Guilty Pleasure Albums

I do like these albums and I think they're pretty interesting, but unfortunately they have that kind of either you love it or hate it type of appeal. They range from impressive but messy 6/10s to decent 7/10s. You've got strong hooks and melodies and some fun songs, but as a whole they're probably going to appeal to a more niche audience.

Country:

Brad Paisley - "American Saturday Night" (2009)

Lyle Lovett - "Lyle Lovett" (1986)

Lyle Lovett - "Pontiac" (1988)

Randy Travis - "Always & Forever" (1987)
Randy Travis - "Storms of Life" (1986)

Steve Earle - "Guitar Town" (1986)

Metal/Hardcore:

Origin - "Entity" (2011)

Terror - "Live By the Code" (2013)

Pop/R&B:

Lady Gaga - "The Fame" (2008)

Phoenix - "United" (2000)

Taylor Swift - "Red" (2012)

Rap:

50 Cent - "Get Rich Or Die Tryin'" (2003)

Das EFX - "Dead Serious" (1992)

Juicy J - "Stay Trippy" (2013)

Mantronix - "The Album" (1985)

Too Short - "Life Is... Too Short" (1989)

Viktor Vaughn - "Vaudeville Villain" (2003)

Rock/Folk:

Against Me! - "Transgender Dysphoria Blues" (2014)

Alanis Morissette - "Jagged Little Pill" (1995)

Alejandro Escovedo - "Burn Something Beautiful" (2016)

Alex Bleeker & the Freaks - "Country Agenda" (2015)

Art Brut - "Bang Bang Rock & Roll" (2005)

Art Brut - "Brilliant! Tragic!" (2011)

Band of Horses - "Cease to Begin" (2007)

Band of Horses - "Everything All the Time" (2006)

Band of Horses - "Infinite Arms" (2010)

Ben Folds - "Rockin' the Suburbs" (2001)

The Black Keys - "Brothers" (2010)

Blink-182 - "Neighborhoods" (2011)

Bruce Springsteen - "Born to Run" (1975)

Bush - "Sixteen Stone" (1994)

Bryan Adams - "Reckless" (1984)

Car Seat Headrest - "Teens of Denial" (2016)

Car Seat Headrest - "Twin Fantasy" (2018)

Cheap Trick - "Cheap Trick" (1977)

Cheap Trick - "Heaven Tonight" (1978)

Coldplay - "X & Y" (2005)

Collective Soul - "Collective Soul" (1995)

Cut Copy - "In Ghost Colours" (2008)

Dave Matthews Band - "Under the Table & Dreaming" (1994)

Death Cab for Cutie - "Plans" (2005)

The Decemberists - "Castaways & Cutouts" (2003)

Devo - "Freedom of Choice" (1980)

Dexys Midnight Runners - "Too Rye Ay" (1982)

Dinosaur Jr. - "Bug" (1988)

Duran Duran - "Rio" (1982)

Eleanor Friedberger - "Personal Record" (2013)

Eternal Summers - "Every Day It Feels Like I'm Dying" (2018)

Fergus & Geronimo - "Funky Was the State of Affairs" (2012)

Fine Young Cannibals - "The Raw & the Cooked" (1988)

A Flock of Seagulls - "A Flock of Seagulls" (1982)

Foo Fighters - "Wasting Light" (2011)

Foster the People - "Torches" (2011)

Fountains of Wayne - "Fountains of Wayne" (1996)

Franz Ferdinand - "Franz Ferdinand" (2004)

The Futureheads - "The Chaos" (2010)

The Futureheads - "The Futureheads" (2004)

The Futureheads - "This Is Not the World" (2008)

Garbage - "Garbage" (1995)

Guster - "Ganging Up On the Sun" (2006)

Guster - "Keep It Together" (2003)

Guster - "Lost & Gone Forever" (1999)

The Hives - "Tyrannosaurus Hives" (2004)

The Hives - "Veni Vidi Vicious" (2000)

Hootie & the Blowfish - "Cracked Rear View" (1994)

Huey Lewis & the News - "Sports" (1983)

Jimmy Eat World - "Bleed American" (2001)

Joe Jackson - "Look Sharp!" (1979)

Lush - "Split" (1994)

Maroon 5 - "It Won't Be Soon Before Long" (2007)

Matchbox 20 - "Yourself Or Someone Like You" (1996)

Men At Work - "Business As Usual" (1981)

MGMT - "Congratulations" (2010)

The Mooney Suzuki - "Electric Sweat" (2002)

Muse - "Absolution" (2004)

Nada Surf - "You Know Who You Are" (2016)

The New Pornographers - "Electric Version" (2003)

The New Pornographers - "Mass Romantic" (2001)

The New Pornographers - "Twin Cinema" (2005)

The Ocean Blue - "The Ocean Blue" (1989)

Of Montreal - "Satanic Panic in the Attic" (2004)

The Orange Peels - "Circling the Sun" (2005)

Paramore - "Paramore" (2013)

Passion Pit - "Manners" (2009)

Portastatic - "Bright Ideas" (2005)

The Postal Service - "Give Up" (2003)

The Proclaimers - "Sunshine On Leith" (1988)

Ski Lodge - "Big Heart" (2013)

Sloan - "One Chord to Another" (1996)

Sloan - "Twice Removed" (1994)

Soft Cell - "Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret" (1981)

Sonic Youth - "The Eternal" (2009)

Spoon - "Gimme Fiction" (2005)

Spoon - "Kill the Moonlight" (2002)

The Strokes - "First Impressions of Earth" (2006)

Sunny Day Real Estate - "The Rising Tide" (2000)

Superchunk - "What A Time to Be Alive" (2018)

The Tallest Man On Earth - "There's No Leaving Now" (2012)

The Tallest Man On Earth - "The Wild Hunt" (2010)

The Teardrop Explodes - "Kilimanjaro" (1980)

Third Eye Blind - "Third Eye Blind" (1997)

Velocity Girl - "Copacetic" (1993)

Weezer - "Green Album" (2001)

Wilco - "A.M." (1995)

Yellowcard - "Southern Air" (2012)

Zero Zero - "AM Gold" (2001)