When I was in elementary and middle school, I listened to mostly adult contemporary songs (i.e., “soft rock”), mostly because I didn’t know any better. So watching the infomercial for Time-Life’s Classic Soft Rock collection was particularly trippy, because they showed that these songs were sung by real people! With bad hair and funny clothes! I recognized almost every song, but less than half the singers. I also learned some surprising facts (Lotta Love was originally by Neil Young?).
October 10, 2006
June 9, 2007 at 1:07 pm
[...] it’s because I’ve watched Time-Life’s Classic Soft Rock Collection infomercial one too many times, but when I was leaving for work today, Christopher Cross’s “Ride [...]
November 17, 2007 at 11:19 pm
Every single time it came on my wife and I felt lucky. We’d watch the whole thing. But the thing we realize is that to buy the CDs wouldn’t be nearly as good as the infomercial because you wouldn’t have the videos.