Rolling Stone Readers Pick the Best Ballads of All Time

Rolling Stone Magazine ^ | Andy Greene

[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.

[dfwgator]

Got to mention The Smithereens

In a Lonely Place (with Suzanne Vega)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlOVlqUcB8A

Especially for You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GMY2lxCHLo

[PA Engineer]

Traffic - John Barleycorn (must die) + lyrics

I think the original was done by Steeleye Span. Not sure.

[Revolting cat!]

Real Live Girl (I've never done this with) (Necrophilia?)

[eyedigress]

I have to play this for the young'uns and go to bed. Good Nite All.

Curtis Lowe

[merryberry]

lets get funny..you put the lime in the coconut, rubber duckie,my dinga ling....

[JD91]

You've lost that lovin feelin is THE best!

You might be on point there! "Wall of sound" Hatfield "lit it up"

[Lazlo in PA]

I was a fan of that thread. I have the REM, Sammy and and a new one on my laptop that I have been listening to all week, I guess I should thank you for broadening my horizons a bit. I still maintain that Glenn made the best song of his career on that. Here is the one you missed but being a Sergio Mendez junkie needed to listen to when I saw it pop up on You Tube.

Regards

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FC2xOGJaBE&feature=related

[SupplySider]

I saw Alice on HDNet Concerts recently. It was a great set. I wish I had half his energy.

[eyedigress]

Throw in a Hot Rod Lincoln if you get a chance. I taxed Kathy to no end on that.

[merryberry]

you tube; “drunken scotsman with lyrics” (my scot in-laws told me about it)

[ConservativeStatement]

Green Grass and High Tides by the Outlaws.

[dfwgator]

Gator Country by Molly Hatchet

[ConservativeStatement]

What about Ahab the Arab? :-)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good night and rest well, eye. Thanks for the tunes for the troops. And thank you for your service to our country.

[PA Engineer]

Throw in a Hot Rod Lincoln on the way to La Grange.

[Hunton Peck]

Whether you think it's the best or not, no ballad was ever balladeered with more balladaciousness than Bridge Over Troubled Water.

[merryberry]

LOVE IT! BACK IN THE DAY 72 OR 73 I COUD SING ALL THE LYRICS..SIGH

[ConservativeStatement]

Flirtin’ with Disaster.

[dfwgator]

They also did a great cover of the Allman’s “Dreams I’ll Never See”

[Lazlo in PA]

I actually met Bob once in the early 80’s at Walps Restaurant in Allentown when I was a kid. He stood up from the table and gave my nine year old sister a kiss and shook my hand before he sign the autograph. He also had three attractive chicks at his table. I hate his music but love that guy. Only other time I met a celebrity was a Red Eye home from Vegas and Aiden Quinn sat across from my wife and I a number of years ago in First Class. He was all banged up and surprised that I recognized who he was. Got an Autograph that time too. My wife still doesn’t know who the hell he is.