10 Legendary Albums That Fans Originally Hated

10. SAP - Alice in Chains

Of all the titans of Seattle from the early '90s, Alice in Chains was the one band that seemed to get the metalhead seal of approval. While bands like Pearl Jam were leaving most of the metal scene in the dust on the radio, Alice were the one band that could stand alongside acts like Slayer and actually hold their own. That was their first album though, and fans were initially not having it when they tried their first experiments.

When the band was given an advance to write what would become Would? for the movie Singles, they used the rest of the money to cut a bunch of acoustic tunes that would be released as SAP. Since all we had known at this point was Man in the Box, this was a different change of pace, being entirely acoustic and featuring a more melancholy tone than what we had already heard. And fans were not responsive at all from what Jerry Cantrell remembers, as most of the live debuts of these tracks resulted in people throwing anything they could at the stage.

It would take a few years for the rest of the world to warm up to this dark side of the band though, from acoustics being layered on Down in a Hole off of Dirt and Jar of Flies becoming one of their most celebrated collection of acoustic cuts. While it looked like they were toning things down, all of that darkness was still there once you stripped the distortion away.