I agree w pretty much this whole post but especially this part. I didn't think I liked this album for the first couple years compared to the others, but I couldn't stop listening to it.

My No Code vinyl appears to be labelled "Side One" on both sides. Is this a valuable collectible or a worthless fuck-up?

It's all part of the code

but...there is no code.

*sigh*

Where's CopperTom?

Love Ed’s singing on Off He Goes. Natural and beautiful. Wish we had more songs where he sang like that.

I agree.

Original Driftin’

my ex's favourite album

I love that og version so much. It's the first and only PJ song I learned to play on guitar back in the day. Still me favorite version, though there is a live full band one out there that I like a lot too. But I don't remember where that's from.

like he's raaaaaaadin like a motor baaaike in the strongest weeyend

probably Ed's nicest use of his weird vocal ticks

I'm currently crying to "Who You Are" lmao

like Comes then Goes?

I've always wondered how they got No Code to sound as good as it does. The space, depth and tone of all the parts has blown me away since it came out.

Ed is forcing both the vocals and words of Comes Then Goes.

i could not disagree more on comes then goes, especially the verses. they feel so open and agile, open and probing, confessional without being cloistered. masterful

the music in off he goes does the heaviest lifting

It doesn't particularly bother me, but I can certainly hear what he's talking about with Comes Then Goes. It sometimes sounds like Eddie has the lyric he's written, and is rushing to jam that full line into the melody he's landed on for the song, even if it doesn't quite fit. I don't really mind that (I just happen to think some of the actual lyricism is a little clunky), but I can see the puppet strings more in Comes then Goes than something like Off He Goes.

I wish it was not those words that he had sang

Off He Goes is and has always been my least favorite song on No Code. That is to say: still a good song.