I have to agree with a few people who has posted here earlier.
Effects are there to make pretty much any noise you want, I think it's fantastic to hear sometimes when someone has worked hard & crafted a sound that suit's them.
It's a stereo-type but some people when asked about effect's automatically think about Metal using FUZZ/Distortion etc.
We have some amazing technology available to us, I just think you restrict yourself by ignoring it.
At one point i was peicing together a project where i was keen to really mess about with noises & effects. I was on a strict budget & people i knew was throwing me various differant pedals & units to play with. I was basically messing about to see what happened.
I used a expensive (Guitar) multi effects pedal & put a cheap cheesy keyboard through it added a few extra units of various quality & price ranges & out of the other side was something heavy & mean......we used these samples to create alsorts of metal/techno style tunes......Top fun, as music should be.