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“Ballad of Jayne” by LA Guns
“Ballad of Jayne” by LA Guns appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1990 and 2002. Its best result is #233 on the Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #880 hard rock song of all time.
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Glam metal loved a power ballad, and "The Ballad of Jayne" was L.A. Guns' turn at the slow dance, a lighter-in-the-air number from their 1989 album Cocked & Loaded, with Tom Werman producing. Early pressings of the album spelled it "The Ballad of Jane", without the y.
In 1990 it climbed to 33 on the Billboard Hot 100 and 25 on the Mainstream Rock chart, and it even crept to 53 in the UK a year later. That was the band's lone brush with the pop mainstream as far as VH1 was concerned: in 2009 the channel ranked it at 93 among the '80s' 100 greatest one-hit wonders.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 233 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
| 2002 | 290 | KISW | KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002) | 999 |
Also listed as: Ballad Of Jane.
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