10 Best Soft Rock Albums Of All Time

There's probably a good portion of people who started to tune out the minute that they saw the name 'John Mayer' appear in this entry. And for those people...that's totally understandable, since John has had that strange kind of star power that makes you either love him or hate him with virtually nothing in between. Although there have been some behavior problems that have happened with him throughout the years, he did manage to hit upon perfection at least once in the '00s.

After making the bedroom pop for most girls to sing along to in concert, Continuum feels like John working in his element and making the record that he always wanted to make. Working with some of the best session musicians in the business, this was the moment where John really came into his own as a songwriter, with tracks that sounded similar to his older material without any of the questionable parts, like when he pays tribute to Hendrix on Bold As Love or delivers one of the most lyrical guitar solos of his career on Gravity.

While some of the Mayer signatures are still here on songs like Slow Dancing in a Burning Room, even those songs seem to be taken care of a lot more, with Waiting on the World to Change becoming one of the more celebrated pop songs of the '00s. Up until this point, John Mayer was the kind of guy that always gave off the air of some frat bro at a party playing guitar. After this, he was a fully formed musician, and there was no going back any time soon.