Ballads Old and New: Rock Ballads

A Love Ballad with a Dangerous Video
5/24/2008 8:51:17 AM

James Blunt’s You’re Beautiful is one of the most memorable love ballads of the 21st century. It is also a very popular love ballad. When I fist heard this song, I wasn’t sure if the singer was male or female. James Blunt has an ambiguous voice. I like this love ballad very much. Most of us have been strongly attracted to a person on first seeing them and that’s what the love... Read More
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love ballad
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Sweet Child of Mine is Still One of the Best Rock Ballads
5/18/2008 8:06:23 AM

I enjoyed rock ballads in my early teens. In fact rock was the first type of music I ever loved. My favorite rock bands were Def Leopard, White Snake, and Guns N’ Roses. I especially liked Guns N’ Roses. At the age of thirteen I thought Sweet Child of Mine was better than all rock ballads that had preceded it. I also felt certain that no future rock ballads would ever... Read More
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rock ballads, Guns N' Roses
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Love Ballads and Victim Mentality
5/12/2008 7:13:15 AM

The older I get the less I like love ballads. I don’t know precisely why love ballads appeal to me less than they once did. I think it might be because I’m less idealistic than I was during my youth. I stopped believing that a handsome prince would whisk me away on his trusty steed many years ago. There is no Prince Charming and even if there were I would take one look at... Read More
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love ballad, My Immortal
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Some Rock Ballads Speak for a Generation
5/6/2008 10:37:15 AM
There are many rock ballads on the You Tube website. Of all the rock ballads on You Tube, Alanis Morisette’s You Oughta Know describes the person I was in my late teens and early twenties most succinctly. In fact, I think it is one of those rock ballads that speaks for a whole generation. When this song was released in the mid 1990s, it was very popular with the crowd I... Read More
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rock ballads
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