Above anything else, Invention. For really really creative musical invention, you of course need a lot of skill, but without invention, the skill of the musicians is pretty superfluous to my ears.
I like stuff like, oh, Les Claypool, who is an excellent Bassist, but there are better, and there are certainly better singers, but his music is nothing like you could hear from anyone else, and every time he changes his band, his songs change with the musicians playing it, so every time you hear it, its different.
I can't really think of too many more examples without going into Jazz which typically causes people's eyes to glaze over, so I'll say invention is what I look for in bands.
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