Gonna get a whole different experience based on the decade.

Being biased I think 90's had one of the best sounds for rock with the snare mic at the same level as the vocals, and mixing clean/distorted guitars with rough vocals.

Nirvana set the tone that broke the hair metal bands reign from the 80's. Soundgarden was half metal half nirvana which helped bridge the gap of rock to the new era.

Once the Seattle sound was saturated it moved to the post grunge LA scene with bands like papa roach, linkin park, POD, korn, 3 doors down, etc all coming out of SoCal studios.

That's the time I played in a cover band and we covered mostly a mix of those sub genres of rock.