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1So, you have a band. They have a tendency to need to be CarefulWithThatAxe. Their songs tend to be loud, aggressive, hardcore. Whether they lean toward ThreeChordsAndTheTruth or EpicRocking, they are TheNewRockAndRoll. MoralGuardians hate them. They go crazy with the guitars, they go wild on the drums, the music is always played at top volume...
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3Wait, what? A slow, quiet, gentle piece? Beautiful and soft, it may be SugarWiki/{{heartwarming|Moments}} or [[TearJerker heartbreaking]], but the defining characteristic is that it is [[SoftRock far less aggressive a piece]] than you would ''ever'' expect from this band.
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5This very often appears as the last song on an album, in an example of AlbumClosure. May be a BlackSheepHit, but differs from that trope in that it's not necessarily a hit, and ''only'' applies to normally aggressive bands. Many {{Power Ballad}}s also prove to be examples of this trope. Compare PlayingAgainstType, RatedGForGangsta (for rap musicians specifically), KinderAndCleaner, and ScaryMusicianHarmlessMusic.
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9%%Zero context examples have been commented out. Remember, Administrivia/WeblinksAreNotExamples.
10%%ZCE* The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus's first album had "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbqDZGuWl_A Cat and Mouse]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRehmX3zlwE Your Guardian Angel]]".
11%%ZCE** Compare a sappy love ballad like ''Your Guardian Angel'' with their SignatureSong, the powerful rant against domestic abuse "Face Down". You wouldn't believe they were the same band.
12%%ZCE* Scary Kids Scaring Kids has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN81CbkD5wg Watch Me Bleed]]".
13%%ZCE* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKAISpk4ods Three Shadows, Part I]]" from Bauhaus' third album, The Sky's Gone Out.
14%%ZCE* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFQbxTvyzq4 Gasoline]]" by Moist, for you Canadians.
15%%ZCE* "In Vino Veritas II" by A Wilhelm Scream.
16%%ZCE* "The Vulture Act I" by Gallows.
17%%ZCE* "Speak My Name" by IQ.
18%%ZCE* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsXdMr0YQCQ Sabrina]]'' by Inkubus Sukkubus
19%%ZCE* "The Last Man On Earth" by Schoolyard Heroes.
20%%ZCE* "Metaphor" by In Flames is an example of them writing an actual gentle song rather than the folk passages they used on early albums to give the listener's a break. Gentle, understated, melancholic but [[LyricalDissonance very bitter and resentful lyrically.]]
21%%** They also have "Come Clarity". "Take me somewhere/don't wanna live/in this dream one more day."
22%%ZCE* Shadows Fall has "Another Hero Lost", which was written in memory of a dead relative of Brian Fair's that died in Iraq. There's also the acoustic instrumentals that the band always includes once per album.
23%%ZCE* "Lead Sails (And A Paper Anchor)" by Atreyu.
24%%ZCE* Music/{{Godsmack}} have "Serenity" off their ''Faceless'' album.
25%%ZCE * A number of BlackMetal bands do these, particularly as ambient interludes, intros, or outros. Burzum is a particularly influential example.
26%%ZCE* Music/ThePrettyReckless have this in the form of You on their debut album, about an unrequited crush.
27%% ZCE* The Break Up's aptly titled "Tread Softly".
28%%ZCE * Music/MotleyCrue's "Home Sweet Home".
29%%ZCE * Iggy Pop's "Candy".
30%%ZCE * Gridlink have Thirst Watcher from Longhena.
31%%ZCE * Ensiferum has "Tears", track 10 on their second album, Iron, with female vocals provided by guest musician Kaisa Saari, who also provided the vocals for "Ferrum Aeternum", track 1 from the same album.
32%%ZCE* "Wear", by Music/KenAshcorp, which is ironic since the song is based on Anime/KillLaKill.
33%%* Music/{{CHVRCHES}} = snarky breakup songs, right? Well, not always. "Under The Tide" especially is absolutely heartrending.
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39* Music/{{AFI}}'s "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjSscjWXSHQ The Leaving Song: Part 1]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNzs5fLp3Ho The Interview]]".
40** Averted with "God Called In Sick Today", and especially "Silver and Cold". The latter starts out with a quiet piano, and the listener is probably expecting one of these. Then, before you can say "Your sins into me, oh my beautiful one" it turns into a classic AFI sing-along-able anthem.
41* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih61MJ72v1Y Hello]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWioxDzDUpc My Immortal]]" by Music/{{Evanescence}}, although the radio edition of the latter (arguably their second most well known song) ends off with a harder sound. (Link to the album version for that reason).
42** "Swimming Home" is this to their SelfTitledAlbum and "Good Enough" is this for The Open Door.
43* Music/{{Extreme}} mostly plays FunkMetal with electrifying guitar work. And then [[BlackSheepHit they hit it big with the acoustic ballad "More Than Words"]], which is [[OneHitWonder the only song]] they're really remembered for. Their other top 40 hit, the relatively obscure "Hole Hearted" was a similar ballad.
44* The Music/FooFighters have many. From their [[Music/FooFightersAlbum debut]], the very first was "Big Me" (which causes some MoodWhiplash on the album it's on), and then come "Walking After You", "Aurora", "Tired Of You", "Stranger Things Have Happened", [[DistinctDoubleAlbum the entire second disk of]] ''In Your Honor''...
45* Music/LinkinPark tends to have one or two of these per album, ranging from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqgAAqCqiBI "My December"]] to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLYiIBCN9ec "Iridescent"]].
46* Music/{{MewithoutYou}}'s Catch For Us Foxes, after eleven tracks of blistering and screaming soundscapes, concludes with "Son of a Widow", which is rather quiet and tender.
47* Music/{{Nirvana}} has "About a Girl" from ''Bleach'', (an album otherwise filled with sludge metal-influenced grunge tracks) "Polly" and "Something in the Way" from ''Nevermind'', and "Dumb" and "All Apologies" from ''In Utero''. ''Nevermind'' in general is a somewhat surprisingly gentle album for them, as ''Bleach'' and ''In Utero'' are a fair bit heavier.
48* "Misguided Ghosts" by Music/{{Paramore}} is a soft, slow acoustic number, which makes it a stark contrast to the rest of ''Brand New Eyes'', which consists of loud, aggressive songs (and more than a few {{The Reason You Suck Speech}}es).
49** Also off that album: “The Only Exception” could qualify as this, relatively speaking.
50* The Music/RedHotChiliPeppers have quite a few of these. "If", "Tear," "Slow Cheetah," and "Dosed" are just a few of their newer examples.
51** Early in their career they used this trope sparsely, with songs like "Grand Pappy Du Plenty," "Lovin' And Touchin'," and "Behind the Sun.". Now however, they pretty much do this style of song all the time.
52** While most of 1991's ''Music/BloodSugarSexMagik'' is sex-punk-funk, "I Could Have Lied," "Breaking the Girl," and "Under the Bridge" are all soft, mellow precursors to their newer work. The latter is a special case as it is one of their [[SignatureSong most famous songs.]]
53** ''Music/{{Californication}}'' was when they really started to tone things down, with songs such as "Porcelain," "This Velvet Glove" (to an extent), "Road Trippin'", and "Scar Tissue." This was in response to lead singer Anthony Kiedis's desire to focus more on singing rather than his famous rap-yarling.
54* Music/TheSmashingPumpkins's "Stumbeline" off of ''Music/MellonCollieAndTheInfiniteSadness'' is a wistful, acoustic song sandwiched between two much louder and guitar-heavy songs, "Thru the Eyes of Ruby" and "XYU", which is the hardest song on the album.
55** A lot of ''Adore'' is this, particularly "Crestfallen" and "Annie-Dog".
56* "Lost in You" by Music/ThreeDaysGrace, which was a major hit for the group, is a little different from their normal sound to say the least. While the recent album was quite a bit softer than previous ones, this one still stands out.
57* Music/TheUsed have quite a few, and write damn good slow, sensitive songs when they're not writing aggressive, fast punk rock songs. To name a few: "Smother Me", "All That I've Got", "Kissing You Goodbye", "Tunnel", "Yesterday Feelings" and "Blue And Yellow".
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61* Gentleness is hardly a surprise coming from ChristianRock band Disciple nowadays thanks to LighterAndSofter, but "After The World" and "No End At All", both tender GodIsLoveSongs, stuck out like a sore thumb on their mostly heavy album ''Scars Remain''.
62* [[ChristianRock Christian]] [[HeavyMetal Metal]] band East West's BlackSheepHit "She Cries."
63* The Christian Hard Rock Band Music/{{Red|Band}} tends to have at least two per album, beginning with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Uw8mIcQJn8&feature=related 'Pieces']], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZPjiUimhck 'Already Over (part 2)']] in "End of Silence," [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAHCsyOb3Rc 'Take it all away']] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WptwYUp-sJ8&feature=related 'Nothing and Everything']] (Which is an alternate version of the opening song 'Fight Inside') on Innocence and Instinct, "Not Alone" and "Hymn for the Missing" on Until We Have Faces, "Hold Me Now" and "As You Go" on Release the Panic, "Of These Chains" and "Part That's Holding On" on Of Beauty and Rage, and "Coming Apart" and "Still Alive (Looking for a Reason)" on Gone. While they aren't as intensely loud or grating as bands such as Devil Wears Prada, RED is loud enough to warrant these songs being Surprsingly Gentle.
64* Christian metal band Music/{{Underoath}} have a good number of these spread across their discography. Most notably, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZOwB_gaJ1A "Some Will Seek Forgiveness, Others Escape"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63EetspU6Is&ob=av3n "Too Bright To See, Too Loud To Hear"]]. These were sung almost entirely by former drummer and [[SopranoAndGravel clean vocalist]] [[FieryRedhead Aaron Gillespie]], with occasional peppering in by [[MetalScream screamer]] Spencer Chamberlain.
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68* The techno/electronica musician Cursor Miner has a pop ballad titled "For Each Other".
69* mind.in.a.box's chiptune album ''R.E.T.R.O.'' ends with the power ballad "Whatever Mattered".
70* Music/VNVNation has the TearJerker piano ballad "From My Hands" on ''OFPAG'', and the synthpop {{power ballad}} "Nova" on ''Automatic'', among others.
71* Music/{{Crystal Castles|Band}} has "Tell Me What to Swallow" and "Celestica".
72* Most of the HardcoreTechno band Music/MachineGirl's full albums have at least one. "Frenesi - [=GabberTrap=] Remix" from ''WLFGRL'' and "Xleepy" from ''...BECAUSE IM YOUNG ARROGANT AND HATE EVERYTHING YOU STAND FOR'' are both gentle electronic pieces in albums full of screaming, aggressive beats, harsh ambience, and drum-slamming; "Scroll of Sorrow" from ''U-Void Synthesizer'' is a little higher-energy, but still a much more standard pop song than the rest of the album.
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76* Music/TheHives are mostly known for high speed garage rock, but their album ''Veni Vedi Vicious'' throws in "Find Another Girl", a pretty faithful cover of a 60's R&B ballad by Jerry Butler. It sticks out quite a bit in the middle of the album.
77* The Monks were a GarageRock band from the sixties whose music was unusually aggressive for the time, and who were later considered a precursor to PunkRock. Because their album ''Black Monk Time'' wasn't received well at the time, they started going for a LighterAndSofter sound for their last two singles. Their final release "Love Can Tame The Wild" / "He Went Down To The Sea" was especially surprising - the A-side is a sprightly [[SillyLoveSongs Silly Love Song]], while the B-side is a ballad with a seemingly Music/PhilSpector-influenced arrangement featuring vibraphone and trumpet. As bonus tracks on ''Black Monk Time'', these two tracks sort of induce some MoodWhiplash.
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81* Music/KingCharles tends to go with orchestral sounds and lots of production. The song ''Oh England'' is just Charles, riding in a hansom cab and playing his acoustic guitar while he sings a love song to his home country.
82* Music/ModestMouse, whose songs typically consist of shrieking existential crises [[WordSaladLyrics in the form of really elaborate metaphors]], also produced "Little Motel," a sober reflection after the loneliness "earned" after destroying a relationship.
83** Much of ''The Moon and Antarctica'' is surprisingly gentle, to the point where ending it with "What People Are Made Of", and, more specifically, a scream, comes as a surprise.
84** "The World at Large" and to an extent "Ocean Breathes Salty" as well.
85* "Spit on a Stranger" by indie rockers Music/{{Pavement}} is a ballad (albeit a rather bizarre one) from a band who usually did uptempo songs with WordSaladLyrics.
86** Also the downright dreamy "Major Leagues", and "Father to a Sister of Thought" (which is also a surprisingly gentle song from the otherwise experimental album it comes from).
87* Music/OrigamiAngel: ''Music/GamiGang'' has a bunch of hardcore rock songs, but then there's "Greenbelt Station". It's about the singer's girlfriend, who grows apart from him, although he knows she's happy where she is. It's much more poignant, quiet, and slow than the rest of the album.
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91* Most [[{{Industrial}} EBM and Futurepop]] acts have at least one ballad per album. Example: Covenant's album ''Northern Light'' has "Bullet", a morose PowerBallad [[RecycledInSpace but industrialized]]... Placed in an album with fast-paced songs such as "We Stand Alone" and "Call The Ships To Port".
92* Music/EmilieAutumn: The Art Of Suicide and Shalott are this on Opheliac.
93** If I Burn, What Will I Remember, I Don't Understand, Gaslight, Start Another Story off Fight Like A Girl.
94* {{Music/Ministry}} contributed a surprisingly faithful acoustic cover of [[Music/TheGratefulDead "Friend Of The Devil"]] to the compilation ''The Bridge School Concerts, Vol. 1'' - they were given an afternoon slot for the title benefit concerts, and, thinking their usual style of performance wouldn't fit the setting, opted for a semi-acoustic set featuring four {{Cover Song}}s from the 1960s and 1970s and one original.
95** Surgical Meth Machine are an Al Jourgenson side-project who are usually a bit faster and heavier than Ministry... Except for the song "Invisible", a trip-hop influenced ballad with clean electric guitars and smooth vocals.
96* Music/NickCave with ''The Good Son'', and even gentler with ''The Boatman's Call'' and ''No More Shall We Part''.
97** This was the premise behind Nick Cave's "Lyre of Orpheus," as opposed to its raucous companion piece, "Abattoir Blues."
98* Music/NineInchNails did this every now and then, considering that the usual sound of the band is industrial metal. Examples include "A Warm Place", "Lights in the Sky" and "Every Day Is Exactly the Same."
99* Project Pitchfork's "Green World", a {{New Age}}-ey ballad by a traditionally [[HarshVocals aggro]]-{{darkwave}} group.
100* Music/TypeONegative with Can't Lose You. Aside for a small pace-setting intro, it fails to break out into the bands usual rockin' guitars and shouting, (or obnoxious sex noises).
101* Synthpunk/proto-industrial band Music/{{Suicide|Band}} of "Frankie Teardrop" fame produced the SynthPop ballad "[[https://youtu.be/mwMjhWn3OQ4 Surrender]]" in 1988.
102** In a similar vein is "Dream Baby Dream", a soft and surprisingly optimistic number from a band known for their very dark music.
103* Music/FrontLineAssembly's otherwise IndustrialMetal-dominated album ''Improvised Electronic Device'' has the somber rock ballad "Afterlife". Likewise, the mostly serious and aggressive ''Wake Up The Coma'' includes a tongue-in-cheek cover of Music/{{Falco}}'s "Rock Me Amadeus" featuring [[Music/MindlessSelfIndulgence Jimmy Urine]] of all people.
104* Belgian aggro/terror EBM artist Suicide Commando has "Land of Roses", a dark electro ballad featuring InnocentSoprano Charlotte Nuytens.
105* Music/ThrobbingGristle, one of the TropeMakers of the industrial genre, have "[[https://youtu.be/5XpqCxJZdGs?si=ACRW6xuWWJwbTKSG United]]", a Music/GaryNuman-esque SynthPop[=/=]DarkWave number.
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109* Music/TheJesusAndMaryChain, famous for ear-splitting feedback and concerts that ended in violence, did this with the albums ''Darklands'' and ''Stoned and Dethroned''.
110* A few of Music/ThePaperChase's songs depart from their usual highly confrontational noise-rock/post-hardcore approach in favor of more melodic, introspective songs, though titles such as "Out Come the Knives" and "At the Other End of the Leash" show that the mood isn't necessarily any different.
111* Music/{{Showbread}} has "The Missing Wife". "Matthias Replaces Judas" starts off as one of these, but gradually builds up in intensity.
112* Music/SonicYouth has "Winner's Blues," an acoustic ballad, sticking out from their usual NoiseRock.
113* Music/VelvetUnderground pulled an entire album of this with ''The Velvet Underground''. Part of this was because a lot of the band's gear was stolen, but they also deliberately wanted to make a LighterAndSofter album after the DarkerAndEdgier ''White Light/White Heat'' so as to avoid painting themselves into a corner. The trend continued with ''Loaded'', which was their response to their record company asking them to make an album "loaded with hits".
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117* Back when it was first released, "Only Women Bleed" was this for Music/AliceCooper. More recently, he's had a habit of including one such song on each album.
118* Between their second and third albums, Music/AliceInChains released ''Sap'' and ''Jar Of Flies'', two [=EPs=] which proved them capable of surprising versatility and restraint. They played mostly acoustic and clean electric guitars and made use of strings as well.
119* Akercocke has a few parts with clean vocals in their otherwise extremely heavy blackened death metal, but the last song off the album Antichrist - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajJAm3RSmZw Epode]] - is fully mellow, beautiful (and is about [[LyricalDissonance Satan himself]].)
120** Each of Akercocke's last three albums ended with a song that fell under both this trope and LyricalDissonance. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21jQSxyXlx8 Goddess Flesh]]" closes out ''Choronzon'' with a rare example of an IntercourseWithYou ballad, while "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ptsl4Pb4eM Lex talionis]]" (Latin for ''the law of talion'', most frequently expressed as "An eye for an eye", which provides a fair indication of the lyrical content) closes out their ''Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone''.
121* The {{Grindcore}} band Music/AnalCunt had an entire ''album'' of surprisingly gentle songs called ''Picnic of Love''.
122* Music/{{Annihilator}}'s very first track [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYS3VYHGW9Y "Crystal Ann"]] is a classical instrumental.
123* ''Samba Briza'' by {{Music/Atheist}} is a Latin Jazz track on a TechnicalDeathMetal album.
124* Music/AvengedSevenfold has a few of them, particularly "Seize the Day" and "So Far Away". An early example of this is "I Won't See You Tonight Part 2" from ''Waking The Fallen'', when they were still a metalcore band. Also, we can't talk about them without mentioning [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyYazI3B09A Dear God]], which is a straight up country ballad. From ''Hail to the King'', we've got the blues-ballad "Acid Rain". But the most jarring example is probably "Warmness on the Soul" on their debut album: a sweet love ballad in the middle of a hardcore punk album where all the other songs are screamed.
125* Black Label Society has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv3HJSPRCL8&feature=related Spoke in the Wheel]], a very mellow and depressive song that contrasts with other songs sung and composed by bearded, foul-mouthed, pinch-harmonic-crazed Zakk Wylde.
126** The Black Label Society album ''Hangover Music Vol. VI''' is made up mostly of softer songs that utilize acoustic guitar and piano, meaning that the album really ''is'' good music to listen to while hungover.
127** "In This River", from their ''Mafia'' album, was a quiet ballad Wylde dedicated in memory of [[{{Music/Pantera}} Darrell Abbott]] (he'd actually written it months before Abbott's death.
128* "Flower Sun Rain" by Japanese DoomMetal band Boris is very relaxing until the very end, when it builds into a scorching guitar solo accompanied by heavy drum fills.
129* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_tORtmKIjE "The Bard's Song"]] by Music/BlindGuardian qualifies with its medieval folk sound contrasted against the blazing, speedy, PowerMetal sound they normally have.
130** They tend to have one per album; there's also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxOZMpuGBjI "A Past And Future Secret,"]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lWspOLN5rY "The Eldar,"]] (except for the MetalScream) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24PJnBflzmI "Harvest of Sorrow,"]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3_S1Q40HZo "Skalds and Shadows"]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmAjzJ-62ag "War of the Thrones"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYWQKTbneLw "Miracle Machine"]].
131* "Heal" by Buzzov-en from ''At a Loss''. They're a Sludge Metal group. This is probably the only non-angry song in their entire discography.
132* A very minor example as the band incorporates a lot of folk passages in most of their songs, but Music/{{Cormorant}}'s album ''Metazoa'' ends on "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILPv9fizGrg Voices of the Mountain]]"; a breath-taking guitar duet with a soft crackle of fire.
133* Music/CultOfLuna have a few instrumental interludes that aren't crushing metal, but they have a few full-length songs here and there. "Marching to the Heartbeats" on Somewhere Along the Highway sounds like a lighter {{Music/Jesu}} track. "And With Her Came the Birds" from the same album sounds almost like a depressing folky blues track. "Passing Through" on Vertikal ends the album on a simple, somber note.
134* Music/{{Death}} have the moving instrumental named [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd4q0Xx-u1Y "Voice Of The Soul"]] which contains no drums whatsoever.
135* Music/{{Deftones}} are generally known for their shoegaze-influenced metal works, but they've also released a fair amount of gentle songs as well.
136** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSjgG1S6bQc Teenager]]" is a straight-up dream pop song with a gentle trip hop beat.
137** "Sextape" and "Entombed" are also more straightforward dreamy shoegaze songs.
138* {{Metalcore}} band Demon Hunter seems to pile on more and more of these with every album, but they'd be hard pressed to top their first notable one, the EPIC TearJerker "My Heartstrings Come Undone".
139* "Louder Than Thunder" by Music/TheDevilWearsPrada, sung entirely by guitarist/clean vocalist Jeremy Depoyster.
140* Music/TheDillingerEscapePlan have included a few more accessible songs off their more recent albums. They're still very experimental and innovative but make better use of their singer's clean vocal range (something their first singer didn't have.) Tracks like [[VideoGame/WWEVideoGames Unretrofied]], Black Bubblegum & Milk Lizard sound akin to something a more agressive Music/FaithNoMore might write.
141* "''Darkness''" by Music/{{Disturbed}}, a soft, acoustic dirge with a cellist section of all things. This from the band who an album earlier provided the world with "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0JBlUm2KMY#t=3m27s No, Mommy! Don't do it again!]]".
142** Even though it's much heavier, "Overburdened" would count as well.
143** Their cover of Music/SimonAndGarfunkel's "Sound of Silence" grows somewhat heavier with each stanza, but retains every bit of the melancholy tone the song calls for.
144** From the same album, "The Light" is, while not a ballad, a very hopeful song of encouragement. Again, harkening back to their earliest hit, it's hard to picture the same guy screaming "Open up your hate and let it flow into me" being the same guy singing "When you think all is forsaken, listen to me now, you need never feel broken again..."
145* ''Music/DogFashionDisco'' is an avant-garde metal band who frequently include a "gentle in sound but not subject" track on their albums. However, on their album Experiments in Alchemy, they played this straight with "En La Noche" a latin/jazz fusion love song about a newly married couple dancing in the moonlight. It's a big departure for a band whose other gentler songs are about burying someone they killed in the desert, knowing that someone who has wronged them is already destined to die, and Pogo the Clown.
146* Music/{{DragonForce}} has [[OncePerEpisode one slow song per album]] in between all the blazingly fast PowerMetal: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNApV7JJfXk Starfire]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqVavyOChAY Dawn Over a New World]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk77wRGnwZM Trail of Broken Hearts]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIyqdvCcnWk A Flame for Freedom]]", and an acoustic version of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV8vuMD3a9c Seasons]]".
147* Music/DreamTheater's "Vacant" is the Surprisingly Gentle Song off of ''Train of Thought'', since it's slow and melancholy, and just piano, cello, and vocals.
148* Music/{{Epica}} has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqAyelPcaHI Delirium]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb17Yc1a8lE Solitary Ground]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkJkcvaA1A Tides of Time]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsbTu92k-EU Trois Verges]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhtBUXnoFoo White Waters]]".
149* Early on, gentle Music/FaithNoMore songs were pretty rare. The early acoustic instrumental "Jim" seemed to have been included for the sake of this trope. Ditto "Edge of the World", a piano ballad written from the point of view of a [[ComedicSociopathy paedophile]]. Later on they got pretty eclectic and juxtaposed heavy rock numbers such as "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies" and "Cuckoo for Caca" with gentle numbers such as "Take This Bottle" and "Just a Man". The band also [[TrollingCreator loved to mess with their audience's expectations]] of what style of music they were supposed to perform, and they regularly played completely straight-forward covers of pop ballads at their concerts. Among their favorites were The Commodores' "Easy", The Bee Gees' "I Started a Joke" and Herb Albert's "This Guy's in Love with You", and they even released the first two as singles.
150* Music/FiveFingerDeathPunch has a few, especially with "Remember Everything". "Walk Away" and "Far From Home" are a couple more.
151* Music/{{Flyleaf}}, while not a loud band at all, has had a few songs that are dramatically more calmer and quiet then their usual songs. Mostly in their first studio album.
152* "The Garden of the Goddess" by Music/{{Galneryus}}
153* The last two tracks off of the album ''Abducted'' by DeathMetal band Music/{{Hypocrisy}} are mellow [[Music/PinkFloyd Pink Floyd-esque]] ProgressiveRock tracks. This is in sharp contrast to the rest of the album and their discography.
154* Music/IronMaiden has "Wasting Love" (the closest they got to a ballad), "Journeyman" (their first acoustic track), and "Empire of the Clouds" (an [[EpicRocking 18-minute long]] song that for half is driven by pianos).
155* Music/JudasPriest: "Angel," "Lost and Found," "Before the Dawn," "Epitaph", "Last Rose of Summer", "Lost Love", "New Beginnings", "Never Forget".
156* American NuMetal band Music/LimpBizkit recorded a CoverVersion of Music/TheWho's "Behind Blue Eyes" for ''Film/{{Gothika}}'', which is an AlternativeRock ballad than their usual material.
157** When it comes to their original material, they have "Hold On," a slow Art Rock song. "Re-Arranged" is also fairly soft, but gets heavier towards the end.
158* While ''Music/{{Lyriel}}'' is a SymphonicMetal band that tends towards the softer side of the genre, their album Paranoid Circus contains the track [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Lullaby" which is exactly what the tittle suggests]]. This track is preceded and followed by tracks that feature aggressive drumming.
159* Music/{{Megadeth}}'s "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEEwK_H2ixQ Promises]]" , which is a beautiful power ballad, complete with string arrangements and being based around a Romeo And Juliet theme. If someone else was singing it, you would never know Dave Mustaine had written this song.
160** "A Tout Le Monde", a song about loss and grief.
161* The Music/{{Melvins}} are largely associated with grunge and sludge metal, but have a few gentle songs in their repertoire: "Black Bock" is lightly psychedelic folk-rock (albeit with some serious LyricalDissonance). ''The Crybaby'' includes a pair of straight country covers featuring Music/HankWilliamsIII (Music/HankWilliams' "Ramblin' Man" and Music/MerleHaggard's "Okie From Miskogee"). And "PG x 3" is an eerie, mostly a capella version of the folk song "Peggy Gordon", inspired by its use in ''Film/TheProposition''.
162* "Acrid Placidity" by Music/{{Meshuggah}} of the album Future Breed Machine. However, the song is still extremely off-putting.
163* Music/{{Metallica}}'s "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye24cqG8j3M Nothing Else Matters]]" and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckom3gf57Yw "The Unforgiven"]].
164** Before this "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEQnzs8wl6E Fade to Black]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WElvEZj0Ltw&feature=related Welcome Home (Sanitarium)]]", and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM8bTdBs-cw&ob=av3n One]]', which are what's usually called "semi-ballads": songs that start as traditional ballads, but around the middle of the song they become a lot heavier.
165** Following this was '[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FKYsUEuvIo Mama Said]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlahvvymkxc The Day that Never Comes]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2Qq_tBhDsQ Low Man's Lyric]]".
166* Death metal band Music/MorbidAngel featured the haunting [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZPKBAnkEaE "Desolate Ways"]] on their ''Blessed Are The Sick'' album.
167* Music/{{Motorhead}}, a band commonly known for being one of the rowdiest, loudest, crudest bands, released a song titled "1916", a slow, mournful song about a young man being killed in battle in World War 1.
168** They actually have a fair few of these; among others, there's "Love Me Forever", "I Ain't No Nice Guy", "Whorehouse Blues" and "God Was Never On Your Side".
169* Music/TheOcean has a soft ballad about Galileo right in the middle of their progressive metal album.
170* [[TechnicalDeathMetal Progressive Death Metal]] band Music/{{Opeth}} has several examples, including "To Bid You Farewell", "Credence", "Epilogue", "Benighted", "Face of Melinda", "Harvest", "For Absent Friends", several others, plus the entirety of ''Damnation'', ''Heritage'', and ''Pale Communion'', all of which qualify as Surprisingly Gentle Albums. With the latter two (their two most recent albums as of this writing) they would appear to have made a full-on GenreShift to ProgressiveRock, so this trope may no longer apply.
171* Music/{{Pantera}}'s cover of "Planet Caravan" by Music/BlackSabbath - enough so that the ''Far Beyond Driven'' liner notes include a short message from Phil Anselmo explaining to fans (who might not be familiar with the original) that they're just covering a song they like, not attempting to have a pop hit.
172** The Music/BlackSabbath version itself also qualifies - While Ozzy was singing, their albums almost always included a token ballad like "Changes" and/or a short, pretty acoustic instrumental like "Orchid".
173** Pantera themselves are not immune to writing gentler songs, "Cemetery Gates" is Pantera's attempt at a Power Ballad and Suicide Note Pt. I is extremely subdued and depressing. [[MoodWhiplash It is immediately followed by]] [[LastNoteNightmare "Suicide Note Pt. II"]], '''EASILY''' Pantera's hardest song.
174* Music/{{Rammstein}} often has one toward the end of an album: e.g. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGHldRJfTxY Roter Sand]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8ZlCL9pyDg Nebel]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSL62BUyY0U Ohne Dich]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haKSfQKbPXE Ein Lied]]."
175* Similarly, Music/{{Sabaton}} has a number of softer pieces, most notably the outro of the Primo Victoria Re-Armed Edition, "Dead Soldier's Waltz", and "Purple Heart", track 8 on the same album.
176* Music/{{Slipknot}}'s "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiGtN-dplYk Vermillion, Prt. 2]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TVPUqN4q4o Circle]]". And more recently "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzFJv5-JjdM Snuff]]".
177* [[Music/DevinTownsend Strapping Young Lad]] were mostly known for super-heavy [[DeathMetal Death]] [[IndustrialMetal Industrial]] [[ThrashMetal Thrash]] [[GenreBusting Metal]], but then there are "Two Weeks", "Almost Again", and "Polyphony", which basically qualify as straight-up ballads.
178** Devin Townsend's ''Ghost'' is a surprisingly gentle album, which consists of new age and ambient music.
179* Music/SystemOfADown's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnGdoEa1tPg "Lonely Day"]] is considerably softer than their usual style.
180** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ri5mmIb-EI "Roulette"]] is even softer. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8YluAMCRT8 Soldier Side]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoheCz4t2xc Hypnotize]]", and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJhAOsTsLXI Lost in Hollywood]]" also qualify.
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184* Music/FrankZappa's lyrics were usually either pointed political/sociological satire or a BawdySong about groupies and the like. He absolutely despised SillyLoveSongs and didn't care about be taken seriously, making most of his music comedy stuff. Yet Zappa could write very heartwarming music if he wanted, notably in his guitar solos and some of his instrumental compositions, but also in genuine non-comedy songs like "Lonely Little Girl" and "Mom & Dad" (''Music/WereOnlyInItForTheMoney''), all tracks on ''Music/CruisinWithRubenAndTheJets'', "Valerie" (''Music/BurntWeenySandwich''), "Directly from My Heart to You" (''Music/WeaselsRippedMyFlesh''), "Sharleena" (''Music/ChungasRevenge''), "Tears Began to Fall" (''Music/FillmoreEastJune1971''), "Village of the Sun" (''Music/RoxyAndElsewhere''), "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up" (''Music/JoesGarage'') and "Alley Cat" ("The Lost Episodes").
185* "Come Away Melinda" on Music/UriahHeep's first album. Especially since the rest of the album is Very 'Eavy (and very 'umble). It's also this song that made them become Uriah Heep (having gone into the studio as a band called 'Spice' and using a session keyboardist on the track made them realise they needed a permanent keyboadist, which led to them changing their name to Uriah Heep).
186** "Rain" from the ''Magician's Birthday'' record is a soft piano ballad with a bit of bass and drums thrown in here and there. It was originally written with nothing but piano and vocals, but the band's manager insisted they have to make it a little more congruent with the rest of the album's songs.
187* Music/KingCrimson: While ''Music/InTheWakeOfPoseidon'' mostly continues the dark JazzFusion style of ''Music/InTheCourtOfTheCrimsonKing'', "Cadence and Cascade" and the "Peace" trilogy are tranquil folk compositions.
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191* Bad Brains have some, mostly due to their reggae influences coming to the forefront: Their self-titled album, for instance, consists of HardcorePunk interspersed with a few down-tempo reggae songs ("Jah Calling", "Leaving Babylon", and "I Love I Jah" specifically).
192* Music/BadReligion: "Million Days" off of the CanonDisContinuity album Into the Unknown.
193** "Slumber" from ''Stranger Than Fiction'' may also qualify - it resembles an alternative rock song of the loud-soft-loud variety more than it does a PowerBallad, but the verses are surprisingly soft.
194* The Birthday Party's "Jennifer's Veil", from their final EP, is musically quieter and folkier than anything they'd ever done before, and a pointer towards the more tasteful moments of Music/NickCave's solo career. (However, it's purely a musical example: the lyrics appear to be about a guy coming back from a war to discover that his girlfriend or sister has been hideously disfigured and probably raped by enemy soldiers.)
195* Music/{{Converge}} has "Phoenix In Flight", off the album ''Jane Doe'', which is ''very, very soft'' for being a song by them. But right after that, there comes [[LastNoteNightmare "Phoenix I]][[EarRape n Flames"]], which is just your average Converge song, but harder.
196* Music/{{Danzig}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_kehhT_qQU Sistinas]]. While it's technically credited to Glenn Danzig & The Power Fury Orchestra, there's also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6EieqgGA-8 "You And Me"]], from the soundtrack to ''Less Than Zero''. Both are Roy Orbison-influenced ballads that show off Glenn Danzig's crooning vocal style, rather than the dark metal he's commonly associated with.
197* Music/DropkickMurphys have "Broken Hymns" and their popular cover of "The Green Fields of France", which are gentle anti-war songs in comparison to their usual Irish punk style.
198* Future of the Left, a band known for their aggressive post-hardcore sound and singer Andy Falkous' often darkly funny lyrics, has "French Lessons", a quiet song about love and unhappy marriage. The band's playing is much more subdued on this one, and while Falkous' lyrics are still humorous, their tone is much bleaker than it is on their usual songs.
199* Music/{{Glassjaw}}, normally an extremely loud and aggressive band, has two of these songs on their [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Mark El Mark]] Digital EP. "''The Number No Good Things Can Come Of''", a piano and drums piece, and "''Oxycodone''", a Lounge-sounding tune with the lead vocalist singing in improvisation.
200** And now, their latest work, "''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KiwmbHMSgk Daytona White]]''" and "''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOGMKYwBsac&feature=related Stations of the New Cross]]''" also count. In fact, most of their ''Coloring Book'' album (from which these two songs come from) is this compared to some of their previous work.
201* Music/GreenDay broke out with fast and snarky pop punk, and then released "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)", an acoustic song that became a mainstay of graduations and such. They have since followed it with similar tracks like "Macy's Day Parade", "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", "21 Guns", and "Ordinary World".
202* Though Music/HuskerDu gradually got a bit LighterAndSofter musically, "Never Talking to You Again" could be considered one at the time of it's release: an acoustic, folk-influenced (though still bitter-sounding) ballad in the middle of what was mainly a noisy HardcorePunk album. The album in question, ''Zen Arcade'', also featured a couple of melancholy piano instrumentals, "One Step at a Time" and "Monday Will Never Be the Same". They would continue to include at least one example of this trope on each album from then on, amongst which are "Don't Know Yet", "No Reservations", "Perfect Example", "Too Far Down", "Hardly Getting Over It", and "No Promise Have I Made".
203* The soft, melodic and depressing "Kristy, Are You Doing Okay?" by Music/TheOffspring became a big BlackSheepHit of the band.
204* Music/RiseAgainst have the all-acoustic "Swing Life Away," "Hero of War," and 'Roadside'.
205* Music/DollSkin is normally a punk rock/pop punk band with fast, energetic songs about topics ranging from misogyny to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUAeEiiQP48 fascism]]. "Sweet Pea", by contrast, is a slower song about missing a loved one while on the road. "This is just a song about how I love you..."
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209* [[MemeticMutation There's]] Music/InsaneClownPosse 's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs&ob=av3e Miracles]], which differs rather significantly from their [[AxCrazy normal fare.]]
210%%ZCE * Music/{{NWA}} had "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u31FO_4d9TY‎ Express Yourself]]" from ''Music/StraightOuttaCompton''.
211* Music/DieAntwoord has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9zjqNnbg2I "Moon Love,"]] a song about the duo's daughter, Sixteen, asking her daddy to fix her broken heart.
212* ''Music/BoneThugsNHarmony'' 's signature track [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMYAEHE2GrM "Tha Crossroads"]], which is a touching pop rap ballad about grief and acceptance of death from a band that's otherwise known for dark themes and ominous production.
213* Music/{{Eminem}} has a few:
214** ''Music/TheEminemShow'' is made up entirely from RapRock bangers apart from "Hailie's Song", an [[{{Adorkable}} adorably off-key]] pop-R&B song about how happy he is to be with his daughter again - although his nasty sense of humour shows through in the [[AWildRapperAppears rapped verse]].
215** ''Encore'' is made up of typical cynical BlackComedy, confessionals about his DarkAndTroubledPast, SubvertedKidsShow, ShiftingVoiceOfMadness and shock ToiletHumor, but also contains "Mockingbird", a sweet song about his love for his daughter throughout the years of his poverty.
216** "When I'm Gone" is this for the Slim Shady persona - a ballad in which Slim uncharacteristically raps kindly and sincerely before killing himself to return to being Marshall.
217** ''Relapse'' is mostly [[{{Horrorcore}} horrific]] SerialKiller fantasies, with a few witty hip-hop party songs and a sarcastic, mean confessional about his drug abuse. But there's also "Beautiful", a melancholic and grudgingly self-affirming RapRock ballad in which Eminem sing-raps about writer's block and whether he can even still be a rapper. It's also produced in a completely different style to everything else on the album, highlighting its weirdness.
218** ''The Marshall Mathers LP 2'' is mostly energetic, retro-pop and filled with Eminem's characteristic BlackComedy and ultra-technical rapping, except for "Stronger Than I Was", a piano BreakupSong ballad in which Eminem - not known for his singing ability - belts a pop-{{soul}} ballad about his DestructiveRomance with Kim from her perspective. It's also an uncharacteristically empathetic song about Kim in general, since she's normally subjected to [[DomesticAbuse batterings]], {{Masochism Tango}}s, {{Anti Love Song}}s and [[MuseAbuse murders]].
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222* Music/AlyAndAJ: "Silence" and "I'm Here" on Insomniatic are both extremely quiet tracks unlike the bulk of the album.
223* Usually, Music/TheAquabats are very excited and energetic...but ''Hello, Good Night!'' is surprisingly mellow and thoughtful.
224* The point of the ''Colma'' album by Music/{{Buckethead}} was to give his mother something calming to listen to while recovering from illness. Thus, it is a ''dramatically'' different sound from his usual stuff.* J-Rock band Chatmonchy is normally known for upbeat songs that are heavy on the drums and guitar like "Hana No Yume" - except for a slow piano-and-vocals piece called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAI1sA4tjb0 Sunao]]."
225* Music/ElvisPresley doing "Love Me Tender" has to be the UrExample, since when it was released he was still viewed as the hip-shaking leader of TheNewRockAndRoll menace. It really wasn't much of an aberration at the time (he auditioned for Sun Records with ballads and recorded an ethereal version of "Blue Moon" while he was there), and in the context of his whole career it isn't that odd, but it would have been perceived that way in 1956.
226* In {{Music/Gorillaz}} we have El Manana from Demon Days (though [[WhamEpisode the video]] is [[SoundtrackDissonance far from gentle]]) and Cloud of Unknowing in Plastic Beach ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S02Sb_KnndQ and again]]). On Melancholy Hill is fairly mellow and has very sweet lyrics, so it could fit, but is perhaps too upbeat for this.
227* Music/{{Kyuss}} has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-PqRgmL4Xg Space Cadet]]" on the ''Welcome to Sky Valley'' album, where it comes between the much heavier "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lnfyMGBi6w 100]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLdOlzIRCdk Demon Cleaner]]", though Demon Cleaner's still a tad lighter than the rest of the album.
228* "As Tears Go By," "Lady Jane," "Dandelion," "She's a Rainbow" and "Angie" by Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}.
229* ''Music/TenaciousD'''s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYvkRZookFM Fuck Her Gently]], which is a parody of this trope.
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233* Music/DirEnGrey's "JEALOUS -reverse-" is a piano-vocal reworking of their single "JEALOUS", featuring nothing but Kyo and piano. Also, "ain't afraid to die" is Kyo and piano only until the guitar solos kick in, halfway through the song. Even then, it's still very gentle.
234* "Ares's Lament/"So Lonely," "The Love Of My Life," and "Never Change Your Mind" by Music/{{Loudness}}
235* "Wake Up Honey" and "Thanx Givin Day" by Music/{{Miyavi}}
236* "Serenade", "Love will be born again" and "Episode" by Music/{{Versailles}}.
237* Music/XJapan has plenty of these. The better known ones are: "Crucify My Love", "Tears" and "Forever Love".
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241* Anime/{{Angel Beats}} anime band, Girls Dead Monster, usually plays loud and hard (as part of their band's 'distraction creating' intent, but many of their songs do have a quieter version on CD. The original band leader pulls this off the best with her final song [[spoiler: before she disappears]] with a ballad played on a special acoustic guitar, instead of her normal. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV6WkcMKLFw& My Song]]
242* Pretty much all of The Misfits songs from ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' are arrogant tunes about how cool they are, how strong-willed they are, and how they don't care what others think. "Lovesick" is an AntiLoveSong about how Pizzazz is acting [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness completely off]] because she's head over heels for Riot.
243* Portrayed in ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap'' with "Lick My Love Pump," Nigel's unfortunately named classical piano piece.
244* [[Music/{{Tsukipro}} [=SolidS=]]], the Fire band of Tsukipro's ClassicalElementsEnsemble, has [[https://youtu.be/i6-_r9hJJf0 "Timeless"]]. In one of their [[Theatre/{{SQS}} stage plays]], in an improvised talk scene, they and Quell, the Water group, were asked which of their new songs they like.
245--> '''Takamura Shiki (Higano Sho, breaking character):''' "I really like 'Timeless'. It's so gentle, it doesn't really sound like a [=SolidS=] song. It sounds more like it should be a Quell song."
246-->'''Murase Dai:''' "You wrote it".
247-->'''Takamura Shiki:''' "Yes. I ripped off Quell."
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251* A rare producer-based example. Producer Dann Huff is usually known for his bombastic country-pop arrangements for the likes of Music/RascalFlatts, with swelling string sections and loads of heavy guitar (Huff is a former member of the rock bands White Heart and Giant, and a session guitarist as well). Even his up-tempos are usually very loud and guitar-driven. But 2013 has seen him moving toward gentler arrangements, as seen in Music/TheBandPerry's "Better Dig Two", which sounds surprisingly rootsy; Music/KellyClarkson and Music/VinceGill's "Don't Rush", which sounds like an early 80s country-soul ballad; and Music/HunterHayes and Music/JasonMraz' light, acoustic "Everybody's Got Somebody but Me". Not that he's given up the louder production entirely — The Band Perry's "DONE." is closer to his usual style.
252* Music/GustavMahler is famous as the composer of heavily orchestrated symphonies with very long movements and world-shattering climaxes. Mahler's songs, on the other hand, tend to be much more lightly orchestrated, and many of the later ones with texts by Friedrich Rückert are quite gentle indeed.
253* Music/TheCaretaker has a 6-hour album about dementia called ''Everywhere at the End of Time'', and throughout there are several tracks which act as "temporary bliss states" during which the patient is briefly relaxed from the horrors of the disease.
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