Your Top 5 Favorite Power Ballads

Wind of Change - Scorpions
Behind Blue Eyes - Who
Long Goodbyes - Camel
Babe I'm Going to Leave You - Zeppelin
When I'm With You - Sheriff

BTW, Andrew Latimer's guitar lead at the end of "Long Goodbyes" is perhaps my favorite of all time. IT takes a tune that is already soaring at that point to an ever higher stratospheric level that is hard to match.

Another hair metal classic that was overlooked...Nobody's Fool-Cinderella.

Love Hurts covered by Joan Jett.

Here's 5 on 1 album- Def Leppards' Vault:
Foolin'
Bringin' On The Heartbreak
Love Bites
Hysteria
Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad

Normally not my favorite genre, but Todd Rundgren is a master. He did a power ballad intensive record in the '80's called "Nearly Human" that's loaded with great examples. Videos from the tour supporting that album are all over You Tube. Check out "Parallel Lines" and "Can't Stop Runnin" with Todd and Lyle Workman (now a big hollywood film score guy) on guitar. TR's never been afraid to have a monster second guitar in his band -currently Jesse Gress - and this is used to great effect on these power ballads. If you stretch the definition a bit, the bluesy "Unloved Children" from the same tour might be the best of these You Tube videos.

Marty