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No Code – Pearl JamAugust 6th, 1996  or  iTunes Price: $9.99 Genre: Pop Released: Aug 06, 1996 Customer Ratings (153 Ratings)
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View More By Pearl Jam Our ReviewAfter the surprise success of its debut album, Ten, Pearl Jam has spent its entire career trying to sustain and expand its impact with varying degrees of commercial success. The group has never succumbed to the easy anthem or played nice towards radio. No Code, its fourth studio album, begins with the quiet, contemplative “Sometimes” where singer Eddie Vedder calls his legions of fans into the intimate tent for a little meditation before kicking up the jams with “Hail, Hail,” where the band pounces from centerstage. “Who You Are” combines a Bo Diddley beat with a Led Zep-eastern-mystic melodic loop that proves PJ find heaviness not just in volume and velocity but in a nod towards spiritual grace. There’s still the blunt punk of “Lukin” and the surfing-alterna-groove of “Mankind” to roughen up the edges, and the harmonica-grunge of “Smile” that reflects the band’s collaboration with Neil Young, but the real beauty here shines through the Vedder ballads, “Present Tense,” “Off He Goes,” and “Around The Bend.” Pearl Jam would never be content as just another hard rock band and every one of its albums stretches the definition without losing the plot.. Customer ReviewsPearl Jam's forgotten masterpiece (5 stars)Pearl Jam's career is usually seen by most people as consisting of their first three hard-rocker albums (Ten, Vs., and Vitalogy), followed by a group of forgettable tangent albums, and now their recent comback with their self-titled album. Its a bloody shame at that, because the first of these 'tangent' albums, No Code, is an absolutley gorgeous peice of work. No Code lacks the ferocity of the first three albums, but then again PJ pushed t Just as good as the rest but in a different way (5 stars) I was scared when I got home after buying this album, because the first thing i did was read some of the reviews for it, and i was afraid i wouldnt like it. Boy was I wrong, this is my favorite album by them tied with Vs., even though it is completely different, in the way that instead of most of the songs being hard rockers with some ballads thrown in for relief, it is mostly ballads with rockers thrown in for relief. If you like any of th Piece of the Puzzle (4 stars) To say that this album is nothing like Ten, Vs, or Vitalogy is to miss the point. They didn't want to make another album in the same vein, they wanted to expand upon their influences and conciously move away from the mainstream. No Code is far from necesary for the casual fan, but for those who want a genuinely excellent and genuinely pearl jam album and want to be able to witness another chapter in the evolution of Pearl Jam, No Code is u BiographyFormed: 1990 in Seattle, WAGenre: Rock Years Active: '90s, '00s, '10s Pearl Jam rose from the ashes of Mother Love Bone to become the most popular American rock & roll band of the '90s. After Mother Love Bone's vocalist, Andrew Wood, overdosed on heroin in 1990, guitarist Stone Gossard and bassist Jeff Ament assembled a new band, bringing in Mike McCready on lead guitar and recording a demo with Soundgarden's Matt Cameron on drums. Thanks to future Pearl Jam drummer Jack Irons, the demo found its way to a 25-year-old San Diego surfer named Eddie Vedder, who overdubbed...
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