Ultimate Rock Ballads: a big music no no, even as a goof

My fiancee and I were flipping through the channels a couple weeks ago, actually around Thanksgiving, and we kept running into the informercial for the Time Life "Ultimate Rock Ballads" collection. Now of course most of the music on the compilation is sort of guilty pleasure type material but watching the commercial and all the live performances they displayed I figured that the collection would be made up mostly of at least semi-cool guilty pleasures like "Sister Christian" by Nightranger. Some of the stuff by bands like Foreigner, Meatloaf, and Boston might be in the realm of guilty pleasure but it's all well-written, stimulating, and catchy; however, all the best songs were shown during the commercial and the bad ones were conveniently left out.

Since I love to indulge in cheesy music sometimes (along with some of the good stuff on the collection) I acquired Ultimate Rock Ballads (notice I said acquired not bought) and even for the price I paid, I felt gypped. There are a few good songs but the rest are so shitty that it's not even worth it and this is coming from a guy who loves the 80s. For a lot of artists on the collection, whoever compiled the songs managed to include about a dozen or so pretty solid bands but picked all of their worst material. For example, if I only knew Cheap Trick by their 80s ballad "The Flame" I'd NEVER listen to them again.

So, in conclusion, skip this crappy collection and if you do decide to get it, (and I almost never encourage this) don't actually pay for it.

At any rate, the commercial is hilarious and here is a screen shot from Rachael's favorite part:

Just look at the guy from Toto's mustache. Such a passionate mustache for such a passionate song. Rosanna! Rosanna! Rachael and I could not stop laughing at this part. He was trying a little too hard here. I thought his head was going to explode.