Here are mine.
1. Love Bites - Def Leppard
2. More Than Words - Extreme
3. Is This Love - Whitesnake
4. Heaven - Warrant
5. Every Rose Has Its Thorn - Poison
Here are my top five ballads, and thanks Derwood for being so specific about the true definition of a ballad. This was a tough one. I went more with ones I knew off the top of my head as it was so hard to think of them.
1. Scenes From An Italian Restaurant - Billy Joel
2. Ticking - Elton John
3. Ballad In Plain D - Bob Dylan (but I prefer the version by Emily Saliers of the Indigo Girls)
4. The Drinking Song - Moxy Fruvous
5. Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits (again, I prefer the IG version)