Most bands that any of us love, whether we're into jazz, prog, experimental, metal, krautrock, trance, indie, blah blah - the drumming is going to be pretty damn awesome. It's easy to get into musicianship for the sake of it. It's the coming together of a bunch of creative people that makes the magic.
I remember many years ago listening to some crazy freeform jazz with a guy at university who didn't really like the stuff (which I understand, bands like Amm and Borbetomagus can make little sense to most folk) and him being really obsessed with whether or not any of them could actually play their instruments. He was really into John Coltrane's blue period stuff (which I kinda like but is a bit tame for me) so I played him some of Coltrane's blowier freeform stuff, and I could tell he wanted to hate it but didn't want to admit it cos he knew that Coltrane is a virtuoso.
Probably gone a bit off topic from the OP, but isn't the drumming on any track you love pretty much the best drumming ever at point of listening?
Sure, Bonham and Moon were great drummers, but really was Dave Lovering any less exciting when belting out the relatively simple beats to the great Pixies tracks? I know through experience that many apparently technically deficient drummers have belted out fantastic rhythms to some of my favourite music ever, while some technically excellent drummers leave me totally cold.
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