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Power Ballads
Lighters up, mullets out.
The slow one on every hair-metal album — quiet verse, soaring chorus, and a guitar solo that brought the whole arena to tears. Whitesnake, Heart, Tesla, and every band that traded the leather jacket for one heartfelt key change.
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53 tracks
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▸ Did you know
- Extreme's 'More Than Words' was an acoustic outlier that became the band's biggest hit — to their lasting frustration.
- The power ballad was a record-label strategy: a soft single to get a hard-rock band onto pop radio and MTV.