10 Classic Rock Albums That Got Better Over Time

10. The Man Who Sold the World - David Bowie

As much as we like to believe that Ziggy Stardust may have beamed down onto Earth, David Bowie's transformation wasn't necessarily that smooth. After breaking out with Space Oddity in the late '60s, things were slowly building until the glam rock alien finally touched down to make first contact. In between that time though, Bowie actually got a taste for the heavier side of rock on the Man Who Sold the World.

Granted, the reason why people were turned off by this album may have been the cover itself, with the world not really being ready for this kind of androgynous rock star just yet. When you sit down with the music though, Bowie is actually a lot heavier on this album than before, taking the acoustic foundation that he had on some of his previous albums and turning it up to almost Black Sabbath levels of noisy.

Even though this album contains many members that would eventually become a part of Ziggy's backing band, you can tell that this is them working out the bugs and finding what sticks, and having a lot of gold to sift through at the end of everything on songs like Black Country Rock and Width of a Circle. Considering how many leaps and bounds that Bowie would make throughout his career, it's no surprise that this was the album with songs that would eventually be covered by Nirvana 20 years later.