Favorite Christine Ballad
 

Why is excluded, because A) I wasn't sure it fits the ballad criteria and B) even if it does it's not allowed becuase it would be a runaway winner, I want people to have to make some decisions.

I can't decide between Wish You Were Here, Calumny or Northern Star :distress:

I would actually go with Calumny, but since she didn't write it, I have to discount it. She's written too many songs for me to give the nod to something Dan penned.

Michele

MY favorite isn't listed:

"The Smile I Live For".:nod:

^^^^^ That song entered my head, but it has a danmed minute long guitar solo at the end, it doesn't belong with this group. Its a slow burning rocker in my mind not a ballad.

Where the hell do you think the term "Power Ballad" came from? Certainly wasn't Journey, Aerosmith or Poison.

It's a ballad no matter how long Lindsey did his jerk-off solo at the end.

I voted for Show Me a Smile.

She wrote some great slow blues, too, like When the Train Comes Back.

"Calumny" is probably my second favorite from that list, after "Songbird." And I agree with chili- "The Smile I Live For" is lovely.

Why is definitely a ballad, as is Smile I live For!

Wow I love Ask Anybody and the smile I live for...

I voted for Wish you were here.. giving Mirage some love...

"Ask Anybody" is the greatest thing Christine Ann Perfect Quintella McVie has ever done. It is flawless- the lyrics, the melody, the vocal, the production, the Steve Winwood synth solo. I always get the chills when she sings the line "...he'll change and we'll try it all over again..." It is one of those songs that definitely sets the mood when it comes on.

Never Make Me Cry


.....I get the images of the Tusk Doc when I hear this. I adore this song.

Northern Star, and Calumny, are my favorite two songs on ITM.
I went with Northern Star.

I want another Chris album!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Of her completely hammered playing the song in her yacht? :lol:

I chose Mystified... I'm probably one of two people who just adores that song.

That would make me the other.:wavey:

Voted All Over Again. My second choice would be As Long As You Follow then Warm Ways but... kind of hard to tell what's a ballad of not with Christine. Unless it's like Sugar Daddy or something.

I have to be 3.. because I love love love mystifieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed (mystified).. ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww mystiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiied..... ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.... lol

It just has this haunting quality to it... and the way the arrangement is with the electric piano running into the bass line.... ohhhh goose bumps... (intro)

so many layers yet sparse..

I was thinking that same thing with Nights in Estoril.

Michele

It's a ballad, no doubt about it! Ballads can have guitar solos - otherwise known as "power ballads." And isn't that slow-burn guitar solo none other than Lindsey Buckingham?

Songbird. End of story.:)

So do I. (And my dad, too, btw.)

I voted Songbird. It was tough but it's the only one that makes me cry. That's how powerful it is to me.

This version is my favourite. Chris in the middle of the spotlight at her grand is exactly where she belongs. Being treated like a queen with her Cham. and Roses.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5igj0j5HuY

I adore this song mainly because it's a time machine. It conjures up the score to movies like Romancing The Stone. Just the sound and production of it is so very 'adult' 1980s. I miss music sounding like this... :)

Northern Star

If it's a good enough title for Sporty Spice, then it's good enough for Christine.

Yeah I'll admit I would've chosen Why if it were on there.

I had to go with Warm Ways. Looks like I was alone, heh.

Love love love it!

I'd have gone with Smile I Live For, but went with Songbird...

Yeah the Smile I Live for is another tune I can't live without..

I also would have voted for "The Smile I Live For".

But I also wish I could have voted for "Wait And See".

What about Givin' It Back?

Oh, I like that one, but I guess I thought the chorus moved too swiftly for it to be a ballad.

Michele

I double disagree. First, I think Songbird would be the winner over Why, and after voting I see that's possible, it's the winner here.

Second, I voted for Songbird, but actually my favorite is not here. Over & Over.

"Over & Over" is a terrific song. "Why" could have provided more competition against "Songbird", which still probably would have won the poll, but perhaps by a slightly narrower margin.

ALAYF might be considered a ballad. It's a beautiful song.

That ain't no ballad.

I'm going with Never Make Me Cry.

Can of worms….what technically makes a ballad a ballad. I’m sure there’s some official definition I can’t be bothered to look up.
Of those on the original list….Wish You Were Here.
Notable mentions: Mystified, Show Me a Smile, Never Make Me Cry

Chris used to introduce Over My Head as the ballad from the White album. As a kid that used to confuse me because I did not view it as a ballad. But I guess it is.
I agree with the consensus of this thread that its a fine line what is a ballad or not. Many of her songs are ballads or skirt the line of one.

Ballad, according to Oxford English Dictionary

1.a slow sentimental or romantic song.

2. a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next.

I would say ALAYF is slow and sentimental. I don't see Over My Head enough slow.