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Rolling Stone Readers Pick the Best Ballads of All Time
Rolling Stone Magazine ^ | Andy Greene

Posted on 05/13/2011 9:14:29 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

Last week we asked our readers to vote for their favorite ballad or slow jam of all time. Votes were all over the place – from tracks by Pearl Jam to Elvis Presley to Lionel Richie. In the end it was very close, and there was a tie so we had to expand our standard top 10 to a top 12. If this survey has reinforced anything, it's that our readers really, really love Led Zeppelin.

(Excerpt) Read more at rollingstone.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: ballads; ledzeppelin; music; rockandroll
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To: Mom MD

Or “ and so it goes “


101 posted on 05/13/2011 10:15:56 PM PDT by Mom MD (Jesus is the Light of the world!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Unchained Melody, Willie Nelson

Sweetest Taboo,Sade

Nights in white satin, Moody blues

With or without you,U2


102 posted on 05/13/2011 10:16:00 PM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: dfwgator

Yes, I read concert reviews from Seattle and Los Angeles. That is how I came across this list, one review was on Rolling Stone’s site. Benjamin Orr was in a band with Jeff Carlisi (.38 Special) and Derek St. Holmes (Ted Nugent)before he, Orr, passed away.


103 posted on 05/13/2011 10:16:25 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement (Obama "acted stupidly.")
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To: ConservativeStatement
freebird Pictures, Images and Photos
104 posted on 05/13/2011 10:16:39 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: buccaneer81

Great songs.

Some of my favorites:

The Doobie Brothers -
Minute By Minute
It Keeps You Running
Taking It To The Streets

Chicago
Just You ‘N’ Me


105 posted on 05/13/2011 10:16:57 PM PDT by This Just In (In America, RINO's belong in zoo's, not public office)
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To: buccaneer81

Excellent! song.


106 posted on 05/13/2011 10:17:41 PM PDT by This Just In (In America, RINO's belong in zoo's, not public office)
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To: dfwgator

I still think “The Stranger” is the height of his output.


107 posted on 05/13/2011 10:18:01 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: ConservativeStatement

And some from one of my other all-time favorite bands, the Alan Parsons Project:

Time (Flowing Like a River)
Silence and I
The Eagle Will Rise Again
Old and Wise
Closer to Heaven
Don’t Let it Show
Limelight (with the great Gary Brooker on vocals)


108 posted on 05/13/2011 10:19:33 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: eyedigress

Thanks much...nice video


109 posted on 05/13/2011 10:21:06 PM PDT by merryberry (AND BY THE WAY WHICH ONES PINK...)
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To: eyedigress
Excellent piece. I am surprised no one picked this one:

The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
110 posted on 05/13/2011 10:21:25 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Time to beat the swords of government tyranny into the plowshares of freedom.)
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To: buccaneer81
I still think “The Stranger” is the height of his output.

Definitely. That was his masterpiece, Scenes from an Italian Restaurant, Vienna, Just the Way You Are (before it was overplayed to death)

111 posted on 05/13/2011 10:21:25 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: DemforBush

I was going to say Mazzy Star too! That one, and The Sundays version of Wild Horses is even better than the Stones.


112 posted on 05/13/2011 10:22:27 PM PDT by ponygirl
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To: This Just In
Doobie Brother wanna-be: Robbie DuPree...

Steal Away

That song worked wonders my senior year.

113 posted on 05/13/2011 10:22:27 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: ccmay

The best one in recent years is Your Long Journey by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss.


114 posted on 05/13/2011 10:23:04 PM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: buccaneer81
TOTO was darn good..... You are killing me.... TOTO
115 posted on 05/13/2011 10:23:24 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Paint it Black by the Stones

Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd.


116 posted on 05/13/2011 10:23:44 PM PDT by A Strict Constructionist (Oligarchy...My theory is, college student body presidents become DEMS orRINO's.)
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To: dfwgator

All excellent. “Pyramid” and “Turn of a Friendly Card” were exceptional albums.


117 posted on 05/13/2011 10:24:08 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: merryberry

you beat me to it.


118 posted on 05/13/2011 10:24:23 PM PDT by oldbrowser (Blaming the prince of fools shouldn't blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that elected him)
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To: Mom MD

what???


119 posted on 05/13/2011 10:25:45 PM PDT by merryberry (AND BY THE WAY WHICH ONES PINK...)
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To: Mom MD

what???


120 posted on 05/13/2011 10:25:58 PM PDT by merryberry (AND BY THE WAY WHICH ONES PINK...)
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