Visitation Saturday, 6-9pm, BallaDurandnd, White Plains, NY.
Lift counterpoints its looped, distorted vocal with a piano line straight out of an 80s ballad.
The torch part comes from the dreamy side of Peggy Lee, a North Dakota farm girl whose '60s ballad style remains the ne plus ultra of a dreamy passivity.
A mixture of hair metal 80s ballad, perfect teen movie soundtrack song and dear diary masochism, it's a modern pop classic.
He pairs with CX Kidtronik, member of the erstwhile Atari Teenage Riot and a glib rapper from Crown Heights, Brooklyn, who extols female derrières with equal verbosity in "Krak Attack 2: Ballad Of Elli Skiff" (Stones Throw).
Tomorrow packs a killer chorus, Night Air's melody floats elegantly and Shoulda is an echo-laden 80s ballad that merits his dedication to Phil Collins (here's a man unashamed of his influences).
They chirrup through their latest single, There Is No Other Time, a flippant, if not straightforward, 4x4 ballad, which – if you look past the trite dance tropes about "feeling the forces" and "letting go" – is quite fun.
Now Those Days Are Gone sounded out of place at the time, a mid-70s ballad transplanted into the summer of Come on Eileen, but with its long a cappella sections, aching string part and Mike Nolan's androgynous, weeping lead, it was home counties, potting-shed balladry of the highest order.
Jack Black and Jimmy Fallon gave Extreme's '90s ballad a nearly shot-for-shot music video remake on Monday.
The song is a typical 6/8 ballad and features piano triplets, including an organ.
