Pearl Jam – Smile - I always think of my friends Jaime and Jessie when I hear this song. I'm so high I hold just one breath deep within my chest just like innocence. Pearl Jam – In My Tree - one of my favorite tracks on the album, due largely in part to Jack Iron's distinctive drumming. Stop light plays its part so I would say you've got a part. I think that every listener can interpret whom they are when listening to this song. I'm hesitant to post any lyrics on this track. Pearl Jam – Who You Are - this is one of the most interesting songs on No Code. I sometimes realize i could only be as good as you'll let me I believe that it speaks a lot to what I want in a woman. It also has a lyric that means a lot to me. It's one of my favorite songs regarding the hardships of love. I vividly remember them playing this on Letterman when the album dropped. Pearl Jam – Hail, Hail - is the second track of the album. This song and album is incredibly introspective. you can also say the same for Pearl Jam albums where Eddie opens up. Pearl Jam's sound has changed a lot over the years and that largely has to do with the revolving drummer situation. Brendan O' Brian does a number of interesting things with introducing the sound of rolling thunder and roars in the middle. Pearl Jam – Sometimes - The opening track to No Code. This is clearly in my all time top 5 albums, so I'm going to share some insights on every track of the album. It's hard to really pick out favorite tracks on an album I love unconditionally. but I would pick it up in a heart beat if I ran across a copy of it tho'. That's the only known format that I don't currently own it in. I just recently learned that a version of it is on Sony Mini-CD. Over the years, I've picked up this album on various formats. When you stand back and look at the artwork you can make out a "No Code" triangle, which is a medical term that means "Do Not resuscitate". Bird Shit on a blue car looked like the cosmos." - Eddie Vedder. Any photo taken further away than four feet was out of focus. He reportedly found a forensic Polaroid camera with a macro lens. The artwork is composed of 156 Polaroids that were taken by Eddie Vedder. Which is a lot to say, given that Pearl Jam had released Vitalogy a few years before and that had to have given Epic Records a fucking heart attack when assembling the packaging for that album. The packaging of the album is freakishly elaborate for a CD. I had to settle on pouring over the strangeness that is the artwork of No Code. but I've never been able to let go of the fact that I did not get to see them in support of No Code. I would see Pearl Jam in Dallas, Texas in the Summer of 1998 (Given to Fly Tour) with some life long friends. A college friend by the name of Joe Yamin was a Ten Fan Club member and I recall running into him the day after the show and he was a total glow. Pearl Jam played Toledo, Ohio in 1996 - roughly 40 minutes south of Detroit Mercy and it was impossible to get tickets. The band had gone from being one of the largest bands in the world, to being a band that was on the brink of splitting up at any given moment.Ĭatching Pearl Jam live has always been a difficult thing to do, due largely in part to their stardom and their fight with Ticket Master. I vividly recall how I felt about the album at age 18. I'm amazed that my perception of the album has shifted again. I just happen to favor this record because it's an album that I dismissed immediately and then hit me like a ton of bricks as I aged into my later 20's.Īs I look back and listen to this album in my later 30's. Note, I don't think it's their best album. Pearl Jam's - NO CODE - is hands down my favorite album by the band.
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