History Main / UnpluggedVersion

* Music/{{Rush}} released a live acoustic version of their song "Resist" on the live album Rush in Rio. Geddy and Alex perform the song, while Neil takes a break after performing his [[AllDrummersAreAnimals drum solo.]]

* {{Music/Melvins}}' ''Five Legged Dog'' is a two-disc studio album featuring acoustic versions of songs from throughout their career and some covers. Their heavier songs are generally played with the same amount of aggression, just without the benefit of electric guitar, making it unusually rowdy for an "unplugged" session.

* Music/AgainstMe! inverted this by releasing an acoustic EP in 2001, several songs from which would eventually be rerecorded with an electric band for their proper debut LP, ''Reinventing Axl Rose''.

* Music/{{Erasure}}: ''Union Street'' and ''World Beyond''

* Music/NeilYoung had a performance and album in 1993 - the first half of the set was performed by Neil alone, while on the second half he was joined by a band. A lot of the featured songs were acoustic to begin with, but there were some notable rearrangements: "Like A Hurricane", originally one of his heavier songs and an example of EpicRocking, was cut down to five minutes and played on pump organ, while one of the most surprising inclusions was "Transformer Man", originally from the synthesizer and vocoder-heavy NewSoundAlbum ''Trans''. It's also notable as the only official release of "Stringman", a song written for the unreleased album ''Chrome Dreams''.

* Music/{{The Eagles}} did their 1995 album "Hell Freezes Over" with several fully-produced new songs alongside a semi-unplugged set of their classic hits, including their famous unplugged version of "Hotel California" that became a hit single in 1995. (though other songs off the set were fully plugged-in, including an epic version of "Life in the Fast Lane".)

* [[Music/FerryCorsten System F]]'s "Cry Unplugged".

Only counts as Unplugged Version if the musician or song isn't already an acoustic act... unless they manage to make it ''more'' acoustic. For harder acts, this can be a SurprisinglyGentleSong, but soft-rockers are just as likely to ditch their electric guitars from time to time. If an artist does an acoustic version of somebody else's song, that's CoverVersion, not this trope.

* During Papa Emeritus III's time as the singer of Music/{{Ghost|Band|}}, they occasionally did acoustic performances of their cover of Roky Ericson's "If You Have Ghosts" and their songs "Jigolo Har Megiddo" and "Ghuleh/Zombie Queen". For the latter song, Papa would play the keyboard parts on a kazoo, lending a song about an undead ruler [[KazoosMeanSilliness an odd air of silliness]]. He would also dramatically announce it as "the Kazoo of Destiny" when it came out.

* Music/AvengedSevenfold did a short acoustic concert in the Grammy Museum in 2018. While most of the songs they played ("Roman Sky", "So Far Away", the midle part of "Exist" and a cover of [[Music/TheRollingStones "As Tears Go By"]]) were already partly acoustic ballads, they also performed an unplugged version of "Hail to the King", originally a straight heavy-metal song.

* Bronski Beat's synthpop hit "Smalltown Boy" has two of these. First, in 1994, TheBandMinusTheFace recorded an acoustic version with Steve Bronski on vocals. Then in 2014, original singer Jimmy Somerville did a solo piano & vocals version.

* Bronski Beat's synthpop hit "Smalltown Boy" has two of these. First, in 1994, TheBandMinusTheFace recorded an acoustic version with Steve Bronski on vocals.
Then in 2014, original singer Jimmy Somerville did a solo piano & vocals version.