Pearl Jam - No Code

Artist:

Pearl Jam

UPC:

5099748444820

See Also:

Vedder, Eddie Neil Young - Mirror Ball

Description:

Pearl Jam: Eddie Vedder, Stone Gossard (vocals, guitar); Mike McCready (guitar); Jeff Ament (bass); Jack Irons (drums).
Recorded at Studio Litho, Seattle, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; Atlanta, Georgia.
Pearl Jam`s ambitious and mystical NO CODE is no more a grunge album than Nirvana`s MTV UNPLUGGED was a punk album, which shouldn`t come as a surprise to anybody who`s been listening all along. Even while helping to codify the droning heavy-metal blare of grunge, Pearl Jam has fought that code, breaking the rules of the music as defiantly as the band`s business practices defy the rules of the music industry. By now, Pearl Jam can, and does, employ Indian drones, psychedelic rock, punk and folk without reaching.
NO CODE, the band`s fourth album, opens with "Sometimes," a prayer that slowly rises toward an anthemic chorus. But the song pulls back before it gets there, as if the band`s goal is to embody the smallness of all of us. Pearl Jam still, clearly, believes in the awesome power of rock: In "Habit," Eddie Vedder nearly goes hoarse ranting at a friend who`s picked up a dangerous one, and in "Red Mosquito," the band works up from a folk-rocky waltz into a `60s acid-rock whirl. But much of NO CODE finds Pearl Jam pulling away from such large notions. "Who You Are," one of a few songs that seem directly inspired by Vedder`s recent collaboration with Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (on the DEAD MAN WALKING soundtrack), features droning guitars, tribal drumming and a Buddhist lyric. Even within the Pete Townshend-like electric-guitar strum and vocal wailing of "In My Tree," Vedder seems to be searching not for rock and roll experience, but for spiritual innocence.

Album Information

Release Date:

08/21/2000

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Rock & Pop

Subgenre:

Grunge

Label:

Epic (USA)

Catalog Number:

4844482

Original Release Year:

1996

# of Discs:

1

SPARS Coding:

DDD

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

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