Top 10 Classic Albums Critics Hated

Pretty amateur critics if you ask me.

But then, Led Zeppelin went on to become legends of rock music and proved the critics wrong!

"You've heard all this before from such notables as the Seeds, Blue Cheer, Question Mark and the Mysterians, and the Kingsmen. The difference here, the difference which will sell several hundred thousand copies of this album, is in the hype, the thick overlay of teenage-revolution and total-energy-thing which conceals these scrapyard vistas of cliches and ugly noise." - Lester Bangs, Rolling Stone

"Ignore the lyrics entirely" - Melody Maker
Most reviews were actually not that negative, fro example Rolling Stone gave it a 3/5, but it surprisingly still ended up "third worst album of 1996" in the Rolling Stone critic's poll.

A SCATHING Rolling Stone review by Dave Marsh, closing with : " Indeed, Queen may be the first truly fascist rock band. The whole thing makes me wonder why anyone would indulge these creeps and their polluting ideas."
Reviews in general were overwhelmingly negative :
"Absurdly dull and filled with dumb ideas and imitative posturing." - Mitchell Cohen, Creem

Critics were always harsh on Queen.

Would say it's quite overrated, but still has great songs like Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Have A Ciger and the title track. Not as good as The Wall and Dark Side Of The Moon though.

I think it's because people were expecting Dark Side of the Moon Part 2, and that's not what they got.

Ok, now this is surprising considering how iconic this album is now.

Now considered the 9th greatest album ever by acclaimed music.

The album was not very well-received by critics.
"I still think that the great Stones album of their mature period is yet to come." - Lenny Kaye, Rolling Stone
It now sits at #8 on their list of greatest albums of all time.

"incredibly inconsequential" "monumentally irrelevant" - Jon Landau, Rolling Stone
This album was panned by everyone, especially the former Beatles members. Critics like it now, however.

The reviews were mixed, not all being negative. However, it did receive some pretty bad grades from some :
Calgary Herald : D-
Rolling Stone 2/5
The Village Voice : C-

Possibly the most iconic Austrian album of all time, having introduced one of the five biggest and most beloved Austrian music artists ever who would have as about as many hits and evergreens in Austria as the Beatles or Michael Jackson. It was the best selling album of 1982 in Austria and most households own a copy. Yet infamously, when Falco's songs were on the radio back then, the announcers heavily panned them. After the songs were over, they announced the next tracks with "and now we'll play some real music". They arguably hated his drug fueled and provocative lyrics.
In the meantime, these very songs are classics the entire nation loves and which are everywhere.

I don't know who added this but critics instantly praised this album highly. The only one who was critical of it was Robert Christgau, and he was not that critical of it since he gave it a B+. So yeah, wrong.