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Eddie Vedder debuts new track titled "Moline" after the band runs through their entire 1996 album



Pearl Jam had a pair of major surprises in store for fans at their Friday night concert at Moline, Illinois' iWireless Center. Not only did Eddie Vedder debut a new song dedicated to the Quad Cities town, Pearl Jam performed their 1996 album No Code straight through in its entirety, from "Sometimes" to closer "Around the Bend," Jambase reports. "No Code. Front to back. #PJMoline #PJFall2014," the band tweeted before sharing a photo of the Moline setlist, which confirmed that the new song Vedder debuted onstage was also called "Moline."

According to WQAD, Vedder told the crowd that the new song was written especially for Moline and the Quad Cities area. "Moline, it seems, this is for me. You can call me Nancy and I live in Moline," Vedder sings on the track that's about a woman who leaves Detroit for the Illinois city. Vedder also revealed that he'd written the song just minutes before the band took the stage, and that the cut was related to Vitalogy's "Better Man."

It's unclear why Pearl Jam opted to make Moline, Illinois the setting for the No Code performance other than the fact that the 1996 album was partially recorded nearly two decades ago at the not-so-nearby Chicago Recording Company studio. Vedder joked following the performance of No Code's "Off He Goes," "Alright, end of side one." The singer told the crowd that the No Code performance marked only the second time the band had performed a studio album of theirs in its entirety; as the band's official message board points out, Pearl Jam played their whole 2006 self-titled record, out of sequence, at a Torino, Italy concert in September of that year.

In a wild coincidence, on the same night that the Foo Fighters were rocking out with Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen at Chicago's the Cubby Bear and on a previously recorded Late Show With David Letterman performance, Mike McCready also paid tribute to the guitarist by busting out a checkerboard guitar Nielsen had given him while Jeff Ament brought out a bass with a similar pattern.

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