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Post subject: Re: What is Each Album's Major Flaw?: No Code
Posted: Mon January 27, 2020 6:06 pm
A Return To Form
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This album feels directionless. It also feels like a bunch of false wisdom. A song like "Present Tense" is the worst offender, possibly one of the most trite pieces of music they've ever recorded. That I once found it uplifting and inspirational speaks to its simplicity, I think--when you're relatively young and innocent you might suppose that you can learn something from a tree. Now, this feels utterly absurd to me. I acknowledge this is possibly reflective of my own tastes more than some inherent flaw, etc. etc.
"Hail, Hail" is a more effective rumination. "Present Tense" has not aged well for me.
Post subject: Re: What is Each Album's Major Flaw?: No Code
Posted: Mon January 27, 2020 7:12 pm
Future Drummer
Joined: Mon July 08, 2013 11:12 pm Posts: 3268
griffinxi wrote:
This album feels directionless. It also feels like a bunch of false wisdom. A song like "Present Tense" is the worst offender, possibly one of the most trite pieces of music they've ever recorded. That I once found it uplifting and inspirational speaks to its simplicity, I think--when you're relatively young and innocent you might suppose that you can learn something from a tree. Now, this feels utterly absurd to me. I acknowledge this is possibly reflective of my own tastes more than some inherent flaw, etc. etc.
"Hail, Hail" is a more effective rumination. "Present Tense" has not aged well for me.
Post subject: Re: What is Each Album's Major Flaw?: No Code
Posted: Mon January 27, 2020 7:46 pm
A Return To Form
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 2:46 pm Posts: 168
mikejasond wrote:
griffinxi wrote:
This album feels directionless. It also feels like a bunch of false wisdom. A song like "Present Tense" is the worst offender, possibly one of the most trite pieces of music they've ever recorded. That I once found it uplifting and inspirational speaks to its simplicity, I think--when you're relatively young and innocent you might suppose that you can learn something from a tree. Now, this feels utterly absurd to me. I acknowledge this is possibly reflective of my own tastes more than some inherent flaw, etc. etc.
"Hail, Hail" is a more effective rumination. "Present Tense" has not aged well for me.
Post subject: Re: What is Each Album's Major Flaw?: No Code
Posted: Mon January 27, 2020 8:32 pm
NEVER STOP JAMMING!
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mikejasond wrote:
theplatypus wrote:
"Mankind" does not sound like the Foo Fighters.
There's one part that definitely does. Where it strips down to just a repeated guitar chord. Imagine that part sung by Dave Grohl
I have had a long standing belief since the album came out that Ed is actually singing that part, trying to sound like Stone. You can hear it in his voice on the last line before it goes back into “what’s got the whole world faking”
Post subject: Re: What is Each Album's Major Flaw?: No Code
Posted: Tue January 28, 2020 12:38 pm
Fake NYC Setlist Relayer
Joined: Thu January 03, 2013 7:55 pm Posts: 7650
Ms Harmless wrote:
rick malone wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote:
No Code might have a few flaws but it so stylishly doesn't care that neither do I
Thanks for saying what I couldn't think of.
no worries!
This really is a great description. Kind of like a Neil Young album in a sense that it’s not perfect but it’s not trying to be. It stretches the definition of what could be a Pearl Jam song, from Stone singing to Jeff Ament on lead guitar to meditative lead singles to brash punk rock to blues to spoken word and lullabies. And to me, even then, it sounded like Pearl Jam despite all this. It was my favorite for many years for much that reason.
No Code might have a few flaws but it so stylishly doesn't care that neither do I
Thanks for saying what I couldn't think of.
no worries!
This really is a great description. Kind of like a Neil Young album in a sense that it’s not perfect but it’s not trying to be. It stretches the definition of what could be a Pearl Jam song, from Stone singing to Jeff Ament on lead guitar to meditative lead singles to brash punk rock to blues to spoken word and lullabies. And to me, even then, it sounded like Pearl Jam despite all this. It was my favorite for many years for much that reason.
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