NO CODE- The experimental album 

 This album was released in 1996 and known as the "other" Pearl Jam album. The cover feature 144 polaroids taken by Pearl Jam during the years. A different approach reinventing the indies-folk alike music where Eddie doesn't shout much in this album.
 
Released August 27, 1996 - Epic 67500
Length: 49:37
Mike McCready - Guitar
Jeff Ament - Bass
Stone Gossard - Guitar, Vocals
Jack Irons - Drums
Eddie Vedder - Vocals, Guitar
Produced by:
Brendan O'Brien and Pearl Jam
Mixed by:
Brendan O'Brien and Nick DiDia
Recorded by:
Nick DiDia
Mastered by:
Bob Ludwig
Recorded in:
Chicago, Atlanta, Studio Litho (Seattle)
Assistant Engineers:
Matt Bayles, Jeff Layne, Caram Costanzo
 

SOMETIMES
Slow but beautiful lyric....a favourite song in the album.If everybody is being controled by a higher being, we do things (sometimes) and it is because something else is controlling us. Even though we don't know it.

HAIL, HAIL
Fast and energetic! Great single..About the lucky ones. The ones in love

WHO YOU ARE
Not a very good song...can't understand what he's saying.

IN MY TREE
A poetic approach...it is for you to judge.

SMILE
Nice and simple...doesn't it make you smile? thanks to denise--'the frogs'
remember the rearview mirror singles by the frogs?

OFF HE GOES
Great acoustic...I like this song if there's more power in it.

HABIT
Messy....About a drug habit. Some say it may be about Mike and his short lived problem

RED MOSQUITO
Cool riffs and one of the best...here Eddie plays the harmonica. About Eddie getting sick and, therefore, missing some of the 1995 shows (he left in the middle of the June 24, 1995 show at the Golden Gate Polo Fields in San Francisco, CA. because it was so bad). He was hospitalized and couldn't sleep (food poising). He felt so bad that it was like he was bitten by the devil and he (the devil) was waiting for him to die.

LUKIN
Short and energetic song. Lukin is in reference to Matt Lukin of the band Mudhonney. Eddie likes his refrigerator. ;-) The last part of the song is how a woman who follows Eddie around broke into his house and claims that her son is Eddie's. She is a little nuts.

PRESENT TENSE
No comment. Next!

MANKIND
Stone's voice in the lead vocal...should sing more often... great song

I'M OPEN
I reject this one.

AROUND THE BEND
Just a mellow melancholy


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