I'm not really a fan either, but if I'd been a smalltown American teenager in the early '70s I probably would have been - so I can dig the reasoning behind the choice even if I have no desire to listen to it.
Poor old Jools fell into into a similar-smelling vat of hot water when he made Van Halen AOTM a few years ago. Let's not have a repeat of the "he said, she said" flame wars that ensued back then.