# YOUR favorite ballads of the 80's!?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-ballads-of-the-80s/115015
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [June 20, 2002, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-ballads-of-the-80s/115015 "2002-06-20T05:01:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@BrentLumkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrentLumkin)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2002, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-ballads-of-the-80s/115015/1 "2002-06-20T05:01:34Z")
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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### Author:  [@Dirty\_Earthworm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dirty_Earthworm)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2002, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-ballads-of-the-80s/115015/2 "2002-06-20T05:12:31Z")
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! 🙂
-Dirty
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### Author:  [@Dirty\_Earthworm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dirty_Earthworm)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2002, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-ballads-of-the-80s/115015/3 "2002-06-20T05:13:56Z")
: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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### Author:  [@BrentLumkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrentLumkin)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2002, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-ballads-of-the-80s/115015/4 "2002-06-20T05:31:13Z")
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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### Author:  [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2002, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-ballads-of-the-80s/115015/5 "2002-06-20T08:25:26Z")
> [@](#):
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> _Originally posted by **Dirty Earthworm** _
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> 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.
Off to **Cafe Society**.
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**Cajun Man** - SDMB Moderator
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### Author:  [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2002, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-ballads-of-the-80s/115015/6 "2002-06-20T10:23:07Z")
Brother Wolf/Sister Moon - The Cult
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### Author:  [@DemonSpawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonSpawn)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2002, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-ballads-of-the-80s/115015/7 "2002-06-20T14:48:29Z")
“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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### Author:  [@andrew\_dupont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrew_dupont)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2002, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-ballads-of-the-80s/115015/8 "2002-06-20T14:50:21Z")
“Angel” by Aerosmith
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### Author:  [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2002, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-ballads-of-the-80s/115015/9 "2002-06-20T15:02:38Z")
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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### Author:  [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2002, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-ballads-of-the-80s/115015/10 "2002-06-20T15:17:59Z")
**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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### Author:  [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2002, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-ballads-of-the-80s/115015/11 "2002-06-20T15:21:01Z")
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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### Author:  [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2002, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-ballads-of-the-80s/115015/12 "2002-06-20T15:25:15Z")
Boston’s “More Than A Feeling”–maybe a little raucous, but when is that a bad thing?
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2002, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-ballads-of-the-80s/115015/13 "2002-06-20T15:45:58Z")
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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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2002, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-ballads-of-the-80s/115015/14 "2002-06-20T15:48:15Z")
. . . _18_93, that is . . . Dammit, like I was still listening to pop music in the _19_90s!
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### Author:  [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2002, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-ballads-of-the-80s/115015/15 "2002-06-20T17:27:16Z")
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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### Author:  [@PolishSausage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PolishSausage)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2002, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-ballads-of-the-80s/115015/16 "2002-06-20T19:03:47Z")
INXS ~ Never Tear Us Apart
~t
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### Author:  [@Tinkertoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinkertoy)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2002, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-ballads-of-the-80s/115015/17 "2002-06-20T19:21:59Z")
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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### Author:  [@Boo\_Boo\_Foo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boo_Boo_Foo)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2002, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-ballads-of-the-80s/115015/18 "2002-06-21T06:24:41Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by brondicon \*
> \*\*Boston’s “More Than A Feeling”–maybe a little raucous, but when is that a bad thing? \*\*
I’m pretty sure that “More Than a Feeling” was released in 1976 believe it or not.
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### Author:  [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2002, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-ballads-of-the-80s/115015/19 "2002-06-21T14:46:38Z")
Don’t forget “Life in a Northern Town” by The Dream Academy.
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### Author:  [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2002, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-ballads-of-the-80s/115015/20 "2002-06-21T15:02:55Z")
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.
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