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General => General Music Discussion => Topic started by: KevShmev on December 06, 2017, 06:50:35 PM
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Get the cheese ready.
You can vote for up to 5.
I went with:
Is This Love
Love Walks In
Sister Christian
Carrie
Babe (bring the jokes :lol)
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This was surprisingly easy for me to pick
Waiting for a Girl Like You
Faithfully
Keep on Loving You
More Than Words
Is This Love
Not necessarily in that order.
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I actually just had a good listen to Angel the other day, and I have to say that Steven Tyler is immense on it.
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Out of all of these, only Love Walks In. The song that made Eddie and Valerie cry. I also think it's one of Sammy's best lyrics
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Whitesnake and Dokken the clear favs, then Journey, Foreigner and Def Leppard.
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Not in any particular order..
Journey
Motley Crue
Aerosmith
Styx
Dokken
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I like many of those songs so will run with those that I think I played most as a kid
Whitesnake
Dokken
Foreigner
Def Leppard
Van Halen
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Hmm... loved pretty much every single one of those when they were released. Definitely my pick for Kev's best selection of his "Your favorites..." threads. Can't say any of them appeal to me now, so going off of my feelings at the time:
Van Halen - Love Walks In
Motley Crue - Home Sweet Home
Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Aerosmith - Angel
Boston - Amanda
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Love Bites, Home Sweet Home, Every Rose Has Its Thorn.
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Damn it, when I saw the thread title, I was expecting Bon Jovi!
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I could only vote for Love Walks In.
All the rest are a target rich environment for the "Alternate Lyrics" thread and thus have been ruined for me. Especially Amanda! :lol
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Carrie
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The only one I DON'T like is "Alone Again". Not a Dokken fan at all. Never clicked with me.
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Faithfully
Babe
Keep on Lovin You
Alone Again
I would've included Love Walks In if I hadn't missed it when I was going through the list.
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I can’t pick five. I love them all, big softy that I am 😀
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Home Sweet Home
Babe
Sister Christian
More Than Words (my favorite of the bunch)
Amanda (a close second)
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Motley Crue - Home Sweet Home
Night Ranger - Sister Christian
Extreme - More than Words
Aerosmith – Angel
Whitesnake - Is This Love
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I went with Amanda and Angel. Beautiful songs. :heart
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Foreigner and Journey songs.
I'd rather stick a fork in my eye than listen to that Poison song again.
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whitesnake, poison, def, dokken, foreigner
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Foreigner
Journey
Styx
Boston
REO
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Van Halen - Love Walks In
Motley Crue - Home Sweet Home
Night Ranger - Sister Christian
Europe - Carrie
Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn
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Def Leppard
Van Halen
Motley Crue
Whitesnake
great songs IMO
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Voted REO Speedwagon, Van Halen, Journey, Styx and Extreme.
My favorite monster rock ballad, though, is Bon Jovi's I'll Be There For You. JBJ and Richie were great in that song.
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Never been a fan of Whitesnake's Is This Love. In fact, as much as I love the band that plays on it, I'm on record as saying that album is severely overrated.
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Never been a fan of Whitesnake's Is This Love. In fact, as much as I love the band that plays on it, I'm on record as saying that album is severely overrated.
But, man, was Tawny hot in that video!
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I am pleased to see Is This Love winning this. Love that song, and the intro is especially awesome. Love the way that haunting guitar lead comes in after the keyboard fade-in. That is one of the more awesome intros of the 80s.
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Never been a fan of Whitesnake's Is This Love. In fact, as much as I love the band that plays on it, I'm on record as saying that album is severely overrated.
It's not even their best "Monster Ballad"; that would be "Here I Go Again".
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Eh, despite the first verse of the normal version, Here I Go Again rocks too much to be a monster ballad.
Also, I see 8 others have voted for Babe. While a big pile of cheese, it is a well written pile of swiss. :biggrin: :lol
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Never been a fan of Whitesnake's Is This Love. In fact, as much as I love the band that plays on it, I'm on record as saying that album is severely overrated.
But, man, was Tawny hot in that video!
Who?
(https://www.usmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/1423063397_tawny-kitaen-zoom.jpg?w=800&h=800&crop=1)
(https://o.aolcdn.com/images/dims3/GLOB/crop/960x630+35+0/resize/1028x675!/format/jpg/quality/85/http%3A%2F%2Fo.aolcdn.com%2Fhss%2Fstorage%2Fmidas%2Ff403a79405601dd2e88093117cd3abb7%2F205628030%2FScreen%2BShot%2B2017-09-03%2Bat%2B11.08.21%2BPM.png)
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Never been a fan of Whitesnake's Is This Love. In fact, as much as I love the band that plays on it, I'm on record as saying that album is severely overrated.
But, man, was Tawny hot in that video!
Who?
Oh, I know. Emphasis on the 'was' in my statement. I try to just remember her from those videos.
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Sister Christian
Alone Again (Without You)
More Than Words
Hate to Leave Boston off of the list but that song was WAY overplayed. Also, I much prefer Open Arms to Faithfully.
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Wow - no Scorpions choices?!? I mean, I would've expected Still Loving You or Winds of Chain, altho my choice would be Send Me an Angel.
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Also, I see 8 others have voted for Babe. While a big pile of cheese, it is a well written pile of swiss. :biggrin: :lol
Stinky and full of holes..........
Ok, I'll show myself out now ;D
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Wow - no Scorpions choices?!? I mean, I would've expected Still Loving You or Winds of Chain, altho my choice would be Send Me an Angel.
Still Loving You still gives me goosebumps.
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Wow - no Scorpions choices?!? I mean, I would've expected Still Loving You or Winds of Chain, altho my choice would be Send Me an Angel.
Still Loving You still gives me goosebumps.
That's one of my favorite rock ballads of all time.
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Foreigner
Dokken
Def Lep
Extreme
Poison
But most of them really
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Wow - no Scorpions choices?!? I mean, I would've expected Still Loving You or Winds of Chain, altho my choice would be Send Me an Angel.
Still Loving You still gives me goosebumps.
Love that song as well. Killer stuff, and still holds up today.
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Wow - no Scorpions choices?!? I mean, I would've expected Still Loving You or Winds of Chain, altho my choice would be Send Me an Angel.
Still Loving You still gives me goosebumps.
Love that song as well. Killer stuff, and still holds up today.
Klaus' finest moment.
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Never been a fan of Whitesnake's Is This Love. In fact, as much as I love the band that plays on it, I'm on record as saying that album is severely overrated.
But, man, was Tawny hot in that video!
Who?
(https://www.usmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/1423063397_tawny-kitaen-zoom.jpg?w=800&h=800&crop=1)
(https://o.aolcdn.com/images/dims3/GLOB/crop/960x630+35+0/resize/1028x675!/format/jpg/quality/85/http%3A%2F%2Fo.aolcdn.com%2Fhss%2Fstorage%2Fmidas%2Ff403a79405601dd2e88093117cd3abb7%2F205628030%2FScreen%2BShot%2B2017-09-03%2Bat%2B11.08.21%2BPM.png)
WOW, had to ruin it didn't ya :tdwn haha
And Yes Scorpions Still Loving You is one of the best, And Great White Save All Your Love, Cinderella Don't Know What You Got Till It's Gone and Long Cold Winter.
But this was tough, lots of great ones on that list.
Faithfully
Love Bites
Home Sweet Home
Alone Again
Every Rose Has It's Thorn
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And Yes Scorpions Still Loving You is one of the best, And Great White Save All Your Love, Cinderella Don't Know What You Got Till It's Gone and Long Cold Winter.
Wow you nailed it there. All classics.
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I went with:
Faithfully
Love Bites
Keep On Loving You
Alone Again
and Home Sweet Home, altho I could've easily swapped it for the Foreigner or VH tracks.
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Does "Silent Lucidity" fall into the category? If so...it would be my choice. If not... Whitesnake. :hat
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Wow - no Scorpions choices?!? I mean, I would've expected Still Loving You or Winds of Chain, altho my choice would be Send Me an Angel.
Still Loving You still gives me goosebumps.
Love that song as well. Killer stuff, and still holds up today.
Klaus' finest moment.
Yea that's one of my favourites as well.
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Bad English - When I see you smile :biggrin:
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Wow - no Scorpions choices?!? I mean, I would've expected Still Loving You or Winds of Chain, altho my choice would be Send Me an Angel.
Still Loving You still gives me goosebumps.
Love that song as well. Killer stuff, and still holds up today.
Klaus' finest moment.
Yea that's one of my favourites as well.
Just saw Rick Beatos Top 20 Rock Ballads and got reminded of this song again. You know one interesting thing about that song and something I really love is how he actually dosen't sing the the full chorus until 4:45. It's such a powerful moment when he finally sings Still Loving You.
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Not sure how you leave Bon Jovi out of this. I’m a fan of the power ballad but not so much of these songs apart from the Journey and Def Leppard ones. I’d throw in Alone by Heart, Sweet Child O Mine by Guns N Roses and I’ll Be There For You by Bon Jovi too.
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I'm sorry to be mean, but Tawny Kitaen looks like Cesar Romero's Joker in that second picture.
I did not watch it, so I don't know if this is misleading or not, but her credits include an appearance on "Botched", which is an interesting show where cosmetic surgeons Drs. Paul Nassif and Terry DuBrow (yes, THAT DuBrow; his brother is/was Kevin) fix "botched" plastic surgery.
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Why does every celebrity who gets too much plastic surgery end up looking like Janice from the Muppets?
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I'm sorry to be mean, but Tawny Kitaen looks like Cesar Romero's Joker in that second picture.
:lol :lol :lol
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No Winger - Miles Away? ;D
All good but picked
Aerosmith, Def Leppard, Europe, Extreme & Poison.
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I went with Amanda ..Is this Love was runner up
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I Remember You - Skid Row
For some reason I feel like a “monster ballad” needs to be a hard rock/metal band doing a ballad. A power ballad. Lumping pop groups like REO/Styx/Journey/Boston/Foreigner in with that....iffy :P :angel:
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Not that familiar with REO and Styx but Journey, Boston and Foreigner are rock bands, especially in their heyday. There was a time when Bon Jovi were considered to be a Heavy Metal band. Categories have shifted over time but, in the 80’s, Journey were a hard rock band.
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Not that familiar with REO and Styx but Journey, Boston and Foreigner are rock bands, especially in their heyday. There was a time when Bon Jovi were considered to be a Heavy Metal band. Categories have shifted over time but, in the 80’s, Journey were a hard rock band.
I'm not particularly familiar with REO (beyond a couple songs) or Boston beyond the first two albums, but all of those bands ran the gamut of "rock" labels. FWIW, Wikipedia lists journey as an "arena rock," "hard rock," "soft rock," "progressive rock" and "jazz rock" band. "Arena rock" was probably the best description for the first half of the 80s. Styx gets all the same labels, excluding "jazz rock," and also adding "art rock" and "pop rock." Foreigner only gets "hard rock," "arena rock" and "pop rock," but "soft rock" would be just as apt. All of the songs by each of these bands is unquestionably deserving of the description "monster ballad."
Random note: I'm not entirely sure I've ever heard the song that has gotten the most votes.
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Ironically, that song is just words.
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Random note: I'm not entirely sure I've ever heard the song that has gotten the most votes.
Ironically, that song is just words.
I just watched (most of) the video for More Than Words. If I've ever heard that song (or anything else by Extreme) before today, I have no recollection. However that song is definitely NOT a "monster ballad" (unless "monster ballad" simply means very successful ballad).
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Carrie.
Not in the options, but when I think "monster ballad", I think Love Song by Tesla.
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That song blows. If I'm thinking monster ballad by Tesla, I immediately go to We're No Good Together.
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We're No Good Together is good, Love Song's scope is wider
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We're No Good Together is good, Love Song's scope is wider
Love Song's ass is wider.
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:lol
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I love the premise of the poll, as I love me my power ballads ... but I can't believe you picked some of the worst ballads to highlight. Love Bites is by far my most hated power ballad of all time :lol. I'll second the love for I Remember You and Love Song. How you skipped over Wanted Dead or Alive boggles me (mayhap you don't consider it a ballad?). Other blatantly obvious omissions (imo):
My Oh My
High Enough
Don't Know What You Got ('til it's gone)
Alone
I'll See You In My Dreams
Fly To The Angels
Can't Fight This Feeling
Against All Odds
Oh Sherrie
Close My Eyes Forever
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I'd add
Kix - Don't Close Your Eyes
LA Guns - Ballad of Jayne
Scorpions Still Loving You
Thunder - Love Walked in
Warrant - I Saw Red
And let's piss them off by throwing Metallica in - Nothing Else Matters, Unforgiven
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I'd add
Kix - Don't Close Your Eyes
LA Guns - Ballad of Jayne
Scorpions Still Loving You
Thunder - Love Walked in
Warrant - I Saw Red
And let's piss them off by throwing Metallica in - Nothing Else Matters, Unforgiven
Giant - I'll See You In My Dreams?
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Wait, I just remembered the best
Savatage - Believe