Songoftheday 6/2/20 - Come to send not condescend, transcendental consequences to transcend...
from the album No Code (1996)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #31 (one week)
weeks in the Top-40: 3
Today's song of the day comes from Seattle grunge rock titans Pearl Jam, who spent most of 1995 fighting concert monopoly Ticketmaster, only emerging to record an album with Neil Young, Mirrorball, that they couldn't get band credit for. Outtakes from the sessions were released as a two-song single that was under their name, "I Got Id"/"Long Road", which surprisingly scored the group their first top ten pop hit at the end of 1995.
The following year, Eddie Vedder and the band released their fourth studio album No Code. The lead single from the more experimental set was the musically expansive "Who You Are". Written by Vedder with the band's Stone Gossard and Jack Irons, and produced with Brendan O'Brien, the song sported a complex rhythmic pattern that with the production flows like a march as Eddie goes on a stream of conciousness...
"Who You Are" became Pearl Jam's third official top-40 pop hit on Billboard's Hot 100 chart in August of 1996. The song topped Billboard's Alternative Rock radio chart for a week, while peaking at #5 on the Mainstream Rock format list. Internationally, the single reached the top ten in Finland (#2), Canada (#4), Australia (#5), and Norway (#7), and made the top-40 in New Zealand (#17), the UK (#18), Ireland (#19), and Sweden (#26). The No Code album was their third consecutive #1 record on the sales chart, moving more than a million copies.
The next song from the album promoted to radio, "Hail, Hail", wasn't released as a proper single, but got enough radio love to go to #69 on the Hot 100 Airplay component of the chart. It also peaked at #9 on both the Mainstream and Alternative rock radio lists, and went to #31 in Australia. Another track, "Red Mosquito", entered the Mainstream Rock chart at the same time and spent a month topping out at #37. Finally, the song "Off He Goes" hit #31 at Mainstream Rock, #34 at Alternative Rock, and was a top-40 hit in Canada at #36.
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Here's Pearl Jam on their tour behind the album in 1996...
...and in concert in New York in 2008...
And finally, at a show in 2014...
Up tomorrow: South Carolina bar band made good head to the municipality.
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