Matthew Ryan vs The Silver State is a proper safe place album for me. Always put it on when I’m sad. Guess it’s fairly MOR Americana. Nobody I’ve ever played it to has liked it. One of my pals posted me back a copy I bought him online and said it sounded like Rod Stewart.
Shoot…
Neutral milk hotels
Very Fast Very Dangerous by Reuben
America’s Least Wanted by Ugly Kid Joe
Powderfinger
Embrace
This is a tough one because I genuinely think they’re amazing (their first four albums in particular are all-time classics, I will never back down from this), but maybe I’ll go with 311’s From Chaos. It’s just a blast start to finish despite containing significant levels of shit.
Maybe even my favorite song by them, it’s so fucking good.
Another great one
Total Shit
Decent song but lyrically I can’t. Their ridiculous lyrics are part of the charm but “If dealing with punks was school, I’d have a Harvard degree” is a bridge too far.
Katy Perry’s catalogue.
Panic Prevention - Jamie T
Stadium Arcadium
It was 2003
Not sure I can say I got loads of joy from it, but secretly quite enjoyed The Music’s self-titled (and perhaps only?) album, despite knowing it is quite terrible proper haircut stuff.
Blue Pearl - Naked.
I’m sure it’s rubbish, but I loved it too much in my youth to notice. It also introduced me to ‘Running Up That Hill’ so led me to Kate Bush, so that buys it points. It also has David Gilmour playing guitar on a couple of tracks!
All of the classic ones.
It’s rubbish but it’s great.
Dude Ranch
I got a fair bit of joy from the singles on Chocolate Starfish when I was younger, but would now say that album is properly shit while SO is at least ok
Yeah, was considering that at first.