Albums with three ballads as singles (USA)

Ya'll knew this was coming.

Barry Manilow - This One's For You

This One's For You
Weekend In New England
Looks Like We Made It

I think he repeated with the Even Now album.

 

Guns N‘ Roses - Use your Illusion (1991)

November Rain
Don’t Cry
Estranged
(Yesterdays)

 

Breathe-All That Jazz
US Singles-
Hands To Heaven
How Can I fall
All This I Should of Known

 

Glasper! I have a soft spot for his voice.

Anyway...

"The Greatest..." isn't about romantic love.

 

Billy Ocean-Love Zone
US Singles-
There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)
Love Zone
Love Is Forever

 

those junk ballads should all count as one song/single, and there's an SNL sketch with adam sandler to back me up on that.

https://twitter.com/ArtieFox/status/900155318604374016

 

aahhh breathe. i can't complain because i actually liked a few things that they did--but if you ever wanted to hear air supply after they had been neutered (and that's saying something)...there was breathe.

 

I think of
"Every Breath You Take",
"King Of Pain"
&
"Wrapped Around Your Finger" as ballads....
so, that's debatable, but.....

 

meh. "yesterdays" never felt like a ballad to me, more like a mid-tempo reflective kinda song.
and the "use your illusion" albums are two different ones, not one double-album. those three/four didn't appear on one or the other, but across both.

 

"every breath you take" could be taken as a stalker ballad--in the same vein as how there are murder ballads--but i don't think of the other two as ballads at all. especially "king of pain," that's more of a study of self-examination and angst.

 

Posting stuff from really old memory, slow dances back in Junior High...
Journey-Escape
US Singles-
Who's Crying Now
Open Arms
Still They Ride
Journey-Frontiers
US Singles-
Send Her My Love
Faithfully
After The Fall

 

Oh...I wasn't thinking in terms of 'lyrical content'....
I consider them ballads because they are slow, and have a pretty melody.....
oops....

 

Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes (featuring Teddy Pendergrass) debut soul album I Miss You on the Philadelphia International label in the early 70s had three:

the title track, I Miss You
the classic, If You Don’t Know Me by Now; and
Yesterday I had the Blues.

 

definitely these
i don't wanna listen to them, but they fit for this thread!

 

Figuring the OP started out with Air Supply and all...
I'm a sucker for the sappy's...
Unfortunately most of my favorite bands never hit three or even one as a US single, so they're all out.
And this I doubt would of even charted

 

Dan Fogelberg: The Innocent Age
"Same Old Lang Syne," "Leader Of The Band," "Run For The Roses." Also "Hard To Say" although that may not count as a ballad.

 

I went through Revolting Cock's single discography, I couldn't find any Vince

 

Which?;
A slow song, or a pretty melody?

 

I don't consider the strange "After the Fall" a ballad, but that's debatable.

I wonder if other people agree with me that "Who's Crying Now" doesn't qualify as a love ballad because it's not first-person. Actually, "Still They Ride," also. Journey had a penchant for writing hits in third-person.

 

People slow dancing to it=Ballad, for me anyways...
This is your thread, you can call the rules if you want

 

The definition of a ballad is a slow, sentimental or romantic song. You never stipulated it has to be about romantic love.

 

True, I didn't say it, but I implied it with the acts I cited in the first post. (It's much too late for me to change the thread title, but a moderator could edit it into "love ballads.")

Also, I'd call some of the Journey singles "love stories" instead of ballads.

 

I have this on LP, bought new back then, and in my mind it has an amazing quality sound, the tracklist flows pretty well despite the many ballads...from opening track 'Heart in Pieces' it has great harmony vocals, the entire album could it be Bill Champlin's Vocal Legacy work to Chicago, he was in top form, also the Horns section in 'What kind of Man would I Be' and the guitars work on 'You're Not Alone' are worth the entire album.

 

+1
George Michael's LWO,Vol.1 qualifies and you know it...

 

Some Michael Bolton album?