[EAO RoNiN]

Any good ballads in memory?
Make your top 10 -ballad list of them here!


Note:
Only one song/band! (Though, if you don't know ballads from 10 different bands, you can use songs of same band often)
And argue your choices! (even something, nothing very long needed...)

[EDIT:]
All kind of ballads can be listed!
(The definition of ballad is not always very clear. Usually like slow / sad / beautiful song, may tell about broken love or sth like that.)
[/EDIT]

(No matter how you list them. I listed like (position. - Band - Ballad (Length))

1. Nightwish - Sleeping Sun (4:03)
This is amazingly beautiful song - The most beautiful ever... No more arguments needed!

2. Stratovarius - Mother Gaia (8:20)
Though Stratovarius has many amazing ballads, I chose this one. Maybe because of the piano melodies and guitar solos in the end of the song... This is very beautiful!

3. Sonata Arctica - Letter To Dana (6:00)
Sonata Arctica has also made so many beautiful ballads... But this is one of the first ones... And this is legend. Very beautiful flute also...

4. Deep Purple - Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming (Single Edit) (4:36)
Legendary Deep Purple has also recorded so many ballads... This is quite new one, and I love this... That's maybe why I chose it

5. Dream Theater - The Spirit Carries On (6:38)
This one is also beuatiful, especially the gospel parts rule!

6. Yngwie Malmsteen - Icarus' Dream Suite, op.4 (8:33)
Instrumental.. Fantastic guitar solos... This ballad is almost legendary, released in 1984... Btw the band was quite known in the USA that time too.

7. Scorpions - Still Loving You (6:27)
One of the most legendary ballads EVER!
Fantastic... Gorgeous!

8. Metallica - Fade To Black (6:52)
Also a legend! The instrumental guitar parts rule!

9. Rainbow - Vielleicht Das Nachste Mal (Maybe Next Time) (3:20)
Short instrumental, very beautiful guitar melodies! This is very peaceful song... ahhh!

10. Dio - As Long As It's Not About Love (6:04)
This is also one very beautiful song!
And Ronnie James Dio is one very good singer!




So I made my list...
What do you others say about the ballads?

This post has been edited by EAO RoNiN: 09 April 2005 - 10:14 AM

[EAO Nathalie]

Well, I think you're probably talking about Rock Ballads but I'm not sure since I don't recognize a few of the songs on your list. Sorry, but I'm going to make mine mostly love songs so they don't quite match the same criteria. You all may laugh hysterically at my list. That's ok.

Trying to come with a top 10 here was difficult for me since I've got so many favorites. This is a really tough question since I think ballads especially hold a very special place with the listener. Usually, if they're associated with a very pleasant memory then they'll always remain special.

So after much thinking and many cuts from my overall list , here's my top 10.


1. When I'm With You - Sherriff

2. Scorpions - Still Loving You

3. Ronnie Milsap - Since I Don't Have You (Skyliners Remake)

4. Whitney Houston - You Give Good Love

5. Climax Blues Band - I Love You

6. Meatloaf - Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad

7. Stylistics - You Make Me Feel Brand New (No one will understand this one but it's special to me )

8. 3 Doors Down - Here Without You

9. Styx - Babe

10. Kiss - Beth

This post has been edited by EAO NathalieM: 08 April 2005 - 11:10 PM

[EAO BoB]

Hmmm top ten Ballads .......

Got me thinking now.....I been in a real good mood lately too

Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song
Skid Row - Wasted Time
The Wildhearts - Dreaming in A
Guns 'N' Roses - Estranged
Manic Street Preachers - From Despair To Where
Metallica - Orion (God Bless CLIFFY BURTON)
Pantera - Hollow
Pearl Jam - Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
Pink Floyd - Goodbye Cruel World
Guns 'N' Roses - November Rain
Portishead - Wandering Star
Queen - Spread Your Wings
Manic Street Preachers- Life Becoming A Landslide
Queensryche - Silent Lucidity
Red Hot Chili Peppers - I Could Have Lied

In NO particular order.....

[EAO RoNiN]

EAO NathalieM, on Apr 9 2005, 02:09 AM, said:

[glow=black][color=Aqua][b]Well, I think you're probably talking about Rock Ballads but I'm not sure since I don't recognize a few of the songs on your list.  Sorry, but I'm going to make mine mostly love songs so they don't quite match the same criteria.  You all may laugh hysterically at my list.  That's ok. 

Well all ballads on my list are little heavier. But still, eg. Sonata Arctica - Letter To Dana is quite love song. The singer plays a man, whose beloved and old girlfriend turned a little "bad", ran away from home and does some not-so-good things. The man sends her letters, begging her to come back.

Not very happy song, indeed

This post has been edited by EAO RoNiN: 09 April 2005 - 10:11 AM

[EAO PKing]

Pff 10 is a little to much, but il see where i strand:-)

1. Loneliness-Grand Funk Railroad.

2. Gin house blues-Dutch band (lost the name)

3. Time is a jailer-Anouk

4. Saturday Night-Herman Brood

5. On the Road again-canned heat

6. Dark Rose-Brainbox

7. Every day now-Texas

8. Help-Ten years after

9. Tick as a brick-Jethro Tull

10. Heartbreaker-Grand Funk Railroad.

Not all ballads, but the best i can think off right now.
I am more a blues kinda man:-)

This post has been edited by EAO pking47: 09 April 2005 - 02:44 PM

[EAO Leadfoot]

American Pie...Don MClean
Free Bird...Lynard Skynard
Hotel California...Eagles
Hurricane...Bob Dylan
Free Fallen ....Tom Petty
Stairway to Heaven...Led Zepplin


just a few of the great ones

[NTmare]

I don't listen to ballads much at all...but would "Vermillion Part II" and "Danger - Keep Away" by Slipknot count as ballads

[EAO Nathalie]

EAO BoB, on Apr 9 2005, 01:38 AM, said:

Pink Floyd - Goodbye Cruel World

Goodbye Cruel World?

Don't think I've ever waltzed to that one!

[EAO BoB]

Don't ever listen to it if ur feeling "suicidal".....it's a song from the heart for sure.

[EAO Ohio pie]

Ain't no Love (in the Heart of the City) - Chris Farlowe

Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin

A Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum

Sebastian - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel

November Rain - Guns'n'Roses

Bed of Roses - Bon Jovi

Crusader - Chris de Burgh

Paradise by the Dashboard Light - Meatloaf

Sometimes when we touch - Rod Stewart

Angie - Rolling Stones


.... just to name a few (not necessarily in this order)

[BadBoyz]

HMMMM!!!! I SEE NO KYLIE MUSIC LISTED HERE? HE HE HE HE

This post has been edited by EAO BadBoyz: 12 April 2005 - 06:32 PM

[EAO RayL]

Hi all.

Well, here goes...

1) U2 - Beautiful Day
2) Coolio - Fantastic Voyage
3) Nine Inch Nails - Closer
4) The Alan Parsons Project - I wouldn't want to be like you
5) Pink Floyd - High Hopes
6) Led Zeppelin - Hey hey what can I do
7) Guns N' Roses - November Rain
8) Enigma - Return to Innocence
9) Duran Duran - Come Undone
10) Alice in Chains - No Excuses

cu all out on the road!

RayL.

[EAO Rustler]

A ballad is actually supposed to be a song that tells a story, like say, the theme from the 'Beverly Hillbillies', but the way I interpret a ballad is a personal song that is meant to be sung to someone...

1. Billy Joel - She's got a way

2. Bread - Everything I Own

3. Cyndi Lauper - True Colors

4. James Taylor - Something in the Way She Moves

5. Joe Cocker - You are so Beautiful

6. Journey - Faithfully

7. LeAnne Rimes - How Do I Live?

8. Matchbox Twenty - Bright Lights

9. Nilsson - Without You

10. Paul McCartney - Maybe I'm Amazed

11. Prince - The Most Beautiful Girl in the World

12. REO Speedwagon - Keep on Lovin' You

13. The Beatles - When I'm Sixty-four

13.. great, my lucky day.

[xDoA]

These are my top ten ballads favorites of all time..I dedicate these to Eli

1. Cinderella - Comming Home
2. Saigon Kick - Love is on the way
3. The Black Crowes - She talks to angels
4. Guns and Roses - Patience
5. Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
6. 3 Doors Down - Here without you
7. Steelheart - I'll never let you go
8. Savage Garden - Truely Madly Deeply
9. Motley Crue - Without You
10. Oasis - Wonderwall

[HellDragon]

Mudvein- Happy
Slayer-Angel of Death
Ozzy-Suicide solutions
Pantera-Cow Boys from haha
Shinedown- Fly from the inside
Just afew that I like Im kind of into harder rock

This post has been edited by He11Dragon: 14 April 2005 - 03:57 PM