post the most bland, unoffensive, banal album you can think of

>>72983785
Definitely that one
Or anything by The National

95% of /mu/core

>>72983871
true that

literally anything labelled as "indie" from 2000 onwards

Most "art rock", not only Wilco fits this honestly.

Beatles
Beach Boys
TVU
Bowie
Eno
Pink Floyd around DSOTM
Radiohead
Coldplay
the list goes on

>inb4somebody cites the occasional "out there" track some of these guys wrote while ignoring the majority of their discography

>>72983885
I don't know what happened after the end of the 90s, but indie back then felt more colorful

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Also their worst

>>72983916
Nah, it was still noisy guitar stuff and folk groups back then as well.

>>72983785
This album felt pretty dull the first time but it's actually very dense. If it never clicks, you probably have a shit tier attention span.

>>72983785
Most 70s soft rock. I really enjoy Fleetwood Mac but there's no denying their the plain white bread or rock music.

>>72983921
All of their albums are bland.

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I still like it though

>>72983939
This. I never get bored of it cause I can always focus my attention on something different on the album; sometimes it's Tweedy's voice, sometimes the arrangements, sometimes the drums, or a lyric...

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>>72984066
>I know I would die if I could come back new

>>72983785
This album has a god tier opener and a god tier closing streak

>>72984100
you could've posted literally any album of hers that came before this. what do you expect? avant-garde shit?

>>72984219
beyonce took banal and unoffensive to new heights with her two latest albums though

(it's the pretension)

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can't do more inoffensive than that

Probably something like Steely Dan

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Let's be real, all of the albums posted so far are marginally interesting in some way

Make it through 10 minutes of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPDQfEcnDdg

>>72984276
I know blackies hate it, but your average normie would be just as repulsed by this as they would by more "accepted" black metal.

>>72984501
doesn't change the fact that it is extremely safe and basic.
Plus the average normie would be repulsed by King Crimson for fuck's sake

>>72983785

Anything by the bands Train or Maroon 5.

Everything Muse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjXWtEqs8I4

>>72984738
Origin Of Symmetry is still a great album

>>72984408
All of real estate. Dream pop/indie shit. Atlas was the same thing

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>>72985249
No

>>72984408
bands like real estate killed rock music

Play yankee hotel foxtrot to an actual normie and see how unoffensive it is

>>72983785
this. Goddamn this is some real boring ass dadrock shit.
Why the fuck do people say they were heavily influenced by country and krautrock and Jim O'Rourke and stuff??

>>72985327

Uh because they were? A Ghost Is Born has more of the krautrock influence though. An entire genre and music magazine was named after Tweedy's former band.

>>72985327
>>72985395
Also YHF was literally mixed by Jim O'Rourke

>>72983939
This. It took a few listens, but when the album clicked it, you just appreciate how much stuff they put into this album. Definitely a comfy Autumn album.

>>72983939
tl;dr

>>72983785
you literally got it right OP.

good thread.

>>72983939
>muh you just dont get it

>ITT: People who are musically illiterate

>>72983812
how can you say this?

it was his only album that was actually worth listening to because it tried to do something other than be the comfortable beatles sound people wanted to pretend was worth listening to with decent production.

radiohead.

it is even mediocre for normies. the only ones that cling to it and think it is good are the sorts that could be best described as 'wet blankets'.

>>72986198
Unironically this

>>72985327
>mixed by Jim O'Rourke and largely written while Tweedy n O'Rourke toured because he loved his work and wanted his help producing and then asked him to help shape the entire album because he was so pleased with the results o their first completed track together
>not heavily influenced by Jim O'Rourke
up 2 u i guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯