The Animals "House of the Rising Sun" Bobby Bare "Detroit City" James Brown "I Lost Someone" James Brown "Prisoner of Love" (version on Live at the Apollo Vol. 2) Mariah Carey "Can't Let Go" (esp. the live version on Unplugged) The Carpenters "Superstar" Kelly Clarkson "Because of You" Skeeter Davis "The End of the World" Hilary Duff "Fly" Eminem "Stan" Fleetwood Mac "Gold Dust Woman" Gloria Estefan & the Miami Sound Machine "I Can't Stay Away From You" LeAnn Rimes "No Way Out" Rosie & the Originals "Angel Baby" The Shangri-Las "I Can Never Go Home Anymore" The Shangri-Las "Out in the Streets" The Shangri-Las "Remember (Walking in the Sand)" Ashlee Simpson "Undiscovered" Irma Thomas "Ruler of My Heart" The Wailers "And I Love Her" The Wailers "Ruddie Boy"
My criterion was "Is it a slow dance," except I disqualified the Velvet Undergroud's "Heroin" because the idea of people dancing cheek-to-cheek to it totally disturbs me. (But why then did I retain "Stan"?) "The Ballad of Hollis Brown" is not a slow dance. Not sure about "Gold Dust Woman," and I left off "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" because it's not a romantic dance. (I found a clip of it from something like Soul Train, and the dancers were clearly baffled; it was slow but not a slow dance, so no one was close and smoochy.)
I generally don't like ballads much, but when I do love one, I love it extremely.
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If it was a slow dance in junior high school, it's a ballad
Date: 2006-10-03 09:50 pm (UTC)The Animals "House of the Rising Sun"
Bobby Bare "Detroit City"
James Brown "I Lost Someone"
James Brown "Prisoner of Love" (version on Live at the Apollo Vol. 2)
Mariah Carey "Can't Let Go" (esp. the live version on Unplugged)
The Carpenters "Superstar"
Kelly Clarkson "Because of You"
Skeeter Davis "The End of the World"
Hilary Duff "Fly"
Eminem "Stan"
Fleetwood Mac "Gold Dust Woman"
Gloria Estefan & the Miami Sound Machine "I Can't Stay Away From You"
LeAnn Rimes "No Way Out"
Rosie & the Originals "Angel Baby"
The Shangri-Las "I Can Never Go Home Anymore"
The Shangri-Las "Out in the Streets"
The Shangri-Las "Remember (Walking in the Sand)"
Ashlee Simpson "Undiscovered"
Irma Thomas "Ruler of My Heart"
The Wailers "And I Love Her"
The Wailers "Ruddie Boy"
My criterion was "Is it a slow dance," except I disqualified the Velvet Undergroud's "Heroin" because the idea of people dancing cheek-to-cheek to it totally disturbs me. (But why then did I retain "Stan"?) "The Ballad of Hollis Brown" is not a slow dance. Not sure about "Gold Dust Woman," and I left off "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" because it's not a romantic dance. (I found a clip of it from something like Soul Train, and the dancers were clearly baffled; it was slow but not a slow dance, so no one was close and smoochy.)
I generally don't like ballads much, but when I do love one, I love it extremely.