10 Albums That The Critics Got Wrong

There have been plenty of acts that music critics have just never seen the value in. Even if you're all over the charts, that doesn't stop you from being dragged through the mud time and time again whenever the snooty writer crowd comes calling. When you have objectively great rock and roll on your hands though, you'd think that at least one person would take notice.

While the thought of Jimmy Page going solo from the Yardbirds seemed questionable at first, no one is going to refute you in saying that Led Zeppelin became one of the biggest bands in history. Although each respective album in their catalog has become an outright classic, almost every single thing they put out was lambasted by every critic that walked the Earth. Hell, if you picked up a random Rolling Stone article back in the day, you would have thought that this was a vanity project for Jimmy Page, with most of the reviews calling records like Led Zeppelin II amateurish and playing into Page's ego.

Once they got going, Zeppelin even played into their notoriety on their albums, citing their fourth album's lack of title as another way to mess with the critical consensus. Then again, if the critics got their way by killing Zeppelin, rock as we know it would probably be in a very different place.