Ballads

A wide variety of African American verbal games involving ritual insult, competition, innuendo, parody, and other forms of loaded expression.

The Monkey and the Lion
Got to talking one day.
Monkey looked down and said, Lion,
I hear you's king in every way.

Ballads by Kimberly Vaught July 8, 2004

Ballads 1 

An Underrated Album from an Underrated Artist called Joji.

John: Hey dude did you listen to Ballads 1 by Joji?
James: Yea man it was sick. 10/10 would listen again

Ballads 1 by CashewEnjoyer69 December 24, 2021

Fuck Ballads 

A genre of music that is mostly composed of songs from musicals. These songs are played during sex/highly sensual scenes, and carry high intensity and emotion. The most famous fuck ballads are "Dead Girl Walking" from Heathers: The Musical, "Say No to This" from Hamilton, and "Touch Me" from Spring awakening. This genre is fairly small, but well-loved by theatre kids and casual fans alike.

After every last show, I like to lay down, eat pizza, and listen to some hardcore fuck ballads. Really gets me going.

Fuck Ballads by heatherstrash August 1, 2016

ballad salad 

an album or other compilation of overly sentimental or romantic songs.

Once upon a time, Aerosmith was a real hard rock band. But since the 1990s, they've just been putting out album after album of ballad salads.

ballad salad by D.S. Credito March 12, 2015

Ballast 

Something that keeps a head verticle.

Do you need any Ballast around to keep it (a head) verticle?

Ballast by StayAwakeStudios May 23, 2018

power ballad 

An emotional hard rock/heavy metal song, often with a slow tempo, dramatic sung vocals, and many instruments, including acoustic ones and synthesizers. Power ballads usually start soft, then heaviness builds up with drums and heavy electric guitars.

In the eighties, almost every metal band had its power ballad.

power ballad by CraftTheMushy August 15, 2015

Ballad of Serenity 

Written by Joss Whedon and performed by Sonny Rhodes, it is also known as the Theme to Firefly. Firefly was a woefully short-lived series on the Fox television station. It was a sci-fi western and the opening theme conveyed the main hero and protagonist of the show; a hardened war veteran named Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds. The song has been covered by a band called The Henry Kaiser Band and can be heard in the closing title music of Firefly's movie adaption, Serenity. The theme is also used as the chorus to filk band Escape Key in their Firefly tribute entitled Mal's Song.

Lyrics for The Ballad of Serenity.

Take my love, take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care, I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me
Take me out to the black
Tell them I ain't coming back
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me

There's no place I can be
Since I've found Serenity
But you can't take the sky from me

Ballad of Serenity by Aaron Hurd December 15, 2008