[Closed] What rock band ballad?

Still in Love With You - Thin lizzy

Always Somewhere - Scorpions
Fantastic Place - Marillion

Home sweet home Motley Crue, a guilty pleasure

I have always believed that rock/metal bands do the best ballads

Surely that kind of thing should be left to the likes of Céline Dion?

That's just my opinion. Mrs Binners opinion is more in line with yours. Christ! The shite I've had to listen to! Most of which is likely to now be listed on this thread 😥

Death angel- Room with a View

Metallica -Fade to black

Akercoke- Epode (its a love song to satan, bless their little black metal socks)

Ghost - He Is

I have always believed that rock/metal bands do the best ballads

Hateful things.

I'm generally of the opinion they are cr@p but I'll offer you

Led Zeppelin- Thank You

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😆

Hateful things.

Yep. Except November Rain.

Queen - Those Were The Days Of Our Lives. Poignant.

UFO - Try Me
Deep Purple - Soldier of Fortune

Queen - Who Wants to Live Forever

When a Blind Man Cries by Deep Purple (basically a better version of Soldier of Fortune above, although that's still fantastic)
Love Walked In by Thunder
Be My Friend by Free
Still In Love With You has already been done but I'll second that one.

Does 'It's Late' by Queen count as a ballad? If so, add that.

Generally not keen on them myself, but if I had to think of a few:

Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
More Than Words - Extreme
Don't wanna miss a thing - Aerosmith

Possibly an exception as I love this song - not sure of it's ballad status though...:

Black - Pearl Jam

Be My Friend by Free

And an absolutely unforgivably terrible 80's video featuring multiple air-grabs while sporting a facial expression like you're trying to shit a lego garage?

Every Rose has its Thorn - Poison

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It sounds like Binners has some issues here.

Perhaps a secret history of going to Jillies in Manchester or one of the cr4ppy rock clubs in Bolton during the 80s

Extend that to blues rock ?
Joe Bonamassa ..Happier Times ..but also another nod to Free..Be My Friend

Home sweet home Motley Crue

Purple Rain

Thunder - Love Walked In.

End of the night wedding songs,people that never dance,dancing.
People that would never,ever pout,pouting and wondering about lycra and doing the best air guitar....eva. 😛

Tribute ... Tenacious D

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No no no. A proper rock ballad starts out all sloppy and acoustic then runs into an extended widdle-fest before returning to some pathetic anti-climax. Be My Friend is just a good song.

Fair point!

It sounds like Binners has some issues here.

Perhaps a secret history of going to Jillies in Manchester or one of the cr4ppy rock clubs in Bolton during the 80s

I used to go to Megadog allnighters at Jillies. Highly unlikely to feature any rock ballads 😀

Dream Theater: Ministry of Lost Souls.

Surely this is Freebird and Stairway territory?

Neither of those two end as ballads though, they just start slow and build. If you want to include them then you're getting into Heaven and Hell/Falling Off The Edge Of The World territory, and they most certainly aren't ballads!

A proper rock ballad starts out all sloppy and acoustic then runs into an extended widdle-fest before returning to some pathetic anti-climax.

= "takes you on a musical journey" 😆 And I would contend that "stairway" does indeed return to a pathetic anti-climax.

AC/DC - Ride On

Every Rose has its Thorn - Poison

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I'll raise you the mighty - something to believe in

Pantera:
Cemetery gates or hollow.

Cinderella: Coming Home

Coyote - Member

Queen - Who Wants to Live Forever

We had this at my Mom's funeral a few weeks back - I'd forgotten how good it was.

I'll also go with:
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters (played at our wedding as we walked back up the isle)
Extreme - More Than Words
Guns 'N Roses - November Rain & Patience

Or Disturbed Sound of Silence
I was introduced to Queensryche by the brilliant Tommy Vance.

Add to the list -
Whitesnake Is This Love
Def Leppard - Love Bites
Magnum - Just like an Arrow

Good call Monkeysfeet (on Silent Lucidity)

Silent Lucidity is just Queensryche doing their ultimate compilation of Pink Floyd bits isn't it? It sounds like they've sampled several parts of The Wall and jumbled them together.
What's the other one of theirs that sound like the beginning of Empty Spaces?

Not sure LS, but any excuse to play this...

Motorhead - I ain't no nice guy

Black Sabbath - Changes

Also, why do folks keep saying Queen is rock?

Probably because they started out as a rock band ..before they became a pop band

Does this count?

Also, why do folks keep saying Queen is rock?

Probably because they started out as a rock band ..before they became a pop band

This is an argument that:

a) past its sell-by-date in about 1985

b) should only be allowed if all protagonists are clad in double denim.

+1 for Every Rose Has its Thorn as the apotheosis of the genre.

My Immortal by Evanescence.

I'll play..

The Best of Times - STYX from Paradise Theatre.

And/Or

Babe - STYX from Cornerstone

Testament - Return to Serenity.

Live, Queen were always very much a rock band. On record, they were a rock up to, and including, A Kind of Magic, at least.

I used to go to Megadog allnighters at Jillies. Highly unlikely to feature any rock ballads

Megadog -skanky

I used to go to One Tree Island

A rock ballad thread and not one mention of Meatloaf?

Motorhead - 1916.
Lynyrd Skynyrd - The Ballad of Curtis Loew.

Slayer's Reign in Blood surely?!

Marillion - Kayleigh, soft rock cheesefest.

Can't believe no one's mentioned Aerosmith yet.. Don't want to close my eyes.

Also of worthy note Bryan Adams, every thing I do.
What I love best about that song other than being a legitimate great ballad, is that the powers that be, in the Robin hood film, for which it was commissioned, hated it so much they just used it as music for the end credits, the song went on to stay in the charts for longer than the known universe has existed.

Alice Cooper- Poison
Or
Ozzy Osbourne- Mama I’m Comin’ Home.

A rock ballad thread and not one mention of Meatloaf?

Let us not forget this master piece..

I've got a soft spot for rock ballads, apart from Extreme More Than Words which is just makes my skin crawl

Heart - Alone

Ann Wilson. The best female voice in Rock. 😀

Can I have a cover version as it is waaay better than the original? Nine Inch Nails 'Hurt' but the Johnny Cash version. Haunting to say the least.

Mikey 74 ..Queen..I saw them ( I'm guessing the year before you were born)in '73 at Newcastle City Hall and they were very much a rock band ..stayed with them up to and including " A Night At The Opera"..that was about as much as I could stomach in terms of their commercialism / pop sensibilities ..

Ann Wilson. The best [s]female[/s] voice in Rock

Fixed that for you 🙂

Dream Theater - Wither

Can I have a cover version as it is waaay better than the original?

I don't know about better but janis joplins version of me and Bobby mcgee is certainly equivalent to kris kristophersons.

Not strictly rock though, more country.

No no no. A [s]proper[/s] crappy rock ballad starts out all sloppy and acoustic then runs into an extended widdle-fest before returning to some pathetic anti-climax. Be My Friend is just a good song.

Mother Love Bone.

Mother Love Bone ..brilliant band and over way too soon..nice one

While I do like a bit of cheese and a lot of metal, there are many rock ballads that are neither. And some deserve a mention:

And the best rock-band ballad to ever be dedicated to Cthulhu (not to mention the most disturbing video ever to feature Bojo, Bliar and Busch all in one place). In fact the whole thing (incredible as it is) should probably be classified as unsafe for owt: