Rod Stewart The Very Best Of Rar Series Most Lauded

The show was met with surprisingly high acclaim and viewership, and everyone and their brother signed up for an acoustic session.

Rod Stewart The Very Best Of Rar Series Most Lauded

Very Best of MTV Unplugged compiles some of the series most lauded moments, most notably Eric Claptons smash performance of Tears in Heaven.

Aside from R.E.M., many notable performances from the shows early years (which featured, among others, the Cure and 10,000 Maniacs with their memorable rendition of Because the Night) are conspicuously absent from the disc, as well as performances from the landmark Unplugged hip-hop sessions.

Those issues aside, memorable performances do abound here, from some of the most important names in the history of pop music.

Alanis Morissette - Ironic (3:52) 03.

R.E.M - Losing My Religion (4:38) 04.

Paul Simon - Mrs.Robinson (3:05) 09.

Annie Lennox - Here Comes The Rain Again (4:29) 10.

Rod Stewart - Tonights The Night (Gonna Be Alright) (3:59) 12.

Maggie May 14. Mandolin Wind 15.

I Know) Im Losing You 16.

Find A) Reason To Believe CD 2 01.

Angel 08. You Wear It Well 09.

Farewell 18. Missed You 19.

You Put Something Better Inside Me MercuryChronicles 2005 double-disc set Gold expands and rejiggers the previous best Rod Stewart double-disc set, 1992s Mercury Anthology.

This 35-track compilation contains all but five of the songs from that 32-track comp -- the live cuts with the Faces have been cut out -- in nearly the same sequencing.

So, anybody who already has that set, or already has the great 2002 triple-disc set Reason to Believe: The Complete Mercury Recordings, doesnt need to get this, since theres nothing new here.

However, anybody who wants an enormously entertaining, comprehensive overview of Stewart at his solo peak should get this, since it has all of the very greatest moments from his first four albums -- in fact, all of Every Picture Tells a Story is here, although the second side of the LP concludes the first disc here, with the first side of the LP opening the second disc -- at a very reasonable price.