The best POWER Ballad...?

Now we all know our favourite bands rock harder than a hard thing...but there are times when they like to slow it down and go all lovey dovey/smoochie woochie (!!!)....


So...what's your personal favourite POWER ballad....

I have a soft spot for Kiss & Forever (no surprise there I guess)....you?

Chrissy wrote:

Pete you like anything else besides Kiss?

Yep! I like lots of things besides Kiss!

Another fave ballad would be Dream On.

Anyway Chrissy...What's yours???

I'd really like to mention the ballad Tesla recorded in tribute to Steve Clark, but, I absolutely cannot remember the title!!! O well, how 'bout You Don't Remember ( I'll Never Forget)

Pete wrote:

I have a soft spot for Kiss & Forever (no surprise there I guess)....you?

With you there, mate 110% !!!

Also " Nothing else Matters " Metallica.

Right -O! How about These Dreams, Jet City Woman, Screamin' In the Night, or Revelation ( Mother Earth)?! 'Raaay!

Chrissy wrote:

Frethead wrote:

Right -O! How about These Dreams, Jet City Woman, Screamin' In the Night, or Revelation ( Mother Earth)?! 'Raaay!

All very good! me thinks

Actually, I would've mentioned almost anything by The Carpenter's or ELO, but, it would be pretty hard to explain where the power is hiding in their music, respectively. So, you are being very quiet and sneaking around in the dark, aren't you? Hmm-hmmm! Naughty-naughty! Come on out and have some fun, Chrissy! You aren't still stuck on that Heiddi guy are you?! He's crazy! Come on!

We're goin' way out! Way out! That's where the fun is! Way out! Way out! That's where the fun is! Way out!

Home Sweet Home-Motley Crue

The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics by Martin Heidegger

World's best power ballad

See me, feel me, touch me, heal me.

Aerosmith...Mia, Home Tonight ...stunning.

But my fav is very possibly You See Me Crying...

Cheap Trick - The Flame

Off the top of me head - Giant "Lost In Paradise"...Y&T "I Believe In You"...Glenn Hughes "Coast To Coast"

More to come

Danger Danger - I still think about you and Don't break my heart again.

ISTAY always makes me weep as it reminds of the first girl I ever truly loved...

Good question, I can't decide exactly one, but i can throw a few in that might get missed

Skid Row - I Remember You
awesome melodic solo ofcourse and great song

Ozzy - Tonight
okay, if anyone hasn't heard the solo at the end of this, check it out! seriously

Heart - Alone
Great song from a band I never particularly listened much of and great solo considering its a bit cheezy

and my final one, not sure if this can be classed as a power ballad or not... Queen - The Show Must Go On.

Mods, feel free to edit out the Queen one, if it doesn't fit the category

Skezza wrote:

Good question, I can't decide exactly one, but i can throw a few in that might get missed

Skid Row - I Remember You
awesome melodic solo ofcourse and great song

Ozzy - Tonight
okay, if anyone hasn't heard the solo at the end of this, check it out! seriously

Heart - Alone
Great song from a band I never particularly listened much of and great solo considering its a bit cheezy

and my final one, not sure if this can be classed as a power ballad or not... Queen - The Show Must Go On.

Mods, feel free to edit out the Queen one, if it doesn't fit the category

Good choices Joe..

Another one just come to me - Blue Murder "Jelly Roll"

I like Closer to the heart and Back for More by Ratt.

laxcdn wrote:

I like Closer to the heart and Back for More by Ratt.

Both good choices. I love jamming back for more with my mates when we get together!

Back for More is a crushing jammer! (dang, I'm not sure, but, I may have just made that up! Maybe I ought to go into broadcasting?!!)

O.K., folks. Here's the boogie. Judas Priest - Take These Chains ( off of my heart)

And, the number one, all-time, yanking yer teeth out with rusty ol' fishing pliers, tear jerking, ball grabbin', heart stopping, genitalia mauling pitbull of power ballads since . . . ever since! Bringin' On the Heartbreak ( As much as some of us may resist showering accolades on them, they are still there. I think we are all aware of who they are. Thank you for coming!)

Frethead wrote:

Bringin' On the Heartbreak

Def Leppard did a brilliant version of this live when I saw them last year.

Frethead wrote:

Back for More is a crushing jammer! (dang, I'm not sure, but, I may have just made that up! Maybe I ought to go into broadcasting?!!)

O.K., folks. Here's the boogie. Judas Priest - Take These Chains ( off of my heart)

And, the number one, all-time, yanking yer teeth out with rusty ol' fishing pliers, tear jerking, ball grabbin', heart stopping, genitalia mauling pitbull of power ballads since . . . ever since! Bringin' On the Heartbreak ( As much as some of us may resist showering accolades on them, they are still there. I think we are all aware who they are. Thank you for coming!)

Wow Tommy I totally understood the whole paragraph!!!I really can speak fret!!!and yes that song is a great one!

Pete wrote:

Frethead wrote:

Bringin' On the Heartbreak

Def Leppard did a brilliant version of this live when I saw them last year.

Thanks, Pete. Cool! Are they dressing it up like a Vegas -style show stopper, now, or something? I saw them on the Pyromania tour, and that was easily the loudest show I've ever been to. Damn! Thinking, just now, of the day after made my ears hurt!