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Into The Wild: Music For The M by: Eddie Vedder List Price: CDN$ 19.99 City Travel Guides Price: CDN$ 11.99 You Save: CDN$8.00 (40%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 8869715944236 Format: Soundtrack Label: Sony Music Canada Inc. Manufacturer: Sony Music Canada Inc. Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Sony Music Canada Inc. Release Date: September 18, 2007 Studio: Sony Music Canada Inc. Sales Rank: 80 MPN: 715944 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: From Amazon.com: Taking a break from his day job fronting rock heavyweight Pearl Jam, Eddie Vedder immerses himself into the big-screen story of a young man who gives all his money to charity and hitchhikes to a new life--and his eventual death--in the wilds of Alaska. Prompted by the film's creator, Sean Penn, to contribute to the musical score, the Seattle musician tackled the entire project, playing every instrument on the soundtrack's nine original and two cover songs. Vedder contemplates the traveler “setting forth in the universe” in the opener "Setting Forth," then tracks in the remaining songs the realizations and disillusionments that follow. A wish comes true in banjo-plucked "No Ceiling" to "up and disappear," while affluence is questioned on the hard-rocking "Far Behind," with Vedder singing, "Empty pockets will/Allow a greater sense of wealth." No song in the album's first half exceeds two-and-a-half minutes, remedied by Vedder's pertinent five-minute stamp on the remake of Indio's "Hard Sun," complete with eerie backing vocals by Sleater-Kinney's Corin Tucker. The songwriter puts wealth on the hot seat in "Society," questioning, "If less is more/How you keepin' score?" The darkly sung folk song bookends the reticent declaration "Guaranteed," wonderfully delivered and quietly strummed, in which the prodigal Vedder wraps the journey in one line: "Leave it to me as I find a way to be/Consider me a satellite forever orbiting." (The record is packaged like a hardcover book, with vivid photography and lyrics.) --Scott Holter Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - Short and SweetThis is a wonderful little collection of songs and songs sketches. Clocking in at just over a half and hour it hints a the potential for a much more grand, large scale development of this type of music in the future. Length aside, this is a wonderful album. A treat for pearl jam lovers and haters alike. The music is a new turn for Vedder. Sure it had precidents in songs like "the strangest tribe" "footsteps" and "off he goes", but the feel and texture of these works are different. Many of the best pieces of music on this album run just under two minutes, yet they capture a mood, develop beautiful harmonies, and hook the listner in so swiftly that they feel longer. In truth, while I hunger for more of this type of music ... Read More: Rating: - Natural ConnectionAfter listening to the album and now that I'm reading the book. There seems to me a natural connection between the music of Pearl Jam and the some of the ideals in the book. Recommended Rating: - Eddie's Back...But where's Pearl Jam?Like most of the reviews, for this album will state, I love Pearl Jam, and this album will make you wonder what happened to PJ. Anyways, Into the Wild, is a motion picture made by Sean Penn and music by Eddie Vedder. Eddie is back in his usual form with some great, although sometimes short songs, will make any PJ fan salvate and wish for more; basically making this album a great appetizer for a new Pearl Jam album. However, Eddie is still Eddie with or without Mike, Matt, Jeff, or Stone, he's still a brilliant artist/poet and perhaps one of the best musicians of his generation, with a great album that will probably be the best thing that comes out with this Sean Penn movie. Rating:  - Sketches Never Develop into SongsI'm a long time fan of Pearl Jam, especially of songs such as "Elderly Women Behind the Counter of a Small Town" and "Daughter". For me these songs are evocative of a unique emotional mixture, at once melancholic and transcendent. Vedder is given room in the sountrack of Into Thin Air to work with this emotional palette to create some beautiful sketches. At 33 minutes, however, the album is too short. Vedder needs to flesh out these inspired sketches into songs. The album's only true "song" is also the album's highlight, a cover of Indio's "Hard Sun". Vedder's original material had the potential to surpass the majesty of that song; it is frustrating that this potential is never realized. Rating:  - Why contain yourself like any other book on the shelf?Eddie Vedder's solo album Into the Wild, which also happens to tie-in with the movie of the same title, is one album that music lovers will not want to miss. Following the conventions that saying less actually says more, Into the Wild evoked emotions that Vedder seems to effortlessly convey to listeners. Although the album is short, I felt it was only appropriate to do so, in order to have a more lasting impact. I bought this album the day it came out, without even hearing a single song from the album - a risk I was willing to take from my favourite frontman from my favourite band Pearl Jam. This album did not disappoint. You can listen to it from beginning to end, and then on repeat. I have had this cd running its circles non-stop ... Read More: |
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