The flip side of the Favorite Worst Albums thread.
These are a band or artist’s most beloved/successful records that you are just not feeling.
Two that come to mind for me:
Green Day - American Idiot. After going “punk mature” with their album Warning and having the early recordings for their follow up (promised to be a return to an angrier Insomniac sound) stolen from the studio, Green Day hit the artistic and career reset button by doubling down on pseudo-political mall rock with themes heavy handed enough to satisfy any 15 year old living in the Bush Jr era. I consider Warning to be the last record by Green Day the band and American Idiot to be the first record by Green Day the rock music company.
The National - High Violet. I like this record but it has my all-time least favorite National songs (England, Runaway, Vanderlyle) and two of those are considered all-time classics by fans who tout HV as their best record. To me, it’s their least fleshed out record, trading depth and intricacy for immediate volume and “epic-ness” and released with 3-4 tracks that sound like well-produced first sketches of a National song and those maudlin favorites I named above. Lemonworld is an all-time fave though.