I agree to a degree, but most 'good' alcohols should taste good on their own. I mean, you would never add anything to a good 20+ single malt or port. Many of my friends drink tequila, just on ice. I'm not an aficiando on tequilas, but stuff like tres generacions (sp?) should never be mixed into anything but ice (some of my friends would argue that's even wrong). But back to my first point, the heat. A very high alcohol content will bring much better results, and you really wouldn't need much of it, so you could throw some of the better alocohols into it to mix up whatever it is you're making.
As for never having a good drink, perhaps you are correct, but then again, I live by the motto coined by Benjamin Franklin a few years ago, "Beer is proof God loves us, and wants us happy."