“No Such Thing” by Chris Cornell

"No Such Thing" kicks off Carry On, Chris Cornell's second solo album, and in 2007 it became the record's second single, following "You Know My Name" and coming before "Arms Around Your Love". Cornell wrote it alone and plays guitar alongside Brian Ray, with Miles Mosley on bass and Nir Zidkyahu on drums; Steve Lillywhite produced and mixed it with Todd Parker, who recorded it.

It's a heavy one, a blunt riff and a chorus that doesn't waste time, and it reached 33 on the mainstream rock chart. Critics heard the old Cornell in it: Entertainment Weekly's Leah Greenblatt called it an incendiary opener that brought back the vintage singer after a so-so run with Audioslave, and the BBC's Chris Long filed it under grown-up grunge.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.