
The Best Rock Ballads
Ever!- is a compilation album released by EMI in early 2007. It contains what it considers to be the best rock ballads recorded by international artists. It contains what it considers to be the best rock ballads recorded by international artists.
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Love is not love without rock music, and rock music is not rock music without love. From the '60s to the '80s and beyond, sweet romance has been expressed beautifully through rock music. Here, we count down 10 of the all-time greatest rock songs about love, from 1960s classics to modern spin-offs. Fleetwood Mac, “You Make Lovin’ Fun” It’s the soap opera of the rock world: infidelity, heartbreak, and wheelbarrows full of booze and blow all produced ’s top-shelf classic, Rumors. And it’s on this funk-rock-lite groover that Christine McVie, recently divorced from bassist John McVie, coos about a new affair with the group's lighting director, Curry Grant.
It’d be tough to sing (or sing harmonies to, in John’s case) lyrics like, “You, you make loving fun / I don't have to tell you but you're the only one.” Lesson learned: Love is complicated. The Beatles, “Something” In 1969, the increasingly discontent Fab Four released “Something” as a single, the first time a tune led the A-side. Was insistent, and considering the track -- a gliding tribute to the two loves of Harrison’s life, wife Pattie Boyd and God -- to be the Quiet Beatle’s best work. It turns out Boyd was one lucky lady. Meanwhile, was writing “Layla” for her, too. The romantic travails would become rock lore, but “Something” could not be topped. 1 in the U.S.
And has since been covered by hundreds of top artists, from to. In short: It’s the best love song from the best rock band, ever. Foo Fighters, “Everlong” It’s the hair-raising, electric love ballad from that guy who was in right? Remember, back in ’96, Grohl had only quietly released the Foo’s self-titled debut. But now signed with Capitol Records, the band’s second LP, The Colour and the Shape, was considered their proper coming out party. The main attraction: This beautiful, melodic rocker inspired, like much of the LP, by the implosion of Grohl's first marriage to photographer Jennifer Youngblood and his newfound romance with ’s Louise Post. The music video, a funny-trippy parody of The Evil Dead directed by Michel Gondry, was in constant MTV rotation and helped make this arguably the band’s best-known song, loved by, well, just about everybody.

Heart, 'Crazy on You' It’s a gypsy-dust rock tour-de-force: It’s folk. It’s hard rock. Starting with an acoustic, Spanish-flavored riff, the Seattle quintet’s track then heads into /AM-rock radio strumming, before a sinister electric guitar brings the devil horns down. Singer Ann Heart’s sensuous whispers and hear-me-roar wailing is for guitarist Mike Fisher, her lover who had fled to Vancouver, BC, to avoid the military draft and protest the Vietnam War. Lyrically, it’s is full of juxtaposing imagery: She sings of bombs, carnage, and devils, then the love that is her escape: “My love is the evening breeze touching your skin / The gentle sweet singing of leaves in the wind.” Harry Nilsson, “Without You” Is there a more desperate song? It’s written by British rockers, but ’s rendition is best-known for good reason: The Los Angeles crooner lets it rip, unleashing his smooth pipes on the soaring piano ballad. The sentiment is grave: “I can’t live if living is without you / I can’t live anymore.” The strings sail; Nilsson emotes; the drama is high.