I’ll take a different approach to the question- whenever i get into a musical funk and can’t decide what I’d like to listen to there are 4/5 bands I always go back to, to get things moving again- when in doubt I put on: rem, the replacements, crowded house (not the newer sleepy stuff), cracker/camper van Beethoven- both fronted by David Lowery. Now this is not to say there always the stones, Beatles, Floyd, who and led Zep that fills the classic rock void and jumps starts everything as well.
child of the 80’s alternative!