10 Rock Songs That Don't Sound Like The Artists Who Made Them

6. Everything - Limp Bizkit

The album that launched Limp Bizkit into their position as leaders of the nu-metal movement, 1997's Three Dollar Bill, Y'all, contains not only all of the elements of their much-imitated rap-rock sound, but also one outlier -- the closing track Everything.

Coming in at 16-and-a-half minutes, Everything is by far Limp Bizkit's longest, considering this is a band that habitually makes it out the other side in three, four or five minutes flat. Rather than a passion project for any one member, it is an improvisational musical odyssey that takes in elements from each member equally, locked down with a constant rhythm that finds space for the guitar, drums, bass, turntables and distant, ethereal vocals to roam.

All in all, Everything offers a rare glimpse into a more interesting side of Limp Bizkit, disconnected from the New Era caps, baggy jeans, bald heads and hip-hop influences, demonstrating the potential for the many far less mainstream things the band could have been. But where would we be without such iconic frat-rock titles as Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water? Where indeed.

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