Favorite "Power Ballads"?

[KingLouieLouie]

What are your favorite all-time "Power Ballads"?

Mine are:

1) "Love Bites" - Def Leppard
2) "Close My Eyes Forever" - Lita Ford/Ozzy
3) "Nothing Else Matters" - Metallica
4) "November Rain" - GNR
5) "High Enough" - Damn Yankees

 

[Divide Et Impera]

To Ashes - Shadows Fall
The Art Of Balance - Shadows Fall
November Rain - G n R
Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
Marigold - It Dies Today
Through Her Eyes - Dream Theater

Most people probably wouldn't consider some of these power ballads, per se, but who gives a damn....

 

[Jersey Girl]

What are your favorite all-time "Power Ballads"?

Mine are:

5) "High Enough" - Damn Yankees

Dude, that was the first one that popped into my head!!!

"When I See You Smile" -- Bad English
"When I'm With You" -- Sherriff
"Nobody's Fool" -- Cinderella
"Every Rose Has its Thorn" -- Poison

And, the heinous, drunk, broken-hearted song that all my siblings and I have sung and cried to while doing shots of Irish whiskey ... "Bed of Roses" -- Bon Jovi.

 

[KingLouieLouie]

Dude, that was the first one that popped into my head!!!

"When I'm With You" -- Sherriff
"Every Rose Has its Thorn" -- Poison

Yeah... "High Enough" was probably the "Ultimate Power Ballad" back then and still is.... Nugent and Shaw were both amazing in that song......

"When I'm With You" reminds me of a girl who I had a MASSIVE crush on in the 6th grade ('88-'89)....

A story about "Every Rose Has Its Thorn".... One time a friend and I were at a restaurant after a nite at the club....Each table had its own mini juke-box and someone had on repeat for about 1-2 hrs both "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" and "Something To Believe In"....

I guess they had just broken-up and that song reminded them of their ex.....

Other favorite "Power Ballads" of mine are:
1) "Crying" - Aerosmith
2) "Again" - Lenny Kravitz
3) "Open Arms" - Journey
4) "Silent Lucidity" - Queensryche
5) "When It's Love" - Van Halen

 

[Divide Et Impera]

Input from my friend Justin:

Here I Go Again - Whitesnake
Winds Of Change - Scorpions
Still Of The Night - Whitesnake
November Rain - G n R
Silent Lucidity - Queensryche

 

[phillycard]

Not a "power ballad" but I love Extreme's "More Than Words". When I was in college, we'd be out drinking at a bar off campus, and my friends would look at me and this one other guy like we were aliens, as we were the only black guys in the bar singing along word for word! I still have that problem today when I'm out with friends and any Weezer song comes on. What, a black man can't like rock!!??

 

[Chaplin]

Not a "power ballad" but I love Extreme's "More Than Words". When I was in college, we'd be out drinking at a bar off campus, and my friends would look at me and this one other guy like we were aliens, as we were the only black guys in the bar singing along word for word! I still have that problem today when I'm out with friends and any Weezer song comes on. What, a black man can't like rock!!??

This is a first. I don't care what color you are, to say you actually LIKE "More than Words" is tantamount to insanity! That song is THE ultimate party killing song! If you are having a big party and you need everyone to leave, just pump that through the speakers, and people will be paying YOU to get the hell out!

 

[phillycard]

This is a first. I don't care what color you are, to say you actually LIKE "More than Words" is tantamount to insanity! That song is THE ultimate party killing song! If you are having a big party and you need everyone to leave, just pump that through the speakers, and people will be paying YOU to get the hell out!

LOL Chap!! It ain't that bad man!! I could think of at least 5 songs that would murder a party worse than that!! Yeah the song is sappy, but maybe that's why it's best to listen in private when you can sing with pride!

 

[Rivercard]

4) "November Rain" - GNR

Absolutely great tune. Is it really considered a power ballad though? It's more of an artsy mellow kinda moody song. I tend to lump this song and Counting Crows "A Long December" in the same category. Same mood and both have a month in their title!

 

[Chaplin]

LOL Chap!! It ain't that bad man!! I could think of at least 5 songs that would murder a party worse than that!! Yeah the song is sappy, but maybe that's why it's best to listen in private when you can sing with pride!

Here's how bad it is, I guarantee you if you have a party, more people will leave after "More Than Words" than if you played "We Built This City" by Starship!

 

[Dback Jon]

Here's how bad it is, I guarantee you if you have a party, more people will leave after "More Than Words" than if you played "We Built This City" by Starship!

Now that is bad....

 

[CardFan67]

my fav, "hero of the day" - Metallica

 

[thirty-two]

i dont know what a power ballad is but the first song that comes to mind is meatloafs "i would do anything for love (but i wont do that)"

 

[Jersey Girl]

i dont know what a power ballad is but the first song that comes to mind is meatloafs "i would do anything for love (but i wont do that)"

I think you gotta grow up in the 80s, not be born in them, to fully understand, lol!

J/K, Kate. Your choice is not a bad one. My friends and I would scream that song drunk at frat parties in college. Ah, memories.

 

[Cardinal Bob]

"Don't Know What You Got ('Til It's Gone) - Cinderella

Any of the multitudes of power ballads/prom themes written by the master, Mr. Jon Bon Jovi. Nobody could write the pwer ballad like Jon Bon!

 

[Jersey Girl]

"Don't Know What You Got ('Til It's Gone) - Cinderella

Any of the multitudes of power ballads/prom themes written by the master, Mr. Jon Bon Jovi. Nobody could write the pwer ballad like Jon Bon!

You know it!!!!!

 

[KingLouieLouie]

Absolutely great tune. Is it really considered a power ballad though? It's more of an artsy mellow kinda moody song. I tend to lump this song and Counting Crows "A Long December" in the same category. Same mood and both have a month in their title!

I guess it's a "quasi" power-ballad...I've always ranked/classified as GNR's "Stairway to Heaven" and "Dream On"....Yes.."November Rain" has a lot more substance/depth compared to the other power-ballads that have been listed thus far......

Others I'll add:

1) "Poison" - Alice Cooper
2) "More Than A Feeling" - Boston
3) "Feel Like Makin' Love" - Bad Company
4) "The Flame" - Cheap Trick
5) "I Remember You" - Skid Row

 

[Chaplin]

"Poison" ain't a Power Ballad! Come on KLL, just picking these out of a hat now?

 

[KingLouieLouie]

"Poison" ain't a Power Ballad! Come on KLL, just picking these out of a hat now?

Perhaps he's "picking them out of somewhere else now!"... Oh.. thats right.. you were referring to me!

Anyways...I guess we somewhat all define "power ballads" differently.....

Although..I do agree with everyone's idea on "which songs would end a party"... that would actually make an excellent thread by itself....

 

[maddogkf]

I guess it's a "quasi" power-ballad...I've always ranked/classified as GNR's "Stairway to Heaven" and "Dream On"....Yes.."November Rain" has a lot more substance/depth compared to the other power-ballads that have been listed thus far......

Others I'll add:

1) "Poison" - Alice Cooper
2) "More Than A Feeling" - Boston
3) "Feel Like Makin' Love" - Bad Company
4) "The Flame" - Cheap Trick
5) "I Remember You" - Skid Row

Maybe I'm missing something - did GNR do a remake of Zepp's Stairway to Heaven & Aerosmith's Dream On?

 

[maddogkf]

I know GNR did a remake of Clapton's Knockin on Heaven's Door

 

[maddogkf]

others that may or may not be listed, but jumped to my mind:

Whitesnake - Is this Love
Dokken - I'm Alone Again
Cheap Trick - The Flame (great one Louie!)
Skid Row - I Remember You
Bad Company - Feel Like Makin Love
RHCP - Under the Bridge

 

[Jersey Girl]

3) "Feel Like Makin' Love" - Bad Company
5) "I Remember You" - Skid Row

LOVE that Skid Row song.

 

[Jersey Girl]

others that may or may not be listed, but jumped to my mind:

Whitesnake - Is this Love

This song came on the radio as I was leaving McDonalds with my family after I ran into some dude I liked. He and I had gone on one date and he never spoke to me again. :jackarse: In any case, saw him at McDonald's, he ignored me, song came on, I cried in the backseat of the Mustang and my mom laughed (not sure why). Stupid men (present company excluded, of course).

 

[earthsci]

"Love Song" - Tesla

I was never a huge Tesla fan but that song is awesome.