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.
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I talked to the actual engineers who designed the Clamshell rear on those wagon 5 years ago at the wagon convention in Detroit. They had all types of stories about what it took to get all that together. Back in day the Executives would grab one of these wagons to do work around the house on the weekend and come Monday like clockwork they would show up at the proving grounds with the wagon full of wood and plants because the gates would fail. The engineers would have to spend the day working out the bugs in the relay system and then take the crap to the execs home and unload it. Funny stuff.
GM ended up selling that tech to BMW for their Z3 cars because they don’t have saftey standards over there and had electric drop down doors on those cars for a while.
I only wish Alan and Eric could have patched things up before Eric passed away.
With Or Without You is my favorite U2 song.
Top U2 ballads:
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
One
Pride
Porcaro was a genius. But a cocaine heart attack death at 38...that was such a waste.
Yup, what a voice!
Back then, they just sang. No weird clothes, no big hair, no laser shows, no pyrotechnics.
There is just to many. The crap we are subjected to today is a testament.
OK, I got a few more...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL1hZ_m_K50 - Greg Lake (formerly of Emerson Lake & Palmer) “Let Me Love You Once” - came out in early 1982. A great voice for ballads.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTDlUn8azEM - Benny Mardones - “Into The Night” - the original version released in 1980.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UN1BdIFJNk - Gino Vanelli - “Living Inside Myself” - released in early 1981.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6Z9XoFU-zQ - Jennifer Warnes - “I’m Dreaming” - released in 1978. Fantastic voice, great lyrics
Sometimes you don’t have family to bring you back to earth.
Meat Is Murder!!!
Oh wow, how could I have forgotten Big Log?!? My all-time favorite Bob Plant song.
Marty Robbins — El Paso
Jay and the Americans — Cara Mia
Chicago — Color my World
Orbison — Pretty Woman
Temptations — My Girl
Del Shannon — Runaway, Mission Bell
Johnny Rivers — Mountain of Love
Elvis — I can’t help falling in Love with You
Carpenters — We’ve only just begun
I liked that. :-) Tie me kangaroo down, sport.
How about the greatest kids ballad of all time.....Hello Mudda, Hello Fudda, here i am at Camp Grenada...
Great minds think alike
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