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mcs328
03-20-2003, 11:36 PM
Name some of your favorite power ballads. I think I know what they are but if someone can define it that would help too.

1. Poison - Every Rose Has It's Thorn
2. Uhmm...Sweet Child Of Mine

I like to burn a cd with just good 80's and 90's power ballads. I know you ppl must remember quite a few.
sbp
03-21-2003, 12:51 AM
Scorpions Still loving you
NuTs62
03-21-2003, 04:28 AM
err i know ballads.. but what are "power" ballads?
CynJon
03-21-2003, 04:32 AM
Originally posted by NuTs62
err i know ballads.. but what are "power" ballads?

Heavy metal/Hard rock "love songs"...
CynJon
03-21-2003, 04:56 AM
Amanda--Boston

Angel--Aerosmith

Nobody's fool--Cinderella

The flame--Cheap Trick

I'll never let you go (angel eyes)--Steelheart

Momma I'm coming home--Ozzy


Send her my love--Journey

Beth--Kiss

No one like you--Scorpions
zenbooty
03-21-2003, 05:42 AM
ALL POWER BALLADS SUCK!!!
johnnymk
03-21-2003, 05:54 AM
Originally posted by CynJon

Send her my love--Journey



Hard Rock?..... Journey?
CynJon
03-21-2003, 11:38 AM
Originally posted by johnnymk


Hard Rock?..... Journey?

OK, so they're not "hard rock"...sue me :P
I still think it fits the category...
Nija
03-21-2003, 12:59 PM
Originally posted by mcs328
2. Uhmm...Sweet Child Of Mine



THink Guns N' Roses from the Appetite for Destruction Album :)
Jeffbx
03-21-2003, 01:17 PM
The only thing more rare than a good power ballad is a good mullet.
molecularfire
03-21-2003, 01:28 PM
Whitesnake - Is this love
Bon Jovi - You give love a bad name
Aerosmith - I don't wanna miss a thing
Pearl Jam - Last kiss

Heck... just look up everything from the "Moster Ballads" CD.
xsiled2
03-21-2003, 02:21 PM
Originally posted by NuTs62
err i know ballads.. but what are "power" ballads?

thats when they start whining and you go get a beer.


Originally posted by zenbooty
ALL POWER BALLADS SUCK!!!

amen.
Jihforce
03-21-2003, 05:05 PM
bah, you kids can't relate so i won't hold it against you.
Cantacuzene
03-21-2003, 05:19 PM
Not my favorite genre but its hard to beat November Rain.
molecularfire
03-21-2003, 06:38 PM
Man... I can't belive that I forgot November Rain. Great song. :thumbup: Good call.
JackHammer
03-24-2003, 02:12 PM
Heaven by Warrant
Speedfreak
03-26-2003, 01:10 AM
Run DMC - Dumbgirl
whitak24
03-26-2003, 08:32 AM
Originally posted by molecularfire
Pearl Jam - Last kiss
last kiss isn't anything close to a power ballad man :2far: :P

if you want pearl jam power ballads, you would have to go for Black or Betterman, although neither of those are really love songs.

and i haven't seen anyone mention Aerosmith's "Dude Looks Like a Lady" :confused: :hihi:

and on a serious note, i think ozzy's "Momma I'm Coming Home" is pretty good in that category.
molecularfire
03-26-2003, 10:10 AM
Why isn't it a power ballad? A power ballad (at least my definition, if this is wrong then please correct me) is a sweet love song sung by a rock group. Well... it's a sweet love song... sure she's dying, but if he didn't care, why would he be bummed over it? I mean, saying I love you is easy... the true test is if you're actually sad at their funeral (versus showing up just to make sure they're really dead for instance). :shrug:
whitak24
03-26-2003, 11:37 AM
Originally posted by molecularfire
Why isn't it a power ballad? A power ballad (at least my definition, if this is wrong then please correct me) is a sweet love song sung by a rock group. Well... it's a sweet love song... sure she's dying, but if he didn't care, why would he be bummed over it? I mean, saying I love you is easy... the true test is if you're actually sad at their funeral (versus showing up just to make sure they're really dead for instance). :shrug:
maybe we're working from different definitions of "power ballads"

i think a power ballad is typically considered to not just be a love song sung by a rock group, but a song that has the same chord structure/sound of "heavy" rock while taking on a "sweet" tone.

by your more general defintion (which may be perfectly accurate.... i don't know), last kiss is a power ballad.

under my more restrictive defintion, it's not :shrug:
Jihforce
03-26-2003, 12:35 PM
Def Leppard - Love Bites
mcs328
03-26-2003, 12:58 PM
Ha ha...duh...I should just do an Amazon search on power ballads. They have several out there and a list of songs to. Although some of them *I* wouldn't consider a good power ballad. But I guess the music industry knows better than I. :rolleyes:
johnnymk
03-27-2003, 04:33 PM
Originally posted by Jihforce
Def Leppard - Love Bites

Def Leppard's "Hysteria" was the best Hard Rock album ever made, in my opinion.
molecularfire
03-28-2003, 09:02 AM
Originally posted by whitak24

maybe we're working from different definitions of "power ballads"

i think a power ballad is typically considered to not just be a love song sung by a rock group, but a song that has the same chord structure/sound of "heavy" rock while taking on a "sweet" tone.

by your more general defintion (which may be perfectly accurate.... i don't know), last kiss is a power ballad.

under my more restrictive defintion, it's not :shrug:
Hmmm... I never really thought about music structure. Fair enough. :)
djnick702
04-02-2003, 03:11 PM
Home Sweet Home- Motley Crue all the way
Just read the lyrics. It doesn't get better than this. The lyrics are so good , you could give it as a poem to your girl and she'll think you're such an awesome radical gnarly dude. That's eighties slang for cool.

Hysteria by Def Lep is should also be on the all time list.
djnick702
04-02-2003, 03:14 PM
If you can still find it... Street of Dreams by a band called Rainbow. The lyrics are awesome. Eighties rock had some damn good lyrics...so good, where are those bands now?
djnick702
04-02-2003, 03:16 PM
Just Between You and Me...by April Wine I think. The guitar solo in this one rocks and the lyrics make sense.
djnick702
04-02-2003, 03:18 PM
Love Song by Tesla. I played this in my guitar class. It's a mastepiece.