"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.

“Karma Chameleon”

Boy George has said this song was about standing by what you believe in. However, at the time, he was involved in a secret affair with Culture Club drummer Jon Moss. "Now people can understand the songs better," he said. "They were written about my relationship with Jon, and they were also written about being a gay man in a homophobic world." The lines "If I listen to your lies, would you say/I'm a man without conviction/I'm a man who doesn't know how to sell a contradiction," described his life at the time, he said. "I was selling this big lie."