More songs like "Sister Christian"...

Never cared much for Sister Christian, but its use in Boogie Nights was utterly sublime

Listening to "Oh Sherry" now. I like it, but it's not quite what I was angling at. Not quite big enough. Not quite dumb enough. I've never heard this before, was it big?

Don't Tell me You Love Me. A straight-ahead rocker with some great synths. Nice chorus. Unexpectedly Aerosmith.

THERE IT GOES. Jody, that was so on point. Well done! Queensryche still to come...

Motley Crue - "Home Sweet Home"
Slaughter - "Fly to the Angels"
Cinderella - "Don't Know What You Got (Til It's Gone)"

Whitesnake-Here I Go Again...
Warrant-Heaven
Damn Yankees-High Enough
Twisted Sister-We're Not Gonna Take It
Skid Row-I Remember You
Firehouse-Love Of A Lifetime

Among others...

Oooh, cross post-what's a good starting point with Journey?

Tesla - "Love Song" is another good'un.

For those of you actually reading this thread, and wondering the same thing as Jody - There is a song called "Sentimental Street". Seek it out.

Eat my fuc

...just kidding.

"Faithfully"
"Open Arms"
"Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'"
"Lights"
"Don't Stop Believing"

Other similars:

"High Enough" - Damn Yankees
"Babe" - Styx
"Isn't It Time" - Babys
"The Flame" - Cheap Trick
"Wanted: Dead or Alive" - Bon Jovi
"Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" - Meat Loaf
"Shooting Star" - Bad Company
"These Dreams" - Heart
"The Grand Illusion" - Styx
"Fooling Yourself" - Styx
"Time for me to Fly" - REO Speedwagon

For more power ballads there's also Def Leppard's "Love bites" which was huge.

As for Heart, I'd go with "What about love" or "Alone" rather than "These dreams" which was a bit softer IMO.

not quite in the same neighborhood, but "take my breath away" fits great next to any of these on a mixtape

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Sister Christian
Oh the time has come
And you know that you're the only one
To say O.K.
Where you going
What you looking for
You know those boys
Don't want to play no more with you
It's true

You're motoring
What's your price for flight
In finding mister right
You'll be alright tonight

Babe you know
You're growing up so fast
And mama's worrying
That you won't last
To say let's play
Sister Christian
There's so much in life
Don't you give it up before your time is due
It's true
It's true yeah

Motoring
What's your price for flight
You've got him in your sight
And driving thru the night
Motoring
What's your price for flight
In finding mister right
You'll be alright tonight

Motoring
What's your price for flight
In finding mister right
You'll be alright tonight
(repeat)

Sister Christian
Oh the time has come
And you know that you're the only one
To say O.K.
But you're motoring
You're motoring

Familiarize yourself with April Wine. It's time.

from songfacts.com:

+ Their drummer, Kelly Keagy, wrote this about his sister. Essentially the song is about her coming of age.
+ The original title was "Sister Christy," but the rest of the band thought he was singing "Sister Christian," so that became the title.
+ "Motoring" was their term for driving around with their friends. (thanks, Chris - Annapolis, MD, for all above)

"The song was getting a lot of radio play, and we needed to get a video shot fast," Blades recalled last week when he and Keagy returned to San Rafael High for an interview. "We were on tour at the time, and they told us, you need to get this done, like last Wednesday.

"We were just a bunch of kids ourselves," he said. "MTV was brand new. It was exciting. But we weren't actors, we were musicians. They just told us, you stand here, you stand there, in this scene you dance. We just wanted to play music. We were sort of old-school that way."

The video director picked San Rafael High because it looked like a quintessential American high school, with its graffiti, diseased oaks, Greek columns and WPA buildings. The band was happy because they all lived in Marin and Sonoma counties and didn't have to drive far.

"I remember this place," Keagy said, looking around the campus, which has not changed one iota since it was built in 1922. "The auditorium, with the pillars. This is where we parked the green Cadillac."

For those who don't remember every detail about the video, it featured a montage of high school images, such as blond girls in caps and gowns, guys in football uniforms, and an unscripted food fight that actually occurred across the street at Sam's Family Restaurant. The final shot was of the band and a few pretty girls -- two of whom were San Rafael High students -- riding off in a green Cadillac convertible.

For the auditions, my friend Martha prepared her best pieces, a monologue from "The Children's Hour" and a powerful rendition of "Don't Cry for Me Argentina." A star in every school play, Martha was very professional and confident, and was not surprised when she was selected to be in the video.

What did surprise her, however, was that the final video prominently featured pretty cheerleaders randomly picked from campus, while Martha's hard-fought role was relegated to a single nanosecond in a crowd shot.

For Martha, it was an abrupt introduction to the cold hard truth of show biz.

For Night Ranger, it was a time of charity.

"Yeah, we had professional actresses, but they let us cast a few students in the video, too," Blades said. "That was great."

In the end, it wasn't even the cheerleaders that generated the most ink, though. It was the nuns riding through campus on roller skates.

"Later, we got all these calls about it," recalled Keagy. "One woman in Wisconsin said, 'Is this a song about nuns selling dope to school kids?' We said, 'Uh, sure.' The song's about not giving it up before you have to, not letting go of innocence, but people can read into it whatever they want."

Specifically, the song is about Keagy's little sister, Christy. Keagy wrote the song at his apartment, near Divisadero and California streets in San Francisco, after he had just returned from a visit to his hometown in rural Oregon. He had been struck at how fast his teenage sister, 10 years younger than him, was growing up.

"After we started playing it a lot, Jack turned to me and said, 'What exactly are you saying?' " Keagy recalled. "He thought the words were Sister Christian, instead of Sister Christy, so it just stuck." He added that the real Christy was so mortified when the song came out she nearly changed her name.

aka, the bassist and drummer

None of these go over the top like "Sister Christian" but they're worthy of inclusion.