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Best Ballad from these 80s metal bands
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2024 2:15 am
by Don't Damn Me
I think Warrant takes the honor. It's not a happy ballad, portraying a situation we could probably all relate to, conveying the powerful emotion that comes with being cheated on. Plus I think a portrays a depth of character Jamie Lane rarely revealed.
Re: Best Ballad from these 80s metal bands
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2024 3:19 am
by cowpins
Without the success and airplay of Home Sweet Home would the others exist?
Re: Best Ballad from these 80s metal bands
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2024 5:03 am
by wildside1969
cowpins wrote: ↑Mon Oct 28, 2024 3:19 am
Without the success and airplay of Home Sweet Home would the others exist?
Yes and maybe, the third song listed is Alone Again by Dokken. Alone Again existed before Home Sweet Home was even written.
1. Dokken's Tooth and Nail album was released on September 14th, 1984.
2. Motley's Theatre of Pain was released almost a year later on June 24th, 1985.
Re: Best Ballad from these 80s metal bands
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2024 5:13 am
by dmbrocker
A lot of good ones here, but I'll go with Cinderella just barely over LAG, Warrant, Crue, and the Skids. We really need a part 2 with some other choices, by the way.
Re: Best Ballad from these 80s metal bands
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2024 5:17 am
by Wednesday 13 Fan
cowpins wrote: ↑Mon Oct 28, 2024 3:19 am
Without the success and airplay of Home Sweet Home would the others exist?
They had ballads before this, and as far as radio, Home Sweet Home didn't do very well for either version.
Re: Best Ballad from these 80s metal bands
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2024 6:21 am
by Gibsonite
Warrant by far. Jani really did write some great songs, in another time & place he could've made bank writing songs for other bands and artists of multiple genres
Re: Best Ballad from these 80s metal bands
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2024 6:48 am
by Mister Freeze
I've always liked Damn Yankees' "Higher (Nuff)," but I'm going with "Home Sweet Home". The whole song is great, but it could win on the solo alone.
This idea that it set the template for hair metal ballads is a bit of revisionist history. Ballads were around before then, and more were coming whether the Crue existed or not.
I love the first two L.A. Guns albums, but I've always found "Ballad of Jayne" to be on the boring side. Funny, kinda like a dream.
Re: Best Ballad from these 80s metal bands
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2024 7:32 am
by Spongie
Impossible to pick. There are 6 on that list that I’d consider equal.
Re: Best Ballad from these 80s metal bands
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2024 8:46 am
by BulletProofPoet
Gibsonite wrote: ↑Mon Oct 28, 2024 6:21 am
Warrant by far. Jani really did write some great songs, in another time & place he could've made bank writing songs for other bands and artists of multiple genres
This is the right answer!
Re: Best Ballad from these 80s metal bands
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2024 8:53 am
by LAglamrocker
Sometimes She Cries > I Saw Red
Re: Best Ballad from these 80s metal bands
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2024 8:54 am
by LAglamrocker
Cinderella
Skidrow
GNR
worst 3
Kingdom Come
Dokken
Crue(never liked it) video awesome
Re: Best Ballad from these 80s metal bands
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2024 9:11 am
by StateOfShock
Warrant - I Saw Red for both the original version and the acoustic.
Re: Best Ballad from these 80s metal bands
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2024 9:30 am
by CanadianMetal
Alone Again - still enjoy this song , even after all these decades , can’t say the same for many of the others .
Re: Best Ballad from these 80s metal bands
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2024 2:38 pm
by pieceofme
cowpins wrote: ↑Mon Oct 28, 2024 3:19 am
Without the success and airplay of Home Sweet Home would the others exist?
Yes. And what has that got to do with the poll question?
My answer is Warrant I Saw Red
Re: Best Ballad from these 80s metal bands
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2024 4:12 pm
by HueyRamone
Home Sweat Home
Re: Best Ballad from these 80s metal bands
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2024 4:21 pm
by pieceofme
Also Patience sucks.
Re: Best Ballad from these 80s metal bands
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2024 4:32 pm
by DemonFilth2001
CanadianMetal wrote: ↑Mon Oct 28, 2024 9:30 am
Alone Again - still enjoy this song , even after all these decades , can’t say the same for many of the others .
Yep!
Re: Best Ballad from these 80s metal bands
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2024 6:56 pm
by Metal Sludge
I'm going with The Scorpions, Winds of Change.
I was never a ballad girl, but I love The Scorpions!
And that was a serious song.
I will say, I love Alone Again, but all of Dokken's song are about losing in love.
And they aren't really ballads. Their just Don being Don.
Re: Best Ballad from these 80s metal bands
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2024 10:50 pm
by Bono Nettencourt
Urgh. If i never hear WoC again, it'll be too soon.