10 Perfect Rock Songs That Divided Rock Bands

10. Beth - KISS

Nobody can really pinpoint the moment where the power ballad started to become a thing. Some say it was the moment that artists like the Beatles made their sappier fodder, and others claim that people like Zeppelin and Aerosmith had their moments where they brought things down a notch. If you're catering strictly to the rock audience, showing you have a soft side couldn't get much better than KISS's Beth.

The only problem was...the band was pissed to even go through with it. Even though they thought that Peter Criss' original demo was fine the way it is, producer Bob Ezrin's idea to make the song a full orchestral arrangement went about as well as you think it would for a band that was known to don demonic face paint every time they took to the stage.

Once they were actually able to get the song together, Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons still weren't convinced of its potential, deciding to just release it as a B-side to Detroit Rock City. As the record started to take off though, something about this one song about the Catman missing his girl back home had just enough strange charm to it to become one of the biggest songs of the band's entire career. It may not have been balls to the wall rock, but you can imagine that those royalty checks didn't hurt either.