Eddie Vedder's Into the Wild is a collection of nine original songs and two covers for Sean Penn's film of the same name, based on Jon Krakauer's novel. The novel and film are concerned with the short life of Christopher J. McCandless, an honor student and athlete who literally walked away from his life, donated his 24,000 dollars in savings to Oxfam, and left what he perceived to be a sick society behind. He stepped into the hinterlands of Alaska and never returned. He eventually died of starvation. Penn handpicked Vedder to score the project. Vedder in turn came up with this collection of folksy, rootsy tunes where rock & roll makes fleeting appearances (most notably on the opener, "Setting Forth," and the first single, "Hard Sun"). It's a true solo project in that he played virtually everything on the set, and had help in only two places, backing vocals by Corin Tucker on "Hard Sun" (written by Gordon Peterson), and a little extra acoustic guitar assistance and backing vocals from Jerry Hannan on "Society," a tune Hannan authored. There are no enormous emotive vocal explosions like there are on Pearl Jam records save for one restrained attempt near the end of the album. As the cycle begins on "Setting Forth" ("Be it of no concern/Point of no return/Go forward in reverse/This I will recall/Every time I fall..."), the notion of walking away is one of "for good." The rest of the record deals with existential questions of losing everything in order simply to lose it and find something undetermined instead, rather than in terms of absolute "freedom." Vedder does a fine job of letting the listener know the cost in "No Ceiling" and "Far Behind." On "Long Nights," one gets the picture that the singer is whistling past the graveyard: "Have no fear/For when I'm alone/I'll be better off/Than I was before/I've got this life/I'll be around to grow/Who I was before/I cannot recall/Long nights allow/Me to feel I'm falling/I am falling...."
A few weeks ago I went down to Memphis, TN to see Eddie Vedder. This was my 6th Vedder show since he started touring solo for Into The Wild last year...I've been incredible lucky. This time around I picked the Southern show because I have a few friends down there so I thought I'd take a few days off and make a vacation out of it. I actually got to MEET EDDIE later that night while hanging with ...
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Eddie Vedder takes Sean Penn's "Into The Wild" to the next level with this incredible soundtrack.
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For those who loved Pearl Jam at various times during their mercurial musical career - Eddie Vedder's solo effort, rife with allusions to his work with Neil Young, replete with a beautiful the simple sound heard at times beginning with No Code, with his distinct vibrato is brilliant in my opinion. I am usually "last to the party" but I happened to see Into the Wild and thought the soundtrack so...
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Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder will have to duke it out, along with his fellow composers Kaki King and Michael Brook for the Best Original Score in a Motion Picture Golden Globe. The trio are behind the music to Sean Penn's adapted film Into The Wild. Vedder is also up for the Best Original Song in a Motion Picture Golden Globe for the film's track "Guaranteed." In the latter category he is up...
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Despite the fact that we couldn't see him all dapper in an Armani suit, Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder received his first Golden Globe ever for his music work in Into The Wild. Vedder's track "Gauranteed" won for Best Original Song in the Sean Penn-directed flick.Vedder was also up for a Globe in the Best Original Score category, but lost to Atonement composer Dario Marianelli. ...
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If Three 6 Mafia can be called "an Academy Award award-winning American hip hop" group, why in the world are neither Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder or Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood nominated for an 2008 Oscar? The nominees for the 80th annual Academy Awards aka Oscars were announced Tuesday morning. And despite the fact that Eddie Vedder's original track "Guaranteed" for the Sean Penn-directed flick In...
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I was able to get my hands on the upcoming soundtrack to Sean Penn's new moive, 'Into The Wild'....with basically serves as the first Eddie Vedder solo record...he wrote all 11 songs specifically for the film. And , in the interest of full disclosure, I am a HUGE Pearl Jam fan...but this record is amazing...it will be on repeat here for the foreseeable future. I only wish it were longer
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From the film Into The Wild directed by sean penn.he will release a solo lp for this moviecoming out Sept.18 take a lil listen and tell me what you thinkerm hello Monday MOGand also for shame for shame that our wonderfulLEMONTWISThas yet made mogger of the week.i cannot speak for her.but i think it has hurt her feelings.feh maybe it's just meafter she made that wonderful calender and was one of...
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If you are a fan of Eddie Vedder's solo work, more recently his score for the Sean Penn-directed film Into the Wild, then you'll want a ticket for Vedder's mini tour this spring. Vedder, sans Pearl Jam, will head out on the road with his acoustic guitar for stops along the west coast this April. The tour starts in Vancouver, British Columbia on April 2nd and caps off April 15th in San Diego. Ne...
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Eddie Vedder is about to release his solo debut album. The long-time frontman for Pearl Jam was hand-picked by Sean Penn to compose a soundtrack for the director's newest film. The solo debut and movie are titled Into The Wild and the album will be released on September 18th while the movie hits theatres three days later.The album is said to consist of "folky-ballads" including a song titled "H
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I'm just gonna go ahead and post this even tho someone may have beat me to it.Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam from the soundtrack CD " Into The Wild" ( the movie is Sean Penn's directorial debut).Anyway, you might be surprised here. and Vedder gets the songwriting credit...
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Transcendent, beautiful, tragic and joyful. All at once. Like life. When I read the book "Into The Wild, by Jon Krakauer":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Wild, I was prepared to think poorly of the young man who journeyed to Alaska alone, only to die tragically-- you know, what a fool, traveling alone, no map or compass, minimal food, with an attitude of "gonna live off the land and set ...
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A few weeks ago I went down to Memphis, TN to see Eddie Vedder. This was my 6th Vedder show since he started touring solo for Into The Wild last year...I've been incredible lucky. This time around I picked the Southern show because I have a few friends down there so I thought I'd take a few days off and make a vacation out of it. I actually got to MEET EDDIE later that night while hanging with ...
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Eddie Vedder takes Sean Penn's "Into The Wild" to the next level with this incredible soundtrack.
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For those who loved Pearl Jam at various times during their mercurial musical career - Eddie Vedder's solo effort, rife with allusions to his work with Neil Young, replete with a beautiful the simple sound heard at times beginning with No Code, with his distinct vibrato is brilliant in my opinion. I am usually "last to the party" but I happened to see Into the Wild and thought the soundtrack so...
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| 1 Setting Forth |
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| 2 No Ceiling |
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| 3 Far Behind |
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| 4 Rise |
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| 5 Long Nights |
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| 6 Tuolumne |
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| 7 Hard Sun |
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| 8 Society |
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| 9 The Wolf |
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| 10 End Of The Road |
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| 11 Guaranteed |
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