The winner of the best Power Ballad is......

[RomanyRoots]

Ok, putting together a playlist of Power ballads.
What is your favourite of all time. It can be from a film or not, it doesn't matter.

I"ve started with my favourite, really cliche but:

I don't want to miss a thing/ Aerosmith/ Armagedon.

shamer

Love bites - Def Leppard.

These Dreams by Heart.

I love this song.

This thread is like my iPod playlist. #guiltypleasures

Hazard - Richard Marx
The Mercy Seat - Nick Cave
Pour some sugar on me - Was that Def Leopard?
Rebel Yell - Billy Idol

Poison! Alice Cooper

Eurythmics - there must be an angel
Skunk anansie - secretly

Years ago, when I worked in Our Price , 'Driving' compilations and power ballads were a big thing.

My favourite - John Waite- Missing You (and John Farnham, as already mentioned).

They were on all of them.

Along with Stevie Winwood- Valerie.

Can't have a 'Driving' compilation without Stevie Winwood ,Valerie!

Gotta have November Rain! The video is fucking brilliant.

Anything by Heart. All of them. Especially the one where she picks up a hitch hiker, shags him a motel, and has his kid

Wind of Change by Scorpions.

A song which spoke so powerfully to so many of us who lived through the Cold War and looked forward with real hope and optimism to a re-unified Europe in a new century with new generations putting the divisions and conflicts of the past behind us, once and for all :

“The future's in the air
I can feel it everywhere
Blowing with the wind of change
Take me to the magic of the moment
On a glory night
Where the children of tomorrow dream away
In the wind of change”

How did it all go so tragically wrong?

Nothings Gonna stop us now.

Candleconcerto I love Poison.

Scandaloso that's All I Wanna Do. Graham Norton should have had it on his tune with a tale feature. It's practically Shakespeare.

Aw this is lovely, I know could just youtube, but it's lovely hearing what others like and the enthusiasm.
I was never a ballad type of person, preferred madness or Ska growing up
These are brilliant, many thanks.

Jsmith that song was incredibly important to people I met in former Eastern Bloc countries.

Oh, and thanks for "Wind of Change" hadn't heard it before, and watched the video.

It's practically Shakespeare.

It is! Shakespeare transplanted to Ohio. She was a determined lady driver and she knew what she wanted that night

You hadn't heard Winds of Change!? You couldn't move in 1990 without hearing that bloody whistly song

@Myranium 'Love Walks In' would be on my list - takes me back nearly 30years...

Little did she know that she'd end up on the Jeremy Kyle show 25 years later.

Ahh, 1990.

I'm still 19 in my head.

Most of my favourites have already been mentioned here, but one that hasn't:

When Love & Hate Collide - Def Leppard

It’s over, Roy Orbison.

Two out of Three ain't bad - Meatloaf
Heaven can wait - Meatloaf
This ain't a love song - Bon Jovi
Cryin' - Aerosmith
Far Away - Nickelback
When Love and Hate Collide - Def Leppard

The absolute best one for screaming at the top of your lungs in the car is most definitely though.....

It's All Coming Back To Me Now - Celine Dion (must be the long version though - bloody fantastic. If there's one thing Jim Steinman can do well, it's write a banging power ballad).
I feel compelled to point out though, (as a big fan of power ballads and long-haired rock in general), that a lot of the songs mentioned above are most definitely not power ballads, they are pop ballads. Equally good, but a different genre completely.

I have a fondness for All By Myself - personally I love the Shirley Bassey version though I have to admit the Celine Dion version may be the classic. And has anyone mentioned I will always love you?? The Dolly version obviously

Oh and not sure if it's a power balled but I love Shakespeares sisters stay