Thread: Monster Ballads: Josh Ritter related

I don't think I've ever heard a better piece of work, EVER. I have always listened to it ever since it was released, but for some reason it recently struck a chord and I can't stop.

are you trolling for my response?
I told youthat 2 years ago!
YOUR song

Heh. For me, it's "Idaho" because, well...yeah.

Love that song, this thread got me thinking, what exactly is a monster ballad?

And now I am laughing.

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Monster Ballads is the first in a series of compilation albums that feature popular power ballads, usually from the glam metal genre. It was released in 1999.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Heaven" - Warrant - 3:58
2. "Something to Believe In" - Poison - 5:30
3. "High Enough" - Damn Yankees - 4:18
4. "Almost Paradise" - Mike Reno and Ann Wilson - 3:50
5. "Is This Love" - Whitesnake - 4:44
6. "To Be With You" - Mr. Big - 3:20
7. "Carrie" - Europe - 4:31
8. "Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)" - Cinderella - 5:55
9. "More Than Words" - Extreme - 4:11
10. "Headed for a Heartbreak" - Winger - 5:14
11. "When I Look into Your Eyes" - FireHouse - 4:01
12. "Wind of Change" - Scorpions - 5:12
13. "I'll Never Let You Go" - Steelheart - 5:06
14. "When I See You Smile" - Bad English - 4:18
15. "Don't Close Your Eyes" - Kix - 4:18
16. "When I'm With You" - Sheriff - 3:54

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Categories: Album articles without cover art | 1999 albums | Compilati

Monster Ballad
Stairway to heaven started it
Motley cru "home sweet home" perfected it
Poison lived on it, Bon jovi made women and rev wet with it
curiously absent these days

Originally Posted by Woodsy

are you trolling for my response?
I told youthat 2 years ago!
YOUR song

I wouldn't say that I'm trolling, but your response is welcome. For some reason, I don't remember you saying that. Why don't I remember?

toldja you need to find a gurl that gets this song, before we saw him live together

miss you too hombre

Originally Posted by Woodsy

Monster Ballad
Stairway to heaven started it
Motley cru "home sweet home" perfected it

a)Hot Tub fucking time machine
and
b)hope Phil and i get to hear this tomorrow night or thursday, or possibley Saturday in Brooklyn
& a kick ass wings
& guest stars
& a John Prine cover
& yeah

first night was off the hook
I think he did the River better than Bruce (yeah i said it)\takes a pair to cover bruce in NYC....

last night was good but way to similar for my tastes (chealsea hotel cover was sweet tho)
Monster ballads both nights so that was a plus, havin Phil in town is great too.
hopefully the bklyn show Saturday is a little less artsy & mor estraight ahead rock and roll

Woodsy will kill me, but I had 2 tickets for Josh Ritter the night before Mothers' Day - and we completely forgot about them.

Yep, I spaced a show because stupid me forgot to write it on the calendar.

Friday, June 18th...here in Salt Lake. Yep, it's on the calendar...

This is mostly just to piss Xover off if he ever does a Josh Ritter search.

Backstage in Brooklyn on night 3
Actually told Josh Phil and i and many others came to him thru Snow falling on Sinners...

Say the west is a story we made up to erase
Conestoga wagons left tracks you can see from space
From the Northwest passage to the Great Divide
Everybody’s looking for the other side

I’m still waitng for the whsikey to whisk me away
And I’m still waiting for the ashra to lead me astray
I twist the culdesacs into one way signs
I ain’t going round in circles on the other side

So at night I sit and watch for stars to stay
They wink and then they’re gone down the Milky Way
But when You’re left in the middle of the Midwest sky
Everywhere you look is the Other Side