your top 3 ballads of all time.

[pfazz]

Too difficult to single out just one I think so lets have 3.
ill go with,
Hey girl....Billy Joel
The living years.....Mike and there mechanics/Paul carrack
Captain fantastic and the brown dirt cowboy....Elton John.

thats me but I'm an old softy, whats yours?

 

[Barcon]

I only know of two:

 

[KingCarlito]

Blue Moon
The Invisible Man
The Ryan Giggs song

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

The Ballad of Cable Hogue - Calexico
The Ballad of John & Yoko - The Beatles
The Ballad of Lucy Jordan - Marianne Faithfull

See what I did there.....?!

 

[cibaman]

I'm not in love 10cc
Cry your eyes out The Streets
Let the hearthaches begin Long John Baldry

 

[PinkFinal]

Careless Whisper
I'm Not In Love
You Are My Love (Liverpool Express)

 

[Bill Walker]

Here there & everywhere... Beatles
God only knows....Neil Diamond (cover)
Famous blue raincoat...Leonard Cohen

 

[andyhinch]

The family way Men they couldnt hang, waltzing matilda pogues, go get organised the redskins

 

[dark 'n stormy]

 

[nw42]

Hard to choose, I think these all qualify,








What exactly constitutes a ballad anyway, slow, anthemic, tells a story?