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

not sure you guys have heard the styx 'gulf war remix' of 'show me the way' i posted upthread but it's offensive on several different levels.

Jesus Christ. I got one minute in before I wanted to vomit

not a violent person, nor do I condone vigilantism, but if someone had shot Dennis DeYoung in the middle of performing this tune at a concert, I'd argue for acquittal on grounds of post-traumatic stress.

to be fair tho, I think the 'Gulf War' remix was largely the invention of DJs and not Styx themselves....

okay look if you want to talk about TERRIBLE then you need to talk about Pretty Boy Floyd

this is like a rough draft of Nikki Sixx's horrible 'Time for Change' with lyrics equally as bad and worse singing than Vince Neill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XlqXEAjLnU

and while we're at it, Time for Change is fucking terrible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPA7nJscUpI

the worst music ever made contained in one thread

grump

the worst music ever made contained in one thread

yeah it's called Rolling Metal 2013

jk

Everything on this thread is straight-up amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cQiLnjg4LU

the bomb

i'm sure plenty on ilx might agree with you whether you're joking or not but hair metal is still one of the reasons metal gets sneered at by some.

because there are very serious gents out in the world who are singing about dragons and NOT using hairspray

we'd better make sure we slap it down some more since it's obviously the dominant musical genre these days

If I ever sneer at metal it's when people take it too seriously.

to be fair tho, I think the 'Gulf War' remix was largely the invention of DJs and not Styx themselves....

Pretty much entirely iirc.

we should poll Gulf War hits

Styx - Show Me The Way
Bette Midler - From a Distance
Voices That Care - Voices That Care
George Michael - Mother's Pride

others?

was "High Enough" considered one?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highwire_(song)

Voices That Care is orangutan shit, and they made my elementary school choir sing it.

Actually maybe it was a good thing rock radio never existed here after all as it would have just been all this shit since the only time normal radio played any rawk it was ballads. I can just imagine the effect on the charts it would have had.

this is a super dumb thread AG

why so?

Some really greaeeeeeeaaat songs itt, including the first one mentioned! Crazy.

Well, it's not really that interesting to seriously listen to a bunch of decades-old things and pick the wors, with no real criteria other than taste, if you actually dislike them. However, this thread is actually GREBT because most people who are engaging with it are using it to talk about things we like or to critically discuss rock ballads, which AG seems completely OK with.

xxpost AG - because you have a definition of metal that wasn't always the definition of metal and isn't the definition now. when i was a kid a lot of these stupid songs meant a great deal to me and many of them are still great examples of rock and pop metal songwriting, something metal could use more of today IMO

i dont really have a definition of metal. I'm with chuck that a lot of things that arent considered metal are , at least partly, metal. Obviously my definitions aren't as broad as chucks.
As for this thread ballads/power ballads generally are shit imo and none-more-so than rock ballads.

this is a sad story!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vito_Bratta

as i said IMO others feel differently thats fine. As sund4r said im fine with people saying they like songs iit and discussing rock ballads.

who made you the boss of people saying they like songs

?

I've argued enough with AG for three lifetimes, so I'll just sit back and watch this one.

i'm not fine with you sitting back and watching

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N4UZPIr7SU

"wait" is pretty awful but man that's good guitar playing. with the double-tapping and whammy bar stuff he almost gets into like pedal steel territory

j perhaps you could be so kind to elaborate on what you meant as idgi

"wait" is great

but yeah he's probably overlooked, he had a kind odd style...reminds me of a pop metal adaptation of alan holdworth, kinda...i wonder if he was into that kinda stuff, really "liquid" sounding style.....

hi

hair metal solos are an element of music that's not been written about enough, the best of them were so composed and melodic while at the same time guys were really trying to one-up each other in terms of trick and pyrotechnics.....

otm

the worst of them were whammy-bar screech fests

I always repped for Bratta. I can listen to Pride for his playing. I think a lot of hair metal lead playing was pretty crude (talking about late Sunset Strip stuff) but Bratta actually had the chops that these guys used to claim.

Anyway if you want a good song then
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqthrnE0DOQ

a couple months ago I discovered the existence of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RYmDm74IKE

have you heard the ozzy & kelly duet of Changes?

Some really greaeeeeeeaaat songs itt, including the first one mentioned! Crazy.

― Hooks on Phoenix worked for me (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Wednesday, August 7, 2013 2:57 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seriously this is even worse than I would have predicted.

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

― ..it would have sounded about as heavy as Talulah Gosh. (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, August 7, 2013 1:43 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

LOL

cherry pie video is sexist drivel that gives rock an awesome name

"we were all here just playing our classy brand of innocent poofyhaircore and Warrant just comes out with these strip club guitar riffs, and starts swingin' these wild, ribald double entendres around carelessly and....I don't know, suddenly, I had to ask myself if I could be a part of this new regime. if this was where glam metal was going...I wanted out"

--anonymous guitarist, unnamed glam metal band, 1992

when i was a kid, I didn't really listen to lyrics much, but from the bum warming his hands by the trash can fire in the video, I figured "where the down boys go" was to a homeless camp. like on some open letter to a landlord ish.

see also Skid Row