No half-assery, though. Not even 3/4-assery will do. Only the most mind-flaying, pile-driving, pus-spitting stuff will do. I got nothing against the Elevators or the Dead, but (the vast, overwhelming majority of) that shit won't cut it.
The guitar solo that starts at about 20:25 into this excerpt from the Seven That Spells/Kawabata Makoto record The Men from Dystopia is the sort of thing that this thread wants.