Your Favorite Power Ballads (80s kids, step right in)
Beergoggles
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/30/05
#25re: Your Favorite Power Ballads (80s kids, step right in)
Posted: 6/22/05 at 6:12pmBon Jovi- Livin On A Prayer
#26re: Your Favorite Power Ballads (80s kids, step right in)
Posted: 6/22/05 at 8:09pm
Take my Breath away - Berlin
Open Arms - Journey
Take it on the Run - REO Speedwagon
I Want to Know What Love Is - Foreigner
Don't Want to Miss a Thing - Aerosmith
Drive - Cars
Updated On: 6/22/05 at 08:09 PM
#27re: Your Favorite Power Ballads (80s kids, step right in)
Posted: 6/22/05 at 8:20pmTHESE DREAMS - Heart
PJ
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#28re: Your Favorite Power Ballads (80s kids, step right in)
Posted: 6/22/05 at 9:09pm
"Take Me Home Tonight" - Eddie Money
#29re: Your Favorite Power Ballads (80s kids, step right in)
Posted: 6/23/05 at 2:12pm
I love this thread, but it took some thought.
I'll Be There For You, Living On A Prayer - Bon Jovi
Patience, Sweet Child ... - GNR
?Missing You - John Waite
Wait - White Lion
High Enough - Damn Yankees
To Be With You - Mr. Big
More than Words - Extreme
Honestly - Stryper
Every Rose ... - Poison
and anything by Journey and Pat Benetar
There's gotta be so many more I can't think of. Oh, the memories!
#30re: Your Favorite Power Ballads (80s kids, step right in)
Posted: 6/23/05 at 5:02pm
"Bon Jovi- Livin On A Prayer"
That isn't a power ballad. Power ballad formula: start really slow, usually with either just an acoustic guitar or a piano. Then when the chorus comes, you have the distorted guitar wailing with the drum and bass.
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