The Best Moment In No Code

[BurtReynolds]

that little split second at the end of Sometimes when Hail Hail kicks in.

[lecherouslittlestump]

The final verse, In My Tree. When Eddie starts singing "I remember when..."

There's some kind of...pipe? that's playing in the background, and it's beautiful. Mike replicates it live with the guitar, but it sounds like some sort of pipe or horn on the album, can anyone clarify?

[Brett]

It is just a guitar. It's timbre and tone is very similar to a flute, but they were doing that a lot during this era, e.g. the bass that sounds like a tuba on "All Those Yesterdays."

[Norah]

Man, Pearl Jam was awesome back then.

[stip]

oh you kids...

[twoheadedboy]

The contrast between the end of Sometimes and the first note of Hail Hail. No matter how many times I hear it and even anticipate it, when I have this cranked it blows me away every time.

[BurtReynolds]

Thats what I said!

[Bammer]

Imagining Stone's duck walk in studio during Smile's solo

Ha. That's great.

At the moment, my favorite moment is Present Tense. The whole thing. First note to last.

[Strat]

The dripping faucet in the background during the outro of Sometimes

[VinylGuy]

No Code. Thats the best moment.


And everything they did in 1996 too.

[Got Some]

Red Mosquito

"He's a waiting
he's a waiting
up there
yeah"

Still can't help but lose it to this part of No Code.

[bodysnatcher]

the commercial-free Letterman show for No Code was pretty great

[numbers]

The outro in Hail Hail

[Birds in Hell]

The final verse, In My Tree. When Eddie starts singing "I remember when..."

There's some kind of...pipe? that's playing in the background, and it's beautiful. Mike replicates it live with the guitar, but it sounds like some sort of pipe or horn on the album, can anyone clarify?

It is just a guitar. It's timbre and tone is very similar to a flute, but they were doing that a lot during this era, e.g. the bass that sounds like a tuba on "All Those Yesterdays."

They ought to get that Brendan O'Brien fellow back onboard.

[darthvedder81]

Hail Hail is my favorite overall song on the record (and also in my top 10 all-time PJ songs) but I'm going with the outro of "Habit."

When Jack's drums snap twice there's no lyrics but the music says "Pearl Jam"

[TCB13]

Off He goes has always reminded me of a friend from high school - he joined the Navy shortly after graduation and he used to come back around for short visits on leave.

I always liked the phrasing or vocal pattern (Im not a musician, just making up terms that probably dont make sense to anyone else) of Red Mosquito - how sentences or thoughts were finished in the next line, sometimes even after an instrumental segment "somewhere in the time between...I was bitten, must have been the devil" "letting me know...he's a waiting" to a lesser extent. I like the space in this song too, sounds like the guitars are separate and distinct, even on my shitty PC speakers.

The jam in Present Tense, even before it fully picks up, about 3:30 - to about 4:45, then how the song levels itself back out, settles back down, really the only "fade out" I like in any of their songs.

Used to love in Hail Hail when Ed would change the lyric to "I refer to those in front" during live shows...over that now.

[bodysnatcher]

The best part of No Code is the u-turn it took from Vitalogy and the nuts it took to do that at the height of their fame

[Thejambi]

These threads feel, sad.

[McParadigm]

These, threads feel sad.

[Thejambi]

:,(