First Power Ballad

[NealIsGod]

I guess it's not a "power ballad", but Beth by KISS was the first time a hard rock band came out with a ballad, wasn't it?

"Beth" is a shit stain of a song. Criss couldn't write, play, or sing. I love Kiss live, but they're a bunch of no-talents. The stage show is second to none, though.

They are a bunch of escapees from Jerry's short bus. "Hey, let's all put on white make-up, and platform shoes, get some lights and fake it!" Um, you guys suck.

Let's keep poking Ed with a stick until he posts again.

[7 Wishes]

OK, I'll do it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_ballad

Scorpions NIG..winds of..? Yep that's the first one

That was written after the wall came down, about 8 years too late to be considered the first.

[The Fly]

Read an article in Rock Magazine yesterday, the journalist said to the Night Ranger members that Sister Christian was the start of the Power Ballad but to their credit both Keagy and Blades stated Journey were the first to introduce this...discuss

I think Journey's first "power ballad" was Faithfully. Open Arms didn't have "power" it was just a ballad. You need more drums and guitar....hence the "power" part.

Wrong.

If you listen to Open Arms, it does have some chops, and a omni guitar chord. OA live sounded really powerful when Perry sang it, and then again with Deen.

Journey pioneered it, then Dennis DeYoung heard it, pulled down his pants and started to feed the geese....and fed em until he wrote Babe....Then Kevin Cronin, also heard and he already had his cock in his femenine hands and he shot a ballads load worth all over the music sheet and you had Can't Fight this Feeling. Then of course BA got into the act and wrote the biggest song ever, Everything I Do, I do it for You.

Journey not only pioneered it, but perfected it. It haunts them to this day.

Babe? What about Lady? That was years before any of these songs mentioned.

[styxman]

Thinking about it..Open Arms has to be credited with being the first power ballad...Keagy was correct all along. Sister Chritian No 2, that song is fuckin' A1.

[styxman]

Read an article in Rock Magazine yesterday, the journalist said to the Night Ranger members that Sister Christian was the start of the Power Ballad but to their credit both Keagy and Blades stated Journey were the first to introduce this...discuss

I think Journey's first "power ballad" was Faithfully. Open Arms didn't have "power" it was just a ballad. You need more drums and guitar....hence the "power" part.

Wrong.

If you listen to Open Arms, it does have some chops, and a omni guitar chord. OA live sounded really powerful when Perry sang it, and then again with Deen.

Journey pioneered it, then Dennis DeYoung heard it, pulled down his pants and started to feed the geese....and fed em until he wrote Babe....Then Kevin Cronin, also heard and he already had his cock in his femenine hands and he shot a ballads load worth all over the music sheet and you had Can't Fight this Feeling. Then of course BA got into the act and wrote the biggest song ever, Everything I Do, I do it for You.

Journey not only pioneered it, but perfected it. It haunts them to this day.

Babe? What about Lady? That was years before any of these songs mentioned.

Lady wasn't power..no power, great track but no power

[NealIsGod]

Babe? What about Lady? That was years before any of these songs mentioned.

I think you have to be able to slow dance to it. Try doing that to Lady.

[styxman]

OK, I'll do it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_ballad

Scorpions NIG..winds of..? Yep that's the first one

That was written after the wall came down, about 8 years too late to be considered the first.

Seven, no way was that written after the wall came down, no way....google it dude

[Rockindeano]

Thinking about it..Open Arms has to be credited with being the first power ballad...Keagy was correct all along. Sister Chritian No 2, that song is fuckin' A1.

Sister Christian is a trip.

Can someone please explain, "Motorin" what's your price for flight?" what?

[Matthew]

Thinking about it..Open Arms has to be credited with being the first power ballad...Keagy was correct all along. Sister Chritian No 2, that song is fuckin' A1.

Sorry if I missing the logic here...but why is Sister Christian No 2? Wasn't it released in 1984?

There were loads of power ballads before then....not least In The Air Tonight by Phil Collins and Waiting For A Girl Like You by Foreigner...both released in 1981...

And does - say - Music by John Miles and No Regrets by Scott Walker from '75 and Stay With Me Til' Dawn by Judy Tzuke from '79 count as power ballads? I'd say they do....

[NealIsGod]

OK, I'll do it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_ballad

Scorpions NIG..winds of..? Yep that's the first one

That was written after the wall came down, about 8 years too late to be considered the first.

Seven, no way was that written after the wall came down, no way....google it dude

It came out in 1990.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_of_Change

[The Fly]

Read an article in Rock Magazine yesterday, the journalist said to the Night Ranger members that Sister Christian was the start of the Power Ballad but to their credit both Keagy and Blades stated Journey were the first to introduce this...discuss

I think Journey's first "power ballad" was Faithfully. Open Arms didn't have "power" it was just a ballad. You need more drums and guitar....hence the "power" part.

Wrong.

If you listen to Open Arms, it does have some chops, and a omni guitar chord. OA live sounded really powerful when Perry sang it, and then again with Deen.

Journey pioneered it, then Dennis DeYoung heard it, pulled down his pants and started to feed the geese....and fed em until he wrote Babe....Then Kevin Cronin, also heard and he already had his cock in his femenine hands and he shot a ballads load worth all over the music sheet and you had Can't Fight this Feeling. Then of course BA got into the act and wrote the biggest song ever, Everything I Do, I do it for You.

Journey not only pioneered it, but perfected it. It haunts them to this day.

Babe? What about Lady? That was years before any of these songs mentioned.

Lady wasn't power..no power, great track but no power

Well that's not what they are saying here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_ballad

[Rockindeano]

And does - say - Music by John Miles and No Regrets by Scott Walker from '75 and Stay With Me Til' Dawn by Judy Tzuke from '79 count as power ballads? I'd say they do....

Who the fuck are they? It has to a good song by a respected artist, not some jerkoff from the UK.

[styxman]

Thinking about it..Open Arms has to be credited with being the first power ballad...Keagy was correct all along. Sister Chritian No 2, that song is fuckin' A1.

Sister Christian is a trip.

Can someone please explain, "Motorin" what's your price for flight?" what?

I know the answer to that, Rock magazine is in the garbage, I'll put down my beer and go find it. They make reference to the meaning of that track...fuck you Dean, 10 mins lost drinking time and fuck knows what my hands get covered with

[NealIsGod]

Lady wasn't power..no power, great track but no power

Well that's not what they are saying here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_ballad

Yeah, but if you believe everything you read on Wikipedia, you'll be wrong A LOT.

[The Fly]

And does - say - Music by John Miles and No Regrets by Scott Walker from '75 and Stay With Me Til' Dawn by Judy Tzuke from '79 count as power ballads? I'd say they do....

Who the fuck are they? It has to a good song by a respected artist, not some jerkoff from the UK.

Well said....

[*Laura]

For me,Journey invented the true PB,not Styx,nor REO.Not even Zeppelin.

However,*they* say the timeline looks something like this.

http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=4998

[styxman]

Thinking about it..Open Arms has to be credited with being the first power ballad...Keagy was correct all along. Sister Chritian No 2, that song is fuckin' A1.

Sorry if I missing the logic here...but why is Sister Christian No 2? Wasn't it released in 1984?

There were loads of power ballads before then....not least In The Air Tonight by Phil Collins and Waiting For A Girl Like You by Foreigner...both released in 1981...

And does - say - Music by John Miles and No Regrets by Scott Walker from '75 and Stay With Me Til' Dawn by Judy Tzuke from '79 count as power ballads? I'd say they do....

Matthew..I'm off to the garbage right now, but in the scheme of things SC is rightfully No2 it's a great PB, so don't start on your..why is it shit, it's late and I'm tellin' you it's no2..so chill the fuck out for once

[Matthew]

And does - say - Music by John Miles and No Regrets by Scott Walker from '75 and Stay With Me Til' Dawn by Judy Tzuke from '79 count as power ballads? I'd say they do....

Who the fuck are they? It has to a good song by a respected artist, not some jerkoff from the UK.

Ignoramus....

[Saint John]

And does - say - Music by John Miles and No Regrets by Scott Walker from '75 and Stay With Me Til' Dawn by Judy Tzuke from '79 count as power ballads? I'd say they do....

Who the fuck are they? It has to a good song by a respected artist, not some jerkoff from the UK.

Ignoramus....

Dude, with that Avatar nothing you say can be taken seriously. You might as well have a sex change and prod around with tits and a sewn on snatch.

[Rockindeano]

Dude, with that Avatar nothing you say can be taken seriously. .

He's got a point.

Boy, do I despise that fucker.

[Matthew]

Thinking about it..Open Arms has to be credited with being the first power ballad...Keagy was correct all along. Sister Chritian No 2, that song is fuckin' A1.

Sorry if I missing the logic here...but why is Sister Christian No 2? Wasn't it released in 1984?

There were loads of power ballads before then....not least In The Air Tonight by Phil Collins and Waiting For A Girl Like You by Foreigner...both released in 1981...

And does - say - Music by John Miles and No Regrets by Scott Walker from '75 and Stay With Me Til' Dawn by Judy Tzuke from '79 count as power ballads? I'd say they do....

Matthew..I'm off to the garbage right now, but in the scheme of things SC is rightfully No2 it's a great PB, so don't start on your..why is it shit, it's late and I'm tellin' you it's no2..so chill the fuck out for once

That was a unnecessarily defensive, Styxman...it was just a straightforward question...not a personal attack...

Was just unsure whether you were saying it was the second PB ever recorded? Or the second best one in terms of quality?

[Matthew]

And does - say - Music by John Miles and No Regrets by Scott Walker from '75 and Stay With Me Til' Dawn by Judy Tzuke from '79 count as power ballads? I'd say they do....

Who the fuck are they? It has to a good song by a respected artist, not some jerkoff from the UK.

Ignoramus....

Dude, with that Avatar nothing you say can be taken seriously. You might as well have a sex change and prod around with tits and a sewn on snatch.

Cain could beat the living crap out of you St John....and you know it.

[7 Wishes]

Seven, no way was that written after the wall came down, no way....google it dude

The wall came down in 1989. The song came out in 1990.

[Matthew]

Dude, with that Avatar nothing you say can be taken seriously. .

He's got a point.

Boy, do I despise that fucker.

Come on Deano. Stop skirting around this issue the whole time. Give it to us straight: what's your problem with the guy? Did he ignore you backstage or something?

Seriously...I'm curious...

[styxman]

Dean,

If i look in the dark in the garbage bin outside, I fall and end up waking up at 5am outside, I'll look in day light, the motoring was explained by Blades in the article but I'm fucked if I can remember it right now, something about a car I think

Anyway, whuile outside I remembered the beer I'd hid by the tree, so that's a result

[7 Wishes]

For me,Journey invented the true PB,not Styx,nor REO.Not even Zeppelin.

However,*they* say the timeline looks something like this.

http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=4998

THEY suck.

Just like Rolling Stone. ESPECIALLY Rolling Stone. Sellouts.

[Rockindeano]

Dude, with that Avatar nothing you say can be taken seriously. .

He's got a point.

Boy, do I despise that fucker.

Come on Deano. Stop skirting around this issue the whole time. Give it to us straight: what's your problem with the guy? Did he ignore you backstage or something?

Seriously...I'm curious...

I never make it a point to talk to him or seek him out. Why? It's Friga for fucks sake.

And I'll say what I want to say.

[Matthew]

Dude, with that Avatar nothing you say can be taken seriously. .

He's got a point.

Boy, do I despise that fucker.

Come on Deano. Stop skirting around this issue the whole time. Give it to us straight: what's your problem with the guy? Did he ignore you backstage or something?

Seriously...I'm curious...

I never make it a point to talk to him or seek him out. Why? It's Friga for fucks sake.

And I'll say what I want to say.

Well say it then! You're being as coy as some girl on her first date....

[Jeremey]

[2) What about "Unchained Melody" as the first power ballad? And that song was Top 5 over 30 years apart. BTW, it blows away BOTH Open Arms and Everything I Do.

Holy fuck, SJ - Your post was EXACTLY what I was thinking. Bobby Hatfield's version of "Unchained Melody" was without a doubt, the first power ballad. Period.

Then in 1976 Nazareth released "Love Hurts."

[styxman]

[2) What about "Unchained Melody" as the first power ballad? And that song was Top 5 over 30 years apart. BTW, it blows away BOTH Open Arms and Everything I Do.

Holy fuck, SJ - Your post was EXACTLY what I was thinking. Bobby Hatfield's version of "Unchained Melody" was without a doubt, the first power ballad. Period.

Then in 1976 Nazareth released "Love Hurts."

Unchained Melody..who would have thought it eh? All the same let's go for Open Arms as the first..we all love Journey right?

Matthew, apologies fella, it's Saturday night