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Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing. Item specifics Condition: New: A brand-new, unused, unopened, undamaged item (including handmade items). See the seller's listing ... Read more Artist: Pearl Jam Record Label: Epic (USA) Format: Vinyl UPC: 074646750018 Release Date: 08/27/1996 Duration: LP Detailed item info Album Features UPC: 074646750018 Artist: Pearl Jam Format: Vinyl Release Year: 1996 Record Label: Epic (USA) Genre: Grunge, Rock & Pop Track Listing 1. Sometimes 2. Hail, Hail 3. Who You Are 4. In My Tree 5. Smile 6. Off He Goes 7. Habit 8. Red Mosquito 9. Lukin 10. Present Tense 11. Mankind 12. I'm Open 13. Around the Bend Details Producer: Brendan O'Brien, Pearl Jam Distributor: Sony Music Distribution ( Recording Type: Studio Recording Mode: Stereo SPAR Code: n/a Album Notes 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. Understated, often folksy 1996 album returned the Seattle grunge pioneers to prominence. 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. Editorial Reviews 4 Stars (out of the 5) - ...NO CODE...is abrubt in its mood swings almost to the point of vertigo....It is the kind of impulsive, quixotic, provocative ruckus that has become rare in a modern-rock mainstream largely distinquished by weary fatalism and anxiety over quick career burnout... Rolling Stone (09/05/1996) ...The main feeling a listener gets from this...disc is warmth, and an empathic sense that Vedder is really a lot like you--he just worries more, is all....he's most intriguing when he's staring hard in the mirror... Musician (11/01/1996) ...It's unlikely, given its varied and reasonably ambitious nature, that NO CODE will replicate the monstrous success of its predecessors. Due to Vedder's discovery that you don't always have to scream to be heard, however, it's a real surprise and a welcome change... Melody Maker (08/24/1996) 7 (out of 10) - ...they are the hippies in big shorts, and they are very busy finding themselves....Vedder is still preoccupied with his own mortality, but now he appears more quasi-mystical than miserable....for all its relative placidity, NO CODE is still a difficult beast... NME (08/24/1996) 3 (out of five) - ...Instead of sinking into a rut of arena-rock boredom, they improve. They grow... Alternative Press (12/01/1996) Portions of this page Copyright 1988 - 2015 MSI Music Corp.  All rights reserved.Portions of this page Copyright 1948 - 2015 Muze Inc.  All rights reserved.