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Jack White
Keef
Hendrix
not my cup of tea.
Listen to some Sleep, then some Kyuss, then some QOTSA, then some Electric Wizard, and then decide if you like fuzz :-)
Sitting alone in a bedroom with a fuzz is likely to drive (how did that pun slip in there) you to distraction. As I said context is the key. Listen to The Carpenters 'Goodby to Love' where the dirty raspy guitar is in total contrast to the smooth production, Tony Peluso even used a Coin (American Quarter) to give it that characteristic click and harmonic squeal.
I can think of two pieces of music it was used on that I actually like, and both are Hendrix; Voodoo Chile, such a huge distortion sound (I read it was a fuzz, something rolled right back so it doesn't sound one) and the Woodstock national anthem thing where he sounds like his amp is about to blow.
After that no thanks, that spitty muffled crap, yuck.
Saw a pub band once, the guitar player would play a solo and just disappear in the mix, totally. I told him at the interval, he was standing on a fuzz, he had no idea.
Look for Muse - fury. Massive bass sound with synth, fuzz and a clean sound and the guitar is absolutely fuzzed to the max. Sounds amazing.
Personally I don't generally like fuzz pedals and don't have any free standing fuzz pedals although I've tried quite a few. Now and again I might use a bit of the fuzz effect in my Valvetronix or Tonelabs which is modelled on the Arbiter fuzz face but only when mucking around at home...none of my gigging patches have fuzz.