10 Albums That The Critics Got Wrong

10. Kick Out the Jams - MC5

Towards the end of the '60s, rock and roll was just starting to get a bit more chaotic. Even though the Rolling Stones and the Beatles already had some ideas as far as the darker side of rock was concerned, the stuff coming from the mean streets of the US were giving the genre its real teeth. Or if you're the MC5, just giving rock a bad name in the critic's eyes.

Although Kick Out the Jams is by no means a critic's dream, the abrasive sounds of garage rock were just being forged here, with the title track alone earning a spot as one of the greatest rock songs of all time. Back in the day though, critics were popping a monocle a minute at this live record, even going so far as to use words like "chaotic" as if they were insults to the band.

For as much as the early critics of rock despised heavy metal, calling this a failure feels super snooty nowadays, when later bands like Guns N Roses were pulling from the MC5's playbook in terms of the more manic side of rock and roll. This may have been the building blocks of hard rock, but maybe it arrived before many of us were actually willing to listen.