Stone Temple Pilots was the best grunge/alternative band of the 90s and it wasn't particularly close.
Scott Weiland was a better musician than Kurt Cobain.
Interstate Love Song was better than anything Nirvana did and it wasn't even STPs best song.
Smells Like Teen Spirit is boring, mealy-mouthed, gobbledegook.
STP didn't get their due because some pencil necked producer at MTV liked that drab music and decided to push it, in lieu of better music in the genre. I don't even dislike Nirvana, I think In Utero and Unplugged were good to great albums, I just think they were and continue to be overated and every time I hear Angels Like Teen Spirit, I want to gnaw my ears off.
That felt good to get off of my chest, 30 years later.