I was driving home today and this song came on Sirius XM. The ballad, while not as good as Home Sweet Home from 1985 has a special place in my heart because it was on the Dr. Feelgood album. This was the first CD that I bought when I was 16 at Wherehouse Video in the Riverside Plaza in Riverside, CA.

Cheesy lyrics talking about sailors, plants, climbing mountains. The song is really all over the place.

My son asked me a few months back why there were so many power ballads back in the 1980s. He said he doesn’t get them. They’re heavy metal bands right? My only reply was yeah, but they also wanted to get their songs played on the radio.