10 Classic Rock Albums That Got Better Over Time

It's safe to assume that most things that fall under the term classic rock are mandatory listening for every rock fan. Since the explanation is right there in the title, there's no reason to think that these records won't hold up as legitimate classics that should withstand the test of time, right? Well, it turns out that not all classic rock artists have albums that are treated fairly.

As much as we might like to divide up the love amongst the best records of all time, there are always those few albums that are sidelined as bad or are just treated as a lesser entry in an artists' catalog. Even though it's pretty clear to see why these might not have taken off at the time, the years have been nothing but kind to these records going forward. For all of the faults that the fans may have had with them at the time, everything has seemed to smooth out in recent years, with these becoming some of the greatest pieces of work in the bands' catalog.

While it might be easy to clown on something in the moment, these were dragged through the mud only for them to be praised to the moon and back later. They might not be giving the stone cold classics a run for their money or anything, but they certainly deserve more love than what they got back in the day.

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.