| To praise the uptempo songs and deplore the more balladic numbers would be to fall into the critical trap that admirers of the band have been stuck in for 20 years. |
| Vedder and the rest of the band are at their best when they're feeling balladic. |
| The piece opens with a stern rumble of pianism before the ensemble gives halting chase, and then tapers off into balladic terrain without relaxing its intensity. |
| With its strong linguistic differentiation from the north, it is home to a rich operatic and balladic tradition of its own. |
| His new single, I Know What You Want, is a balladic duet with Her Squeakiness Mariah Carey, and downright slushy. |
| But it is a rock sound, with balladic verses and powerful harmonised choruses, that wins through. |
