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

this shit never did anything here thankfully
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMKPQKU61QI

^^^that styx remix is VILE

a fair handful of these are pretty good imo - "Love Song," "Silent Lucidity," "More Than Words," "To Be With You" - schmaltzy, ok, but still decent tunes

I also rep for that Winger tune, fuck the haters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHZ79InLGRY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAX20LoVgxE

PfunkGW 2 months ago

Remember when their were white people on mtv?

lolol NOT ME

(ie im not pfunkgw obviously)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmWE9UBFwtY

At least with Elastica/Wire, there's an actual similar melodic gesture. The Spirit/Cheap Trick thing really is a fairly common strumming pattern on one chord.

being someone else from the uk, my only knowledge of cheap trick is knowing big black covered one of their songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukmobha2krY

If they were both using mandocellos, that would probably point more strongly to a connection/influence but not to plagiarism.

xpost to self

that richard marx song

Three music videos were filmed for the song, although two were deemed "too sexual" in nature, and were shunned and banned by lobbyist before the release ever hit the public's screens.[citation needed] Included in the first banned video was 42 second "softcore" sex scene, involving Marx and the love interest this song refers to.

The second video, was picked at with a fine-toothed comb. Complaints were made about every minor detail, including Marx briefly holding hands with a man, and the backup dancers clothing being "too tight".[citation needed]

After the criticism, Marx's producers denied any creative control to Marx, and ordered that he film a three minute sequence of him playing the piano, and became the music video for "Right Here Waiting".[citation needed]

fuckin' A, White Lion's "When the Children Cry," that right there is the unquestioned heavyweight champ of this shit. So vile. I can get down with "Wait" or "Little Fighter" if I have to but come the fuck on, White Lion

it's also so boring, as soon as i heard it i knew it was going to be huge

never heard it

I've noticed that every video in this thread has this kind of youtube comment

franklin armstrong 4 days ago

I GREW UP IN THE 80S AS A TEENAGER AND ALL THIS KIND OF MUSIC IS NOT HEARD OF TODAY. WHY IS THE QUESTION. I FEEL LOST IN TODAYS WORLD. I WISH THINGS WOULDNT OF EVOLVED TO THIS. ITS SAD.

ok this song is bad

what made party animal hair metal bands get serious cat on ballads? Cant blame live aid as it was years before. What started it?

appealing to the ladies?

i do have a soft spot for some of these 'lick my love pump' slow jams but there's only a couple mentioned thus far that i like. 'love bites' being supreme. other good ones: 'alone again' by dokken, 'don't close your eyes' by kix.

yeah "alone again" is solid and "don't close your eyes" is all-time

appealing to the ladies?

I would have thought love song ballads did that quite well. It just seems weird that it went from there to dealing with serious topics

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Monster-Metal-Hits-Power-Ballads/dp/B001R59LF2

tho its not all ballads

"Don't Close Your Eyes" is INSANE.

Does this count?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quG-Q7iKfn0

(OK, AMG says there's a mandocello on "The Flame". I'm not that familiar with that instrument tbh but yeah, it does sound more mandolin-like, for sure. I'm not sure that's not a guitar on "Nature's Way" though. Only guitars are listed in the credits on AMG. I just checked out three live clips where it is played on a guitar.)

xposts I kind of love "Don't Close Your Eyes".

has anyone mentioned the bryan adams robin hood song, because that

"when the children cry" is the worst

Alias - More Than Words Can Say
Cheap Trick - The Flame
Peter Cetera and Cher - After All
Bryan Adams - Heaven

Ha, I love that Alias song too. I honestly didn't know that its success extended beyond Canada.

I remember hearing it a LOT as a kid. that and the Styx song "Show Me the Way" and that Michael W. Smith crossover tune "Place in this World"

Ha, Alias was a supergroup with members of Sheriff and Heart!

This was like 5 times as big as that Alias song (went top 5 twice iirc):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b7iOoN5lIk

oh wow, I completely forgot that song!

Adored it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz8c7zPYxjY

Wow @ the last note in "When I'm With You"

I love a lot of power ballads unashamedly and some enthusiastically, but Steelheart's "I'll Never Let You Go" is THE ABSOLUTE WORST SONG OF THE 90S AND PERHAPS THE SECOND HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY.

Now that's what I call Kuschelrock!

Matthias Reim -Ich hab geträumt von Dir

Reached No.2 in Germany in 1991

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3M1S6p2WoE

Hoo boy, there's some bad shit on this thread.

that was the point bill

this thread is cyberbullying me

also this is the ne plus ultra of power ballads because it has E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0Wf1u5At4k

"worst power ballads" thread starts off with "to be with you," a song that totally rules, so, uh, okay

oh wait of course ag started a thread just to point at versions of metal he hates

yawn

my best friend and his wife, both of whom share much of my taste, chose "Love of a Lifetime" as their wedding dance last summer.

i grimaced after reading that