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#The best of soft rock time life series#
Hearing these songs, many of which I remembered wafting into the backseat of my parents’ minivan as my brother and I were ferried around suburban Oklahoma in the mid-1980s and early 1990s, threw me right back to a time in my life when all I worried about was napping and making Christmas wish lists. Each snippet-these Time Life commercials are masterfully edited, carving each song down to its essence, a sustained series of pleasure bombs strafing your cerebral cortex-jarred loose another fond remembrance, of an afternoon spent at the pool, or driving home from a Little League game. “It’s music that just makes you feel you good,” Pack purred at one point, which could be the de facto marketing pitch for just about any Time Life collection you’d care to name. Quoth Merriam-Webster, soft rock has “a gentler sound and slower beat than hard rock.” But back to lounging on my couch: the commercial in question that stopped my channel surfing was like a peculiar sort of cerebral memory bath. Hosted by Ambrosia’s David Pack, The Best of Soft Rock, a mammoth 10-disc box set, was a veritable marshmallow castle, reeling off one fluffy Top 40 hit after another, a cascade of easy listening FM funneled straight from the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s into my living room in the ’10s.