"Once Upon a Time there was a great songwriter called Stephen Sondheim. He had many, many hit shows, among which were Sunday in the Park with George..."
"I wish."
"...Assassins..."
"I wish."
"...and the fairy tale musical of 1988, Into the Woods."
"I wish."
"I wish."
"...Assassins..."
"I wish."
"...and the fairy tale musical of 1988, Into the Woods."
"I wish."
—Forbidden Broadway, "Into the Words"
"In one sense the Ibsen battle was carried forward to unmistakable triumph: it won the allegiance of an entire generation of dramatists and succeeded in establishing the Ibsen mold as the 'accepted' mold of the age. In another sense—in the sense of winning a vast commercial audience for its special characteristic—it never succeeded at all. Ibsen himself has at no time had a mass following in this country, neither in his matinee beginnings nor in the heyday of his convinced imitators. To this day a repertory company, organizing itself around the usual Shakespeare, Shaw, and Ibsen, tends to make a little money with Shaw, break even with Shakespeare, and break its neck with The Wild Duck."
— Walter Kerr, How Not to Write a Play
"Killer7 was the game that put legendary auteur Suda51 on the map, but to call it slightly unconventional would be like calling a swift knee in the bollocks a slightly inappropriate response to a question at a presidential debate, and it was destined for cult stardom only, which is a nice way of saying 'reviewed well, sold like shit.'"
— Yahtzee, "The Capcom Five"
Let's look at the most over-rated Sacred Cow: The Velvet Underground & Nico. This record is 40 years old. Countless thousands of critics and cultural observers over the years have cited is as the turning point for modern/indie rock music. People have had four decades to heed those sorts of high praise and buy the album... but they ''haven't'. Two generations have grown to maturity since that record came out, reading about its magnificence, without ever (collectively) being inspired to go out and buy a copy to hear what the critics are going on about.
