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Re: Favorite Power Ballad
Never considered Dance The Night Away a power ballad.
Freebird is a great song, but I've just heard it too many times.
November Rain was so-so.
Goodbye To Romance was decent. Not really one of my faves of Blizzard.
Don't Go Away Mad...yeah, whatever. Next.
Home Sweet Home. This song, more than a lot of others, seems to be the template for the 1980s hair metal power ballad explosion, with most of these tunes ending up on the various MONSTER BALLADS cds. I remember when this came out, maybe a year or so after me and my buds saw the Crue open up for Ozzy on the Bark At The Moon tour, and basically blew Oz off the stage. Crue were shit-hot then, out there promoting the Shout At The Devil album.
Theater of Pain was the end of my use for that band, and this song was a big part of it. Just a cloying, forced sentimentality calculated to sell records to 13 year old girls. Opened the door for a lot of other bands with a minimal amount of talent to go and do the same thing (Fuck, Bon Jovi's made a CAREER off this shit). Someone once said that Stairway To Heaven was really the first power ballad, but I couldn't put that track in the same room with shit like Home Swet Home and the drek that followed.
Originally posted by sammysucks65
whats your favorite power ballads
(in no order)
dance the night away-vh
dont go away mad just go away-motley crue
november rain-gnr
goodbye to romance-ozzy
free bird!-skynard
home sweet home-motley crue
DISCUSS
whats your favorite power ballads
(in no order)
dance the night away-vh
dont go away mad just go away-motley crue
november rain-gnr
goodbye to romance-ozzy
free bird!-skynard
home sweet home-motley crue
DISCUSS
Never considered Dance The Night Away a power ballad.
Freebird is a great song, but I've just heard it too many times.
November Rain was so-so.
Goodbye To Romance was decent. Not really one of my faves of Blizzard.
Don't Go Away Mad...yeah, whatever. Next.
Home Sweet Home. This song, more than a lot of others, seems to be the template for the 1980s hair metal power ballad explosion, with most of these tunes ending up on the various MONSTER BALLADS cds. I remember when this came out, maybe a year or so after me and my buds saw the Crue open up for Ozzy on the Bark At The Moon tour, and basically blew Oz off the stage. Crue were shit-hot then, out there promoting the Shout At The Devil album.
Theater of Pain was the end of my use for that band, and this song was a big part of it. Just a cloying, forced sentimentality calculated to sell records to 13 year old girls. Opened the door for a lot of other bands with a minimal amount of talent to go and do the same thing (Fuck, Bon Jovi's made a CAREER off this shit). Someone once said that Stairway To Heaven was really the first power ballad, but I couldn't put that track in the same room with shit like Home Swet Home and the drek that followed.
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