It’s 2016, and if you want to hear a certain genre of music all you have to do is click on the streaming music service — or YouTube playlist — of your choice to hear exactly what you’re looking for. In the not so distant past, however, the only way to get such a curated collection of songs was via Time-Life Music, which had a CD set for seemingly every genre, and mood, imaginable.

If you’re of a certain age you probably remember watching the half hour infomercials that were hosted by either an artist of the genre being advertised, or an actor who needed a pay day.

We’ve combed the Time-Life archives and unearthed five of their most memorable infomercials that even we have to admit we nearly opened up our wallets for.

The Best of Soft Rock

Although no one dares speak of this, everyone knows all the words to at least a few soft rock songs. That alone might have been enough to inspire some folks to fork over their hard earned money for this collection, but for those who needed a push to pick up the phone, the fact that this infomercial was hosted by Air Supply may have provided that push.

Check out the beginning of the clip (which is a collection of the highlights of Air Supply's hosting duties), and notice how you can still hear the guitar playing long after Graham Russell takes his hand off it. I guess they’re just that damned good, right?

One-hundred and fifty songs on 10 CDs, this collection provided somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 hours of soft rock, which is perfect for anyone who owns a dental practice.

The Power of Love

Time-Life Music always had a penchant for wanting to set the mood, and The Power of Love was basically a giant third date mixtape for middle aged couples. One-hundred and fifty songs on nine CDs, the playlist included Whitney Houston, Chicago, Hall & Oates, Lionel Richie and James Taylor.

Love is a powerful thing, but in 2016 this collection would need to come with some little blue pills for quite a few members of its intended audience.

Body + Soul Collection

With a lineup that includes Marvin Gaye, Al Green, Luther Vandross and Barry White, I hope at least one person at Time-Life brought up the idea of naming this The Panty Dropper Collection.

In the informercial, James Ingram tells us we’re going to be taking a, “Magical and sensual journey into the world of romantic soul,” and he wasn’t kidding. If you can’t score over the course of the 144 songs on these 10 CDs, you should seek professional help.

Soul of the '70s

The infomercial for Soul of the ‘70s starts with the theme from Shaft. What else could you possibly ask for?

Of course, being that this is Time-Life we’re talking about, they’re expecting you to ask for 149 more songs over the course of 10 CDs, because that’s what they do.

Soul music reached new heights in the ‘70s, and although a playlist of 150 songs may end up watering down some of that greatness, it’s still one of the coolest combinations of genre and era we’ve ever had.

The Woodstock Collection

At this point, I think more people have claimed to have been at Woodstock than there’s room for in the entirety of the state of New York. People want to belong, and people want to look cool. We get it. This is also why we get why people would be hyped about a 174-song 10-CD set featuring some of the most memorable artists who played the festival.

You can just imagine someone putting on these CDs and telling stories about seeing Jefferson Airplane live. Who cares if the truth is a little more on the “was grounded, and never even considered going” side of things?

Incidentally, if we’d actually bought the five Time-Life Music collections on this list it would have totaled 768 songs over 49 CDs. That’s somewhere in the neighborhood of 51 hours of music, and a very full CD changer!