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The most underestimated albums of all time: Pearl Jam – “No Code”
“No code” by Pearl Jam: Not fast enough, not hymnic enough? But above all: Typical of the Grunge (addictions, abuse by the parents, misunderstood) an almost meditative view of existence.
– “He’s alive but feels absolutely nothing/ so is he?” The folk of “Who You Are”, which opposes identity problems a conciliatory tone, was her first life -affirming single – and that after four albums in six years. Critics found the album “Interesting”, friendly for “Go so”.
Pearl Jam deliberately looked forward with “No Code”
And it went hand in hand with a drastic loss of meaning among fans and young adults. They missed the ground with Eddie Vedder, who dealt with Indian spirituality.
To this day, “No Code” has not experienced a renaissance, although it contains some of the strongest Pearl-Jam songs: the separation song “Smile” and the song on Grunge, “Present Tensse”, which the latent protectiveness of the genre swaps with the only one that helps: look ahead.
The most underestimated albums of all time
Without concerts and festivals, we suddenly found ourselves back on our record collections in the evening and found: Often it is not the canonized classics that are particularly liked to put on.
Instead, it is albums in the catalog of a loved artist who seems to have to be all alone because the rest of the world has spurned or even forgotten them – misunderstood, abrasive, known masterpieces, neglected key works and plates that are simply much better than their reputation and re -evaluation.