Favourite Power Ballads of the 80s/Early 90s

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A power ballad is a slow or soft song by a so-called "hair metal" band that showed the bands sensitive side while featuring a ripping guitar solo to show their heavy side.....Some of the 1s I like are


Sister Christian - Night Ranger
Wait - Night Lion
Is this love - Whitesnake
Hysteria - Def Leppard
Have you ever needed someone so bad - Def Leppard
Open Arms - Journey
Send her my love - Journey
Whos Crying Now - Journey
Faithfully - Journey
These Dreams - Heart
Against all Odds - Phil Collins
 
Journey, Def Leppard are on my list too.

My list...

The Cars - Drive
Def Leppard - Hysteria, Love Bites, When Love & Hate Collide, Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad
Mr. Mister - Broken Wings, Kyrie
Roxette - It Must Have Been Love, Fading Like A Flower
Richard Marx - Right Here Waiting, Hazard, Endless Summer Nights, Hold Onto the Nights, Now and Forever, Angelia
Bon Jovi - Always, Bed of Roses, This Ain't A Love Song
Queen - We Are The Champions, Bohemian Rhapsody
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
Van Halen - Can't Stop Loving You, When It's Love
Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is, Waiting For A Girl Like You
REO Speedwagon - Keep On Loving You
Starship - Nothings Gonna Stop Us Now
TPau - China In Your Hand
Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart
Cutting Crew - I Just Died In Your Arms
Meat Loaf - Id Do Anything For Love (But I Wont Do That)
Heart - Alone, What About Love
Air Supply - All Out of Love, Making Love Out of Nothing At All
Boston - More Than A Feeling, Let Me Take You Home Tonight
Guns n' Roses - November Rain, Don't Cry
Mr. Big - To Be With You, Just Take My Heart
Scorpions - Still Loving You, Holiday
Roy Orbison - I Drove All Night
Marillion - Kayleigh
Chicago - Hard to Say I'm Sorry
The Rolling Stones - Angie
 
Hair metal balladry:)

You guys forgot the spandex tights and rippling biceps :lol:

Here's my list from a long lost memory:

Judas Priest - Out in the Cold; Turbo Lover
Bon Jovi - Never Say Goodbye
Queen - Love of My Life
Van Halen - Dreams; Love Walks In; Not Enough
Boston - A Man I'll Never Be
Munchener Freiheit - Keeping the Dream Alive
Saigon Kick - Love is on the Way
Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Skid Row - I'll Remember You
Scorpions - Lady Starlight
Kansas - All I Wanted
Dokken - Prisoner
Extreme - More Than Words
Europe - Carrie; Heart of Stone; Open Your Heart
Loudness - So Lonely
Warrant - Heaven
Tesla - Love Song
Cinderella - Nobody's Fool
Motley Crue - Home Sweet Home
Def Leppard - Love Bites
Whitesnake - Is This Love
Damn Yankees - High Enough
Bad English - When I See You Smile
Mr Big - To Be With You
 
Deep Purple - When a blind man cries, soldier of fortune
Foreigner - I wanna know what love is, Waiting for a girl like you
Damn Yankees - High enough
Kix - When the children cry
Whitesnake - The deeper the love
 
All ye headbangers or ex-headbangers or closet headbangers, please add to the list.
 
Not sure if all of these fit your criteria, but here goes:

"Hair metal" is a slightly derogatory term for glam rockers who grew their hairs long, and kept them well maintained as part of their musical persona. Other distinguishing sartorial features were the much favoured spandex tights, tank tops, elaborately dressed up high-heeled boots (preferably snakeskin boots or something in offbeat shades you wouldn't be seen dead wearing anywhere other than on stage), long-flowing silk sashes, (mostly meaningless) wrist bands, etc, and they were not averse to putting on some mascara. But it wasn't the trend to try and look feminine. I guess it is the influence of KISS. In fact you'll see a scowl on most of their pr shots.

From a musical standpoint they were usually hard rockers with a penchant for hard rock and or metal. But it was their soft, mushy and romantic numbers that usually took them highest in the charts.

Strictly speaking, a ballad need not be about romantic love, but most hair metal ballads of the period were actually romantic songs. Of course there were exceptions like White Lion's When The Children Cry (about war), Stryper's Honestly (it is actually a gospel), Aerosmith's Janie's Got a Gun (about child sexual abuse), etc.

Anyway, one doesn't have to stick to this for this thread. As long as it sounds nice, slow-ish, has a nice guitar interlude, and a vocalist singing his lungs out, they're good enough to feature on this list. But I wouldn't include Metallica - James Hetfield once said "we'll never do ballads" in an interview. Besides, they're thrash, not glam:)
 
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