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Old 12-25-2014, 03:31 AM   #1 (permalink)
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So I've noticed that I generally find rock ballads to be completely lame but I love listening to country ballads. So I was wondering what genres you guys think ballads work well in and which ones they just simply don't work in. Why? Also what are your favorite ballads or your favorite subjects for people to write ballads about? Basically any thoughts you have on ballads

I personally think that they work best in country/ hip hop and my favorite is probably the song Ballad of Love and Hate by The Avett Brothers. I like it when songs compare opposite ends of a spectrum and this song does it well.
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You think rock ballads suck? lol

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Also what are your favorite ballads or your favorite subjects for people to write ballads about? Basically any thoughts you have on ballads
I personally like rock ballads. Power ballads moreso than love ballads per se.
Hair/Glam metal has a few good power/love ballads going on by Skid Row, Scorpions, and Cinderella, just to name a few.
I currently listen to power ballads by the Christian rock band Skillet, over most of the other mainstream rock bands. I prefer the positive lyrics that go along with power ballads in Christian metal.
Moving On by the band Asking Alexandria is a halfway decent single.

If I'm listening to love ballads, contemporary R&B is where are usually go. Like You Are My Lady by Luther Vandross or Suddenly by Billy Ocean, for example. Seal has a couple of good ones.

Haven't really listened to a lot of country for the past 5 or 6 years. Im sure there is a lot of good modern country music out there to choose from. I just haven't had the time, or put enough effort into catching up on it.
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Hey Plankton, check out the guitar solo in this one.
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Hey Plankton, check out the guitar solo in this one.
A combo of CC Deville, and Yingweee. Not bad though, but I prefer the end solo from this over any solo in any ballad:



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Not sure I have a genre in which I prefer ballads most, it's mostly all over the place.

Here's a great bluegrass(?) ballad.

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