Favourite rock ballad
 

Whats your Favorite rock ballads?

Mine are:

Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
Guns N' Roses - November Rain
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
John Lennon - Imagine
Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven

Behind Blue Eyes-The Who
November Rain-Guns N' Roses
Wild Horses-The Rolling Stones

Visions of Johanna - Dylan, any version
I Want You - Dylan, MTV unplugged version
I'll Keep It With Mine, Dylan, Biograph version
Angie - Stones
Tupelo Honey - Van
Death Letter - Son House

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Upside Down

I'd love to wholly blame this on my mom's boner for Steve Perry and the ridiculous amount of times I heard this from birth until the present day, but I can't do that completely. I really do love this song.

Steve Perry really did have a really superb range. This song is what I feel that a power ballad should be.

I have to admit, I love this song too. I can't count the amount of times I listened to it in high school.

He is one of the greatest vocalists to have ever graced the rock arena.

Let It Be-The Beatles

Not my favorite, but damn good.

That`s a great song.

I knew this song but I didn't knew it's title... Thanks for your clip.

i think this should be broken up by era... too hard to pick one

"Tears In Heaven"
"Layla"
Nothing else comes close.
(I'm a bit biased)

The late, great Gary Moore


Tears For Fears count? Love this one.


and love this one also, from Bon Jovi's Richie Sambora


But my favourite of all time is by a band no-one probably knows, a band called Ten, from their "Babylon" album, song called "Valentine".

You have excellent musical taste! My second favourite album of all time is "Stranger In This Town" and it's so damn hard to find the best ballad, but my favourite is "Rosie". And yes, I think that Gary Moore is one of the saddest stories in musical history, and "Empty Rooms" is his masterpiece.
It's weird that Gary Moore died february 6th, but David Bryan (Richie Sambora's keyboard player) was born on february 7th. I don't know why I had to say that.

love street by world party (1990)

Very, very easy relate to when your feeling sad/depressed.

my list shouldn't come as a surprise to anybody who knows me well:-

Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Enuff Z'Nuff - Fly High Michelle
Extreme - More than Words
Alias - More than Words Can Say
Skid Row - Wasted Time, 18 & Life
Bad English - When I See You Smile
Mr. Big - To Be With You
White Lion - When the Children Cry
Bad Company - If I Needed Somebody
G n R - Don't Cry
Deep Purple - Soldier of Fortune
Styx - Babe
REO Speedwagon - Can't Fight This Feeling
Steve Perry - Oh Sherry
Journey - Open Arms

I like most of those pics and even some of the hair metal ones. I can see you`re a big Journey fan with the Steve Perry and Bad English picks (I`m a lifelong Journey fan too) Styx are one of my all time fav bands ever, but I`m kinda sick of that song, but women always love it.

i'm actually more into solo Perry than Journey

and jazz-fusion Journey than MOR Journey

Ahhh I like the Greg Rolie era of Journey as well BUT Steve Perry era Journey and the albums Evolution, Escape and especially Frontiers are my thing (American west coast AOR has always been my thing) Its a pity Journey didn`t do more harder edged songs like this though and its one of the great songs off the Frontiers album. The guitar solo of Neil Schon and the vocals of Steve Perry on this always get me all hot and excited.

If its sharp and it cuts, enjoy yourself...........hell yer!

This song on a great stereo system always kicks ass!


Journey-Edge of the Blade - YouTube

^^it's a bit late now and i don't want the neighbours to call the police on me, so i'll hear it tomorrow

Hey man its Journey and not Pantera!

they'll call the police even if i put on Kenny G at this hour

i don't have headphones, and my earphones suck, really

As a newbie on the forum i should probably share something about my music taste first :)

my top 5 are some calssics :

- Bed of roses - Bon Jovi
- Nothing else matters - Metallica
- Angie - Rolling Stones
- Tears in Heaven - Clapton
- Dust in the wind - Kansas

Eddie Money is one of my favorite artist from the 70s. He always incorperation top notch artist and musicians on every album that he made, as well as utilizing orchestrated music and horn sections as well.

This is a very emotional song, completely underrated and awesome from "Life For The Taking" album, from 1978.



When your tired, and feeling weak.
And Your body, cries out for more.
Well call on me. Cause I..never sleep.
I still got the key, right here in my pocket.
To your front door..To your font door baby.

This bad boy, cuts right through to the core.

ok, have heard it

didn't like it much - especially the vocals

also was rather bz yesterday and was too damn tired when i got home to want to listen to anything

Listen to it in a good mood.

Bed of Roses is one of the very best songs ever... which is impressive since Jon Bon Jovi has asperger's syndrome.

i LOVE all of those as well

You seem to like a lot of things! I never had you pegged as a Bon Jovi sort of man, though.

The Scorpions were always one of the best at rock ballads, Journey gets a lot of mention. Heart is a band that comes to mind, there are so many good bands to mention, especially from the 80s.

My personal favorite rock ballad has always been 'Our Love' by Krokus.

That is true. Personally, I think a lot of their stuff is a bit cliched and slightly overrated. It's weird how scary they used to be as Santana and how different they became after becoming Journey.

Them being a former part of Santana (Carlos), is the influence of Neal Schon style comes from (basically) on guitar. (Schon is a star in his own right).

Have you heard their current drummer since 1998 Deen Castronovo on vocals! One of the most impressive performances Ive seen by a drummer. Within the standards of Phil Collins or Don Henley anyway. :laughing:

Queens drummer has an outstanding video singing on vocals as well.

Absolutely. Have you noticed that all of them have really good voices?

Well..they are professionals, they do it for a living.

They want to be somebody. Instead of working for a living. :laughing:

I personally expect nothing less from them.

But Nickleback do their music for a living, and no one will be giving Chad Croeger any "Best Voice" awards!
I expect a lot less from them than from Queen! (Have you HEARD their new album, by the way? I couldn't believe my ears!)

No, haven't heard it yet.

I guess one could see it better from the prospect of getting the job as the drummer for a band like Journey.

It's bloody hilarious. Chad seems to sound more and more like that guy from Reef every year. His voice is so strained that I worry for the safety of his vocal chords.