A thread for the worst ballads/power ballads by rawk bands

anyway I'm subverting the conversation to BEST powerballads

like dokken!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8rCLwNwf8I

every rose is a ballad but it's kind of on the limp side ie lacking POWER

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl),

just like their so called rocking songs funnily enough

fun party guys can't be expected to bring the power, that's someone else's job

they bring partytimez and cuddles

'every rose' and 'silent lucidity' and 'when the children cry' and 'more than words' err too much on the side of sensitivity, you need to have less wimpy 'why is the world sad' proselytizing or james taylor begging and more 'momma let me tell you' type testifying.

silent lucidity is def the worst power ballad in the history of putting words to music
cf Queensryche stink like a big stinky turd anyway

i should say 'why is the world sad, let me offer a vague unrealistic solution for all of us to follow'

lol totally agree about silent lucidity
i hate that song
it's no "heaven" lemme tell ya

Hush now, don't you cry
Wipe away the teardrop from your eye
You're lying safe in bed
It was all a bad dream
Spinning in your head
Your mind tricked you to feel the pain
Of someone close to you leaving the game of life
So here it is, another chance
Wide awake you face the day
Your dream is over... or has it just begun?

There's a place I like to hide
A doorway that I run through in the night
Relax child, you were there
But only didn't realize and you were scared
It's a place where you will learn
To face your fears, retrace the years
And ride the whims of your mind
Commanding in another world
Suddenly you hear and see
This magic new dimension

I- will be watching over you
I- am gonna help you see it through
I- will protect you in the night
I- am smiling next to you, in Silent Lucidity

[spoken during solo]
(Visualize your dream)
(Record it in the present tense)
(Put it into a permanent form)
(If you persist in your efforts)
(You can achieve dream control)
(Dream control)
(How are we feeling today, better??)
(Dream control, dream control)
(Help me)

If you open your mind for me
You won't rely on open eyes to see
The walls you built within
Come tumbling down, and a new world will begin
Living twice at once you learn
You're safe from pain in the dream domain
A soul set free to fly
A round trip journey in your head
Master of illusion, can you realize
Your dream's alive, you can be the guide but...

I- will be watching over you
I- am gonna help to see it through
I- will protect you in the night
I- am smiling next to you....

wtf kind of robot writes a song like that

I always hated how Tate said "of life" in an intense whisper, as if he had just blown our minds with that 'out of nowhere' metaphor.

or how in live performances, he would point as his head, indicating, when he sang "in yr head"

or how in live performances, he would point as his head, indicating, when he sang "in yr head ZOMBIE ZOMBIE"

I still refuse to consider that song any sort of power ballad, unless you're also going to call "Comfortably Numb" and "Hey You" power ballads.

consider it more a 'faux-new-agey soft-serve assed' ballad

A thread for the worst ballads/power ballads by rawk bands

its not just power ballads itt

Like, those are not power ballad lyrics, you get that? These are power ballad lyrics:

I never needed love like I need you
And I never lived for nobody, but I live for you
Oooh, babe, lost in love is what I feel when I'm with you

Maybe it's the way you touch me with the warmth of a sun
Maybe it's the way you smile, I come all undone
Oooh, babe, lost in love is that I feel when I'm with you

Baby, oh I get chills when I'm with you
Baby, my world stands still when I'm with you
When I'm with you

I never cared for nobody like I care for you
And I never wanted to share the things I want to share with you
Oooh, babe, lost in love is what I feel when I'm with you

Baby, oh I get chills when I'm with you
Baby, my world stands still when I'm with you
When I'm with you

Baby, oh I get chills when I'm with you
Baby, my world stands still when I'm with you
When I'm with you
When I'm with you
When I'm with you...

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its not just power ballads itt

Yeah, but somebody called it a power ballad.

every rose is a ballad but it's kind of on the limp side ie lacking POWER

I actually agree: it was a really weak example for Covach to use! "Bringing On the Heartbreak" is my go-to example.

sund4r is this a power ballad? :)
http://eil.com/images/main/Metallica+-+One+-+12%22+RECORD%2FMAXI+SINGLE-469939.jpg

Yeah, but somebody called it a power ballad.

And a few people were attacking it on grounds of not being a good power ballad or not as good as "Heaven" when I think it's going for something completely different.

I have no problem with calling "Jet City Woman" a power ballad.

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only if the lyrics were

"Awww, baby, I can't remember anything (about last night)
Can't tell if this is true or dream (you here by my side)
Deep down inside I feel to scream (in ecstacy)
This terrible silence stops me (oooooh babe)"

OTM.

The irony is, of course, that I'm being anal and hairsplitting about power ballad criteria immediately after demonstrating that there's no real accepted definition.

Time to get offline.

so you can make the ultimate power ballad?

every rose is a ballad but it's kind of on the limp side ie lacking POWER

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl),

just like their so called rocking songs funnily enough

just like eeeeevvvery cowboy sings a sad sad song

someone actually started this thread in 2013? I was sure this was from 2001. Nearly every song mentioned on this thread rules, droolers.

Sister Christian is retroactively redeemed by that scene in Boogie Nights.

Sister Christian was redeemed for me because my best friend's brother was named Christian and we mercilessly taunted him with that song.

Alfred, its:

ev'ry cowbwah sings a SAYad SAYad SAWNG

sister christian shouldn't even be IN this conversation, there is nothing bad about that song unless your ears are broken

Heaven is *almost* the ultimate power ballad imo

don't know if this ozzy track was mentioned yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rSBgfXoIPo

Bringin On The Heartbreak's another close winner

Europe - "Carrie"

Alfred, its:

ev'ry cowbwah sings a SAYad SAYad SAWNG

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl),

otm

i thought it was more SAYad sayad SAWNG

It just occurred to me that the people praising "Heaven" are talking about Bryan Adams and not Warrant! This feels so relieving!

I was seriously feeling a little sad. I thought La Lechera and I were on the same page up to that point.

DO NOT NUMBER ME IN THAT GROUP sund4r OR I WILL MURDER YOU

warrant only

bryan adams' heaven is fine but I don't rate it in this convo

Wait, does that mean that you prefer the Warrant version?
xpost Oh crap, I guess so.

yes.

yes it does.

I was def talkin about the Bryan Adams one.

had no idea WArrant had one!

I think this is the second time a GURL has threatened me with violence over 80s music on ILM.

anyway I'm subverting the conversation to BEST powerballads

like dokken!!

definitely "Alone Again" is a master class in this

http://th00.deviantart.net/fs70/200H/f/2012/353/e/e/jani_lane_by_kickstartmyheart94-d5oi00z.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrSdXtFJG20

what a shitty shitty band warrant were. cherry pie video is sexist drivel that gives rock a bad name

zzzz

lol @ "cherry pie" being the moment rock and roll "went too far"

that's the moment AG reconsidered patterned spandex

gated drums on KISS album tracks was my moment of went-too-farness imo