THROWBACK GAMES: Power Ballads

Our Throwback Games competition continues tonight with Power Lifting… er, Power Ballads!

You know, they’re the songs with music and lyrics that are so strong, you feel them deep in your soul! They take you back to a specific moment in time… anyone else remember awkwardly slow dancing in junior high?

We bet you do… so here are tonight’s Bronze, Silver, Gold winners in the Power Ballad category!

#3 “I Don’t Want To Miss a Thing” by Aerosmith

Aerosmith recorded this theme song for the 1998 film “Armageddon,” starring Steven Tyler’s daughter Liv Tyler. Legendary songwriter Diane Warren penned the song, and she apparently thought someone like Celine Dion would sing it! That would have been a very different song, amiright?

#2 “Open Arms” by Journey

VH1 named this song the best power ballad of all time! It’s from 1981, and the lyrics refer to a relationship that’s drifting away. We’re willing to bet this song was the prom song at many high schools!

#1 “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” by Poison

Poison frontman Bret Michaels shared the story of this 1988 hit song with VH1’s “Behind the Music.” Michaels said he was at a laundromat doing laundry and called his girlfriend on a pay phone. He said he heard a man’s voice in the background, and was so devastated he wrote this song then and there, right in that laundromat! It ended up becoming Poison’s signature song.