Ballads Old and New: Rock Ballads

I have always been a music lover but now days I seem to enjoy it even more. I have quite a long commute to and from work and listening to a sexy love ballad or some upbeat rock ballads while I am driving is very soothing to my soul. I am more relaxed when I get to work after listening to my favorite tunes and I find that I unwind much faster when I listen to some of my... Read More

Great rock ballads are songs and words that move us, things we feel emotion for straight to the heart. Yes this is the great power that good rock ballads have to capture our very human emotions with and move us, sometimes even make us cry. Here are three really great rock ballads that I personally have felt moved by.

Amazing by Aerosmith is a great rock ballad that is slow,... Read More

One of the most beautiful love ballads has been recently recorded by Celine Dion, and is set for release tomorrow, November 13. Celine Dion closed the Oprah Show with this song, and she gave a compelling performance of it. This song, Alone, was originally written Tom Kelly and Billy Steinberg and given to Heart to record, which they did in 1983. It remains Bread's greatest... Read More

Some of the most beautiful songs are rock ballads that proclaim the greatness of the experience of love and its antithesis, the loss of that beloved object, whether an idea or a person. Many rock ballads have been written in the rock style, notably by Simon and Garfunkel, the Beatles, and Billy Joel. These rock ballads are legendary in their beauty and timelessness.

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One of my favorite love ballads recorders of all time.

Though his career was cut short by a tragic plane crash, Otis Redding was a rock ballads singer of such commanding stature that to this day he embodies the essence of soul music in its purist form. His name is synonymous with the term soul, monster ballads that arose out of the black experience in America through the... Read More