Power ballad thread

[Haws Bah Gawd]

Def Leppard - Love Bites
Def Leppard - When Love And Hate Collide

 

[Red Baron]

Damn it, Bear Hugger beat it to me with Cinderella.

Slaughter - Fly To The Angels

Tesla - Love Song

Slaughter and Tesla are both underrated bands of the glam rock era.

 

[Big Beard Booty Daddy]

Slaughter is great. Although I can't listen to Tongue in Groove anymore. I have a friend that did an internet radio metal show, and every week they would play the damn song.

 

[timmy8271]

This thread needs some WINGER:

Winger - Miles Away

Winger - Headed For A Heartbreak

 

[pochorenella]

Since my music education came with 80's rock music this thread is all kinds of win for me. Most of my faves have already been covered here but let me add a few of my own, a couple perhaps lesser known tracks. And forgive my technichal ignorance regarding links to videos and such, I'll try and figure how to do it in the coming days, in the meantime I'll just post a simple list:

Twisted Sister "You're Not Alone" and "The Price"
Vinnie Vincent Invasion "Love Kills" from one of those Freddy Krueger movies
Europe "Carrie"
White Lion "Cry for Freedom"
Night Ranger "Sister Christian"

 

[Jaxxxson Mayhem]

I LOVE this thread. Here's some Scorpions with Winds of Change

Scorpions - Wind Of Change

 

[BUTT]

I've been thinking a lot about this song lately. Kane Roberts was Alice Cooper's guitarist on Constrictor and Raise Your Fist and Yell. His gimmick at the time was that he looked like Rambo. He was all juiced up on roids and had a machine gun-shaped guitar that pretty much made him one of the coolest dudes of all time. A few years ago I devoted my boardclothes to him for a short period.

He had already dropped the Rambo gimmick by the time this record came out. "Does Anybody Really Fall in Love Anymore" was written by the power quartet of Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, Diane Warren and her male equivalent Desmond Child for inclusion on 1988's New Jersey. Bon Jovi recorded a demo of it (actually they recorded at least two - there's a good one on Youtube and a crappier one that was included on the deluxe version of New Jersey that came out a few years ago) but left it off the album. Instead it was released a year later - by Cher on her album Heart of Stone.

It never was released as a single, but I guess Desmond Child thought it had potential so two years later he got Kane to include it on his album Saints and Sinners (without telling him of the previously released Cher version). And it did make the top 40. A properly produced Bon Jovi version of this song probably would have been better, but I think this has a pretty sweet hook. I really like the way the key changes from verse to chorus. Not many hit songs do that. I just think it's funny that Rock n' Roll Rambo had his only hit with a Cher cover. I'll close this post with a cool pic of Kane and Alice chilling with GnR.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Kane Roberts should've came to the ring with Alice & Jake The Snake (perhaps they could have made up a relation in kayfabe!?) at WrestleMania III tbh but he probably would have been too distracting since he was way better built than Jake or HTM (or honestly, like 90% of WWF roster at the time).