Today's song of the day is one of my favorites off of the 1996 Pearl Jam album "No Code." The press and fans of Pearl Jam at the time have always been kind of hard on this album. Most saying that it was a complete change for the band, and maybe not as aggressive as the previous three albums. I think quite the opposite. I think the album showed tremendous growth for the band. When you can go from the song "Blood" on Vs., and then do a song like this two albums later, I think that's rather dynamic. I tend to like bands that change it up a bit every album, and experiment more and more as time goes on. I think that makes it interesting. If every song sounded like "Alive" or "Jeremy" it would start to become very predictable. I love how this band has evolved and really adapted to what they wanted to do, not what a record label wanted them to do. That's why I've always respected this band to the highest degree. It's their way or the highway....
Anyways, "Off He Goes" is just a beautiful track. Check this version of it out from the 2003 Benaroya Hall show in Seattle.
Pearl Jam with "Off He Goes"
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