Power Ballads POLLED

1. Lady - Styx
2. Love Hurts - Nazareth
3. Feel Like Makin' Love - Bad Company
4. Beth - KISS
5. I Want To Know What Love Is - Foreigner
6. Goodbye - Night Ranger
7. Amanda - Boston
8. Honestly - Stryper
9. Carrie - Europe
10. Is This Love - Whitesnake
11. Save Your Love - Great White
12. When The Children Cry - White Lion
13. What Love Can Be - Kingdom Come
14. Every Rose Has Its Thorn - Poison
15. Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone) - Cinderella
16. Headed For A Heartbreak - Winger
17. Don't Close Your Eyes - Kix
18. Heaven - Warrant
19. When I See You Smile - Bad English
20. Love Song - Tesla
21. I Remember You - Skid Row
22. The Ballad Of Jayne - L.A. Guns
23. Fly To The Angels - Slaughter
24. High Enough - Damn Yankees
25. Silent Lucidity - Queensryche
26. Love Of A Lifetime - Firehouse
27. More Than Words - Extreme
28. Only Time Will Tell - Nelson
29. Love Is On The Way - Saigon Kick
30. I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That) - Meat Loaf

Who would want to listen to a whole album of power ballads?! I know, probably millions of people...Nazareth get my vote for the greatest ever version of "Love Hurts".

No REO Speedwagon, no credibility.

omg "When The Children Cry"

Still love Tom Keifer's singular croak, so "Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)".

Feel Like Makin' Love isn't a power ballad

When I saw the words "power ballads", Saigon Kick just started playing in my head.

27. More Than Words - Extreme

^^^blared this from the car today

Evidently "Sister Christian" cost too much in licensing?

I went with "High Enough", because I love singing the verses (they're in my register) and then floundering on the chorus. And I love the rhyme of "anymore" with "anymore", "close the door", and "know for sure" ("for shore").

I really fucking hate "When I See You Smile". Grrr.

Still love Tom Keifer's singular croak, so "Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)".

― EZ Snappin, Monday, July 27, 2009 11:42 AM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

The link for Kix doesn't work. This is pretty good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztMY2uRczsg

It's between Kix and Cinderella and maybe Styx. Def Leppard and the Scorpions were robbed.

The best song on there is I Want To Know What Love Is. But it's not the best "power ballad" because by law, they have to be by hair metal bands.

By that definition, it's Skid Row I Remember You.

I guess licensing was too high for Motley Crue Home Sweet Home & Bon Jovi Wanted Dead Or Alive. Those were two of the biggest.

Yeah, the Foreigner is good too.

No REO Speedwagon, no credibility.

omg "When The Children Cry"

IIRC Chuck Eddy claimed had a follow up song on the next album called "When the Children Die"

I think the 'lol I am a douch song request shouted at concert' should REALLY be for 'Silent Lucidity,' don't you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzrMrglib6c

Def Leppard and the Scorpions were robbed.

^^^

no one like you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1-j9hEPenM&feature=PlayList&p=23BDD4CF32306699&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=30

Def Leppard and the Scorpions were robbed

^^^

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_HJ_68xeoE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6R-LZ25Te0

"Love Song" just for the intro alone.

Those were totally the DL and Scorpions tracks I had in mind too!

(Esp "Bringing On the Heartbreak" for DL. I think Kris once posted something about the way that Joe Elliott's accent really comes out when he sings "Takin' all the best of me", like his public facade is completely dropping and all the pathos is breaking through.)

going strictly on what's on offer here: I Remember You vs Ballad of Jayne

headed for a heartbreak vs. more than words for me

the latter is the corniest shit ever but that melody is just plain awesome. the former is a much more proper power ballad. "beth" as power ballad is totally not workin tbh.

12. When The Children Cry - White Lion
27. More Than Words - Extreme

^^^nothing power about these ballads imo

in re Feel Like Makin' Love, Beth, I Want To Know What Love Is et al I kinda like that they make this nod to establishing, like, the protohistory of the genre before getting right down to the business of packaging up some tracks they could get for cheap

1. Lady - Styx

Wouldn't really call this a power ballad. Good tune though.

2. Love Hurts - Nazareth

Vomit.

5. I Want To Know What Love Is - Foreigner

Foreigner's ballads were excessively annoying as even when they tried to be uplifting they sounded sterile and bland.

7. Amanda - Boston

My vote. Insanely catchy chorus.

9. Carrie - Europe

Europe had no right to exist.

10. Is This Love - Whitesnake

i'll admit it's a guilty pleasure even though its such a baaaaaaaaad song.

14. Every Rose Has Its Thorn - Poison

Did they write this around a campfire or something? This song should be played alongside "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport"

15. Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone) - Cinderella
16. Headed For A Heartbreak - Winger

Yeeech. wish I could have those removed from my mind.

19. When I See You Smile - Bad English

ugh i had forgotten it for over a decade. where are those men in black zappy things.

20. Love Song - Tesla

Interesting opening, then launches into typical Tesla boredom.

21. I Remember You - Skid Row

Skid Row actually did ballads right, but this one pales in comparison to "Wasted Time".

25. Silent Lucidity - Queensryche

Overplayed, but still classic. a little pretentious but isn't that redundant with the 'Ryche?

27. More Than Words - Extreme

the band didn't even like this song, as they said Pornograffiti (solid album) only went 2x platinum because housewives bought it for More than Words. I still like the song tho and for whatever reason performing it in public gets you play. (like...sex play).

30. I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That) - Meat Loaf

Great tune but overplayed to my ears

That Whitesnake song is far and away my favorite thing of theirs, to the point where I have considered buying their album multiple times even though I know I would hate it just for that one song.

Europe had no right to exist.

You and Don Rumsfeld.

i still don't know why i like it. i mean everything about it screams 'run' to me...the cheesy harmonized guitars after the first verse, cheesy chorus....yet whenever i made 80's mix cds, that song was on there :)

that compilation is a real cavalcade of crap.

voted kix in the end, that thing used to scare the crap out of me

So did I.

(Um, I mean I voted for Kix, not that I scared the crap out of you.:P)

Feel Like Makin' Love isn't a power ballad

― velko, Monday, July 27, 2009 10:51 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Most of these are horrible, but I do like "When The Children Cry".

cinderella....

it's ain't easy to get back

takes so long...

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where is 'faithfully'

This is a really disappointing list. :-(

"Nobody rocked your world like the legendary artists of Monster Ballads POWER BALLADS!!!"

I don't like any of these songs, but I also don't hate any of them either.

"Hysteria" is the best monster/power ballad. Out of what's polled, "Amanda" is prolly the best song but Boston isn't metal so I had to go with Queensryche.

it didn't say "Metal Ballads Polled"

matter of fact most power ballads aren't by 'metal' acts per se...i don't consider most of this list 'metal'.

It first and foremost followed the track listing of the compilation, I guess. :)

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wat

Who's the other person who voted for "Heaven"? Internet high five!

I plan to do another power ballad poll using the high finishers and suggestions from this thread. Feel free to nominate more that you like or think are significant in this thread.

fwiw, whitesnake were robbed.