Indie power ballad

[Borboski]

It's quite hard for me to describe the sort of song I'm looking for, but I'm putting together a CD, ostensibly of power ballads.  However, the 'power ballad' I like the most is 'Should Have Known Better' by Jim Diamond.

[youtube=425,350]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?hl=en-GB&v=-4A4UnFi2C8&gl=GB[/youtube]

It's not really indie is it, more just not very well known... anything else like this you can recommend?

[SavageHedgehog]

Don't know if I would say that wasn't well known, it was Number 1 in 1984 and could have been the Xmas Number 1 if it hadn't been for those cheeky scamps in Frankie and the even cheekier scamps that made up Band Aid. And no, I don't think most people would class it as Indie.

I like the "I...I...I...I...I...I...I" bit. The video's a bit cringeworthy. Anyway, if you like that you might like Jim's previous hit I Won't Let You Down:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5prT2qiiWY[/youtube]

I remember reading that Diamond was going to do a gig in a Pizza Hut a few years ago, but I digress... For me the words "Indie Power Ballad" instantly bring to mind this song:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUUi7w3uSsk[/youtube]

I also thought of this, probably because I was just listening to it:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKasJdEg3Ns[/youtube]

And while I was typing that I thought of this:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csxBQLG4-3Q[/youtube]

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

James- Runaground

[youtube=425,350]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hKfXd0dpyv4[/youtube]

Which sounds remarkably like the above video in parts

[The Plunger]

CRUSH

POLYGRAM TV

DISC ONE
1. Suede - Saturday Night ( Anderson / Oakes )
2. Babybird - Candy Girl ( S.Jones )
3. Alisha's Attic - I Am I Feel ( Poole / Martin / Poole )
4. Dodgy - If You're Thinking Of Me ( Nigel Clark / Mathew Priest / Andy Miller )
5. Paul Weller - You Do Something To Me
6. Ash - Oh Yeah ( Tim Wheeler )
7. REM - Find The River ( Berry / Buck / Mills / Stipe )
8. Shed Seven - Chasing Rainbows
9. Pulp - Something Changed ( Cocker / Banks / Mackey / Senior / Doyle / Webber )
10. Longpigs - On And On ( Hunt )
11. Radiohead - High And Dry
12. Cardigans - Lovefool ( Svensson / Persson )
13. Lush - 500 ( Shake Baby Shake ) ( E. Anderson )
14. Space - Female Of The Species ( Scott and Space )
15. The Wannadies - You And Me Song
16. The Divine Comedy - The Frog Princess ( Neil Hannon )
17. Ocean Colour Scene - Huckleberry Grove
18. The Boo Radleys - From The Bench At Belvidere ( Martin Carr )
19. Oasis - Champagne Supernova ( Noel Gallagher )

DISC TWO
1. Cast - Walkaway ( J.Power )
2. Menswear - Being Brave ( Black / White / Dean / Gentry / Everitt )
3. Gene - For The Dead ( Mason / Rossiter / Miles / James )
4. Primal Scream - I'm Gonna Cry Myself Blind ( Gillesple / Innes / Young )
5. Suede - Stay Together ( Anderson / Butler )
6. Deus - Little Arithmetics ( Words: Barman, Music: Barman / Ward )
7. Garbage ( featuring Tricky ) - Milk ( Wicked Mix )
8. Echobelly - Dark Therapy ( Madan / Johansson )
9. Dubstar - Stars ( Hillier / Wilkie / Blackwood )
10. Everything But The Girl - Missing ( Amplified Heart Album Mix ) ( Words: Tracey Thorn Music: Ben Watt )
11. St.Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart ( Young )
12. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart '95
13. James - Come Home ( Booth / Gott / Glennie )
14. The Frank And Walters - After All ( Linehan / Keating / Linehan )
15. The LA's - There She Goes ( La Mavers )
16. The Lemonheads - It's About Time ( Evan Dando / Tom Morgan )
17. Levellers - Julie
18. Teenage Fanclub - Mellow Doubt ( N.Blake )
19. Blind Melon - No Rain
20. The Trash Can Sinatras - To Sir With Love ( Marc London / Don Black )
21. The Cure / Love Song ( Smith / Gallup / Williams / Thompson / O'Donnell / Tolhurst )

I remember buying this cd back in the day, it seems to have the some of the type of thing you're looking for on it. Or possibly not - it's difficult to tell from your description, you crazy mixed-up renegade.

[daimoniac]

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJKP7-YWgBs[/youtube]

silver sun went all indie once and did this...

[SavageHedgehog]

I remember buying this cd back in the day, it seems to have the some of the type of thing you're looking for on it. Or possibly not - it's difficult to tell from your description, you crazy mixed-up renegade.

I would say that was an almost perfect encapsulation of the term "Indie power ballad". I would go for Ocean Pie rather than Chasing Rainbows myself, but I suppose Rainbows has more of that "power" thing going on. And Walkaway is certainly a "Power ballad", arf!

I also thought of this:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW7n1cNwVWA[/youtube]

And this kareoke standard:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3ueYxrA-Zs[/youtube]