No Code
by Pearl Jam
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No Code is ranked 5th best out of 85 albums by Pearl Jam on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Pearl Jam is Ten which is ranked number 51 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 17,999.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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No Code rankings summary
Overall rank: 1,516th | 1990s rank: 267th | 1996 rank: 27th Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 2 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
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| 2026 |  SomethingSpecial | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 18/100 | 17 |
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 100 Music Albums of 1996 | 47/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Pearl Jam (& related members) albums - Ranked | 31/37 | - |
| 2026 | Siromynian | Top 27 Music Albums of 1996 | 17/27 | 2 |
| 2026 | mikepen | Top 29 Music Albums of 1996 | 15/29 | 3 |
| 2026 | culwin | Top 37 Music Albums of 1996 | 18/37 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Sandrof1969 | Top 15 Music Albums of 1996 | 2/15 | 5 |
| 2026 | bonnequestion | Best Ever Albums - 1 Per Artist | 85/100 | - |
| 2026 | FelipeBoorkes | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 22/100 | 74 |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 74/100 | 26 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 263 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,126 | |||
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| ! | 10/04/2026 13:51 | Siromynian | 1,786 | 74/100 |
| ! | 09/04/2026 21:59 | xhitmanx | 1,604 | 75/100 |
| ! | 09/01/2026 21:57 | Devilwoac | 1,529 | 97/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.2/100, a mean average of 73.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.8.
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BestEverAlbums 10/02/2026 08:18 in Monthly overall chart movements - September 2026
BestEverAlbums 10/02/2026 08:18 in Monthly overall chart movements - September 2026“The overall chart is ever changing, and it's difficult to keep up with the detail of what's happening. So, for those people who are interested, this post attempts to show the latest movements - biggest climbers, movers, new entries and leavers for the top 100, 250, 500 & 1000 over the past month,…”
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FelipeBoorkes 03/06/2019 16:37 | #233144 | TOP COMMENT
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In Ten, Vs, and Vitalogy PJ rushed with anguish through social and personal conflicts.
This is an album based on sound exploration and a more metaphysical pondering. You've seen them experience life and now is time to consider their approach to it.
I love this album. (Edited)
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paladisiac TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/03/2012 21:09 | #34342 | TOP COMMENT
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It creeps in with retrospection -- "sometimes" takes account of what the narrator has done with their life in quiet fashion. "hail, hail" crashes upon this calm unease with unraveled love ending in the chorus of "If you're the only one well I'll never be enough yeah... / Hail hail the lucky ones I refer to those in love yeah... ". Thus marks the the last pearl jam album with great rocking tunes, along with "habit", "mankind" and the too-short "lukin". But this is pearl jam in introspective, Neil Young (an eddie vedder fav) mode. One of the highlights is "off he goes", an affecting reflection on a person/friend who seems to carry the weight of the world ("Know a man / His face seemed pulled and tense / Like he's ridin' on a motorbike / In the strongest winds"), attempting (at least at the bridge) to understand what the friend is going through ("It seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned / For he still smiles... And he's still strong / Nothing's changed but the surroundin' bullshit / That has grown"). It's a reflection on life you hear again in "red mosquito", which closes with that familiar refrain "if i had known then what i know now", or the spoken word piece "i'm open" where the narrator wonders "After spending half his life searching / He still felt as blank as the ceiling at which he stared / He is alive, but feels absolutely nothing, so is he?".
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junodog4 TOP 100 COMMENTER 06/13/2012 23:34 | #44371 | TOP COMMENT
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Pearl Jam sounds disillusioned, exhausted or alienating with this album. It's still quality material, but not up to their usual standards. (Edited)
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Brandon8 TOP 100 COMMENTER 02/04/2020 22:58 | #247501 | TOP COMMENT
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This album was the dividing line of Pearl Jam’s studio work. Their first 3 albums had enough radio friendly hits to keep the huge bandwagon fans and hype surrounding the band. This album at the time was a disappointment for myself included. Now that I look back at it the album is very good. It was a deep breath for the band a more mature recording. The 1st half at least should have been satisfying enough for bandwagons but they moved on to something else and Pearl Jam continued on this path for the foreseeable future making solid respectable work.
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5thbeatle 06/03/2012 19:00 | #43697 | TOP COMMENT
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I was one of the many that defected with this release, infact the next Pearl Jam I purchased was 'Backspacer'
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