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

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