# stuff you should like, but are "meh" about **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 13, 2014, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-should-like-but-are-meh-about/681199 "2014-02-13T00:22:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-should-like-but-are-meh-about/681199/81 "2014-02-16T01:32:01Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > **The Watchmen** - and I do mean the original comic book series (oh, excuse me, “graphic novel.”) No, no, you were right the first time. It was published as a limited series not in a graphic novel. Anyway, along those same lines Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. I like Batman, I really liked Batman a lot more back when this was supposedly so brilliant and definitive of the character. But I couldn’t even get through the trade paperback collection. Way too many pages with like 12 panels of just talking heads, and I find the art atrocious (Klaus Janson on inks could ruin anything, IMO). Yeah, it was dark and brooding instead of BANG POW ZAP, but it’s not like they hadn’t already been moving away from that sort of thing long before Frank Miller came along. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-should-like-but-are-meh-about/681199/82 "2014-02-16T02:32:36Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > I’m another Beatles meh-er (I don’t _hate_ them by any means, and I do quite like a few of their songs (“Eleanor Rigby,” “Michelle,” and “Yesterday,” primarily)) but I just don’t really see what the big deal is about them. I’m thinking it’s got to be a “you had to be there” thing, where they were a new and different sound at the time. But most of their songs, especially earlier ones like “I Want To Hold Your Hand” and “She Loves Me” just sound like any other sort of trite teenage love-stuff. I just don’t get why they’re practically deified among rock acts. The Beatles suffer from the same problem a lot of groundbreaking acts do, which is that in retrospect their sound doesn’t sound all that unique and seems riddled with cliches. But none of that stuff was a cliche at the time they were writing it. But anyway, this is a whole ‘nother topic that could take up its own thread. I fully support anyone’s right to like or not like whoever they want, I was just poking some fun at the idea that the Beatles’ entire discography is nothing but trippy drug fantasies. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-should-like-but-are-meh-about/681199/83 "2014-02-16T14:40:13Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > Family Guy and South Park. They should be right up my alley, but wow, they aren’t. I’d rather watch season 200 of the Simpsons. Family Guy is OK. But I never could get into South Park. And I live 15 miles north of Fairplay Colorado (South Park) ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-should-like-but-are-meh-about/681199/84 "2014-02-16T16:20:30Z")
I have a penchant for avant-garde rock music like Frank Zappa, The Residents, Captain Beefheart, and The Velvet Underground. Given this, I _should_ like Pink Floyd. But with the exception of their first album, I can’t stand Pink Floyd. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-should-like-but-are-meh-about/681199/85 "2014-02-16T16:25:40Z")
I’m a classical musician and fan of classical music, but I’m not particularly fond of Mozart - his instrumental music, anyway. I don’t know - I guess I find it too predictable. Not that I think he was a bad composer or anything, just that much of his music doesn’t interest me much. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-should-like-but-are-meh-about/681199.md?page=4)