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Monster 80s Power Ballads.

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  • #32
    Ruudi_Mentari
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Ruudi_Mentari


    wuzziwig wrote: »
    changengengengengengenge!

    Is that not Ini Kamoze or something


  • #33
    Clandestine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,466 ✭✭✭Clandestine


    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    There is nothing better than listening to rock ballads on a midweek night whilst drinking alone in your boxer shorts.
    Prefer this kind of music myself for that kind of occasion


  • #34
    wuzziwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 519 ✭✭✭wuzziwig


    Ruudi_Mentari wrote: »
    Is that not Ini Kamoze or something

    Not if you sing it through your nose. :D


  • #35
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Wanna listen to Electric by The Cult now.

    This kind of raw energy is something that is seriously amiss in pop music / radio these days. I dare say the world would be a much better place with it.


  • #36
    wuzziwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 519 ✭✭✭wuzziwig


    What about this one. A classic. I was in love with David Coverdale back in the day. :o



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  • #37
    Ruudi_Mentari
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Ruudi_Mentari


    wuzziwig wrote: »
    Not if you dont sing it through your nose. :D

    FYP!


  • #38
    Powerhouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,428 ✭✭✭Powerhouse


    caustic 1 wrote: »

    Brian Adams was number one for fe cking years with that robin hood tune that would put years on ye.


    You may have proven you own point about the song putting years on you - it was a 1990s song not 1980s. But I wouldn't disgree with you on the song.


  • #39
    Nemeses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭Nemeses


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    We'll include the 70s for you older folks too then.:p

    Here's the grandaddy of all rock ballads;

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPWdCvwqQI0

    Awesome Geetar solo work at the end


  • #40
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Nemeses wrote: »
    Awesome Geetar solo work at the end
    Think that was the last concert before the crash too.


  • #41
    Nemeses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭Nemeses


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Think that was the last concert before the crash too.

    I've no idea to be honest with you - I'd have to check wiki for that info.


    Still. Awesome song.


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  • #42
    Taco Chips
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 565 ✭✭✭Taco Chips


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE5GGMhmo-M


    Can't beat a bit of Heart


  • #43
    Yamanoto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    We'll include the 70s for you older folks too then.:p

    Here's the grandaddy of all rock ballads;

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPWdCvwqQI0

    As far from Poodle Rock as you could possibly get.

    The fact their latter day audience are Nascar loving good ole' boys does them a disservice imo.

    Anything post plane-crash is unlistenable though.


  • #44
    SeanW
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    Sofiztikated wrote: »
    There's a reason some things should just allowed to die out.
    BOOOOO.
    FatherLen wrote: »
    jesus, I hate 80's music!
    BOOOOOOOO. HERETIC. BURN HIM :p

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWHOF_0-6Hg


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOJk0HW_hJw


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x34icYC8zA0

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  • #45
    gg2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭gg2




  • #46
    Mam of 4
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    Absolutely brilliant thread, fair play :)

    Keep them coming, can't upload any as am useless at that..

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  • #47
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    This is one of my most favourite songs;:)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD-LMS0CyAY


  • #48
    losthorizon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭losthorizon


    Taco Chips wrote: »

    Can't beat a bit of Heart

    They covered Led Zeppelin recently. It was amazing!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf2O3OAQjng


  • #49
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    cutting crew - I just died in your arms tonight
    Roxette - Must have been love
    Patrick Swayze - She's like the wind
    Waterboys - The whole of the moon
    Bryan Adams - Heaven
    Guns n roses - Sweet child of mine
    Kate Bush - Hounds of love
    Run DMC/Aerosmith - Walk this way
    Bon Jovi - Living on a prayer
    Prince - When doves cry
    Foreigner - I wanna know what love is
    Whitesnake - Is this love
    INXS - Never tear us apart
    Berlin - Take my breath away
    Jim Diamond - Shoulda know better

    Of course I'm not including all the truly brilliant stuff from the pixies, new order, depeche mode, psychedelic furs, Echo and the bunnymen,the cure, the smithsetc


  • #50
    Elessar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,260 ✭✭✭Elessar


    So many, I love me some power ballads!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KS-UswccMU


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2C5TjS2sh4


  • #51
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    cutting crew - I just died in your arms tonight
    Roxette - Must have been love
    Patrick Swayze - She's like the wind
    Waterboys - The whole of the moon
    Bryan Adams - Heaven
    Guns n roses - Sweet child of mine
    Kate Bush - Hounds of love
    Run DMC/Aerosmith - Walk this way
    Bon Jovi - Living on a prayer
    Prince - When doves cry
    Foreigner - I wanna know what love is
    Whitesnake - Is this love
    INXS - Never tear us apart
    Berlin - Take my breath away
    Jim Diamond - Shoulda know better

    Of course I'm not including all the truly brilliant stuff from the pixies, new order, depeche mode, psychedelic furs, Echo and the bunnymen,the cure, the smithsetc


    It's like you nicked the playlist off my mp3 player (also known as my phone, which is useless as far as YouTube is concerned, half the videos here - "not available on mobile"), but how did we get six pages in and forget about the epitome of rock ballads -


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SoCwIXcchs


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  • #52
    Riddle101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,669 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    Since we're including 70's ballads.....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db94u6R7pLk

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHRNSeuvzlM


    Someone already said Lynyrd Skynyrd's Free Bird
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-f2y1QC_yg


  • #53
    Hidalgo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,845 ✭✭✭Hidalgo


    The Backwards Man stole my REO Take it on the Run. Classic.

    This one's a bit up tempo maybe for a ballad, but catchy as f*ck


    This defines the 80s (even if I was still crawling at the time)




    And a bit of Boston for an encore


  • #54
    Hidalgo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,845 ✭✭✭Hidalgo


    Phil


  • #55
    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,060 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    Say what you want about music from the 80s. It had charm.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9WdUgn0XkU


  • #56
    wuzziwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 519 ✭✭✭wuzziwig


    Jim Diamond!! Forgot about him. That man always looked and sounded in severe pain when he was singing.

    Hildalgo, you need to be barred from this thread for making me feel old with your crawling in the 80s comment!! :p

    This thread is great. A right old blast from the past.


  • #57
    Autosport
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    This is one of the best threads I have seen in ages :D can't beat the 80's power ballads :) keep them coming


  • #58
    Yamanoto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    This was #1 for what seemed like years when I was a kid in the 80's.

    Though the production and delivery were a little overblown, like so much of the music of the time, the melody holds up remarkably well.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raNGeq3_DtM


  • #59
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    Czarcasm wrote: »
    It's like you nicked the playlist off my mp3 player (also known as my phone, which is useless as far as YouTube is concerned, half the videos here - "not available on mobile"), but how did we get six pages in and forget about the epitome of rock ballads -


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SoCwIXcchs
    There is just so much great music from the 80's. I know every generation thinks the current generations music is crap, but todays stuff truly is utter crap. It always amazes me when you get one of the nostalgia programmes around Christmas, about the 80's and I've forgotten so many of the songs and bands. It's also kind of scary watching grumpy old men/women with your partner and recognising so many characteristics in each other:D


  • #60
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    There is just so much great music from the 80's. I know every generation thinks the current generations music is crap, but todays stuff truly is utter crap. It always amazes me when you get one of the nostalgia programmes around Christmas, about the 80's and I've forgotten so many of the songs and bands. It's also kind of scary watching grumpy old men/women with your partner and recognising so many characteristics in each other:D


    Oh I have LOADS of 70's, 80's and 90's albums on my phone, and then there's loads of internet radio stations aswel that play all the classic rock songs, like this one which was particularly poignant when I look back on it now -


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GNJ1SQpxFI



    After listening to that, had to perk myself up a bit with this -


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_cHvtPB2dY


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  • #61
    Smidge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    Can't believe no one has mentioned Def Leopard "Love Bites" yet!!!


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