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

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

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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

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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