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No Code by Pearl Jam
No Code is an album by Pearl Jam, released in 1996. 10 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 75 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Who You Are”, on 23 lists with a best position of #50.
No Code, Pearl Jam's fourth studio album, came out on Epic on August 27, 1996, after a bruising Vitalogy tour spent fighting a very public boycott of Ticketmaster. Brendan O'Brien produced it, with the Chicago Recording Company in the credits, and Eddie Vedder, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, Jeff Ament and drummer Jack Irons went wandering: garage rock rattle, worldbeat rhythms, psychedelic haze and quiet, spare songs that barely raise their voice.
"Hail Hail" and "Lukin" still bash away, but "Who You Are" rides a loping, hypnotic drum pattern that sounds nothing like grunge, and "Off He Goes" and "In My Tree" drift somewhere stranger. It entered the Billboard 200 at number one, their third in a row, then tumbled fast. Plenty of fans were left cold, the reviews praised the range and knocked the inconsistency, and it became the first Pearl Jam album to stop at a single platinum certification.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from No Code on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who You Are | 23 | #50 | – | 1996–2014 | |
| 2 | Hail Hail | 16 | #26 | – | 1996–2023 | |
| 3 | Off He Goes | 17 | #28 | – | 1999–2021 | |
| 4 | In My Tree | 4 | #27 | – | 1996–2005 | |
| 5 | Red Mosquito | 8 | #49 | – | 1999–2005 | |
| 6 | Smile | 3 | #39 | – | 1996–2005 | |
| 7 | Present Tense | 1 | #43 | – | 2005 | |
| 8 | Lukin | 1 | #45 | – | 2005 | |
| 9 | Mankind | 1 | #94 | – | 1996 | |
| 10 | Sometimes | 1 | #724 | – | 2024 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.