BALLADS! I know, I know...

[FuckT41182]

John Denver-Everyday,Casey's Last Ride,Leaving on a Jet Plane(Ben Affleck cover),Friends WIth You,Annie Song...and more
Gary Jules-Mad World,Falling Awake
Credence ClearWater Revival-Who will stop the Rain,Someday Never Comes,Long As I Can See The Light
John Lennon-Imagine,Jealous Guy,Xmas Song,Give Peace a Chance |
Staind-Outside | Nirvana-Something in The Way,The Man Who Sold The World(Acoustic)
System of a Down-Lonely Day,Roulette,ATWA
Switchfoot-Only Hope,You
My Chemical Romance - Ghost of You,Welcome to the Black Parade(maybe not a ballad,but epic song)
Infinities End-Wasted Tomorrow(this is fucking one of my favorite slow songs of all time ...I just love it)
Hoobastank-First of Me,Moving Forward,More than a Memory
Breaking Benjamin-Rain,Dear Agony,Dance with the Devil
Good Charlotte-Emotionaless,Hold On,Movin' On,We Believe
From Our Hands-Sinners,River Flows
Angels And Airwaves-Sevret Crowds,Good Day,A Little's Enough,Lifeline(Although you cannot say those are typical ballads..)
Boxcar Racer-There Is
Billy Talent-Nothing to Lose,White Sparrows(lyrically it is a ballad :P )
Bowling For Soup-Where to Begin,Ridiculous,Why Don't I Miss You,When We Die,If You Came Back To Me,Me With No You,Goodbye Friend(one of the craziest bands out there but those guys really can do a great slow song ...)
Boys Like Girls-Learning to Fall,Holiday,Thunder
Green Day-Time of your life,Wake me up when September Ends...
Story of the Year-Terrified
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus-The Acoustic Song,Angels Cry,Godspeed
Three Days Grace-Never Too Late,Last to Know
Yellowcard-Cigarette,Back Home,How I Go,Dear Bobbie,Shadows of Regrets
The Bridgeheads-Pi,My Town,Another Day,All About Your Love 6,Private Star
The Gaslight Anthem-The Navesink Banks,Red At Night,Bring it On
Mumford & Sons-The Cave,Little Lion Man
NoFX-My Orphan Year(Acoustic)
Metallica-One,Nothing Else Matters,The Unforgiven
Judas Priest-Run Of The Mill,Dreamer Deceiver,Epitaph(awesome ones)
Avenged Sevenfold-So Far Away,M.I.A,Gunslinger,Dear God
Band of Horses-Is There A Ghost,Marry Song,No One Is Gonna Love You,The Funeral

+Punk Goes Acoustic 1 and 2 ...and everything from dbauer91's list ;)

[Emil]

FenixTX - Tearjerker
Dropkick Murphys - The Torch
Dropkick Murphys - The Green Fields Of France
Dropkick Murphys - Fields Of Athenry (Piano Version)
Dropkick Murphys - Forever (2009 Version)
Alkaline Trio - Buried
Rise Against - Roadside
Jimmy Eat World - 23
Jimmy Eat World - My Sundown

[dbauer91]

While i think Eminem is GREAT at making Ballad rap songs with great meanings, i dont think this person would really be interested due to his "narrowed" music taste. (not being an ass just saying)

Here is my top 5 ballads and my explanation of meanings/sound and why it makes them so great

1. Gob - Banshee Song
Most likely will remain my favorite of all time. just sounds great. The songs intro misleads you(at least it did for me) a bit but the ways it transcends into a soft ballad just sounds perfect to me. It has a perfect mix of guitar and drums so it doesn't get disgustingly sappy through the song. IMO Its about a girl a man loves and she passed away somehow, the man is so distressed that he see's her in his sleep "you leave with a start when i open my eyes, you get shy if i look at you" meaning shes a spirit or he see's her in his dreams
"Love please come and haunt me always
I'll let you come and take me on
Love come taunt me through the whole night
I need to, need to feel your soul"
This could mean he wants her to say with him all night because he can't get over her. You cannot tell if she is a real ghost or if the guys is going crazy from his distress. I think that this song meaning is so interesting and cool for some reason, its pretty much representing that true love never dies.

2. Nine Inch Nails - Hurt:
Trent was going through some serious drug addiction and depression, most likely due to his grandmother (who had raised him) passed away. During this time and it caused a lot of problems in his life and the ones he loved. His singing is so sorrowful and you can feel his emotion. If you dont get choked up to this song, i dont think you have a soul. Its hard to add detail to this song, mainly because he doesn't layer his lyrics with hidden messages he just gets straight to the point: I let everyone i love down and if i could start again, i would fix everything.

3. The Clash - Lost In the Supermarket
I'm not completely sure if this is a full on ballad but it very light (the lightest off of London Calling) and it is a bit depressing in a way. This song's about how disenchanted people become with modern society and the way its strips us of our identity.
"I can no longer shop happily
I came in here for that special offer
A guaranteed personality"
He lived his life like the commercials told him to, as in he followed all the trends thinking they had the answers ("I save coupons from packets of tea / I've got my giant hit discoteque album"). But when he wanted something substantial, personality, although modern culture promised it, it isn't there, hence is lost in the supermarket of modern culture. The meaning alone is great and the singing/instruments are great, one of my favorites

4. Green Day - Macy's Day Parade
Probably my favorite song from Warning. Billy pretty much looks at his fame and the world and how materialistic we are and how we put all our hopes in getting things and having fame and fortune. He sings about how even though he is rich and can get whatever he wants, it is not what makes him happy in the world
"Because Im thinking abouta brand new hope
The one Ive never known,
cause now I know its all that I wanted"
All he wants is for people (including himself) to have hope and interest in something that matters that people take for granite (friends, family, a good life etc.) not in big corporate companies like Macy's who have a parade to advertise all these things you "need" that don't matter. Its a great song with a very deep meaning involved with it.

5. Metallica - Low Man's Lyric
WHAT!?!?! METALLICA? DOING A BALLAD!?! Yes and i would say this is one amazing ballad with a amazing meaning to it. Its is about asking for forgivness from a loved one(family friends etc.) after you hurt them in some way. The lyrics "my fingers feel my veins" represents his depression from all this so he uses drugs to numb his pain. These drugs left the man homeless and is using the remainder of his life looking for forgiveness. "The trash fire is warm" The only place where he finds comfort and warmth from the rest of the worlds problems but it doesn't last long. This could also represent James's alcohol addiction at the time, which he could not control.

i already knew the green day one, but i had never heard banshee song before - GREAT rec. the chorus is fucking amazing!

Wait im a bit bad with computer talk xD what do you mean by rec.?

haha that's fine, it means reccomendation, as in "you should definitely check out a few of the RECCOMENDATIONs i submitted";)

[BanZ0]

Aaaand, the best of them all :D

ok, so the last one isn't a ballad, but it's still pretty awesome

[sumfan4]

Band of Horses-The Funeral

[Gregorovich]

Okay I;ve looked through a few so far (what, you expect me look listen to about 100 5-minute songs?) and i really liked banshee song in particular, guess ill pay more attention to gob in the futrue. i also saw the goldinger music video and found it... enlightening. however a lot of the bands i dont normally listen to (eg. coldplay) had ballads which came across as quite basic and cliche, compared to some of the others. Also, I gave eminem a try, but the furthest into rap ill go is linkin park.

oh, and BanZ0? Black Hole Sun? Really? Ive seen that video before and i cant bear to see it again. Its worse than Foo Fighters' Everlong (Although both songs arent too bad themselves- just the creepy-ass vids ).

[dbauer91]

Okay I;ve looked through a few so far (what, you expect me look listen to about 100 5-minute songs?) and i really liked banshee song in particular, guess ill pay more attention to gob in the futrue. i also saw the goldinger music video and found it... enlightening. however a lot of the bands i dont normally listen to (eg. coldplay) had ballads which came across as quite basic and cliche, compared to some of the others. Also, I gave eminem a try, but the furthest into rap ill go is linkin park.

oh, and BanZ0? Black Hole Sun? Really? Ive seen that video before and i cant bear to see it again. Its worse than Foo Fighters' Everlong (Although both songs arent too bad themselves- just the creepy-ass vids ).

yea i really loved banshee song too, and it's too bad you're stuck on labels. who gives a shit what genre anything is, as long as the music has some substance. i really think you're missing out on tons of great music by completely disregarding rap, but w/e it's your choice. and glad you liked the goldfinger one

[BanZ0]

Noone's forcing you to watch the video.

[Name]

Okay I;ve looked through a few so far (what, you expect me look listen to about 100 5-minute songs?) and i really liked banshee song in particular, guess ill pay more attention to gob in the futrue. i also saw the goldinger music video and found it... enlightening. however a lot of the bands i dont normally listen to (eg. coldplay) had ballads which came across as quite basic and cliche, compared to some of the others. Also, I gave eminem a try, but the furthest into rap ill go is linkin park.

oh, and BanZ0? Black Hole Sun? Really? Ive seen that video before and i cant bear to see it again. Its worse than Foo Fighters' Everlong (Although both songs arent too bad themselves- just the creepy-ass vids ).

yea i really loved banshee song too, and it's too bad you're stuck on labels. who gives a shit what genre anything is, as long as the music has some substance. i really think you're missing out on tons of great music by completely disregarding rap, but w/e it's your choice. and glad you liked the goldfinger one

BAM! i won with the Banshee song! jkjk but really i loved the song so much more when i really looked at the lyrics and thought of the meaning.

I love Everlong

[Gregorovich]

Okay I;ve looked through a few so far (what, you expect me look listen to about 100 5-minute songs?) and i really liked banshee song in particular, guess ill pay more attention to gob in the futrue. i also saw the goldinger music video and found it... enlightening. however a lot of the bands i dont normally listen to (eg. coldplay) had ballads which came across as quite basic and cliche, compared to some of the others. Also, I gave eminem a try, but the furthest into rap ill go is linkin park.

oh, and BanZ0? Black Hole Sun? Really? Ive seen that video before and i cant bear to see it again. Its worse than Foo Fighters' Everlong (Although both songs arent too bad themselves- just the creepy-ass vids ).

yea i really loved banshee song too, and it's too bad you're stuck on labels. who gives a shit what genre anything is, as long as the music has some substance. i really think you're missing out on tons of great music by completely disregarding rap, but w/e it's your choice. and glad you liked the goldfinger one

Im not saying im disredarding the whole genre, but im just saying im not particular fond of the eminem ballads.

[Raku]

Also another new song to enjoy

[Gregorovich]

Also another new song to enjoy

LAAAV IT! God, I love and hate hearing new music. Guess I'm stubborn yet contradictory like that.

[Filespit]

Here's a few I like;

A Day to Remember - If it Means a Lot to You
Against Me! - Ache With Me, Sink Florida Sink, Joy
Anti-Flag - 1 Trillion Dollar$
Backyard Babies - Abandon
Blink-182 - I Miss You
Dropkick Murphys - The Green Fields of France, Fairmount Hill, Forever
Green Day - Good Riddance, Wake Me Up When September Ends, Last Night on Earth
Linkin Park - Leave Out All the Rest, Hands Held High, Burning in the Skies, Iridescent, Not Alone
Millencolin - The Ballad
Misconduct - Side by Side Part II
Modern Day Zero - Concentrate
Neverstore - Nanana, Hold On
Rise Against - Swing Life Away, Hero of War, Roadside
Thrice - A Song For Milly Michaelson, Come All You Weary, In Exile

I strongly recommend this one!

[Hentaiman]

A Day to Remember - If It Means a Lot to You
Anything by Dallas Green/City & Colour
Yellowcard - Empty Apartment
Wolfmother - Caroline
Useless ID - Dying Love
Secondhand Serenade - It's Not Over
Oasis - Stop Crying Your Heart Out
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
Snow Patrol - Run
The Verve - Lucky Man
Paramore - Decode
Green Day - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) / Restless Heart Syndrome / Wake Me Up When September Ends
Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
The Fray - She Is / How to Save a Life

Also, some local unknown stuff but pretty amazing relaxed ballads:

This one is a solo song by Yotam Ben Horin, lead singer of Useless ID

[FuckT41182]

I bet that none of you checked Infinities End song from my list ! and you can't miss it !