Usually, these are headbangers who just give me a headache. So I was wondering... are there other examples of that sort? Have AC/DC or Metallica or other noisy and frightening makers of popular audio out there done stuff along the lines of those three?
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
Metallica's got Nothing Else Matters. The version from Symphony & Metallica is my favourite of the various recordings.
Added: Actually, Metallica also has a couple of other really good ones: Mama Said and Low Man's Lyric.
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
I love Metallica S&M. Enter Sandman sounds absolutely amazing with the orchestra. /derail
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
I really like the S&M versions of Master of Puppets and Bleeding Me. S&M as a whole is probably my favourite Metallica recording, but I was sorry to see the two songs I mentioned in my first post absent from it. And what was Devil's Dance doing on there? Bah!
Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
Extreme's "Hole Hearted" while not quite a ballad, is a pretty cool acoustic tune.
Rush's "Resist", "The Pass", or especially the virtually unknown "Second Nature" are great songs.
Dream Theater's "Wait For Sleep", "Another Day", or "Lifting Shadows Off a Dream"
Van Halen had a nice ballad called "Not Enough"
All I can think of off the top of my head...
edit: I never did figure out who it was, but some swing band did an AWESOME cover of Enter Sandman... that riff sounds better on horns than it does on guitar...
Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
"You Keep On Moving" and "April" by Deep Purple.
Although it's on possibly my least favorite Rush album, "Time Stand Still" always gives me chills.
Led Zeppelin were the masters of this. Just try "All Of My Love", "Going to California", "Tangerine", "Ten Years Gone", "Thank You"... I could go on and on. Even some of their hardest rocking songs like "Stairway to Heaven" and "Over the Hills and Far Away" have gorgeous balladic segments.
It's an instrumental, but we can't forget "For the Love of God" by Steve Vai.
And I can't believe no one has mentioned the first half of "November Rain."
One more classic example: Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing". One of the most covered songs of all time.
Posted by Sopwith (Member # 4640) on :
Or even Queensryche's "Silent Lucidity"
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
Metallica: "The Unforgiven"
Led Zeppelin: "Stairway to Heaven"
Pink Floyd: "Comfortably Numb"
Godsmack: "Serenity"
Nirvana: "Come As You Are"
The Offspring: "Gone Away"
Audioslave: "Be Yourself"
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
Alice in Chains - Nutshell
Posted by Heffaji (Member # 3669) on :
Black Sabbath-Changes GnR-Patience
Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
quote:Originally posted by starLisa: Beth, by KISS
Being a relatively old person , I can remember when this song came out. I really liked it. When someone told me that it was by Kiss, I completely refused to believe it for nearly a month. I still like the song, and I still do not like Kiss. Or maybe its just Gene Simmons I don't like. Because I really, really don't like him.
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
When I saw the title of the thread, it was "Beth" that came to mind.
Posted by Treason (Member # 7587) on :
I would like to point out that after the first ballad, it was not atypical anymore for rockers to put out a mushy love song. It was actually formula! First, the hard rocking tune, followed up by the ballad. (Got a lot of chicks that way and we are die hard fans)
That said, I may get made fun of for this but I always liked "Home Sweet Home" by Motley Crue. I love Guns N' Roses as well, so I totally agree with "Patience" and "November Rain." If you want to hear a very amusing song, listen to "Used to Love Her" from the GnR Lies album. The first line is...."I used to love her, but I had to kill her."
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
"She bitched so much, It drove me nuts!"
Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
"I had to put her six feet under... and I can still hear her complain."
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
Poison - Every Rose Has it's Thorn Motley Crue - Without You Warrant - Sometimes She Cries Def Leppard - Two Steps Behind Lita Ford - Close My Eyes (duet woth Ozzy Osbourne) Tesla - Love Song
(just from what's in my multi-disc player at the moment LOL)
Posted by Treason (Member # 7587) on :
ooohhhh, I love Tesla's "Love Song!" Good one. Also "Without You". Nice!
also- *sings* "I knew I'd miss her, so I had to keep her. She's buried right in my backyard."
Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :
quote:Originally posted by littlemissattitude:
quote:Originally posted by starLisa: Beth, by KISS
Being a relatively old person , I can remember when this song came out. I really liked it. When someone told me that it was by Kiss, I completely refused to believe it for nearly a month. I still like the song, and I still do not like Kiss. Or maybe its just Gene Simmons I don't like. Because I really, really don't like him.
The same on all counts. Except that I might take issue with the whole "old" thing. <grin>
Posted by IanO (Member # 186) on :
Lita Ford/Ozzy: Close Your Eyes- That actually was a pretty good song. Though in the video Ozzy kept looking at the camera like he was trying to scare Satan away from the set or something.
Reminds me of David Spade:
"Hey, Marilyn Manson, Satan called. [Pause] He says 'hi.' And he said you need to stop. You're scaring him."
Extreme: More Than Words- Is he saying that her words are not enough and that if she really loves him, she's gotta 'give it up'? If so, then romantic not so much (though still beautifully acoustic).
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
Ya know, I never really paid that close of attention to the Extreme lyrics.... (googling)
I'm not reading it as his demanding she "give it up" specifically, more that she needs to show it in non-verbal ways. To me that would be things like making dinner while I'm still on the way home from work rather than waiting for me to get home, picking me up at the train because it's raining, that sort of thing. 'Course I'm not a horn-dog male rocker... <wink>
Posted by solo (Member # 3148) on :
Anthrax has an interesting one called N.F.B.
quote: But then I played the fool I never meant to hurt you Or sleep with all your friends
Posted by beatnix19 (Member # 5836) on :
Why hasn't anyone mentioned Mr. Big, To Be With You? Ultimate rock ballad!
Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :
Wild Horses - Rolling Stones
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
I'm thinking that another good one might be:
"Something In The Way" by Nirvana
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
Ain't Afraid to Die by Dir en grey. Should be called, Ain't Afraid to Cry in Public at my Desk for All the World to See. Mushi- Dir en grey Zakuro... Dir en grey Higeki Ha Mabuta Wo Oroshita Yasashiki Utsu-Dir en grey
Posted by Eduardo_Sauron (Member # 5827) on :
No "Blind Guardian", no "Rhapsody", no "Iced Earth", no "Nightwish", no "Iron Maiden"...sheesh... ;-)
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
There was a group out there producing blue-grass covers of Metallica's greatest hits. You can't get more a-typical than that.
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
of almost everyone's favorites.
Posted by Treason (Member # 7587) on :
How about "Fat Bottom Girls" by Queen?! Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :
I don't think any Queen song could be called "atypical." They all were.
For ballads, "Love of my life" is the sappiest. Also "You're my best friend."
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
NFB... how could I forget! Wish the ex hadn't walked with my Anthrax discs.
Posted by IanO (Member # 186) on :
Mr. Big "To be with you"??????
"waiting on the line...just to be the next to be with you."
How many guys are in this line? I think the word 'skank' seems appropriate.
You know, I think that as nice as the music of these atypical hard rock ballads are (though I hate Mr Big's "To Be With You" music and all), the words are better left unexamined.
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, I can remember when this song came out. I really liked it. When someone told me that it was by Kiss, I completely refused to believe it for nearly a month. I still like the song, and I still do not like Kiss. Or maybe its just Gene Simmons I don't like. Because I really, really don't like him.
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