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Pearl Jam: No Code

Dave Marsh, MOJO, September 1996

IT'S NOT HARD to understand why some folks hate Pearl Jam. Isolate just about any element from the band's mix — Eddie Vedder's vocals and lyrics, especially — and perhaps you're left with little more than clichés and predictable patterns.

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