Paul Simon "Graceland" [1986]

During the recording of Paul Simon's "Graceland," there were many protests about the pro-apartheid South African location of the sessions. Once the album was released, however, it became apparent that the protests were warranted: this is shitty music. Here we have a fey, middle-aged folkie trying in vain not to get bowled over by African musicians, a doubling-down of Simon's conceits of the 1970's, when he proved he couldn't play with American black guys, either. God knows why he decided to invoke Elvis for this volume of sentimental tripe, but the bloated, white carcass of an aging frontman actually works quite well in this instance.