Whose pussy ballads are most unlistenable?

[Mr Badguy]

As a rule I ain`t crazy about ballads, love songs, whatever you want to call them.

I think AC/DC and Iron Maiden have the right idea by avoiding them.

I think the whole thing started with Led Zeppelin`s acoustic stuff and got bastardized by bands trying to get birds bums on concert seats, and bought into wholesale by guys wanting to get their birds knickers off by playing them some metal lite.

Aerosmith, Styx, Van Hagar and all those 80`s glam bands attempts made me sick.

Particularly "I don`t want to miss a thing", "Crazy", "Babe", "Bed of roses", "Always", "When it`s love", "Miles away"...fuck I could go on all day.

How `bout you?

[VHII]

POISON!!!!

[Reverberator]

mmmm.

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Hey! I've only just noticed you are in Glasgow! How great! I've been mad for Scotland for a long time, been there twice. I bought Diamond's book in... Glasgow's Tower Records, during my first trip in 98. I've criss-crossed the western half of the country up to Inverness. The Highlands are like my second home. Cheers to you, good Mista Badguy!

As for la-di-da bullshit, everything just drives me mad. I can't stand sweetened music, what makes it worst is all those fuckin' keyboards. Simply hearing them will have me skip or eject the record at once. It's a sort of allergic reaction. Easy good feelings will make me turn wild and mean, can't help it.

Now, slàinte!:D

[CVHfan]

Originally posted by Mr Badguy
As a rule I ain`t crazy about ballads, love songs, whatever you want to call them.

I think AC/DC and Iron Maiden have the right idea by avoiding them.

Or for that matter, classic Van Halen pretty much avoided them too.

[Golden AWe]

Re: Whose pussy ballads are most unlistenable?

Originally posted by Mr Badguy
Aerosmith, Styx, Van Hagar and all those 80`s glam bands attempts made me sick.

Particularly "I don`t want to miss a thing", "Crazy", "Babe", "Bed of roses", "Always", "When it`s love", "Miles away"...fuck I could go on all day.

How `bout you?

Yesss...that Aerosmith-crap..."I don't wanna miss a thing"...the sounds are lame, soft and crappy even for a cheesy ballad!

"I can't stop loving you" by Hagar. Definetely the worst Hagar-song ever.

"Wind of change", The Scorpions.

As you said, Led Zeppelin did it well and it should've ended there. There can be only one "Since I've been loving you" and "Babe I'm gonna leave ya".

I must admit I've danced some of them in a nightclub, when I was hitting on a grrrl. I wonder if even a drunken fuck is worth dancing to the crap. Well, it is.

[academic punk]

Lick My Love Pump

[secrets]

Originally posted by academic punk
Lick My Love Pump

Ha! Nice. Good ol' Nigel Tuffnel.

I hate metal and rock band ballads. But some of the slow Dream Theater tracks are really good.

Marillion did some nice ballads such as Kayleigh and Lavender which are timeless classics.

[Mr Badguy]

Originally posted by secrets
Marillion did some nice ballads such as Kayleigh and Lavender which are timeless classics.

Those are two that I don`t have a problem with.

Those are great songs.

Alice Cooper has done a few that I don`t mind either, he seems to be good at them.

Also Journey`s "Open arms", although really wet is a great song and Steve Perry`s singing is great.

[Mr Badguy]

I would die happy if I never heard "Love bites" by Def Leppard again.

[smaz]

Kelly and Ozzys 'Changes' counts doesn't it??? If so, it's fucking appalling.

[academic punk]

oh, what was the duet with Lita and Ozzy? That FUCKING sucked.
(One of the best Beavis and Butthead's critiqued it)

[Mulattothrasher]

Scorpions have way, way too many ballads.
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Some are good to hear, but there too much "filler" ballads me thinks...

[light 'em up!]

I liked Van Halen's ballads w/Dave like 'In a simple rhyme'

Their love songs w/sammy were predictable and corny.

[NathanRay]

I love Poison