Ok, had to think about what I wanted to do here, as my current action is likely to lead to me losing out on at least 1 of the 4 remaining songs I especially wanted. Nonetheless, I'm going to take this one, and then pass it over to my fair combatant at the end of the snake and see how she reacts.
Because the Night -- 10,000 Maniacs MTV Unplugged (1993)
Because of the murky origin story of this song, I'm not going to post the original, just in case somebody wants to argue it and take a different version. Nonetheless this represents the peak version, and really the peak for a lot of things all at once in that performance. It was Natalie Merchant's peak, probably 10,000 Maniacs peak, and their final hurrah as Natalie left them after the show, it might have been the peak for that whole Unplugged series, or at least one of a series of mini peaks in the final years of MTV as a primarily music oriented channel. Anyway, this was a great version which I used to annoy my college roommate by playing entirely too much.