The history of music is filled with surprises, from genres spawning sub-genres which ultimately become more popular than the initial genre, to bands breaking from tradition and releasing something wholly unique and sonically different. For this reason, music criticism is a difficult business. Recognising the start of a trend or the release of a career-defining album is surely extremely difficult when smack bang in the middle of it happening. Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Yet there are classic albums out there released by the likes of Led Zeppelin, The Beatles and Pink Floyd that are so brilliant it's tough to conceive of a time when critics didn't like them, or didn't appreciate them for what they were. But it happened. In fact, it happened to some of the greatest albums of all time. Here are eight baffling examples...
