These songs carried me on a similar journey as Christopher across the continent in 2016. I was 18, had $500 and a backpack. Hitchhiked east coast to west coast, snuck into almost a dozen national parks, longboarded a majority of the PCH, made daily random life affirming connections, and shivered under cold and lonely mountain moons. The memories these songs color bring tears to my eyes. I needed to become a man on my own terms. What joyous, bittersweet, wonder filled, deeply difficult, and heart-achingly beautiful experience.
I did something similar in 93-94 but I think I started out with about $60. I got a gig at a carnival for a bit. The manager there really seemed to care about me. I moved on to New Orleans, then Venice Louisiana where a couple of different families took me in. I met a Cajun couple who’d lost a son my age at the time in the 70s to a motorcycle crash. We became like family and saying goodbye was hard. And on and on.
Into the wild is my favourite movie of all time and always will be, Eddie vedders songs and lyrics are incredible, I always think of Chris and he was a big inspiration for me, after watching the movie I went and got camping equipment and started wildcamping here in the u.k, it changed my life, thank you Chris and eddy too
When I die I want whomever I leave behind to play a few songs from this soundtrack as they pour my ashes into to the Pacific Ocean. The sounds created by this man, singing these songs, are imbedded in my soul.
Eddie also wrote all these songs. Jon Krakauer called him one day when they were getting ready to make the movie and asked Eddie if he'd write a song for the movie. Eddie said yes and wrote a few more. After Jon heard the songs he asked Eddie if he would write all of the music for Into The Wild...
Watched Into the Wild on a plane ride, knew nothing about it at the time. Loved every second of it and the entire soundtrack is incredible. Couldn't hold back the tears in the plane, such a great movie.
I am touched by that story. Try the Book if you have only seen the Movie. They tell the same stories, only with a closer look into one or the other. deails you should understand, If you have, or still go into the wild... and it takes years to see why you needed to do it in the first place, "every time".... then you understood Alexander Supertramp, going.... " INTO THE WILD " now go !
Being free feels awesome, unfortunately my parents don't allow me to travel anywhere even with my friends. I'm planning to visit awesome places in the future after completing my college
Eddie Vedder has so much soul. Sometimes I wonder that he's an old soul who finds beauty in lifetimes that others might judge, or deem sad, even wasted. ...He just strikes me as being somehow able to revel in it all through his music. And everyone else gets to feel it as well.
Well said,every time I hear him,I can’t even begin to put words to the feelings and emotions I feel. Greatest songwriter,guitarist and vocalist of all time in my mind❤
Right… like, some may look at Chris’ life and think he wasted it. But Eddie and many others with his vision can see that Chris lived a more full life than most people who die after age 80. Inspiring indeed ❤
I won't dare to say he has THE BEST VOICE IN THE HISTORY OF MUSIC, but he's, at least, the top 10 of all time.But i agree with the "love you Eddie"part
Yeah surely there are many good voices but for me there's a different connection with his voice. And his love, respect towards music and humanity just makes him the best ever. Cheers :)
there is listening to the soundtrack, then there is watching Eddie perform it. A whole new level. Christopher McCandless will always be my hero. Go...follow your dreams!
Who could not love this man poetry skills, The lyrics he writes are outside the box, they make you think.Eddies vocal skills are amazing. Such a Talented man.
I still have only watched this film one time. We rented it from the local video store when it came out on DVD (remember those?). I could never bring myself to watch it again, but it did have a profound effect on me. However, the soundtrack has stuck with me ever since. My dad and I drove to the music store the night we watched the film and we each bought a copy.
His vocal.... Just how??? Blows my mind every damn time. Again and again. Just like his Irish friend Glen Hansard. Absolutely wild... Pure godsend talents! ❤
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i could only watch into the wild once so far ,it hit me so hard as a human trying to be in the word of freedom and nature and be in it and with it it resonated so hard
How I missed this and only just discovered it is beyond me. Undoubtably a masterpiece of a soundtrack,a awe inspiring story, directed incredibly by Sean Penn..... To have eddie vedder do all the songs for this film for me a masterpiece.❤
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Saw this when he came to Santa Barbara. Incredible. To write an entire soundtrack with so much heart and soul not to mention catchy as F is extremely difficult. Eddie Vedder was born to be a musician.
So many people missed the significance of this. Eddie tried to transition all that was grunge to what was next. A solem but physical shift toward lyrics, rhythm and melody - to being something true of heart, feelings and spirit. Can 90's music ever become this?
I agree and understood the same meaning of this evolution. I read sometimes persons complaining about this evolution. Eddie is no more the young boy wounded and rebellious he was but keep on being so brotherly with all our lives, happy, unhappy, sad, joyfull...
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I was as consumed with Alexander Supper Tramp, as Eddy Veder, But he wrote the sound track. It is amazing Eddy. I have gone out alone and so I understood Chris Mc Candless. WE see the need to be free over a life time. Then return to join life on a different plane , but not this one. I have been on the face of frozen cliffs, in snow and wind. I have been into the wild Eddy. What a perfect feeling when I hear your words so true, painting pictures of it all in my mind. I was in the Tennessee Natchez Trace area, dealing with death . It is inevitable, Gods Law-101, P E A C E
The fact that it took so many talented people to begin to explain to us just who inspired the movie and the book " Into the wild " speaks to the strength and wonder great loss of this young man
God, I love Eddie Vedder. Even bands who are known for putting live music on their albums still sound different. But Eddie is just pure talent and always sounded the same as he did on his recorded albums.
I love all of those songs. Eddie is such a great writer. He wrote those songs in three days after Sean Penn ask him to.Society and Guaranteed are great! These songs are good for the soul.
Crazy how music can take you on a journey, to the happiest places or to the most darkest places in your soul....Thank you "Pearl Jam" and Mr. McCandless (AKA "Alexander SuperTramp")! ....Life is short take it all in before it's to late!
After reading the book and seeing the motion picture..I looked up the soundtrack which led to me to Eddie Vedder and all of his work. Remarkable how healing and powerful the soundtrack is. I'm hopefully going to learn to play 'No Ceiling' even though the Banjo guitar brings it to an whole other level.
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*LYRICS* . *"Guaranteed"* (0:00) On bended knee is no way to be free Lifting up an empty cup, I ask silently That all my destinations will accept the one that's me So I can breathe Circles they grow and they swallow people whole Half their lives they say goodnight to wives they'll never know Got a mind full of questions and a teacher in my soul And so it goes Don't come closer or I'll have to go Owning me like gravity are places that pull If ever there was someone to keep me at home It would be you Everyone I come across in cages they bought They think of me and my wandering but I'm never what they thought Got my indignation but I'm pure in all my thoughts I'm alive Wind in my hair I feel part of everywhere Underneath my being is a road that disappeared Late at night I hear the trees they're singing with the dead Overhead Leave it to me as I find a way to be Consider me a satellite forever orbiting I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me Guaranteed . *"Setting Forth"* (3:42) Be it no concern, point of no return Go forward in reverse This I will recall Everytime I fall I'm free Setting forth in the universe Oh I'm free Setting forth in the universe Out here realigned A planet out of sight Nature drunk and high Oh I'm free I'm free... . *"Far Behind"* Take leave in conscious mind Found myself to be so inclined Why sleep in discontent For the price of companionship [Chorus] My shadow runs with me Underneath the big white sun My shadow comes with me as we leave it all We leave it all far behind Ah, empty pockets will Allow a greater sense of wealth Why contain yourself like any other book on a shelf [Chorus] My shadow lays with me Underneath the big white sun My shadow stays with me as we leave it all We leave it all far behind... Subtle voices in the wind, And the truth they're telling The world begins where the road ends Watch me leave it all behind Far behind . *"No Ceiling"* Comes the morning When I can feel That there's nothing Left to be concealed Moving on A scene surreal Know my heart will never Will never be far from here Sure as I'm breathing Sure as I'm sad I'll keep this wisdom In my flesh I'll leave here believing More than I had And there's a reason I'll be Reason I'll be back As I walk The hemisphere I got my wish To up and disappear I've been wounded I've been healed Now for landing I've been Landing I've been cleared Sure as I'm breathing Sure as I'm sad I'll keep this wisdom In my flesh I'll leave here believing More than I had This love has got No ceiling . *"Rise"* Such is the way of the world You can never know Just where to put all your faith And how will it grow? Gonna rise up Burning black holes in dark memories Gonna rise up Turning mistakes into gold Such is the passage of time Too fast to fold Suddenly swallowed by signs Lo and behold Gonna rise up Find my direction magnetically Gonna rise up Throw down my ace in the hole . *"Society"* (originally by Jerry Hannan) It's a mystery to me We have a greed with which we have agreed And you think you have to want more than you need Until you have it all, you won't be free Society, you're a crazy breed I hope you're not lonely without me When you want more than you have, you think you need And when you think more than you want, your thoughts begin to bleed I think I need to find a bigger place Cause when you have more than you think, you need more space Society, you're a crazy breed I hope you're not lonely without me Society, crazy indeed Hope you're not lonely without me There's those thinking more or less, less is more But if less is more, how you keepin score? Means for every point you make your level drops Kinda like you're startin' from the top And you can't do that Society, you're a crazy breed I hope you're not lonely without me Society, crazy indeed I hope you're not lonely without me Society, have mercy on me I hope you're not angry if I disagree Society, you're crazy indeed I hope you're not lonely without me
Trabalhava em um Cinema de Calçada chamado Guion , aqui no aeroporto de Porto Alegre , RS , Brasil . Tive o prazer de trabalhar na sala de projeção , e esse belissimo filme estava em cartaz , entao , 4 vezes ao dia , por 2 meses me deleitei , projetando e vendo e revendo . Filmaço e exepente trilha . Otima memoria !
Essas músicas preenchem minha alma com sentimentos que não sou capaz de guardar dentro de mim, então as lágrimas caem e e um sorriso as acompanham em meu semblante.
I love RISE and I always feel like the song is so simple yet not simple. There are very few words but the mandolin playing is also coveying lyrics in ways that lyrics could not. Wonderful track.
