Your Favorite 3 Songs: Soft Rock/Ballad

[JesusChristPose]

1. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
2. More Than Words - Extreme
3. Surrounded - Dream Theater

 

[SentencedToBurn]

oh i forgot a great ballad....
Stratovarious- 4000 rainy nights

 

[Blue Moon]

Greetings.

Pretty hard to have just three... Let's see what comes to mind at the moment.

1 - Depeche Mode : It's no good
2 - Current 93 : A Gothic Love Song
3 - REM : Losing my religion (it's not that bad of a band... actually I don't like all their albums, but Out of Time is damn great. Except the song Shiny Happy People perhaps...)

Those could change in the next hour...

 

[Belial]

Originally posted by godisanathiest

A Delerium fan -which is your favourite album??

Poem's my favorite. Karma second.

 

[Khronos]

Nick Cave - Into My Arms
Pearl Jam - Oceans
Pink Floyd - Mother

 

[Analog_Kid]

Originally posted by Blue Moon

3 - REM : Losing my religion (it's not that bad of a band... actually I don't like all their albums, but Out of Time is damn great. Except the song Shiny Happy People perhaps...)

Out Of Time is a very good album. I was in a AC band years ago and I used to sing this song with them. It was my only vocal spot for a long time until I finally got the go-ahead to do Comfortably Numb. This was back when I was in my teens.

Anyway, the first concert I ever saw was R.E.M. at Thompson Bowling Arena in Knoxville, TN back when I was 16,(I guess this was 1989). At the time, Shiny Happy... was the band's big MTV hit. Michael Stype refused to play it when I saw them at that show. It was great! He also went on and called the Knoxville crowd "boring" which was VERY true. They all just wanted to hear the "hits". R.E.M. gets my respect all the way.

 

[Culture_AK47]

erm this could end up a very long list

Manic Street Preachers - This Is Yesterday (acoustic)
Manic Street Preachers - Motorcycle Emptiness (original is better but acoustic to fit the ballad purpose here)
Manic Street Preachers - Life Becomming A Landslide (acoustic)
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
Placebo - Commercial For Levi
Foo Fighters - Everlong (acoustic)
Nirvana - Something In The Way
Nirvana - About A Girl (unplugged)
Nirvana - All Apologies
Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm
(just all soft ones by the pumpkins lol)
Radiohead - Street Spirit
Radiohead - Bullet Proof
Radiohead - No Surprises

fuck me i ain't even got to the metal ballads yet like Credence and shit by Katatonia or Anathema... ok i'll stick to the stuff u wouldn't know as much like erm Christy Moore "Ride On"

i'm too tired to continue

 

[CAIRATH]

Porcupine Tree - Hatesong
Air - All I need
Garbage - Milk
Alice in Chains - Over now
Dark Tranquility - Day to end
Delerium - A Poem for Byzantium
Dido - Slide

 

[Spike]

I have NO IDEA what classifies as 'soft rock' these days, so I waited ot out to see what kind of bands you folks came up with. Unfortunately from what's been listed I could pick, like, a hundred songs. for now I'll try to limit myself to three..... or so.

Amorphis - My Kantele (Acoustic Reprise
Sarah McLachlan - Fumling Towards Ecstacy (the song, not the whole album)
Delerium - Flowers Become Screens
Jars of Clay - Floods
Pearl Jam - Betterman

 

[RETIREDTrapped]

Madonna - Frozen

Fuck yeah. The clip is great too...

 

[The Suicider]

Some of these may so happy sounding they'll make your stomach turn, but what the hell..

Alphaville - Big In Japan, Forever Young
Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm, 1979
Savage Garden - To The Moon And Back
Evergrey - For Every Tear That Falls (female singing at the begining annoys the fuck outta me though)
Savatage - Believe
Offspring - Dirty Magic, Gone Away
Misfits - Saturday Night
Stabbing Westward - What Do I Have To Do
Nada Surf - Icebox
Manowar - Courage
Metallica - The Unforgiven
Slayer - Gemini (?)

Sorry, couldn't list just 3...

 

[Russell]

Originally posted by Belial
Poem's my favorite. Karma second.

Mines the other way round. Karma then poem... The semantic spaces, then faces forms and illusions They're early stuff annoys me at times tho...

 

[svenske kocken]

iron maiden - strange place

The track is named Strange World, thank you very much.


Three favorite ballads:

Judas Priest - Before The Dawn
Metallica - Fade To Black
Scorpions - Still Loving You

 

[Lina]

Originally posted by svenske kocken
Metallica - Fade To Black

Oooooh, that made me remember:

Mazzy Star -- Fade Into You

 

[SentencedToBurn]

mazzy star? i remember that song. hell yea that song has been in my head for 5 years and i couldnt figure out who was the group that sang it. now i remember, thankyou

 

[Lina]

you're welcome. as i was posting that, i thought, "is that mazzy star? oh no, someone is going to correct me." haha

 

[Ethereal Sage]

Sorry, don't think I can restrict myself to 3.

Black Sabbath - Planet Caravan and Solitude

Anathema - Regret (not usre if it's soft enough to eb counted here)

Brendan Perry - Captive Heart (most of his stuff is great)

Dark Tranquility - Mine Is The Grandeur...

Dead Can Dance - too many to mention! The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove and The Carnival Is Over are 2 standouts for me.

Delerium - Where to start!? Heaven's Earth and A Poem For Byzantium

(For Belial and Godisanatheist: A rabbid Delerium fan! - fav albums would be Spheres I and II and Semantic Spaces, but the variety over the albums is great too!)

Falling You - Less Likely To Believe

Ulver - Haven't heard much of them, but I'm sure there's a good ballad in ther somewhere

 

[Tabasko]

has any of you ever experienced the magic of U2's song "One" as an acoustic version? This song is soooo damn great that I need to listen to it at least 4 times a day, and it wouldn't be boring. This song is incredibly great, I just love it.

 

[lumen]

Originally posted by Tabasko
has any of you ever experienced the magic of U2's song "One" as an acoustic version? This song is soooo damn great that I need to listen to it at least 4 times a day, and it wouldn't be boring. This song is incredibly great, I just love it.

I like "Love is Blindness" way better.

 

[mindflesh]

Nine Inch Nails - Hurt

Other ones currently:
Tiamat - Atlantis As A Lover
Tiamat - Best Friend Money Can Buy
Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm
Smashing Pumpkins - Eye
Tori Amos - anything in my playlist (about 8 songs)
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