VH1's 25 Greatest Power Ballads

VH1 ^ | 1/2006 | Staff

[Trampled by Lambs]

Wow! This list almost mirrors my "Cheesy metal ballads" list. :P

I'm like Pissant, I spent the 80's with the Dead and old school hard rock from the 70's like Deep Purple, Alice Cooper, BOC (more cowbell!) etc.

[RockinRight]

But what did you do when Alice went "Hair Band" in the late 80s?

Constrictor and Raise Your Fist and Yell were actually good albums.

[Ace of Spades]

Proving once again that beer is truly the elixir of life. :)

[TheBigB]

BOC (more cowbell!)

The magic words!

MORE COWBELL!!

[BigSkyFreeper]

I know guys like that NOW! My one friend always works on his car and cranks up 80s hair bands...he's worse than me even!

I got a friend like that! He's got a white Corvette, and goes up and down the streets of our small town with his windows rolled up and his radio cranked loud.

[PaulaB]

[Trampled by Lambs]

But what did you do when Alice went "Hair Band" in the late 80s?

Lost interest... Basically, after "Muscle of Love" and the original group breaking up, most of Alice's stuff was pretty lame, IMO.

[ovrtaxt]

Well, I gotta go- but here's a lovely parting gift! The pizza scene from Fast Times:

http://www.netwalk.com/%7Etruegger/ftrh/pizza.html

[baker_girl]

That's my ring tone. LOL!

Oh, by the way when did I become a groupie?

[MotleyGirl70]

Bon Jovi was so over-played on the radio in the 80's, it became torture.

Although I will admit that "Dead or Alive" is a pretty a good song. Ritchie plays some good guitar in the beginning of it.

[My Favorite Headache]

My Top 30 Pop/Power Ballads

1.I Don't Want To Live Without You - Foreigner
2.When It's Love - Van Halen
3. Not Enough - Van Halen
4. Time - Alan Parsons Project
5. Silent Lucidity - Queensryche
6. To Be Alive - Def Leppard
7. I'll See You In My Dreams - Giant
8. Final Eyes - Yes
9. The Meeting - Anderson, Bruford,Wakeman, Howe
10. The Smile Has Left Your Eyes - Asia
11. Keep On Loving You- REO Speedwagon
12. Night and Day - U2
13. With or Without You - U2
14. More Than A Feeling - Boston
15. Coming Back To Life - Pink Floyd
16. Cold Fire - Rush
17. All of My Love - Led Zep
18. Victim of Love - Bryan Adams
19. Open Arms - Journey
20. The Flame - Cheap Trick
21. Between Us - Robert Palmer
22. Hard To Say I'm Sorry - Chicago
23. Love Me Tomorrow - Chicago
24. Hysteria - Def Leppard
25. The One - Elton John
26. Again - Lenny Kravitz
27. Every Breath You Take - The Police
28. Miles Away - Winger
29. For Once In My Life - Stevie Wonder
30. Hold On My Heart - Genesis

[MotleyGirl70]

Bump for later.

[RockinRight]

Ah yes...the album that made my MOTHER exclaim "whatever happened to Grace..." as she watched Grace Slick on the "We Built This City" video, looking like a middle-aged phys ed teacher.

I asked her what she meant and she replied "honey, she's older than ME, and she used to sing MY kind of music!!"

[RockinRight]

Ask pissant.

[RockinRight]

Good list.

[Serb5150]

Wow... that's one helluva sleeve.

[PaulaB]

Thats true..she did and then went all 80's on everybody

[My Favorite Headache]

;)

[RockinRight]

Grace Slick in fact (according to Wikipedia) set the record for being the oldest female vocalist on a US number one hit-twice. Once with "We Built This City" (she was 46 when it hit #1) and again with "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" when she was 47. Cher broke the record in 1999 at age 53 with that horribly annoying song, "Believe."

I like Grace Slick, actually. The Jefferson Starship albums she was on were good, mainly because of her captivating voice. Although her politics are nuts!

She's 66 now, BTW, I hadn't realized how old she was (born Oct. 30, 1939).

[RockinRight]

She admits now she did it for the money. Typical...left-winger enjoying the virtues of capitalism. Nowadays she is still the *evil* capitalist as she sells her paintings for 2 grand a piece.

"We Built This City" was a horrible song. "Nothing's Gonna Stop us Now" is at least tolerable.