Rolling Stone's Weekend Rock Question: What Is the Best Ballad or Slow Jam of All Time?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

I question the wisdom of lumping "slow jams" and "ballads" together because it can really be two completely different art forms, BUT...

...I've got to say that whenever blue teardrops are falling, and my emotional stability is leaving me, there is one thing I can do: I can listen to Marvin sing "Sexual Healing." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdHhxxrH6pU&feature=related

What's YOUR choice?

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[HopeHoops]

1. Best Ballad: "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald".

[MrScorpio]

2. This one right here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyIUR9l5pWI

[abbeyco]

6. Hard to beat out Marvin, but I love this one

and remember lots of quality slow dancing to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqDkK1K5k4Q

[Zorra]

3. "Unchained Melody" by Righteous Bros and "When a Man

Loves A Woman" by Percy Sledge are 2 of my favorites.

[Bennyboy]

4. Stella Blue Grateful Dead

The jam is from heaven.
http://web1.nugs.net/attics/frames.asp?page=781021.asp?artist=1&show=293&cmd=shows
This one is out of control:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

7. That's in my top 5 Jerry songs...

...Stella Blue, Wharf Rat, Bird Song, Althea (primarily for that Hunter line "Nobody is messing with you, but you"), and his version of Hank Ballard's "Tore Up."

"In the end, there's just a song..."

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[Brickbat]

5. FREEBIRD!!1!!

Sorry, I do love that song.

[astral]

8. I don't believe the Dead did Freebird. n/t

[Snoutport]

9. Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billie Joe" LINK

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZt5Q-u4crc&feature=feedwll&list=WL