80sMetalman’s Top 30 Power Ballads: 11-20
It figures that once I embarked on this massive project, there would be power ballads from my past which really liked but forgot about because of time. Since my last post two have come to light in my mind. Now I know how Sam Beckett must have felt like in Quantum Leap with the Swiss cheese brain. One of them, “I Believe In You” by Y&T, was one but would have only made the lower twenties. The other I have put it jointly with another on the upcoming list. Thing about this one is that this band has already had an entry and though the one from the previous list was commercially more popular, I prefer the the ballad on today’s post to that one. Anyway, here’s 11-20!
20. Def Leppard- Bringing On the Heartbreak
19. Pretty Boy Floyd- I Want to Be With You
18. Danger Danger- One Step From Paradise
17. Von Groove- Arianne
16. Warrant- Glimmer
15. Poison- Every Rose Has Its Thorn
I know I take the piss out of this song a lot but I secretly really kind of like it.
(Joint) 14. The Scorpions- Still Loving You
Yep, you guessed it! This was the other one I had forgotten about. Call me weird but I prefer this one to “Winds of Change.”
(Joint) 14. Metallica- Nothing Else Matters
13. Asphalt Ballet- Wasted Time
12. Steelheart- I’ll Never Let You Go
11. Little Angels- I Ain’t Gonna Cry
There are probably other great power ballads I had forgotten about and you can feel free to put them forward but I must tell you, my top ten is set in stone. In the meantime, you got 11 great power ballads to rock out to.
Next post: 1-10
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May 20, 2018 at 9:20 am
I might swap out the Def with love bites or blood runs cold. Love Every Rose, mostly because of Bill and Ted quoting it to God 🤗
Can’t wait to see your top ten. Wondering if I’ll see The Flame, I Want To Know What Love Is, Sister Christian or Carry on Wayward Son (just a couple of my top picks 🤗)
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May 20, 2018 at 10:51 am
Love Bites was a contender as was Def Lep’s “All I Want is Everything” but sadly, they didn’t make it into the top 30. “Bringing On the Heartbreak” is one of my favourite DL songs of all time. Yes, that Bill and Ted bit is classic, I love it too!
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May 20, 2018 at 9:40 am
Little Angels! My My My how many times did I see that band? It has to be in the high teens if it’s not 20. Great song
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May 20, 2018 at 10:51 am
That’s the high teens more than I have seen them, would love to though.
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May 20, 2018 at 3:58 pm
They were usually support slots when Bigger bands came to London. I saw them with Zz-Top, Guns N’ Roses, Cinderella, Bryan Adams, Whitesnake, Ozzy… so many shows
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May 20, 2018 at 8:40 pm
Me too – they always good too. I love this track by the way.
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May 21, 2018 at 9:39 pm
It is a great track, also like “Kicking Up Dust.”
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May 21, 2018 at 9:40 pm
And ‘She’s a Little Angel’ is a good one too.
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May 21, 2018 at 9:39 pm
That sounds like I missed some really good shows! Lucky you.
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May 21, 2018 at 9:42 pm
It is!
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May 20, 2018 at 10:03 am
Some deep power ballad knowledge here. Quite a few I don’t know at all.
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May 20, 2018 at 10:51 am
Have a listen to them, I’m sure you’ll like a lot of them.
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May 20, 2018 at 11:14 am
Von Groove! Wow I gotta dig this one out. Guitarist Mladen I believe wrote some tracks with Triumph when Emmett left….
Lep with “BOTHB” is I think still there song starts slow and ramps up into the chorus…
Great sound as well before they rereleased and added a wash of keyboards in it a few years later
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May 21, 2018 at 9:43 pm
I like BOTHB before they added the keyboards to it. I didn’t know that about Von Groove’s guitarist. I got to check this out more.
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May 21, 2018 at 10:16 pm
He wrote some tracks for the Triumph Edge of Excess album…
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May 22, 2018 at 1:03 pm
Cool, must listen to that.
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May 21, 2018 at 12:25 pm
This is a great list – lots I knew, a few I didn’t. Can’t wait for 1-10!
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May 21, 2018 at 9:40 pm
Thanks, hopefully you won’t be disappointed.
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May 22, 2018 at 1:27 am
No fear from here!
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May 22, 2018 at 1:03 pm
Good news.
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May 22, 2018 at 1:08 pm
Another good list. Ah, still Loving You by Scorpions, one of the best, I think I agree with you now that it just shades Winds of Change. Nothing Else Matters by Metallica, superb. Glad you went back and checked out Y&T. Great stuff.
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May 23, 2018 at 6:04 pm
Thanks, glad to know that I’m not alone in preferring “Still Loving You” to “Winds of Change.”
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May 26, 2018 at 3:00 pm
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