Pearl Jam’s ‘NO CODE’ Album Saved my Life (Sort Of)…

Alright, so ‘saved my life’ might be a slight overstatement. What’s more accurate is to say that it really saved my sense of connection to music and the world at a point in time when I had really drifted too far from any sense of meaning, connection or wonder with my life or the world. The year was 1996 and I was fifteen years old, going on sixteen. And I had been in a major depression at that time, for various reasons. Among a number of more personal, specific things – which I won’t go into here – I remember … Continue reading Pearl Jam’s ‘NO CODE’ Album Saved my Life (Sort Of)…