“Defy You” by The Offspring

The Offspring cut "Defy You" in 2001, after Conspiracy of One was already out, recording it along with its own video for the movie Orange County. Brendan O'Brien produced and mixed it and Nick DiDia engineered, and it hits with a thick hard-rock heft: Noodles' guitars stacked into a wall with help from Dave Friedman and Steve Masi, Greg Kriesel's bass and Ron Welty's drums slamming underneath, and Dexter Holland, who wrote it, singing it like a dare.

It came out as a single in December 2001 and then never found a home. Despite early talk that it would land on the next album, which became Splinter, it only turned up on their Greatest Hits, plus an acoustic take on the Japanese edition of Splinter. It was also the last Offspring single with Welty behind the kit.

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