Following my first post from November 2009 (Soft Power vol. 1, 1968-1988), here are 21 contemporary Soft Rock anthems for entering the new decade, updating the research up to 2009. + As Nick Hornby writes, about compilations, that it is absolutely forbidden to put 2 tracks of the same artist in one selection, a special bonus track by Steely Dan playing an heroic live version of their masterpiece Do it Again.
Tracklist:
01. David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Forbidden Colours
02. Dire Straits - So Far Away
03. Hall & Oates - Romeo Is Bleeding
04. Prefab Sprout - The Sound of Crying
05. Bruce Sprinsteen - The River (live in Stockholm)
06. Big Star - Thirteen
07. Eliott Smith - Angeles
08. Tortoise - TNT
09. Jim O'Rourke - Ghost Ship In A Storm
10. Death Cab for Cutie - Kicked In
11. The Shins - Sleeping Lessons
12. The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
13. The High Llamas Put Yourself Down
14. Gonzalez - Slow Down
15. The Magic Numbers - This Is A Song
16. Sufjan Stevens - Chicago (adult contemporary easy listening version)
17. Midlake - Roscoe
18. Joan of Arc - Just Pack or Unpack
19. Wilco - Impossible Germany
20. Elvis Costello - In The Darkest Place (Burt Bacharach cover)
21. Sébastien Tellier - La Dolce Vita
22. Bonus track : Steely Dan - Do It Again (Live at The Record Plant, Los Angeles)