10 Greatest MTV Unplugged Rock Performances

10. Hole

On Valentines day in 1995, some 15 months following her husband Kurt Cobain’s own appearance on Unplugged, controversial singer/song writer Courtney Love brought her band Hole (including founding guitar player Eric Erlandson) to MTV, for a set largely lifted from their 1994 platinum selling album Live Through This.

The album was released just one week following Kurt’s suicide, and it is rumoured the record had been largely written by Cobain, although Love and Erlandson have always strongly denied this. Love’s vocal drawl on classic songs such as Doll Parts and Best Sunday Dress suited the stripped-down sound well, and we can only imagine who and what was going through her head during her unique performance that day.

Hole were accompanied by a string ensemble, and, as well as covering Duran Duran, also performed the unreleased Nirvana song You Know You’re Right, which would later appear on Cobain’s posthumous-released greatest hits compilation.