The Best Power Ballads of all time?

RepublicanEagle

What do you believe are the top 10 best power ballads ever written?Mine would be

Bed of Roses - Bon Jovi
November Rain - Guns N Roses
Boys of Summer - Don Henley
Earth Song - Michael Jackson
I Will Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)- Meatloaf
Perfect Day - Various Artists
Don't wanna miss a thing - Aerosmith
Keep On Loving You - REO Speedwagon
Mama I'm Coming Home - Ozzy Osbourne
The Living Years - Mike & The Mechanics

Good choice?

seanybiker

You cant have a list of power ballads without John Farnham - you're the voice.
:eek::eek:

RepublicanEagle

seanybiker wrote: »

You cant have a list of power ballads without John Farnham - you're the voice.
:eek::eek:

Considering my rich musical knowledge and brilliant taste,I am ashamed to say I have never heard of him!:eek::eek:I will check him out.

RepublicanEagle

seanybiker wrote: »

You cant have a list of power ballads without John Farnham - you're the voice.
:eek::eek:

I was searching for that song for so long!!!!!,but never knew the title and artist!!:D:D:D:DTHank you so much!!!!

You really made my evening!

Todd Gack

RepublicanEagle wrote: »

Considering my rich musical knowledge and brilliant taste,I am ashamed to say I have never heard of him!:eek::eek:I will check him out.

You should do, cracking song.

And no list is complete without the ultimate fist clenching power ballad 'I want to know what love is' by Foreigner.

RepublicanEagle

Todd Gack wrote: »

You should do, cracking song.

And no list is complete without the ultimate fist clenching power ballad 'I want to know what love is' by Foreigner.

Trust me it was so difficult to decide the top ten.

But why isn't anyone posting theirs?That was the intention of this thread:D

Kevster

Some good songs therw, RepublicanEagle, with some notable exceptions!

Heart - Alone
Jefferson Starship - Nothing's gonna stop us now
Jennifer Rush - Power of love
Beegees - You win again

Mars Bar

Power Of Love - Jennifer Rush

Kevster

mars bar wrote: »

Power Of Love - Jennifer Rush

*ahem*... see my post

Mars Bar

Kevster wrote: »

*ahem*... see my post

Whoops, sorry!

irishh_bob

RepublicanEagle wrote: »

What do you believe are the top 10 best power ballads ever written?Mine would be

Bed of Roses - Bon Jovi
November Rain - Guns N Roses
Boys of Summer - Don Henley
Earth Song - Michael Jackson
I Will Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)- Meatloaf
Perfect Day - Various Artists
Don't wanna miss a thing - Aerosmith
Keep On Loving You - REO Speedwagon
Mama I'm Coming Home - Ozzy Osbourne
The Living Years - Mike & The Mechanics

Good choice?

perfect day is certainly not a power balad and boys of summer , earth song and november rain are not fully fledged either in my book

guinnessdrinker

Whitesnake's Is This Love has got to be up there. I seen them play it live last year, very 80's but still great!

RepublicanEagle

irishh_bob wrote: »

perfect day is certainly not a power balad and boys of summer , earth song and november rain are not fully fledged either in my book

They would be for me,that is the beauty of music,we interpret music differently as individuals,wether we can relate to them in reality or solely in our minds.

candy-gal1

total eclipse of the heart - bonnie tyler
in the air tonight - phil collins
here i go again - whitesnake

and some bon jovi - bed of roses,blaze of glory, its my life!

steve_

Sister Christian!!

martinr5232

Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn.

Black Sabbath - Changes.

Xavi6

Someone got to 'Alone' by Heart before me. Essential.

Also -

Toto - Africa
T'Pau - China In Your Hand
Roxette - Listen To Your Heart
Cheap Trick - The Flame
Boston - More Than A Feeling
The Pretenders - I'll Stand By You
Jon Secada - Just Another Day
Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
Bon Jovi - Bed of Roses

and the greatest of them all......

Scorpions - Wind of Change

stovelid

Xavi6 wrote: »

Toto - Africa
Boston - More Than A Feeling
Scorpions - Wind of Change

Nearly a case of /thread.

Also:

PHd - I won't let you down
Phil Collins - Against all odds
Boston - Hard habit to break

The Pontiac

My favourite..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0k-kNwzUxc

Dudess

What's this? A power ballad thread NOT started by me?! :mad:

Xavi6 wrote: »

Someone got to 'Alone' by Heart

Damn it! And its "sister", Very First Time by Robin Beck (from a Coke ad in '88).

The distinction between power ballad and power anthem is an important one too.

Power ballad - These Dreams by Heart
Power anthem - Love is a Battlefield by Pat Benatar

stovelid wrote: »

PHd - I won't let you down

Thought I was the only one burdened by that particular shame...
It's only good in certain parts though - the verses are cack. Chorus is great though, and the synth breakdown middle 8 is just top notch!

Kevster

Xavi6 wrote: »

Someone got to 'Alone' by Heart before me. Essential.

Also -

Toto - Africa
T'Pau - China In Your Hand
Roxette - Listen To Your Heart
Cheap Trick - The Flame
Boston - More Than A Feeling
The Pretenders - I'll Stand By You
Jon Secada - Just Another Day
Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
Bon Jovi - Bed of Roses

and the greatest of them all......

Scorpions - Wind of Change

Yeh, I got to it [Heart's alone] before you... ... :P

I must say that you have excellent taste in music dude. These songs you've listed are among my favourite.

Id also like to add Maria McKee's show me heaven

stovelid

John Farnham - You're the Voice.

Tough one: power ballad or anthem?

brianrcarney

Whitesnake - Here i go again!! :cool: always does it!!

Dudess

stovelid wrote: »

John Farnham - You're the Voice.

Tough one: power ballad or anthem?

Hmmm... Anthem - no soppy lyrics.

stovelid

Dudess wrote: »

no soppy lyrics.

High pseudo-mystical and uplifting content though?

You're right though. He should have slipped a few lines about "waitin' and "phone" and "the night" just to be sure.

Dudess

That's very true. It kinda straddles the line between the two.

Whereas Man In Motion (St Elmo's Fire) by John Parr (yeah, THAT guy) is... pretty much just an anthem.

Nephilim Wolf

What about these as well?

Scorpions - Always Somewhere
Boston - Amanda
Bryan Adams - Heaven
Aerosmith - Dream On
The Cult - Edie (Ciao Baby)
Def Leppard - Hysteria
U2 - All I Want is You
ZZ Top - Rough Boy
Thin Lizzy - Still in Love With You (Live & Dangerous version)
Gary Moore - Parisienne Walkways
Scorpions - Born to Touch Your Feelings
Boston - A Man I'll Never Be
Whitesnake - Sailing Ships
Blue Öyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper
Heart - Strangers of The Heart (a real gem from the Bad Animals album)
Meatloaf - I'd Do Anything For Love
Scorpions - Send Me an Angel
The Mission Uk - Butterfly on a Wheel
Bryan Adams - Do I Have to Say The Words
Marillion - Kayleigh
U2 - With or Without You
Soul Asylum - Runaway Train
Pearl Jam - Black

Xavi6

U2 - All I Want is You

Where's the power in that?!

Feckin snorefest in comparison to most of those listed.

Mars Bar

"Whole Lotta Lovin' - Six

Only kidding!

McChubbin

I wanna know what love is! :eek:

Kevster

Nephilim Wolf wrote: »

What about these as well?

Scorpions - Always Somewhere
Boston - Amanda
Bryan Adams - Heaven
Aerosmith - Dream On
The Cult - Edie (Ciao Baby)
Def Leppard - Hysteria
U2 - All I Want is You
ZZ Top - Rough Boy
Thin Lizzy - Still in Love With You (Live & Dangerous version)
Gary Moore - Parisienne Walkways
Scorpions - Born to Touch Your Feelings
Boston - A Man I'll Never Be
Whitesnake - Sailing Ships
Blue Öyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper
Heart - Strangers of The Heart (a real gem from the Bad Animals album)
Meatloaf - I'd Do Anything For Love
Scorpions - Send Me an Angel
The Mission Uk - Butterfly on a Wheel
Bryan Adams - Do I Have to Say The Words
Marillion - Kayleigh
U2 - With or Without You
Soul Asylum - Runaway Train
Pearl Jam - Black

Well done for bringing up the Soul Asylum track - that's fantastic. You've listed three of the Scorpions' songs, however, but have omitted their best! - Wind of change

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57CzNqgm8Fc