Best Song on the utterly lolsome 'Soft Metal Ballads' compilation

2.) Wilson Phillips - Hold On
3.) Bryan Adams - Heaven
4.) Roxette - Listen To Your Heart
7.) Mr Mister - Broken Wings
8.) Alannah Myles - Black Velvet
10.) Tina Turner - The Best
11.) Inxs - Mystify
12.) Bangles - Manic Monday

one of these

inxs or chris rea for me

But wtf would try to market this as metal? its the equivalent of that punk cd advert we all lolled at

at least half of these aren't ballads let alone metal ballads ffs

tempted to vote for the eagles out of lingering stockholm syndrome from the track-by-track thread but i'll probably go for 'hold on'

"You're My Best Friend" by some distance unless a revisit to "Sarah" reveals new depths

This has to be my secret karaoke weapon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJzNZ1c5C9c

The Eagles of Soft Metal

I love Queen but I have always HATED "You're My Best Friend"

This thing is a complete mystery. Many of these artists aren't within the same solar system as metal and they didn't even include someone like Michael Bolton who actually did have some semblance of a hard rock career early on. I guess Richard Marx did write songs for Vixen.

Spandau Ballet are on this one
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Pure-Soft-Metal-It-Takes-Your-Breath-Away/master/338746

Queen A Kind Of Magic 4:26
–Cutting Crew (I Just) Died In Your Arms Tonight 4:06
–John Waite Missing You 4:15
–Mr. Mister Kyrie 3:59
–Bryan Adams Summer Of '69 3:27
–Bad English Forget Me Not 4:34
–Poison (3) Every Rose Has It's Thorn 4:17
–Toto Rosanna 4:17
–REO Speedwagon Can't Fight This Feeling 4:43
–Berlin Take My Breath Away 4:10
–Vixen (2) Cryin' 3:24
–W.A.S.P. Forever Free 3:24
–Gary Moore Over The Hills And Far Away 4:17
–Meat Loaf Modern Girl 5:19
–Wasch! Play For Your Life 1:34
–Mammoth (2) Bad Times 4:06
–Spandau Ballet True 5:22
–T'Pau China In Your Hand 5:00

This one was MASSIVE in my school at the time

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Hot-City-Nights/release/2736814

There was loads of similar comps in its wake that sold loads and were inescapable from TV adverts

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Soft-Metal/release/1205378

This was a huge one

Australian version has a slightly different tracklist
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Soft-Metal/release/5898303

and the other popular one at school was
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Precious-Metal/master/355872

all the people who owned these or got copies were NOT into metal or heavy rock. The target audience for people too embarrassed to like metal i guess?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9QrLDIGCaQ

Torn between You're My Best Friend and Manic Monday.

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Soft-Metal/release/1205378

This was a huge one

― Odysseus, Thursday, July 20, 2017 4:32 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ha, when I saw the title of the thread, this is the album I thought you were polling!

This is Queen. It couldn't be anything else.

http://i.imgur.com/JOKuPqJ.jpg

Half of these had charting techno covers circa 2002.

Okay maybe not half, but DJ Sammy's "Heaven," DHT's "Listen To Your Heart" and Tupac's posthumous "Broken Wings" cover.

Those are about as techno as The Bangles are metal.

voted Alannah Myles - Black Velvet, because it gives me 90's pub jukebox vibes that make me happy.

That song was impossible to escape for a few years

no idea who far corporation are. Anybody know them?

I had a tape copy of this one https://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Final-Countdown-The-Very-Best-Of-Soft-Metal/release/3103571, which has a bit of crossover. I don't recognise some of the songs so maybe it didn't all fit on a C90 and I cut the songs I didn't know. I'd probably vote Poison by Alice Cooper on that one if ILX existed when I was 14.

Of these I only really like the Bangles, INXS and Queen. I might like the Thin Lizzy song given that I quite like Thin Lizzy but I don't know that one.

Keep On Loving You is awesome

xp i fucked up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbzfINsCcVY

i love that queen song

So do lots of people and I've never been able to understand why. I loved Queen as a young kid (got a night at the opera for my 3rd birthday) but that song has always annoyed me. Always skipped it on the greatest hits album.

Rough choice but I'm going with Richard Marx. So many better 80's choices that this collection.

well it was aimed at a UK audience which never had rock radio so they picked whatever they thought would appeal to casual people... but aye, there was actual rawk bands with hits they could have included. Most are maybe on the other comps I posted above

My mate at school became really popular for a week because he got the hot city nights comp and everybody gave him a tape to copy for them.

1 –Queen I Want To Break Free 4:20
2 –Heart Alone 3:37
3 –INXS New Sensation 3:38
4 –Kiss Crazy Crazy Nights 3:44
5 –Bryan Adams Summer Of '69 3:32
6 –Robert Plant Big Log 5:01
7 –Foreigner I Want To Know What Love Is 4:58
8 –Eric Clapton Wonderful Tonight 3:41
9 –Bon Jovi Livin' On A Prayer 4:06
10 –Billy Idol Hot In The City (1988 Remix) 4:21
11 –Magnum (3) Start Talking Love 4:00
12 –Whitesnake Here I Go Again (US Remix) 3:54
13 –Marillion Lavender 3:39
14 –Pat Benatar We Belong 3:36
15 –Big Country Look Away 4:23
16 –Rush Spirit Of Radio 4:57

I was the first to get a CD player so almost everyone asked me to make them a copy of the 2 U2 cds I had and the Billy Idol greatest hits comp lol

Nearest i ever got to being popular. School was shit!

7 –Foreigner I Want To Know What Love Is 4:58

My dad, who was never a rock fan, had that single on 7" when it came out. I think it was #1 here.

The one song that is surprisingly missing from those comps is Kiss - Crazy Nights, which was by far their biggest hit in the UK (until bill and ted) its on all the rock comps here now and oldies stations actually play it.

Yes, that means its much better known than the 70s stuff.*

Odd innit?

*still shite imo

Ha yeah, that's right - 'Crazy Crazy Nights' is far more well known in the UK than 'Rock'n'Roll All Night', 'Love Gun' etc.

gonna have to vote for my fav metal band wilson phillips

Eric Clapton - "Cocaine" is neither soft, nor metal, nor a ballad. Voting

I was ALL OVER these compilations for a while there (OK, roughly 1989-1993). I'm appalled not to see any Cinderella here.
I'm going to have to hold my nose and vote for Poison.

Eric Clapton - "Cocaine" is neither soft, nor metal, nor a ballad. Voting

Also largely true of "Heartache Tonight", which got my vote.

This comp should be called "Music."

Several of these songs are very important to me but I can't imagine calling any of them "soft metal."

I mean, "soft metal" is already ridicklepickle as a category. I would generally take it to mean the quieter ballads of otherwise-metal or metal-adjacent bands. "Silent Lucidity" is probably soft metal. Kiss's "Hard Luck Woman"? "Every Rose Has its Thorn" maybe. "Patience," definitely.

But those are not on the list. Of these I voted for "Broken Wings," because SOMEBODY has to rep for the best non-Sting Sting song.

no idea who far corporation are. Anybody know them?

Without looking it up I think it was some kind of charity supergroup a la Hear n'Aid. Their version of Stairway was nowhere near as good as Rolf Harris's if memory serves, but I could be wrong. The singer was Robin MacAuley, who started out in Grand Prix (3rd rate Magnum) and 'progressed' to the Michael Schenker Group, who were re-monickered the MacAuley-Schenker Group in celebration.

I'm sure Neil Murray played bass on it.

heh, I knew you would know!

The things you remember

Robin MacAuley had hair governed only by Lovecraftian physics.

http://i.imgur.com/rsZPWke.jpg

Loved this album way too much in high school. It is -- horribly, horribly -- "soft metal." Much like Crazy Nights, in fact, which I loved even more. Jesus. Maybe two of the most plastic sounding things in existence but at the time, with a brand new CD player, it made me feel like the guy in the Maxell ad with his hair blowing back and the lamp sliding past his chair.

COMIN AT YA IN CRYSTAL CLEAR HI FIDELITY DIGITAL

*McAuley rather and it's even right there

that explains so much

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

lol amazing CD

votes Bangles

McAuley looks like the guy from Caprica and Grimm wearing a fright wig and trying not to laugh while looking serious + chest hair

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

The right choice! Although I like 'Manic Monday', because Prince.

Is it churlish to point out that it's neither metal nor a ballad? Or are we beyond that at this point?

no idea who far corporation are. Anybody know them?

this was frank farian of boney m fame plus a bunch of guys from toto and some other randoms. notable for being the first time stairway got into the singles chart iirc

was a huge hit in germany btw, he said to absolutely no-one's surprise

If you had posted that before the poll ended then it probably would have won knowing ILM

Did Tom D vote for his fave tina turner song?

I didn't vote. I've never liked "Manic Monday". The story here is REO Speedwagon sneaking into third place.

The extreme homeliness of REO Speedwagon appeals to me too, tbh.

I can bet not one single brit voted for reo speedwagon

youtubing it now and I quite like it

(xp) Why not? It was a big hit.

maybe, but when has it been played on radio since? Ive never heard it

Really? I feel like I know it off by heart, or Heart.

... they should have been on this.

Surely that REO Speedwagon track (and Can't Fight This Feeling) is a staple of commercial radio over here along with the likes of Journey, Ace, Rainbow etc

haha i doubt many here had heard a journey song until Glee!

I think Cant Fight This Feeling has been used on a TV advert recently however

Yes, I was going to say they couldn't get arrested over here but, for some reason, they had a Top 10 album in 1983, pretty much out of the blue. (xp)

the reo speedwagon song that i know best is 'in your letter' but only because it was on k-tel's chart hits 81 along with these other false metal non-hits:

Exile - Heart And Soul
Slade - Lock Up Your Daughters
The Scoo - Panic

also there were two rival versions of the birdie song over the two volumes, bit excessive rly

oops that should be The Scoop but i don't suppose it matters much

Scoos out for summer

Only Exile song I know is this one (which is ace):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJJQpSzDgC0

The Scoop? wtf?

(xp) Chinn & Chapman!

Pretty sure I voted for REO btw

oh and "Lock Up Your Daughters" is metallic IMO, Slade had a faux metal era in the early 80s that was well liked by metal kids at my school

era when quo patches also made it onto leather jackets iirc \m/

Ha, they played "Keep On Loving You" all the time on the campus shuttle bus in Buffalo. Obv a classic but I didn't vote for it because it came close to actually being a soft metal ballad.

Members of the band Journey were just spotted in the White House briefing room. That is all.

— margaret brennan (@margbrennan) July 27, 2017

Nick yeah definitely Quo too

and Rush lol

https://tshirtslayer.com/files-tshirt/styles/shirtviewbottom/public/user-15390/7b268b11b5d62333b9919fd7ca7a87e3.jpg

Post pics of the best/worst Battle Jackets and ILM will mark them out of 10

Central placement of Ethel The Frog patch a brave move there

who?

ETHEL THE FROG

First REO Speedwagon, now Ethel the Frog.

Paul "Doug" Sheppard (lead guitar)

there were two other pauls in that four-piece band, you can see why he chose to be called doug