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Old 03-29-03 | 07:12 PM
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Favorite power Ballad male and female

you know, those songs that have the over powering drums, girls trying to destory their vocal chords, and usually you have to go up and slow dance to.
mine are
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Ozzy "Mama, I'm coming home"
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Whitney Houstin "I will always love you"
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I guess these qualify as "power ballads":

Male - Skid Row's "I Remember You"

Female - Belinda Carlisle's "Heaven Is a Place on Earth"
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I guess these qualify as "power ballads":

Male - Skid Row's "I Remember You"

Female - Belinda Carlisle's "Heaven Is a Place on Earth"
You know, off the top of my head, I can't think of many better than these two . . . but maybe "Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonnie Tyler.
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Haha, good taste!

I'm mostly into heavy stuff, but I have this soft spot for well-done female vocals. "Total Eclipse..." is undoubtedly another worthy selection. Some others:

"Eternal Flame" by the Bangles
"Weak" also by Belinda (That was the title, right?)

Moving back to the testosterone crowd:

"I Saw Red" by Warrant (Stop laughing!)
"Sweet Child O Mine" by Guns N Roses (Qualifies, right?)

I'll probably come up with more later; I'll either post again or just edit this.

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Originally posted by inVectiVe
Haha, good taste!

I'm mostly into heavy stuff, but I have this soft spot for well-done female vocals. "Total Eclipse..." is undoubtedly another worthy selection. Some others:

"Eternal Flame" by the Bangles
"Weak" also by Belinda (That was the title, right?)

Moving back to the testosterone crowd:

"I Saw Red" by Warrant (Stop laughing!)
"Sweet Child O Mine" by Guns N Roses (Qualifies, right?)

I'll probably come up with more later; I'll either post again or just edit this.
That would be "I Get Weak" not to mention "Circle in the Sand" another classic by my boyhood crush Belinda Carlisle.
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I'd consiter Sweet child o mine but November Rain would be better as more of a power balad imo.
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Male: "Faithfully" by Journey
Female: "Kiss me Deadly" Lita Ford
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What exactly is a "power ballad"...ive heard the term thrown around a lot, but I dont know what it means exactly.
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These are mostly love songs (most of Celine's music, and as well as most of Mariah's music) with an over use sort of of drums and the strings. Examples are "My Heart Will go on", "a moment like this", "mama I'm commin Home" ect.
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Originally posted by jarsim
You know, off the top of my head, I can't think of many better than these two . . . but maybe "Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonnie Tyler.
</small>Is that a Jim Steinman composition? It seems odd no-one has mentioned Meatloaf in this particular context: I thought that together those two had the genre sewn up!
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Im gonna go with Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler


and I'm going way out on a limb here, how about (You're) All I Need - Motley Crue
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I just made a compulation of imo ballads
1. comfortably numb
2. stairway to heaven
3. nothing else matters
4. november rain
5. don't speak
6. with arms wide open
7. mama I'm comin home
8. somewhere out there
9. iris
10. kiss from a rose
11. crazy
12. a thousand miles
13. the real folk blues
14. what's this life for
15. you shook me all night long (alright, its not really one, but it was just short enough to fit on a 80 min cd.)
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1. Air Supply - "Making Love Out Of Nothing At All" or Asia's "The Smile Has Left Your Eyes"
2. Whitney Houston - One Moment in Time

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Theme From an Imaginary Western - Mountain
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"High Enough" - Damn Yankees
"Love of a Lifetime" - Firehouse
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"Nobody's Fool" - Cinderella
"Close My Eyes Forever" - Lita Ford & Ozzy
"Alone Again" - Dokken
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I can't believe no one's mentioned Queensryche's "Silent Lucidity."

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