Me either, I loved it from first listen.Wendy Carlos's Twin wrote:I loved it the first time I heard it - I couldn't believe Pearl Jam made an album that good.
man... i remember getting a tape of the Oakland shows when they opened for the Stones, and they debuted some Yield material, and was totally blown off my rocker. I'll never forget hearing DTE for the first time on that tape.... My jaw must have dropped like Wile E Coyote, and tongue rolled across the floor.Birds in Hell wrote:Me either, I loved it from first listen.Wendy Carlos's Twin wrote:I loved it the first time I heard it - I couldn't believe Pearl Jam made an album that good.
Funnily enough, it was Yield that turned me off the band for a while - especially Given to Fly. I thought they were regressing. I didn't really listen to the band from around then til 2004 or so.
Yield was a difficult one for me too, but not as difficult as No Code or Binaural. The difference is that i loved all of them, even if some songs were strange at the time, i just knew they were awesome. I loved them so much that i hated ten for a long time.bodysnatcher wrote:man... i remember getting a tape of the Oakland shows when they opened for the Stones, and they debuted some Yield material, and was totally blown off my rocker. I'll never forget hearing DTE for the first time on that tape.... My jaw must have dropped like Wile E Coyote, and tongue rolled across the floor.Birds in Hell wrote:Me either, I loved it from first listen.Wendy Carlos's Twin wrote:I loved it the first time I heard it - I couldn't believe Pearl Jam made an album that good.
Funnily enough, it was Yield that turned me off the band for a while - especially Given to Fly. I thought they were regressing. I didn't really listen to the band from around then til 2004 or so.
A friend of mine still hates it...like..wtf are these kinda punk songs? give me more rock and roll.Birds in Hell wrote:I didn't hear Binaural til 2004.
I hated every song except Evacuation.
I've warmed to it considerably since.
. The album just had a wonderful feel to it which wasn't new, i had felt that way about all of them to that point. I still have memories of cutting the grass when i listen to it because i listened to it so much on my walkman while doing the yard, still even remember which parts of the yard i would be cutting during each song, and though i didn't enjoy doing the yard work back then, i now think back on that whole time fondly. 
Yield got me back into them.VinylGuy wrote:Yield was a difficult one for me too, but not as difficult as No Code or Binaural. The difference is that i loved all of them, even if some songs were strange at the time, i just knew they were awesome. I loved them so much that i hated ten for a long time.bodysnatcher wrote:man... i remember getting a tape of the Oakland shows when they opened for the Stones, and they debuted some Yield material, and was totally blown off my rocker. I'll never forget hearing DTE for the first time on that tape.... My jaw must have dropped like Wile E Coyote, and tongue rolled across the floor.Birds in Hell wrote:Me either, I loved it from first listen.Wendy Carlos's Twin wrote:I loved it the first time I heard it - I couldn't believe Pearl Jam made an album that good.
Funnily enough, it was Yield that turned me off the band for a while - especially Given to Fly. I thought they were regressing. I didn't really listen to the band from around then til 2004 or so.
Very cool to see newer fans. But, man, I feel really fricken' old after reading this.Sigerson wrote:I wish I was old enough to appreciate their music back in 1996 but I was only 5 years old then. I got into Pearl Jam in 2007/8 and No Code was the first record that immediately grabbed me. I mean, I'd heard the songs from Ten before and liked them but No Code was the album where I went "Okay, this is interesting." This album is responsible for really getting me interested in Pearl Jam
What are your thoughts on Avocado and Backspacer?Sigerson wrote:I wish I was old enough to appreciate their music back in 1996 but I was only 5 years old then. I got into Pearl Jam in 2007/8 and No Code was the first record that immediately grabbed me. I mean, I'd heard the songs from Ten before and liked them but No Code was the album where I went "Okay, this is interesting." This album is responsible for really getting me interested in Pearl Jam
Not a huge fan of Avocado. I really liked Backspacer when I first heard it (it was the first PJ album whose release I was looking forward to) but now I think it's not one of their best records, although it's a solid album. It kind of had the opposite effect of Riot Act, an album I was lukewarm to on my first listen but now have grown to love.VinylGuy wrote:What are your thoughts on Avocado and Backspacer?
oh yeah..i didnt see the no code logo after a long time..i mean the one the polaroids form..first time i saw it was in a picture in some really cool website of pj pics.liebzz wrote:It is quite interesting to hear the perspective of someone who did not directly experience the period and is looking at it from outside the time and place it was released.
On a side note, I also cannot think of an album whose artwork was so essential to the listening experience as this one...the other day I put this on and I still stare at the polaroids and the album all unfolded.
I've also seen people talk about this and don't know what they are talking aboutdurdencommatyler wrote:One thing I'll say about No Code - people always talks about how the album is "full of codes" yet no one has ever once been able to point out of these codes to me.
Well, I can't tell you how good it makes me feel to find others in my boat. Probably 6 or 7 % of what I hold against No Code stems from this "hidden code" nonsense. Knowing there are others suffering with me makes me like the album more.Dr. Van Nostrand wrote:I've also seen people talk about this and don't know what they are talking aboutdurdencommatyler wrote:One thing I'll say about No Code - people always talks about how the album is "full of codes" yet no one has ever once been able to point out of these codes to me.