Editing No Code (section)

==Release and reception==

===Commercial performance===
''No Code'' sold 366,500<nowiki>&nbsp;</nowiki>copies in its first week of release, topping the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]], but falling short of analysts' predictions of at least 535,000 copies. This was significantly less than what the band's previous two albums sold in their respective first weeks of release. It was, however, the seventh biggest-selling debut of what was a slow year for the industry.<ref name="wayout"/><ref>Mayfield, Josh. [https://books.google.com/books?id=wQkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA103 "Between the Bullets: Big But Not Huge"]. ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]''. September 14, 1996.</ref> It stayed at number one for two weeks, and was Pearl Jam's last album to debut at number one on the album chart until ''[[Backspacer]]'' was released in 2009.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/267218/chart-beat-thursday-black-eyed-peas-pearl-jam-frank-sinatra|title=Chart Beat Thursday: Black Eyed Peas, Pearl Jam, Frank Sinatra| last=Trust |first=Gary | magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]| date=October 1, 2009| access-date=May 25, 2012}}</ref> By its sixth week, the album had sold 790,000 copies.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.canoe.com:80/JamMusicArtistsN/nirvana.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19991109094228/http://www.canoe.com/JamMusicArtistsN/nirvana.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 9, 1999|title=Death can't stop Nirvana|last=Sakamoto|first=John|date=October 9, 1996|access-date=December 7, 2020}}</ref> ''No Code'' was certified platinum by the [[Recording Industry Association of America|RIAA]],<ref name=RIAA>[http://riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH_RESULTS&title=No+Code&artist=Pearl+Jam&perPage=25&go=Search Gold and Platinum Database Search] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070626051113/http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH_RESULTS |date=June 26, 2007 }}. [[RIAA]]. Retrieved on May 28, 2008.</ref> but was the band's first album to not reach multi-platinum status. As of 2013, the album has sold 1.7 million<nowiki>&nbsp;</nowiki>copies in the United States according to [[Nielsen SoundScan]].<ref name="billboard">{{cite magazine| url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/72091/10ask| title=Ask Billboard: Ready for a Riot| last=Caulfield | first=Keith| magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]| date=March 2003| access-date=July 25, 2007}}</ref>

Three singles were released from ''No Code''. The lead single "[[Who You Are (Pearl Jam song)|Who You Are]]" peaked at number 31 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]], and reached number one on the [[Alternative Songs|Modern Rock]] charts and number five on the [[Mainstream Rock (chart)|Mainstream Rock]] charts. Neither of the album's other singles, "[[Hail, Hail]]" and "[[Off He Goes]]", charted on the Hot 100, but both placed on the Mainstream Rock and Modern Rock charts, as did album track "Red Mosquito".<ref>{{cite web
| url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=no-code-r239233/charts-awards/billboard-single|pure_url=yes}}
| title=Pearl Jam&nbsp;– ''No Code'' – Billboard Singles
| publisher=[[AllMusic]]
| access-date=June 11, 2007}}</ref>

"Present Tense" reached No. 1 on [[iTunes]]' Top 40 US Rock Songs chart on May 18, 2020, after being featured in the ending of the [[ESPN]] documentary series ''[[The Last Dance (miniseries)|The Last Dance]]''.

===Critical response===
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]] 
| rev1score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/no-code-mw0000185938|title=No Code – Pearl Jam|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=March 21, 2009}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
| rev2score = C<ref name="entertainmentweekly">{{cite magazine|last=Browne|first=David|author-link=David Browne (journalist)|url=https://ew.com/article/1996/08/23/no-code/|title=Northwest Passage|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|date=August 23, 1996|access-date=May 28, 2008}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[The Guardian]]''
| rev3score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite news|last=Sullivan|first=Caroline|title=Pearl Jam: No Code (Epic)|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=August 30, 1996}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''
| rev4score = {{Rating|4|4}}<ref>{{cite web|last=Hilburn|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Hilburn|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-08-25-ca-37396-story.html|title=Getting Back to Fundamentals|website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=August 25, 1996|access-date=October 17, 2017}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[NME]]''
| rev5score = 7/10<ref name="nme">{{cite web|url=http://www.nme.com:80/reviews/reviews/19980101001136reviews.html|title=Pearl Jam – No Code|website=[[NME]]|date=August 24, 1996|access-date=October 17, 2017|page=50|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000817184758/http://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/19980101001136reviews.html|archive-date=August 17, 2000|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
| rev6score = 5.4/10<ref name="pitchforkmedia">{{cite web|last=Schreiber|first=Ryan|url=http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/p/pearl-jam/no-code.shtml|title=Pearl Jam: No Code|website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|date=September 1996|access-date=May 20, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060424171953/http://pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/p/pearl-jam/no-code.shtml|archive-date=April 24, 2006|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
| rev7score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="q">{{cite journal|title=Pearl Jam: No Code|journal=[[Q (magazine)|Q]]|issue=121|date=October 1996|page=158}}</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev8score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="rollingstone">{{cite magazine|last=Fricke|first=David|author-link=David Fricke|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/no-code-19960905|title=No Code|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=September 5, 1996|access-date=May 28, 2008}}</ref>
| rev9 = ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]''
| rev9score = 6/10<ref>{{cite journal|last=Weisbard|first=Eric|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I6ZfZSHzFXIC&pg=129|title=Pearl Jam: No Code|journal=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|volume=12|issue=7|date=October 1996|access-date=April 17, 2020|pages=129–130}}</ref>
| rev10 = ''[[USA Today]]'' 
| rev10score = {{Rating|3|4}}<ref name="Gundersen">{{cite web|last=Gundersen|first=Edna|author-link=Edna Gundersen|url=http://www.usatoday.com/life/enter/music/lem447.htm|title=Grunge gurus break 'Code'|website=[[USA Today]]|date=August 23, 1996|access-date=April 13, 2020|page=01.D|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990505084856/http://www.usatoday.com/life/enter/music/lem447.htm|archive-date=May 5, 1999|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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Upon its release, ''No Code'' received a mixed to positive critical reception. ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' staff writer [[David Fricke]] gave ''No Code'' four out of five stars, saying that the album "is abrupt in its mood swings almost to the point of vertigo." He praised the album as "the kind of impulsive, quixotic, provocative ruckus that has become rare in a modern-rock mainstream" and added that "''No Code'' basically means no rule books, no limits and, above all, no fear."<ref name="rollingstone"/> ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]'' gave the album four out of five stars. The review said that the album "constantly adds unexpected and fascinating details....A solid attraction amid intriguing oddities is the powerful array of guitar sounds."<ref name="q"/> Critic [[Robert Christgau]] described the album as "slowly winning a heartwarming battle against constitutional melancholia."<ref name="Christgau">{{cite book|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=2711|chapter=Pearl Jam: No Code|access-date=May 20, 2009|title=Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|publisher=[[St. Martin's Press]]|year=2000|isbn=0-312-24560-2|url=https://archive.org/details/christgausconsum00chri_0}}</ref> [[AllMusic]] staff writer [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] gave the album three and a half out of five stars, saying, "While a bit too incoherent, ''No Code'' is Pearl Jam's richest and most rewarding album to date as well as their most human."<ref name="allmusic"/> ''[[NME]]'' gave ''No Code'' a seven out of ten. In the review, it is stated that "Vedder is still preoccupied with his own mortality, but now he appears more quasi-mystical than miserable....for all its relative placidity, ''No Code'' is still a difficult beast."<ref name="nme"/>

Referring to the songs on the album, [[Jon Pareles]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' said "about half are worth the effort." He observed that "too often, [Vedder] falls into American culture's [[Disney]] syndrome, idealizing childhood innocence above all."<ref name="thenewyorktimes">{{cite web|last=Pareles|first=Jon|author-link=Jon Pareles|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9806E4DB1430F936A1575BC0A960958260|title=Pearl Jam Is Tired of the Pearl Jam Sound|website=[[The New York Times]]|date=August 25, 1996|access-date=June 27, 2007}}</ref> [[David Browne (journalist)|David Browne]] of ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' gave the album a C, saying that while ''No Code'' "cracks open their sound", it "becomes a collection of fragments that don't add up to much of anything, except a portrait of a musically disjointed band." On the change in mood compared with the band's previous releases, he said that "the album leaves you with the vaguely unsettling feeling that Pearl Jam without pain are like a pretzel without salt, or Seattle without rain."<ref name="entertainmentweekly"/> Ryan Schreiber of ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'' stated that "there's a ton of filler here. In fact, it's almost ''all'' filler."<ref name="pitchforkmedia"/> ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' reviewer [[Christopher John Farley]] said that the album "makes it sound as if they're having a midlife crisis." Farley added that "too few of the songs on the Pearl Jam CD explore the musical possibilities they suggest in any kind of definitive or provocative manner."<ref name="time">{{cite magazine|last=Farley|first=Christopher John|author-link=Christopher John Farley|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,985075,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101029223130/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,985075,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 29, 2010|title=Identity Crisis|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|date=September 2, 1996|access-date=May 20, 2009}}</ref>