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Epic Records: E 67500 Format: 12" Quadfold LP, Black Vinyl
Includes: All nine (9) original oversized Polaroids and two (2) custom graphic inner sleeves.
Cover Condition: Near Mint! Beautiful! All four fold-out sleeves are perfect. Hardly ever pulled from the shelf and always stored vertically in a protective poly sleeve.
Vinyl Condition: Near Mint! Only played a few times, still like new, no surface noise! Stunning! Polaroids and Inner sleeves are also near mint!
Release Info: No Code is the fourth studio album by the American alternative rock band Pearl Jam, released on August 27, 1996 through Epic Records. Following a troubled tour for its previous album, Vitalogy (1994), in which Pearl Jam engaged in a much-publicized boycott of Ticketmaster, the band went into the studio to record its follow-up. The music on the record was even more diverse than what the band had done on previous releases, incorporating elements of garage rock, worldbeat, and experimentalism.
Although No Code debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, it left a large section of the band’s fanbase unsatisfied and quickly fell down the charts. The album became the first Pearl Jam album to not reach multi-platinum status. The album has been certified platinum by the RIAA in the United States.
No Code would be the band's last album to reach #1 in the US until the 2009 album Backspacer.
For its fourth album, Pearl Jam again worked with producer Brendan O'Brien. No Code was the band's first album with drummer Jack Irons, who had joined the band following the release of Vitalogy. Following the summer U.S. leg of the band's Vitalogy Tour, the band began work on No Code in Chicago, Illinois in July 1995 during the infamous Chicago heat wave. The Chicago session lasted a week. During a break in a string of make-up dates for the 1995 tour the band went into the studio for a week-long session in New Orleans, Louisiana, where the band recorded "Off He Goes". The rest of the recording took place in the first half of 1996 in Seattle, Washington at Studio Litho, which is owned by guitarist Stone Gossard. The album was then mixed by O'Brien at his mixing facility at Southern Tracks in Atlanta, Georgia.
The album package consists of 144 Polaroid photos that unfold into a 2x2 square. The Polaroid photos are seemingly random. One of the photos featured on the front cover is the eyeball of former Chicago Bulls player, as well as fan and friend of Pearl Jam, Dennis Rodman, while another photo is of Vedder's foot after he had been stung by a stingray. The pictures, when viewed from afar, blend to form the No Code triangle/eyeball logo that is the theme throughout the album. Later pressings of the album fold into a 1x4 strip, thus losing the 'hidden message' effect. These later pressings also include the band name and album title printed directly onto the album cover—the original release contained this information on a removable sticker. Hidden allusions to the central packaging concept are a common trait among many Pearl Jam albums. There were nine different covers for the cassette, each one a different Polaroid found on the CD and vinyl.
The CD and vinyl came with lyrics printed on the back of replica Polaroids. Only nine Polaroids came in a set, leaving one to have to obtain another set to accumulate all thirteen songs. Even for the same songs, there were different pictures on some of the Polaroids between the different sets. The sets are divided into four groups: set C, set O, set D and set E.
When discussing the album's title, Vedder said "it's called No Code because it's full of code. It's misinformation." In medical terminology, a "no code" order is a medical order to withhold CPR on a patient. It is also known as a "do not resuscitate" order. In another interview, Vedder said that "if the record is a complete failure you've kind of owned up to it in a subliminal way. No Code was the same thing. For me, No Code meant 'Do Not Resuscitate'."
All lyrics written by Eddie Vedder, except where noted.
1. "Sometimes" Vedder 2:40
2. "Hail, Hail" Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament, Mike McCready 3:41
3. "Who You Are" Gossard, Jack Irons 3:50
4. "In My Tree" Gossard, Irons, Vedder 3:59
5. "Smile" Ament 3:52
6. "Off He Goes" Vedder 6:02
7. "Habit" Vedder 3:35
8. "Red Mosquito" Ament, Gossard, Irons, McCready 4:03
9. "Lukin" Vedder 1:02
10. "Present Tense" McCready 5:46
11. "Mankind" Gossard Gossard 3:28
12. "I'm Open" Irons, Vedder 2:57
13. "Around the Bend" Vedder 4:35
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