i like foobar2000 and mpc-hc but yeah they do look pretty utilitarian don't they
(though mpc has looked like that since forever anyway)
(you can also make foobar2000 look cool god knows there's hundreds of skins and whatnot but i think the spirit of the post is that it's not cool by default and whatnot)
(also actually a lot of the more popular foobar skins are "clean" ones so yeah hmmm)