YOUR favorite ballads of the 80's!?

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I’m putting together a CD of some great old tunes from the 80’s, and I’m looking for some suggestions. Call me crazy, but I love Chicago (You’re The Inspiration) and Jeff Healy’s Angel eyes, and stuff like that. I also love Jack & Diane by you know you, so I love suff like that. Any other stuff that you guys can suggest for this project of mine!?

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Welcome aboard, Jeff.

Ballads? Gotta go with the hair bands: “Every Rose Has its Thorn” by Poison and “Patience” by Guns N’ Roses are two that immediately come to mind; as far as '80s non-ballads, go with anything by GNR, “Unskinny Bop” by Poison; “Blaze of Glory,” “You Give Love a Bad Name” and “Wanted Dead or Alive,” by Bon Jovi are good, too.

And by the way, IANAMod, but this thread will probably be moved to Cafe Society before too long - that’s where the music discussions generally go. Just so you know - trying to look out for ya! :slight_smile:

-Dirty

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:smack: :smack: :smack:

You’re not Jeff. You’re Brent.

And I am a :wally

Wow - I got to use two different smilies in one post. Go me!

-Dirty

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Thanks a lot! Yeah, I guess I was just already in this forum and forgot we even ad the Cafe Society! Oh well, 'tis the way it goes I reckon!

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Off to Cafe Society.

Cajun Man - SDMB Moderator

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Brother Wolf/Sister Moon - The Cult

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“Against all odds” by Phil Collins (the only song by him that I can stand)
“Martha’s harbour” by All about Eve

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“Angel” by Aerosmith

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Well, some of these songs I like, some I don’t… but I figure the OP is looking for the kind of 80s power ballads that got played as the “slow dance” at 80s high school proms. So, he might like…

  1. Journey’s “Open Arms,” “Faithfully,” and “Send Her My Love”

  2. Survivor’s “The Search is Over.”

  3. Bryan Adams’ “Heaven”

  4. REO Speedwagon’s “Keep On Loving You” and “I Can’t Fight This Feeling Any More”

  5. Peter Cetera’ “The Glory of Love” (from “The Karate Kid 2”)

  6. Foreigner’s “Waiting for a Girl Like You” and “I Want to Know What Love Is”

  7. George Michael’s “One More Try”

  8. Crowded House’s “Don’t Dream It’s Over”

  9. Richard Marx’s “Right Here Waiting for You”

  10. Berlin’s “Take My Breath Away”

  11. Chris DeBurgh’s “The Lady in Red”

  12. The Scorpions’ “Still Loving You”

  13. Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart”

  14. Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes”

  15. The Cars’ “Drive”

  16. Bruce Hornsby’s “Mandolin Rain”

  17. Starship’s “Sara”

  18. Heart’s “Alone” and “These Dreams”

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astorian rules! (especially for Richard Marx and Peter Cetera)
I’ll toss in:
Billy Idol’s “Eyes Without A Face” and “Sweet Sixteen”
Spandau Ballet’s “True” (which I’m sure someone will beat me to by the time I finish typing)
John Waite’s “Missing You”
that “Almost Paradise” song
Howard Jones’s “Everlasting Love”
and what’s the Paul Young song I’m thinking of?
Also, “Life in a Northern Town.”

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Oh, a few more that come to mind:

  1. Cheap Trick’s “The Flame”

  2. Whitesnake’s “Is This Love?”

  3. Def Leppard’s “Bringing on the Heartbreak”

  4. Night Ranger’s “Sister Christian”

  5. Boston’s “Amanda”

  6. The Honeydrippers’ remake of “Sea of Love”

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Boston’s “More Than A Feeling”–maybe a little raucous, but when is that a bad thing?

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Ah! Ballads of the '80s. memories of my bygone youth: The Bryn Mawr Waltz (1880), Evening at Sea (1993), Don’t, Nellie Dear! (1881), *If Ever We Should Part *(1880) . . .

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. . . 1893, that is . . . Dammit, like I was still listening to pop music in the 1990s!

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I’ll add some more …

  1. Benny Mardones’ “Into the Night”

  2. Climax Blues Band’s “I Love You”

  3. Marty Balin’s “Hearts”

  4. Howard Jones’ “No One is To Blame”

  5. Franke and the Knockouts’ “Sweetheart”

  6. Dan Fogelberg’s “Same Old Lang Syne”

  7. Warrant’s “Heaven” barely sneaks in, released in 1989

  8. Paul Young’s “Every Time You Go Away” (there you go, brondicon)

  9. Corey Hart’s “Never Surrender”

  10. Peter Cetera / Cher’s “Next Time I Fall”

  11. 38 Special’s “Second Chance”

  12. Sherrif’s “When I’m With You”

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INXS ~ Never Tear Us Apart

~t

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  1. Cinderella’s “Don’t know what you got (til it’s gone)”
  2. Cinderella’s “Nobody’s fool”
  3. Kix “Don’t close your eyes”
  4. Poison’s “Something to believe in”
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I’m pretty sure that “More Than a Feeling” was released in 1976 believe it or not.

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Don’t forget “Life in a Northern Town” by The Dream Academy.

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Yes, Boo Boo Foo, you’re correct. My bad. I think I associate that song with the Jodie Foster movie Foxes (it’s on the soundtrack), which was released in 1980.