backing band)!
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Agreed! Until that hopefully happens, feel free to see if my MTV Unplugged podcast (Unplugged Revisited) might be of interest to you. I’ve interviewed artists who played Unplugged, folks who worked on it, and a few of my fellow journalist friends. You might dig it!
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Thanks again for coming on the show, Rob! Here’s the video of Gil Scott-Heron I mentioned from one of the Spoken Word Unpluggeds. Easily one of the coolest things MTV ever did!
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UR012: Podcast Episode · Unplugged Revisited · 03/26/2025 · 1h 27m

I did a two-parter on Neil’s trio of Unplugged performances on my MTV Unplugged podcast (Unplugged Revisited). I interviewed two of the folks that worked on them and they had some great stories about the unaired ‘92 taping if you want to give it a test spin!

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On this day in 1989, Michael joined Amy and Emily of @indigogirlsmusic.bsky.social at John Keane studios in Athens to record “I’ll Give You My Skin.”

UR010: Nathan East (Eric Clapton Unplugged, Phil Collins Unplugged, Babyface Unplugged) [1992, 1994, 1997] Podcast Episode · Unplugged Revisited · 02/26/2025 · 1h 1m

Earlier this year I interviewed bassist Nathan East for my MTV Unplugged podcast. He played on Phil’s Unplugged (as well as the Clapton Unplugged and Babyface Unplugged). You might dig some of his Phil stories if you give it a spin!

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For our Season Two opener, we called in a Ringer! Writer, author, & podcaster @harvilla.bsky.social (“60 Songs that Explain the ‘90s”) joins the show to discuss MTV Unplugged’s massive, multi-layered impact throughout the 1990s via 6 exemplary performances.

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Plus, a pre-“A.C. Slater” Mario Lopez as well 😂 Wasn’t Shanice on there for a year or two as well?