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Best ballad of all time
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Poll Question: Pick you your favourite one
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    Posted: November 14 2019 at 10:29
Here are one of my favourites, which one you like the best?
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My favourite ballad is "Stranger Still" (from Peter Hammill - Sitting Targets)
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^ Good one.

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Comfortably Numb and Silent Lucidity.
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Voted for Genesis The Lamia. 
Confortably Numb has one of the best guitar solo, but as a ballad, Lamia works better. 
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Have to go with The Lamia, with Comfortably Numb and Entangled (man, that outro!) close behind.
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Epitaph is one of the most brilliant pieces of music ever
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Hands down "House with no Door". The saddest song I know.


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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Hands down "House with no Door". The saddest song I know.

I second that.
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I'm a fan of Crimson.....I Talk......and voted for that from the list....
but absolutely love Nights In White Satin too.
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Lots of good one's here and many more not on the list. 
No Quarter was the first to come to mind. 

Took Lennon from the list anyway, so simple and yet so great. 

Edit: Grantchester Meadows anyone ?  




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Exiles always gives me chills.  So voting for that, although I love many of these songs.  My most favourite love song is actually by The Kinks, "The Way Love Used To Be."  Favourite prog love song is Cousins' "Blue Angel."

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I have to go with Epitaph.
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sea song 
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I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
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I don't consider at least half of these ballads. Just because a song is slow(or about love)doesn't make it a ballad.
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

I don't consider at least half of these ballads. Just because a song is slow(or about love)doesn't make it a ballad.

Agreed. Relatively few songs on the list are ballads by any measure.
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I love Mad Man Moon but think The Lamia is a more perfect song...topped off with a moving Hackett solo.
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Moodies easily and just so happened that I listened to it very recently. The production is amazing!
Question though - are a lot of these really ballads?
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

I don't consider at least half of these ballads. Just because a song is slow(or about love)doesn't make it a ballad.


I actually somewhat agree, which ones would you cut out?
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