"You can't go home," Chris Cornell warns in a loose, blues-beast yowl. That sentiment might've applied to "Live to Rise," the soft-bellied song Soundgarden lodged on the Avengers soundtrack. But the newest offering from their first studio LP in 16 years is a spry sludge slide worthy of that stank-caked legacy. The band's grunge-defining molten swing isn't airtight yet; it's more like someone poked the crankiest troll under the filthiest bridge in Seattle and he's waking up to stomp the day.

“Is It True”

As the British Invasion reached its peak in 1964, Brenda Lee went from Nashville to London to record one of her hardest-rocking hits, her perky vocal backed by a stuttering, squalling guitar. That guitar was played by session musician Jimmy Page, yet to skyrocket to fame with first the Yardbirds and then Led Zeppelin. "She said to me, 'I've come here to make a record with the British sound,'" remembered producer Mickie Most. "She felt she wouldn't get the same sound in Nashville because they're only just catching up on the British beat group sound of about six months ago."