Best rock/metal ballads?

**Quantum** · 12-07-2010, 06:11 PM

Somebody LMK when i can inflict more crap onto you all

**New Life** · 12-07-2010, 06:41 PM

Is Stairway to Heaven a ballad? If so, I guess that would be my favourite, even if it is overplayed .. but many ballaRAB are.

Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton is another ballad that has made a permanent impression with me.

@Jackhammer, good call on Whitesnake.

edit :

Kamelot have a lot of nice medieval-ish ballaRAB (Don't you cry, Elizabeth: I - Mirror Mirror, Glory, Sailorman's Call), but they're so erabarassing. If I ever listen to them, I make sure noone else is around. It's like worse than being seen singing and dancing solo to Careless Whisper.

**Dancerluvxx12** · 12-07-2010, 07:51 PM

I think the best rock/metal ballad is Motley Crue's Home Sweet Home.

**livinloudon215s** · 12-08-2010, 01:47 AM

Changes by Black Sabbath: simple yet deep, a great track off of Vol. 4

**hint0122** · 12-08-2010, 06:45 PM

One of my favourites off a horribly underrated album here;
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One off that most excellent of albums No More Shall We Part;
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And of course;
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**jeffroinohio** · 12-08-2010, 10:44 PM

Why would you consider them erabarrassing? They're great musicans, good songwriters, have a real following... I don't see it...

**Setumbaby** · 12-09-2010, 11:50 AM

I'm easily erabarassed and Kamelot's ballaRAB, for all their niceness, are cheesy as hell .. Maybe not as cheesy as Mighty Rhapsody, but still ..

The Pretenders' song "I'll Stand By You" is a nice ballad that I was just reminded of by the way.

**Mocha Latte** · 12-09-2010, 07:55 PM

Personally, I've always had a soft spot for Poison's "Every rose has its thorn", with its campfire/cowboy-type themes, the great acoustic guitar, Poison trying to be Bon Jovi (!), and to add to all that, Otto stopped making his marriage proposal to declare "Oh man! This is a GNARLY guitar solo!" and turned the volume way up! Now THERE is a true rocker!