The Very Best Of Power Ballads

I've always been a fan of Power Ballad's and used to often watch the Magic Channel when they had them on for hours and hours so when I opened this for my birthday I was ecstatic. This sort of music takes me back to my childhood and reminds me of times that I spent with my grandparents at there house, as they were obsessed with music and anything in the hit parade as it was called then was purchased on vinyl which now all reside in a huge cabinet at my nan's house. I think the album title however is a little deceiving "The Very Best of Power Ballads - The Greatest Driving Anthems ever". Now in my opinion that contradicts itself a little and I think ...  Read the complete review

When the first Power Ballads album came out, I was excited. It's the sort of music I used to love listening to, but there were never really any compilations of them, and at the time it was harder to make your own compilation. The ensuing Power Ballads albums contained more of the same, although I was a little hesitant about the inclusion of some of the songs, which didn't exactly seem like ballads, but were good tracks anyway, so I overlooked this and just enjoyed a good compilation. The Very Best Of Power Ballads encompasses a lot of these tracks in a 3 CD presentation, and contains quite a few top tracks, the best of the Power Ballads albums. Much in the ...  Read the complete review

Power ballads are for men to drive home to after a day at the office aren't they? They can stick on Phil Collins or Chris Rea and belt out the words with no fear of their wives finding out that they like cheesy music. I don't have a wife, not do I drive round doing power ballads, but I don't mind a dose every once in a while. There are three CDs here comprising fifty songs for you to get powerful over. It starts with Queen. You can shoot me down now when I say I don't like Queen. Yes, Mercury has a stunning voice, but their music fails to grab me. 'We Are The Champions' is a laborious and tedious start. Talking of Phil Collins, he here is with 'In ...  Read the complete review

The very best of power ballads is a compilation that started of with power ballads 1 then 2 etc ect This is the best of thoes. most of these tracks you should know most of them you may love but not have or some you may want to skip. The problem with these albums is all the usual suspects are present on the cd's . However this is 3 cd's so it covers a lot of ground. and dont worry if you dont want 3 cd's of ballads because there are a lot of upbeat songs here , for instance bat out of hell is that a ballad? erm no holding out for a hero - defiantly not a ballad in my book. so basically if you want 3 cd collection of some great tracks this ...  Read the complete review