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Will Hodge (Unplugged Revisited)

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Host: UNPLUGGED REVISITED (MTV Unplugged podcast) | Writer * Bylines: Rolling Stone, No Depression, Grammys, etc. | PhD: Georgia State University (Diss: The Black Press) | R.E.M. Lifer | [email protected] CHI via ATL Podcast: https://shorturl.at/XVdoR

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Will Hodge (Unplugged Revisited) @willhodge.bsky.social · Sep 3

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.

Link: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u...

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Will Hodge (Unplugged Revisited) @willhodge.bsky.social · 1d

Hey @scottaukerman.bsky.social & @pftompkins.bsky.social! From your most recent Threedom… if you’d like to hear an AMAZING cover of “Calling Occupants…” (that sounds cool and isn’t 7+minutes), give the Babes in Toyland cover from the ‘94 Carpenters alt-rock tribute album a test spin! Love you guys!

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Stuff By Mark @stuffbymark.bsky.social · 2d

Entries 1 to 43 of an ongoing project reimagining Beatles songs as old, mid century design inspired film posters.

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Will Hodge (Unplugged Revisited) @willhodge.bsky.social · 5d

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…

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Will Hodge (Unplugged Revisited) @willhodge.bsky.social · 9d

**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).

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

Will Hodge (Unplugged Revisited) @willhodge.bsky.social · 9d

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!
Link: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u...

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Will Hodge (Unplugged Revisited) @willhodge.bsky.social · 10d

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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Unplugged Revisited

Music Commentary Podcast · Updated Biweekly · Unplugged Revisited is a podcast that celebrates, critiques, and dives deep into the last three-and-a-half decades of the pop cultural game changer MTV Un...

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Will Hodge (Unplugged Revisited) @willhodge.bsky.social · 10d

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!

Will Hodge (Unplugged Revisited) @willhodge.bsky.social · 11d

**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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Will Hodge (Unplugged Revisited) @willhodge.bsky.social · 11d

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!

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Will Hodge (Unplugged Revisited) @willhodge.bsky.social · 11d

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

Will Hodge (Unplugged Revisited) @willhodge.bsky.social · 11d

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)

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Will Hodge (Unplugged Revisited) @willhodge.bsky.social · 11d

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!
Link: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u...

Will Hodge (Unplugged Revisited) @willhodge.bsky.social · 12d

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!

Will Hodge (Unplugged Revisited) @willhodge.bsky.social · 12d

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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Gangsta Goes Global: Coolio Reminisces On The Worldwide Success Of His Signature Hit, "Gangsta’s Paradise" | GRAMMY.com

As the world's leading society of music professionals, the Recording Academy is dedicated to celebrating, honoring, and sustaining music's past, present, and future.

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Will Hodge (Unplugged Revisited) @willhodge.bsky.social · 18d

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.

Will Hodge (Unplugged Revisited) @willhodge.bsky.social · 26d

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

Will Hodge (Unplugged Revisited) @willhodge.bsky.social · 26d

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Will Hodge (Unplugged Revisited) @willhodge.bsky.social · 26d

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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Will Hodge (Unplugged Revisited) @willhodge.bsky.social · 26d

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!

Will Hodge (Unplugged Revisited) @willhodge.bsky.social · 26d

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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Will Hodge (Unplugged Revisited) @willhodge.bsky.social · 26d

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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Will Hodge (Unplugged Revisited) @willhodge.bsky.social · 26d

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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Will Hodge (Unplugged Revisited) @willhodge.bsky.social · 27d

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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‘Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery - The Untold Story’ | Official Trailer

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Will Hodge (Unplugged Revisited) @willhodge.bsky.social · Sep 12

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Will Hodge (Unplugged Revisited) @willhodge.bsky.social · Sep 8

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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Boyz II Men Perform "Motown Philly" Live at Kaufman Studios 1992

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