I agree on Graceland. Good, but far from mind blowing and hardly worthy of the massive praise it received. If you jump around to different tracks you can hear Simon using identical phrasing on many of them. Gets a bit repetitious.
One genre that I never cared for was the new wave whiny British sound of bands like The Cure, The Smiths, Depeche Mode, New Order, Flock of Seagulls, etc. that can best be represented by the album Republic by New Order. Like many of the albums from those bands, there might be a good song or two, like Regret on Republic, but then the rest of the albums are pretty much garbage. Having grown up on The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Queen, etc. that whiny new wave sound never did it for me. But there are a few songs from those bands that I do like, such as Ghost in You and Pretty in Pink by The Psychedelic Furs, Space Age Love Song by Flock, and all of Tears for Fears, which manages to be new wave but not whiny.