Here is a list of what I think are extremely beautiful ballads. Don't know why I made the list or why I'm posting it. Just bored of the other topics, I guess. So here they are (alphabetical order) :

1.750,000 anni fa ... L'amore? , Banco del Mutuo Soccorso
2.Ne me quitte pas, Jacques Brel
3.Here comes the flood , Peter Gabriel (original version)
4.Just a little bit of peace in my heart, Golden Earrings
5.Sixty years on, Elton John
6.Nights in white satin, Moody Blues
7.Bridge over troubled waters, Simon & Garfunkel
8.I close my eyes and count to ten, Dusty Springfield
9.Hide in your shell, Supertramp
10.Archangel, Walker Brothers

Good list/thread, and a lot better than some other recent topics.

For my tastes, when it comes to soft and easy ballads, I prefer female singers...





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Not exactly a ballad, but this one came first to mind - and it's great.

You don't hear much about Ryan Adams.

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Here is a list of what I think are extremely beautiful ballads. Don't know why I made the list or why I'm posting it. Just bored of the other topics, I guess.

there's a dandy little thread that discusses the relative merits of the beatles versus the stones that i'd be happy to point you to....

I got a number one and that is Neil Youngs Journey through the past

Most beautiful ballad ever written and performed...





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A couple of good ones:

almost hear you sigh

Blue Rodeo (from Canada) has a bunch of tearjerkers and ballads all over its 25 year career....(but they can rock pretty good, too)

Jim Cuddy has got to be one of the most under rated singers out there, anywhere

here's a couple examples if you don't know this band

Should have added the music:

And by the way, love the stuff you guys have come up with!

































Can't find the original to this one, so this will have to do:











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Without You:

check out the guy getting punched in the chops at .25 lower left corner haha

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check out the guy getting punched in the chops at .25 lower left corner haha

wow...a little trouble at the henhouse you might say!

This one should be in the top ten:




"No dope smoking no beer sold after 12 o'clock"

This beautiful one from Martina McBride is a real tear jerker. I do love her voice.