There’s no Dream Theater here! The Spirit Carries On on Score is brilliant and has some incredible guitar playing

TOP TEN POWER BALLADS (IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER):

Metallica – Nothing Else Matters
Thunder – Love Walked In
Ozzy Osbourne – I Just Want You
Whitesnake – Here I Go Again
Nickleback – How You Remind Me (I know but the song is good)
Aerosmith – Cryin’
Alice Cooper – Love’s A Loaded Gun
Skid Row – Breakin’ Down
Heart – Alone
Iron Maiden – Wasting Love

Bad English – When I See You Smile
Heart – These Dreams
Aerosmith – Angel, Dream On
Def Leppard – Hysteria
Whitesnake – Is This Love
Poison – Every Rose Has It’s Thorn
L.A. Guns – Ballad of Jane
Lita Ford / Ozzy – Close My Eyes Forever
Cinderella – Long Cold Winter
Cheap Trick – The Flame

Top Ten Power Ballads
1. Cannibal Corpse – Entrails Ripped From A Virgins Cunt
2. Cliteater – Ejaculation Feast On A Baked Foetus
3. Deicide – Scars of the Crucifix
4. Gorgasm – Anal Skewer
5. Anal Cunt – I Lit Your Baby on Fire
6. Annotations of an Autopsy – Welcome to Sludge City
7. Viking Skull – Rape, Pillage and Burn
8. Cradle of Filth – Gilded Cunt
9. Slipknot – People=Shit
10. Asia – Heat of the Moment

Hungryheart – Hang On To Me
Jack Russell – For You
Heart – I’ll Never Stop Loving You
Cinderella – Heartbreak Station
Pretty Maids – Please Don’t Leave Me
Dokken – Walk Away
Warrant – Let It Rain
Sven Gali – Love Don’t Live Here Anymore
Von Groove – Once In A Lifetime
Fury – Shouldn’t I Be (Lying In Your Arms)

black sabbath-planet caravan
guns n’ roses-since i don’t have you,don’t cry,november rain
metallica-nothing else matters
bon jovi-always
aerosmith-i don’t wanna miss a thing
meat loaf-bat out of hell, i’ll do anything for love
whitesnake-here i go again

What no Kiss – Beth or Journey – Open Arms surely two of the classic cheesy rock ballads !!

thought metallica were not a hair band in the 80’s and early 90’s so what are they doing on the list.

Quiet Riot – Winners Take All
Danger Danger – One Step From Paradise
Firehouse – Love of a Lifetime
Warrant – Sometimes She Cries
Europe – Carrie
REO Speedwagon – Can’t Fight This Feeling
Kiss – Forever
Motley Crue – Home Sweet Home
Whitesnake – Looking For Love
White Lion – When The Children Cry

top 10 power ballads:
no particular order

Metallica – Fade to Black
Motley Crue – Home Sweet Home
Guns N’ Roses – Estranged
Skid Row – 18 and Life
Poison – Every Rose…
Whitesnake – Here I Go Again
Def Leppard – Hysteria
Whitesnake – Is This Love
Guns N’ Roses – November Rain
Thunder – Love Walked In

Poison – Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Meatloaf – I Would Do anthing For Love
Guns n Roses – November Rain
Whitesnake – Here I Go again
Cutting Crew – I Just Died In Your arms
Foreigner – I Want To Know What Love Is
Moody Blues – Nights In White Satin
Bonnie Tyler – Total Eclipse Of The Heart
Bon Jovi – always
Metallica – Nothing Else Matters

metallica- nothing else matters
pantera- this love
guns ‘n’ roses- november rain
metallica(again)- fade to black(why aint it here already)
alice in chains- down in a hole
misfits- last caress(listen to the original)
nine inch nails- the day the world went away
aerosmith- what it takes(my wifes favourite)
marilyn manson- coma white
megadeth- a tout le monde

metallica- nothing else matters
metallica- unforgiven I (how come it’s not in any list!)
metallica- fade to black
iron maiden- wasting love
aerosmith- dream on
guns n’roses- sweet child o’mine (don’t know if considered a ballad)
guns n’roses (don’t cry)

Deep Purple Mistreated (Not bloody Rainbow because David Coverdale sang it originally)
Def Leppard Love Bites, Too late for love
Guns n Roses Sweet Child o’ Mine
Bon Jovi Always
Motley Crue Like an Animal (of the new album)
Thunder Castles in the Sand
Lone Star Amazed
AC/DC The Jack (the closest to a ballad they’ll ever do)
Queensryche Suite Sister Mary

W.A.S.P. – Sleeping (In The Fire)
G ‘n’ R – Civil War
Meatloaf – I would anything for love
Mötley Crue – Home Sweet Home
Poison – Every rose has it’s thorn
Europe – I’ll cry for you
Kingdom Come – What love can be

G ‘n’ R – November Rain
Bon Jovi – Always
Def Leppard – Love Bites
Meatloaf – Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad
Metallica – Nothing Else Matters
Whitesnake – Here I Go Again
Rainbow – Since You Been Gone
Alice Cooper – Poison
Metallica – Unforgiven
Def Leppard – Hysteria

Fade To Black on #1. I find nothing else matters a disgusting song.

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Helloween – If I Knew

It was the opening dance of our wedding!

Ozzy Osbourne- I Just Want You
I don’t know if these are all technically “power ballads”, but anyways:

Cutting Crew- I Just Died In Your Arms
Suicidal Tendencies- Alone
Metallica- One
KoRn- No One’s There
Megadeth- Trust
Megadeth- Promises
Nine Inch Nails- Every Day Is Exactly The Same
Faith No More- Edge Of The World
Fear Factory- Timelessness
Slipknot- Vermillion

Oh and I should add one:
Motley Crue- Without You

My choice of Power Ballad

1. Another Day – Dream Theater
2. Silent Lucidity – Queensryche
3. Fade to Black – Metallica
4. I Stay Away – Alice in Chains
5. Cemetery Gates – Pantera
6. Right Here – Staind
7. Planet Caravan – Ozzy or Pantera
8. Last Night on Earth – Green Day
9. Slipknot – Vermilion Pt 2
10. Patience – Guns N’ Roses