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Chronicling critical misses throughout history. DM suggestions. Alter ego of @christianschneider.bsky.social
As soon as they get used to that idea, the thing will fall through." - Bennington Evening Banner, 7/12/1922
13.10.2025 16:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
RADIO (1922): "I believe the popular craze for radio is a big bubble which will burst...there's not anything that people can get over the radio that they cannot get from a graphophone except the thrill of thinking that the sound is coming to them thru the air. (cont'd):
13.10.2025 16:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
OASIS, DEFINITELY MAYBE (1994): "Not even original, let alone revolutionary...thrills quickly pass, like eating a bowl of whipped cream...If Oasis is the new voice of Brit rock, it's no wonder Americans are no longer paying all that much attention." - Santa Barbara News Press, 9-23-94
07.08.2025 18:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2
PARANOID - Black Sabbath (1970): "Really, though, they have a sound of their own, but I got bored because it all began to sound the same. It's very heavy rock...That's what the album makes me - paranoid." - The Dispatch (Moline, IL), March 9, 1971
22.07.2025 18:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
BILLY JOEL (1972): "Billy Joel is an adequate singer, and good piano player; but if he scores big in the music world, it will probably be as a composer." - Oregon Daily Journal, February 28, 1972
21.07.2025 15:12 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
THE OFFICE UK (2001): "A Summer Stinker...fails miserably because parodies of dullness only succeed when they're shorter and more exaggerated than their original models...a bore in real time remains simply a bore. I was pretty close to tears. Of utter despair." Evening Standard
16.06.2025 14:46 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
The Birds (1963): "I was not frightened. Merely horrified. In my opinion, the only ones who will be afraid of 'The Birds' are very small children...they should give an Oscar to the bird trainer." LA Evening Citizen News, 3/28/1963
07.06.2025 18:31 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
GETTYSBURG ADDRESS (1863): After Abraham Lincoln's historic speech, the Harrisburg Patriot-News slammed Lincoln, calling his "little" speech "silly" and accusing him of political opportunism.
"Whatever may be the President's virtues, he does not possess sense." (11/24/1863)
STEELY DAN - AJA (1977): "The tunes themselves are well below par. A ghost of the habitual Dan dissonance serves only to gloss over changes that are essentially normal and boring...the disappointment of the year." Valley Advocate, Oct 26, 1977
02.12.2024 03:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
THE GODFATHER (1972): "To treat The Godfather as anything more than an enjoyable, well-made film is only the sick reaction of a sick society. Maybe mafiosi love their mothers, but that's no reason to admire or respect them. So did Adolf Hitler." - Rex Reed, 1972
25.11.2024 16:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
DIE HARD (1988): "phallic," full of "cynical one-liners, racist undertones, and class-baiting." Bloomington Pantagraph
25.11.2024 16:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
ERNEST HEMINGWAY - "The Sun Also Rises" (1926): "Before his tale is done there is some detail that could be spared." - Reading (Pa.) Times, Nov. 20, 1926
25.11.2024 16:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
ABBEY ROAD - The Beatles (1969): "Perhaps to their own relief, the Beatles have lost the desire to touch us. You'll enjoy "Abbey Road," but it won't move you." - The Guardian, Oct 8, 1969
25.11.2024 16:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
BOB DYLAN LIVE (1964): "[Dylan] comes across sincere, but never really succeeds in coming across." - Robert Davis, Wisconsin State Journal, 1964
25.11.2024 16:33 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
