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The Greatest Power Ballad Of All Time: Voting Round 1


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  1. 1. choose 10

    • Kitchenware & Candybars - Stone Temple Pilots
    • To Be With You - Mr. Big
    • Here Without You - 3 Doors Down
    • Lady - Styx
    • Amanda - Boston
    • Hearts - Yes
    • In The Mood - Robert Plant
    • Alone - Heart
    • Babe - Styx
    • Hard Luck Woman - Kiss
    • Don't Let It End - Styx
    • Where You Goin' Now? - Damn Yankees
    • Just Between You And Me - April Wine
    • Bringin' On The Heartbreak - Def Leppard
    • Without You - Badfinger
    • Lick My Love Pump - Spinal Tap
    • Waiting For Love - Great White
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    • Clair De Lune/Ballerina - Styx
    • Dream On - Aerosmith
    • Wanted Dead Or Alive - Bon Jovi
    • I Want To Know What Love Is - Foreigner
    • Price Of Love - Bad English
    • Keep On Loving You - REO Speedwagon
    • I’ll Be There For You - Bon Jovi
    • I'll Wait - Van Halen
    • Is This Love? - Whitesnake
    • Love Walks In - Van Halen
    • Ghosts - Kansas
    • Eyes Without A Face - Billy Idol
    • The Best Of Times - Styx
    • November Rain - Guns 'N' Roses
    • Hold On - Triumph
    • The Cross - Prince
    • Yesterdays - Guns 'N' Roses
    • Angel - Aerosmith
    • Save Me - Queen
    • What It Takes - Aerosmith
    • Open Arms - Journey
    • Hysteria - Def Leppard
    • Alone Again - Dokken
  2. 2. choose 10

    • I'd Die For You (And That's The Truth) - Meat Loaf
    • Believe In Love - Scorpions
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    • Tears - Rush
    • Every Rose Has Its Thorn - Poison
    • Desert Moon - Dennis DeYoung
    • No One Like You - Scorpions
    • When I'm With You - Sheriff
    • I Won’t Hold You Back - Toto
    • Open Your Heart - Europe
    • The Flame - Cheap Trick
    • Hello, It's Me - Todd Rundgren
    • Magic Power - Triumph
    • Home Tonight - Aerosmith
    • Since I've Been Loving You - Led Zeppelin
    • Night To Remember - Prism
    • Heaven - Bryan Adams
    • Take It On The Run - REO Speedwagon
    • Sleeping (In The Fire) - W.A.S.P.
    • Fly High Michelle - Enuff Z'Nuff
    • A Man I'll Never Be - Boston
    • Still Loving You - Scorpions
    • I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That) - Meat Loaf
    • This Could Be The Night - Loverboy
    • What If We Fall In Love? - April Wine
    • I'll Never Let You Go - Steelheart
    • Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin
    • Wind Of Change - Scorpions
    • Heaven - Warrant
    • You See Me Crying - Aerosmith
    • Goodbye To Love - the Carpenters
    • Without You - Motley Crue
    • Home Sweet Home - Motley Crue
    • Love Song - Tesla
    • Carrie - Europe
    • Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone) - Cinderella
    • Final Eyes - Yes
    • Save Your Love - Great White
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    • Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Bonnie Tyler
    • Losing It - Rush
    • Can't Stand The Night - Accept
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  3. 3. choose 10

    • Beth - Kiss
    • When the Children Cry - White Lion
    • Only Women Bleed - Alice Cooper
    • These Dreams - Heart
    • (Everything I Do) I Do It For You - Bryan Adams
    • All My Love - Led Zeppelin
    • Who's Crying Now? - Journey
    • Headed For A Heartbreak - Winger
    • Can't Fight This Feeling - REO Speedwagon
    • Thank You - Led Zeppelin
    • Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad? - Def Leppard
    • Silent Lucidity - Queensryche
    • Too Late For Love - Def Leppard
    • Sister Christian - Night Ranger
    • Song For Love - Extreme
    • High Enough - Damn Yankees
    • Nobody's Fool - Cinderella
    • Waiting For A Girl Like You - Foreigner
    • All We Are - Kim Mitchell
    • The Deeper The Love - Whitesnake
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    • Come Again - Damn Yankees
    • Why Can't This Be Love? - Van Halen
    • Without The Night - Winger
    • Time For Me To Fly - REO Speedwagon
    • I Don't Want To Live Without You - Foreigner
    • Faithfully - Journey
    • Love Is The Answer - Utopia
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    • More Than Words Can Say - Alias
    • Stop Crying Your Heart Out - Oasis
    • Purple Rain - Prince And The Revolution
    • Only My Heart Talkin’ - Alice Cooper
    • Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) - Journey
    • Rescue Me - Y&T
    • When It's Love - Van Halen
    • Once In A Lifetime - Kansas
    • Patience - Guns 'N' Roses
    • She Talks To Angels - The Black Crows
    • Only Time Will Tell - Asia
    • Can't Cry Anymore - Kansas
    • Love Bites - Def Leppard


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Well folks, here's the poll!

 

Remember, even if you love the song, if you don't truly think it counts as a power ballad, DON'T VOTE FOR IT! I'm going to be sitting down and listening to each and every song that I don't know on this list to ensure I'm confident in my votes. This will take a while, so everyone should have plenty of time to make their decisions.

 

PLEASE ONLY VOTE FOR 10 SONGS IN EACH SECTION OF THE POLL

 

Anyone who votes for more than 10 songs in each section will have their votes nullified going into the next round. Of course you may vote for fewer than 10 as well, but why would you?

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I'm just not going to understand how Separate Ways is considered a power ballad, but the votes are speaking for themselves!
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I'm just not going to understand how Separate Ways is considered a power ballad, but the votes are speaking for themselves!

I don't either but it's on the list and I dont care

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I'm just not going to understand how Separate Ways is considered a power ballad, but the votes are speaking for themselves!

I don't either but it's on the list and I dont care

 

I can't force anyone to "follow the rules," but this is the point where I point out that I specifically asked people not to vote for songs they don't truly believe qualify in the OP.

 

Obviously it's your call and all. If Separate Ways wins out through the whole poll series, I'm powerless to stop it.

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I'm just not going to understand how Separate Ways is considered a power ballad, but the votes are speaking for themselves!

I don't either but it's on the list and I dont care

 

I can't force anyone to "follow the rules," but this is the point where I point out that I specifically asked people not to vote for songs they don't truly believe qualify in the OP.

 

Obviously it's your call and all. If Separate Ways wins out through the whole poll series, I'm powerless to stop it.

Ok maybe I care a little now

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Losing it is a power ballad?

 

Why would anyone pick that song as a power ballad?

 

Whoever chose this song needs to have their ears cleaned out and their brain recalibrated.

 

Losing It definitely isn't a power ballad. But we got people who think Separate Ways from Journey is one. So, obviously some folks are completely clueless as to what a power ballad is even though there's a huge list here that will tell them.

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I know exactly what a power ballad is, and I have spent years actively avoiding them. This kind of ignorance is real bliss.

Pretty easy to spot one. If you're not rolling your eyes, it probably isn't a power ballad. :P
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This list is fully stocked, and loaded. It really wasn't an easy process trying to select "power ballads" going back to the year, where they originally started from. With an endless catalogue of them including not "standing out" on what they are, could spend even more countless hours trying to identify, and select on what to have on it. For narrowing it down to one hundred, and twenty, and even if the list was more, than that, the selection process would have been harder, than what it was. As the rounds do go on by, and this song list gets shorter, and narrowed to the final, it will be tougher, and difficult. Edited by Derek19
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Got through 22 songs I wasn't familiar with (or hadn't heard in a long time) already. Some great! Some fine. At least one I didn't care for at all (and I also don't think it qualifies: Night To Remember by Prism, seems like it belongs on Love Boat).
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Okay I'm not going to finish listening to all of these ones I don't know. None of the ones I heard the other day struck me as likely to pass anything I would already vote for.
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I simply voted on what was presented. We can argue till the cows come home what is or is not a power ballad.....fact of the matter is...I voted for the tunes I love the most on the choices given.

 

Going to give a shout out to David Coverdale for what I think is one of the greatest power ballads of all time in “Is This Love” Just a mega monster of lust and sexiness. That song is so freaking good.

 

I will also go on record to say November Rain might be the most bloated overrated POS's I have ever heard. The only redeeming quality of that song is the Slash grandiose guitar solo on the finale outro. But plodding through the horror of Axel Rose's vocals and meandering to get their......I can’t do it anymore. I gave up on the song decades ago. Blech. Axel Rose sucks. He could not sing his way outta a paper bag and is anything but a ballad singer.....like hearing fingers on a chalkboard. The anti David Coverdale!!

 

Was happy to see Final Eyes on the list. Love that lost gem from Trevor Rabin era Yes. A great little diddy. I had some tough decisions of songs I really enjoy but did not vote for.....there were a lot of high quality love songs/ballads/power ballads on the master lists.

 

One song missing....and it is an epic power ballad from Whitesnake is Forevermore. ABSOLUTE BEAST OF A POWER BALLAD.

 

Nice job compiling all these tunes.

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