Best ballad/romantic song

[Heathray]

"Tonight my stick goes boom!" by Krokus a Swiss Heavy Metal Band.

Seriously

Miss Sarajevo by U2,
All by myself, Eric Carmen,
Without You, Nilsson,
Goodbye to love, Carpenters
Desperado, The Eagles

[Rude Boy]

Wish You Were Here/Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Achingly beautiful sentiments from the incredible Roger Waters echoed in the godlike playing of Gilmour and Rick Wright. A "Love" song of sorts for their departed friend. The "Two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl" gets me every time. If there has ever been a more talented writer than Roger Waters I've certainly never heard them.

Maggie May/First Cut Is The Deepest/Downtown Train - Rod Stewart. You can't beat Rod.

The Most Beautiful Girl In The World - Prince. He's probably singing about Anetta Keys or Sandy or Mia Stone...whoever, this is a masterpiece.

Winter - Tori Amos. Off the scale masterwork from American genius.

Beast of Burden - Stones. Sensational in EVERY respect.

Almost Heard You Sigh - Stones. Ditto.

Underground Army/You'll Never Be Alone - Anastacia. Now this lady can sing! From restrained power to searing emotion, this lady is a vast talent and the real deal in a time of fakers and wannabes.

Without You - Mariah Carey. It's desperately uncool to like her so I went out and bought every album! Whatever you think of her this is a vocal in a million.

Carpet Crawl - Genesis. Sod all idea what it is about but is a gorgeous melody and a brilliant vocal from the Angel Gabriel.

[mart]

Without you - Badfinger

You've got a friend - James Taylor

Mart

[RetroDon]

You Are Everything - Marvin Gaye & Diana Ross
almost everything Marvin did with Tammii Terrell
You Make Me Feel Brand New - The Stylistics
Love Don't Live Here Anymore - Rose Royce
Tracks Of My Tears - Smokey Robinson & The Miricles
Walk Away From Love - David Ruffin
Maybe I'm Amazed - Paul McCartney
Hey That's No Way To Say Goodbye - Leonard Cohen
Your Love Is King - Sade
Never Tear Us Apart - INXS
Bernadette - Four Tops
You Are The Sunshine Of My Life - Stevie Wonder
If Only For One Night,
Other Side Of The World - Luther Vandross

[slamdaddy]

Queen:
"You Take My Breath Away"
"It's A Hard Life"
"It's Late"
"I Can't Live With You"
"I Was Born To Love You"
and of course, "Who Wants To Live Forever"

Metallica - "Nothing Else Matters"
Guns N Roses - "November Rain"
Bon Jovi - "Never Say Goodbye"
Don Hendley - "Boys Of Summer"
Aerosmith - "Angel"

[fudgeflaps]

'Gang Bang' by Black Lace, Rita Sue & Bob Too soundtrack;

'Ace of Spades' by Motorhead, so sweet!;

'Your Mother's Got A Penis ' by GLC.

The theme tune to 'Minder'.

Yeah, right......and my favourite weepie movie is a straight choice between Rambo 3 or anything starring Lexington Steele (makes me cry every time).

Seriously- all you guys have mentioned the cream of ballads. My extras:

'Be My Baby' - The Ronettes

'Everywhere', 'Man of the World' - Fleetwood Mac

'Avalon', 'Dance Away' - Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music

'Fairytale of New York' - The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl.

To name but a few!

[fudgeflaps]

An oldie, but a goodie:

'Hello' by LIONEL RICH-TEA!!

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[steve56]

im not in love-10cc from 1975.

[one eyed jack]

But whoa! The ace in the pack has got to be Stevie Wonders "Ribbon In The Sky" !!!