The 100 best rock ballads of all time according to Top Music Channel
40. Still Got the Blues (Garry Moore)
«Still Got the Blues (For You)» is a song by Northern Irish blues rock and hard rock guitarist Gary Moore, released as a single in 1990 by Virgin Records and included as the fourth track on his ninth studio album, Still Got the Blues. (1990).
Written and co-produced by Moore, it is a blues rock ballad, whose lyrics deal with unrequited love. Its recording was carried out at Sarm West Studios in London in just one take and the only thing that was later corrected were «two notes where the tuning was off» in the words of producer Ian Taylor.
♫ Used to be so easy to give my heart away ♪
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39. Fragile (Sting)
«Fragile» is a song written and performed by English musician Sting from his second studio album…Nothing Like the Sun. Released as a single the following year, it charted at number 70 on the UK Singles Chart. Also sung in Spanish and Portuguese under the titles «Fragility» and «Fragil», it appeared two more times on his 1988 EP variant of the album, Nada como el sol. The Spanish version appears as a b-side to «I’m So Happy I Can’t Stop Crying».
♫ If blood will flow when flesh and steel are one
Drying in the color of the evening Sun
Tomorrow’s rain will wash the stains away
Something in our hearts will always stay ♪
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38. In the Ghetto (Elvis Presley)
«In the Ghetto» is a song written by Mac Davis, originally titled «The vicious circle» («The vicious circle»), and popularized in 1969 by Elvis Presley who included it on the album From Elvis in Memphis.
♫ Are we too blind to see?
Do we simply turn our heads
And look the other way ♪
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37.One (U2)
«One» is a song performed by the Irish rock band U2. It is the third track from the seventh studio album Achtung Baby (1991) and has also appeared on other compilations such as The Best of 1990-2000 (2002) and U218 Singles (2006), respectively.
In Bono’s own words, One summed up a skeptical vision of the naive illusion of unity and brotherhood in the world, beyond the fact that over time the use of the song was drifting into a somewhat brighter and more positive sense, being used in infinity of charity events.
Today the live band uses it to promote events related to human rights and reaffirms the possibility of an adult unity between peoples and nations, emphasizing that for this it is necessary to recognize the differences over the mass.
♫ Is it getting better?
Or do you feel the same?
Will it make it easier on you now?
You got someone to blame? ♪
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36.Girl (The Beatles)
«Girl» is a song by the English band The Beatles written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon/McCartney. It was released in 1965 on the Rubber Soul album, and was also the last full song to be recorded for it.
♫ She’s the kind of girl
You want so much, it makes you sorry
Still you don’t regret a single day ♪
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