Lets Actually Listen to the Album: No Code

Norah · Post by **Norah** » Sat January 04, 2014 10:03 pm

theplatypus wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:Oh, my mistake.
We've had this conversation at least twice before, I'm sure of it.

I don't know why I keep thinking it's a Yield outtake.

Post by **Jorge** » Sat January 04, 2014 10:04 pm

Haha, yup.

Coach · Post by **Coach** » Sat January 04, 2014 10:52 pm

Norah · Post by **Norah** » Sat January 04, 2014 11:45 pm

We'll do this again in a few months.

spike · Post by **spike** » Sun January 05, 2014 3:33 am

theplatypus wrote:This album is their masterpiece, as far as I'm concerned. I will Actually Listen this weekend.

oops, i think you meant to post in the LAL vitalogy thread

malice · Post by **malice** » Sun January 05, 2014 4:33 am

spike wrote:
theplatypus wrote:This album is their masterpiece, as far as I'm concerned. I will Actually Listen this weekend.
oops, i think you meant to post in the LAL vitalogy thread

except i really hate stupid mop.

hlniv · Post by **hlniv** » Sun January 05, 2014 8:05 pm

Coach wrote:It was the summer (1996) of my freshman year in college, and I'm driving my car with a few friends in it...

I have the radio on, and was well aware that some kind of new Pearl Jam song would debut at some point soon...so I was listening, and then I heard Who You Are for the first time. I heard Ed's voice and several times had to tell my friends to shut the fuck up so I could listen...

Amazingly, I did not have a WTF moment. I was just super excited to hear Ed's voice singing a new song, new lyrics. "New Pearl Jam" rammed on through my mind in excitement.

So while many talk about how this was Pearl Jam's most experimental album, I still find that most of the record "sounds" like Pearl Jam, and I love it. Just love that record.

In fact, when I had a chance to give my friend something for Ed to autograph (long story short: my friend interned for a late night TV talk show), I went out and bought No Code on vinyl, thinking that having Ed's sig on that would be cool. And it is.

picture please

hlniv · Post by **hlniv** » Sun January 05, 2014 8:08 pm

stip wrote:
Hail Hail: I still hate this transition.

No. It hates you.

Personally, it loves me, as a direct result of my loving it first.

The Sometimes outro even counts it in. I think it's one of the best transitions on any of their albums.

VinylGuy · Post by **VinylGuy** » Sun January 05, 2014 8:19 pm

yeah Stip, even Ten fans loved that transition at the time No Code came out.

Post by **stip** » Sun January 05, 2014 8:31 pm

hlniv wrote:
stip wrote:
Hail Hail: I still hate this transition.
No. It hates you.

Personally, it loves me, as a direct result of my loving it first.

The Sometimes outro even counts it in. I think it's one of the best transitions on any of their albums.

It's just the volume differential that bothers me. It's too jarring and HH is not a jarring song.

Post by **stip** » Sun January 05, 2014 8:31 pm

VinylGuy wrote:yeah Stip, even Ten fans loved that transition at the time No Code came out.

That's because they were desperate for a loud song

spike · Post by **spike** » Sun January 05, 2014 8:56 pm

malice wrote:
spike wrote:
theplatypus wrote:This album is their masterpiece, as far as I'm concerned. I will Actually Listen this weekend.
oops, i think you meant to post in the LAL vitalogy thread
except i really hate stupid mop.

Norah · Post by **Norah** » Sun January 05, 2014 9:06 pm

Anyone who hates the transition from Sometimes to Hail, Hail is an asshole and should feel bad about it.

Post by **stip** » Sun January 05, 2014 9:09 pm

maybe I just need vinyl and a good pair of headphones

Norah · Post by **Norah** » Sun January 05, 2014 9:13 pm

Vinyl is unnecessary, but everyone needs a good pair of headphones.

malice · Post by **malice** » Mon January 06, 2014 12:19 am

spike wrote:
malice wrote:
spike wrote:
theplatypus wrote:This album is their masterpiece, as far as I'm concerned. I will Actually Listen this weekend.
oops, i think you meant to post in the LAL vitalogy thread
except i really hate stupid mop.

the first time I heard it I thought it lasted for something like 20 minutes.
just terrible.

BurtReynolds · Post by **BurtReynolds** » Mon January 06, 2014 12:23 am

it's their best and most timeless album.

mycroft2 · Post by **mycroft2** » Mon January 06, 2014 2:35 am

darth_vedder wrote:
Mine wrote:
McParadigm wrote:That Italian sessions guide site lists Parting Ways during the No Code sessions. For what that's worth.
It sounds like a No Code out-take more than a song from Binaural so it does make sense.
I'd love to hear Mr. Irons on that number.

You can. Soundchecked in Barcelona '96. This site has the audio...scroll down.

PryTo · Post by **PryTo** » Tue January 07, 2014 4:24 am

No Code ranks highly for me. I think it’s easily among the band’s best work. People forget what a radical departure this album was at the time. PJ sold a ton of records with Ten, but became a far more interesting band with the two albums that followed. Vitalogy was indeed the group’s masterpiece (still is, IMO), but it also created a huge challenge. How can a band that’s continually upped the ante top itself once again? Instead of attempting to do that the band folded and went inward. I remember hearing it for the first time and immediately getting and appreciating what PJ was trying to do. This one was for them – and for us. This record did what "Not For You" was written about. I loved them for No Code, and still do.

No Code expanded the band’s sonic/musical vocabulary in a number of ways. From the first notes of “Sometimes,” we were in uncharted territory. With the possible exception of the tremendous “Hail Hail” almost every song was something new, something different, something the band hadn’t tried before. And again, how easy would it have been to make an album full of anthemic rock songs and sing-along ballads? Instead you have a band deliberately going small, represented most overtly by the opening track. No Code and maybe Binaural represent PJ at its most experimental, musical, interesting, and noncommercial. As much as I think Vitalogy represents the group’s peak on a number of fronts, today I am more inclined to listen to and enjoy No Code. It's every bit as satisfying today as it was back then, and most of the songs haven't been drilled into oblivion live.

stupidmop · Post by **stupidmop** » Tue January 07, 2014 2:26 pm

McParadigm wrote:Did Sunburn come from these sessions, or am I remembering wrong?

Add Dead Man, All Night, Black Red and Yellow, and (although I'm pretty sure it came out of the Yield era) Happy When I'm Crying, and you've got a a really interesting period in the band's collective creativity. Also, didn't Brain of J and Parting Ways first pop up during these sessions? Hot damn.

I think the no code sessions and the binaural sessions are my favourite.....sessions.

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