That's a real question because I can't think of a previous harder rock group that also did a ballad. They typically stuck with a genre and didn't deviate.
Did KISS invent the power ballad?
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Clem72
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I think Queen might have beat them to the punch by a couple of years.
Edit. And Zeppelin
and couldn't pull up anything else. Thank you!
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Remember when you could still be suckered into serenity by a gentle 12-string guitar or a lonely baby grand, only to be assaulted moments later by crunching power chords, squealing solos and a singer coming off the gas to a painful skin graft of the heart? Such was the raucous majesty of the power ballad, which in its classic form could inspire more fear and surprise than the Spanish Inquisition crouching in your cupboard.
Nowadays all songs go up and down like cars on a jack but then — oh, then! People would crap themselves daily when unexpected Herculean choruses spooked ’em, and no one dished them out with more volatile vigor than Journey, Styx and REO Speedwagon, three bands joining in an unholy alliance on the summer concert circuit.......
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Nowadays all songs go up and down like cars on a jack but then — oh, then! People would crap themselves daily when unexpected Herculean choruses spooked ’em, and no one dished them out with more volatile vigor than Journey, Styx and REO Speedwagon, three bands joining in an unholy alliance on the summer concert circuit.......
Power Me, Ballad Me: The Power Ballad Timeline
Hoist your butanes for Journey, Styx and REO Speedwagon — three bands that fed the fire!...
Remember when you could still be suckered into serenity by a gentle 12-string guitar or a lonely baby grand, only to be assaulted moments later by crunching power chords, squealing solos and a singer coming off the gas to a painful skin graft of the heart? Such was the raucous majesty of the power ballad, which in its classic form could inspire more fear and surprise than the Spanish Inquisition crouching in your cupboard.
Nowadays all songs go up and down like cars on a jack but then — oh, then! People would crap themselves daily when unexpected Herculean choruses spooked ’em, and no one dished them out with more volatile vigor than Journey, Styx and REO Speedwagon, three bands joining in an unholy alliance on the summer concert circuit.......
Power Me, Ballad Me: The Power Ballad Timeline
Hoist your butanes for Journey, Styx and REO Speedwagon — three bands that fed the fire!...
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DogWhisperer
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I guess Angie from the Stones doesn't count because it's a break up song and too good.
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
I'd have to add Boston to that mix. As an aside listen to "The Hook" by Blues Traveler and then read the lyrics.Remember when you could still be suckered into serenity by a gentle 12-string guitar or a lonely baby grand, only to be assaulted moments later by crunching power chords, squealing solos and a singer coming off the gas to a painful skin graft of the heart? Such was the raucous majesty of the power ballad, which in its classic form could inspire more fear and surprise than the Spanish Inquisition crouching in your cupboard.
Nowadays all songs go up and down like cars on a jack but then — oh, then! People would crap themselves daily when unexpected Herculean choruses spooked ’em, and no one dished them out with more volatile vigor than Journey, Styx and REO Speedwagon, three bands joining in an unholy alliance on the summer concert circuit.......
Power Me, Ballad Me: The Power Ballad Timeline
Hoist your butanes for Journey, Styx and REO Speedwagon — three bands that fed the fire!...
What kind of music did you listed to? Did the band names contain words like reaper, apocalypse and or peyote?
KingFish
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Hard and Heavy Classic Rock it is called now.
PeoplesElbow
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The carpenters good by to love is considered the first by many, but Styx kicked it up a notch