Radiohead would be my first pick. Mainly because, I personally don't like their style of depressing music.
Neil Young next, mainly because Ive heard basically everything by him, and I'm thinking of his single Old Man right at the moment. That particular song along with overplay depresses me.
Tool fits on my list somewhere, I just haven't reflected on their music enough to express any kind of valid opinion yet.
Alice and Chains, along with (Kurt Cobain) Nirvana as well, wrote a style of rock lyrics that had never been wrote or heard before, or mostly, never been said before in the particular way they said and related through their lyrics. I see the lyrics of Cobain etc as, a lyrical template, a file that serves as a starting point for a new document in the evolution of rock lyrics.
Placebo and the Smashing Pumpkins are favorites as well.
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