Jason Lynch

I heard that you can use the weidgy board on the No Code CD to decode it.

Apparently Ed's quest for anonimity has not quite ceases. On the Lossegroove press release, it notes that 'Jerome Turner', the same man given credit for the No Code concept, helped with the layout and design on L2L. Just thought it was interesting.Later.

Josh

BTW-Jerome Turner=Ed Vedder

The symbol's that you can see there are very much used in astrology and so on...And if you see...for example, that 2 and 3 are marked red: 23 is the birth of Eddie, and go to the symbols in that segment you will find 3 symbols that are symbol's for the Capricorn in astrology...And Eddie is a Capricorn...The symbol at left is a Planet-symbol for Saturn, the Capricorn's planet...Wich also is the Water carrier's planet....(Look at number 9: and 10: further down this page)

Stian R.

Amber

Well, I tell you what. If you open it all up, all four panels, do you understand?

Eddie Vedder (from the Radio Fritz Broadcast of November 3, 1996, Berlin, Germany.)

Under the segment "2" (marked red)and "Love". You can see two symbol's for the Aquarios, The water carrier and one planet symbol for Uranus, and that is the Water carrier's planet along with Saturn...And you can also find the letter "U"...that can mean "Love U....". To Beth? If Beth's birth is beetween 21. january and 19. february...then I think that could be a sollution...If you know....Please E-mail me

Stian R.

You may be onto something. There may be more Ed references than references to other members of the band since No Code's concept is Credited to Jerome Turner (Ed. Ved.).

23 could however be a reference to M. Jordan....

Jason Lynch

Saerah

Some are astrology symbols and some are not...That's the cool thing about this weidgy board......But that circle (the one in the studio where they did monkey wrench, self pollution etc.), is actually a planet symbol for the Sun...But bands like the Who have used that symbol too, and if you look at the other two symbols in that segment you will find symbols that can relate to The who..."III" may be for the three letters in the WHO? And the other symbol is much used as the "O" in the Who...And (I've been studying this quite much these days...) if you look further down that segment, you will find "Well" and "Good", may be Eddie is refering that he feels "Well" with the Who. And that it is a "good" thing?!

I am pretty sure that many of these symbols are astrology symbols, but mixed with stuff that Eddie and PJ is concerned about....Like f.eks "Artists for hate free America", you wil find that symbol there...And if you look down further that segment you will find the word "hate"....

Stian R.

The rat is the logo for Rat Sound, their live sound company.

Beth

In numerology...a triangle means expression... and an inverted triangle means balance.

Oh, Eddie was born Year of the Dragon... so, I don't know if RATS were symbolic or not.

Mary

Sarah

Jerome Turner is actually Eddie Vedder. In other words, No Code is full of Code and Jerome Turner is Eddie's code name. Its also the name he used to use to check into hotel rooms and stuff. But not anymore because people figured that out. Not many people know this, but he used to use the name "Jeremy Black" but after a while that became to obvious.

Ray

Jerome Turner is code for Eddie Vedder. In Yield it says that Carpenter Newton came up with the concept. Carpenter Newton is code for Jeff Ament. *Correction: This isn't true -- Carpenter Newton = Stone Gossard. Susan

In the liner notes of the Tibetan Freedom concert CD with Eddie and Mike, the music to the song Yellow Ledbetter is credited to :

"jeffery allen ament, michael david mccready and eddie jerome vedder"

Robin

Rob

Rob

For example: On cardset E, You can find a picture of a smile on the flipside of the smile-lyrics, and on cardset D, you can find the contrast of the smile, the angry puzzle man...

On cardset D, Hail Hail, you can find a picture of a man that jumps out of the window, and on cardset E, there is this constrast again, a man get saved by the small ring attached to the string in the ocean.

Stian R.

On cardset E, I'm open, you can find a opened wound....And on Present Tense, there is a picture of two keyboard symbols: Full stop and a quistion mark. These two symbols could fit very well to the philophical lyrics to Present Tense...

Stian R.

Matt

When you mentioned this ring, i came to think of another of the polaroids on the No Code cover. When you look at the back of it, you can see part of a hand that has got a ring that says "LOVE" on one finger. It looks like a little child grabs for the finger or something. I`ve always looked at oceans as a love song, so maybe there is a connection?

Harald Viken

I think it's a kind of system in the No Code trading cards...

The smile polaroids at set c and o (angry puzzle man) are totally contrasts to the smile pictures at set d and e (red lips on yellowish face and a smiling mouth with golden tooth).

The Hail, Hail polaroids at set c and o (man falling out of window), are contrasts to Hail, Hail pictures at set d and e (a man getting saved at sea)

The pictures may apply to the lyrics at the backside of the polaroid's. Take a look at the polaroid's in the system and help me to crack the system that seem's to be hidden. Polaroid cardsets in system.

Komikaze_23

Sam....................................................................................................Anothter interpretation of the No Code symbol

Thomas

Thomas, good point! Sometimes people like to over-analyze art because they believe the artist(s) always have a hidden agenda and meaning in everything that they do. I wrote a poem once, and it was discussed by my classmates in english class and some of them were so engrossed in figuring out the deeper meaning, they sometimes found meaning in things that actually didn't have any deep symbolism in it. I too pored over the polaroids and trying to decipher a hidden meaning, but sometimes I think that perhaps it's just there for aesthetic and creative reasons, a form of self-expression.

Mindy

Go to sector, Bad, ?, Soon....I have looked this up in a book about symbols....

These three symbols seems to fit together in a way, along with "Soon ?"

Stian R.

Go to sector, Good, 7, ill...This proves that many of the symbols are astrology symbols...

The symbol in the middle (woman with her legs crossed) and the symbol at right (the double mm) are symbols for Virgo (the virgin). The symbol at left are symbol to the Virgos planet Mercury.

Go to sector No, stop...

These three symbols could be symbols for unfainess. The tools: on that work and that is bended and destroyed. That's unfair!. The weight scale is heavier to one of the sides. Unfair! And the No Code symbol, the triangle and the circle, two contrasts. That is kind of unfair...And further down the segment: STOP, may be they mean that unfainess should stop.

In case you haven't noticed: Take a look at the No Code symbol at the cover, #7 further up this page...

Mike Costello

Ed's reference to light blue #23 at Raliegh, had nothing to do with No Code. Michael Jordan played college basketball for the University of North Carolina, he wore the #23 and their uniforms are light blue, and the band was playing in North Carolina.

Patrick Boegel

Brian O'Gorman

Cardset d (an eye, moon, stars and arch), if you look at the same picture at the front of the cover you will see that the picture is seen in reverse (not the arch though), but the moon has been changed to a falling star....

Stian R

Here it goes. What I think Eddie, Jeff, Mike, Stone, and Jack did to set this whole thing up was to say there were codes on the album just to make people THINK for once. "Misinterpretations" that is the whole basis for all of these theories, every one has their own ideas of what things mean, but to each is to own. That is what I think Eddie is trying to say. One person might see an object, thing, or whatever as one thing, and another might see it as a totally different thing. There might be codes though out the whole album, who knows for sure but the band.

P.E. Miller

I have received some mails about what's really on the polaroids:(42-46)

If were to turn this picture one 90 degrees clockwise, and look at it you will notice that it is the drawing of the profile of someones head looking to the right!.

Livi

There's also a picture around d-10 or somewhere (I don't have the album with me) of a contraption for dispensing liquor. It's a little grey statue of a boy on a pedestal taking a leak. Guess where the liquor comes out. The picture is sideways. My parents had one.

-GStopka

Vinnie

Not only do I think that one is Dennis Rodman's eye, but I think the upside-down nostril w/ the nose ring on the cover is Rodman's nostril! It's actually pretty obvious if you have the BRY single, because there are 3 polaroids pictured in it, which are of Rodman (99% sure), except only 2 are on the No Code cover.

Peter Riley

P.S.- The statue on the Given to fly single that the band claims they watched for hours in single video theory is in Rome, about a block away from the colisseum, which i randomly stumbled upon and was just as transfixed.

Colin

Arild

Kelly

Kelly

Jeff S

Last query, on the top left panel on the outside, bottom row, 5th column, there is a front on picture of a rhino (I think) and something to its right. There is lettering there, does anybody know what it says? Somebody with a vinyl copy maybe?

One more thing... the Mankind lyrics card features Stone's drawing in two set, which makes sense since he did the song himself. But in the other two sets the Mankind card has an amoeba or something? I wonder does it have a Stone connection, like it comes from his skin cells or something like that, I'm not a biologist.

Doole

2) on the back cover there are 5 polaroids that could stand for each member of the band. G-3 is something in the shape of a J. (jeff), K-1 is a nail that could be an I (irons), K-2 is an elephant's trunk that's shaped like an M (mccready), L-1 is a G in a triangle (gossard), and L-6 is something in the shape of a V (vedder) pretty interesting.

.rick.

Zach G

Johnny L.P.

On number 53 they mentioned about the map pieces being from where the people live. i think its the citys that the album was recorded in i know they have used seattle, atlanta and new orleans before. seattle - ten, vs., vitalogy, yield new orleans - vitalogy atlanta - vitalogy, yield.

Nick

This is to add onto some comments someone made who claimed that section 8 on the CD was a reference to the band The Who. I agree.

To fully understand the 3 symbols in this section, look at the back of the lyric card for *Who* You Are. There are two "O"s in the title of the song. The first is the same as the middle "O" on the CD, and is the circle with the arrow (which is the way that The Who wrote their name). The second "O" in the title, which is also in section 8 on the CD along with the numeral "III" i believe are references that *Who* You Are is the key to this section's mystery. Why the number three you ask? What track is *Who* You Are?....#3 of course!

We know that PJ has been extremely influenced by The Who, and that they loved their music which could explain why they placed their section under "GOOD" & "WELL".

I think this makes a pretty strong case as all three symbols can be tied to either The Who, or the styilized title of *Who* You Are as it appears on the lyric card. It also makes me wonder if every quadrant represents a song on the album (12 quadrants, 12 songs if we don't count I'm Open (which is not as musical, but still powerful)

paul glass

As for the symbols, i'm not sure of them... someone said that one was from a magician that a band used on a shirt... i wonder if pj lost some respect for that band after they "sold out". another thought is that that symbol looks like a pentagram, and it's next to a flame... maybe they symbolize hell as they are in the "BAD" quadrant. i'm not sure what the aries could mean, unless it has some satanic meaning as well.

paul glass

Lauren

The circle within a circle is on a orange Pearl Jam shirt. Also featured in red white and blue from a 90's Quadrophenia tour shirt. The cicle with arrow. Could this be the symbol for a male. Pete Townshend wrote a song "I'm a boy" that was to be a part of a rock-opera that was never completed. This would have been their third rock-opera "III". Also the boy was to be a girl because this rock-opera was in a futristic setting when parents could pick the gender of their children. The parents wanted a girl but got a boy. Not so sure how "good" that is or maybe it's a political commentary. Also doesn't Ed have a few brothers. Isn't one named Jason, says happy birthday to him at Soldier Field '95. Boy. Ja. Interesting.

Peter