I thought that for some time too. Then I went back and listened to In Utero. It was way better than I remembered. It's held up really well. I think, if Courtney Love hadn't had Kurt killed, he would have continued to get better and better.
Yeah, they were great. They blew their load with Operation: Mindcrime. Empire was just OK. They had the Pink Floyd rip-off hit. After that, they just lost it.
Yeah, forgot about Alice in Chains. It was always comical when he tried to sing like Layne Staley. He did a decent Eddie Vedder impersonation though. Alice in Chains was the best of all those bands. Facelift and Dirt are still amazing.
STP are the biggest rip-off artists ever. They rode the coattails of all the grunge bands. It's like they listened to Pearl Jam, Nirvana and Soundgarden and tried to copy everything those bands did.