Middle-of-the-road-average-pop-mediocrity-valium-for-the-soul
This is getting quite difficult to narrow it down to a Singular Band. I've already seen entries for Lighthouse Family, Hothouse Flowers, James, Crowded House. I'd also like to add Spiritualised, Divine Comedy, Dodgy, eurrghh. Pop based around the idea that it is engineered to sound best played softly in the background at dinner parties...
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Fri 31 Dec 2010, 0:13, 3 replies)

I liked approx 50% of the early output of French band Air
until I started hearing it at every fucking civilised get together ever round about the start of this century. And their successive albums which got increasingly more tedious. Fuck off, Air.
( broadsword now that's fresh, Fri 31 Dec 2010, 0:16, closed)

I'd like to nominate Neutral Milk Hotel and Belle and Sebastian for this dubious honour as well.
Partly because they're every bit as one-dimensional and unspeakably tedious as the foregoing, but also because they have hipster appeal and are therefore immune to criticism.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 31 Dec 2010, 1:11, closed)

gentle pop
the engineering on B+S's 'step into my office' or whatever it was called was deliberatley shelved at 8kHz to not be offensively sibilant.
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Fri 31 Dec 2010, 1:27, closed)