Posted on 05/13/2011 9:14:29 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
I wish all of this internet and computer technology had been available when I was a teenager back in the 70’s!
I’d put Something, Let it Be, November Rain, Every Rose Has its Thorns as the top 4.
I concur. I have both of those songs on my iPod..... Besides Poison :)
MFO
Good point. “Only Women Bleed” could be included as one of AC’s ballads too.
That’s a beauty. Ours was a 1973 Buick Estate, all 6000 pounds worth at 9 mpg city.
In my opnion - the greatest pop vocal voice of all time - such a tragic death!
Frankly, I didn’t mind Beth. Now, Babe...that’s another story. Styx jumped the shark with that tune and Mr. Roboto. Besides, I couldn’t stomach DeYoungs voice.
1. Angie by Rolling Stones
2. Behind Blue Eyes by The Who
3. And I love Her by The Beatles
4 If I fell by The Beatles
Ballads that come to mind......
I really don’t mind that song on a scratchy 8-track. Has the same rotten quality of the AM Top 40/Easy Listening crap my mom listened to as a kid. In the ‘69 Rag Top Caddy I have Sergio Mendes ‘66 and Sly and the Family Stone 8-tracks so you can see I am usually in a weird time warp when I am tooling around in the old iron.
GNR, Patience, is the one I missed, probably above the rest. Maybe #1
In the Still of the Night
Tell Laura I Love Her?
Only You?
Surfer Girl?
In My Room?
Graduation Day?
Young Girl?
Abraham, Martin and John?
Tush? (OK not really)
Fine, fine choice. I would include “Tuesday’s Gone”, too.</Skynyrd bias>
One of my other personal favorites, Ripples by Genesis
It was game over with “Paradise Theater.” DeYoung wanted to turn Styx into a Broadway act...literally. That’s when Tommy Shaw got the hell out of Dodge.
Back in the late 70's I use to have to work the needle up and down to play each phrase over and over again until I got it - in the 80's (when I played music for a living) I used a small tape player. I hear you - you would think we would be turning out musical geniuses one after another these days!
Didn’t THE WRECK OF THE EDMOND FITZGERALD not bring tears to your eyes the first time you really heard it... and maybe every time since. hey lets call a ballad a ballad, this is a BALLAD
Boy, do I remember that drama. I also remember a Damn Yankees tour in which Ted Nugent and Tommy opened a set with a recording of Babe, then part way through the song, there’s an explosion signifying their opinion of the tune. :^) The crowd erupted.
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