When an album is so widely praised for being perfect in every sense of the word that people can feel afraid to criticize it or even listen to it for fear of disliking it. Also called The Dark Side Of The Moon Effect and The In The Aeroplane Over The Sea Effect.
i hear people raving about to pimp a butterfly all the time but im scared to listen to it. what if i don't like it?
obligatory mention of the to pimp a butterfly effect so this can be submitted
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)