Eddie Vedder/Northwest Airlines World Traveler Article
KosmicJelli
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I recently took Northwest Flight from Minneapolis to Philadelphia and in the company magazine there was an article by Elizabeth Oliver which totally sucked about Eddie Vedder and the newest song for "Into The Wild." Here is the article... tell me what you think?
Issue Date: January 2008, Posted On: 1/1/2008
Wild One
Elizabeth Oliver
Sounds
Alongside Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder became a reluctant figurehead of Seattle's grunge movement in the early '90s. Today, as then, Vedder sings the songs of angst and disillusionment that so characterize the Gen-X zeitgeist. In his latest project, Vedder scored the soundtrack for "Into the Wild," a film that tells the true story of an ill-fated young man who, in 1990 - around the time Pearl Jam debuted - abandoned what he saw as the stifling materialism of conventional life and hit the road.
After director Sean Penn asked Vedder to compose the movie's sound-track, Vedder read the bestselling Jon Krakauer book on which the film is based to learn more about the story's protagonist. "It wasn't hard for me to understand the kid," he says in the film's production notes. "I still feel so connected and have such strong memories of being at that age ...".
Vedder himself had a tough childhood growing up in Evanston, Ill., but found some solace in rock music. By age 25 he was in Seattle, fronting the newly formed Pearl Jam. In 1991, the band hit the mainstream with their first album, "Ten," which has gone on to become certified twelve times platinum.
Stylistically, the "Into the Wild" soundtrack is a departure for Vedder: Leaving behind hard rock and his band mates, he ventures solo into the realm of folk. Vedder says he looked for sounds and instruments - acoustic guitars, ukuleles and mandolins - that "fit the emotion" of the film. The track, "Hard Sun," is a cover but nonetheless captures the themes of escape - and ultimately, sorrow - that haunt the story. Listen to "Hard Sun" on select Northwest flights.
- Elizabeth Oliver
Pearl Jam
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Issue Date: January 2008, Posted On: 1/1/2008
Wild One
Elizabeth Oliver
Sounds
Alongside Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder became a reluctant figurehead of Seattle's grunge movement in the early '90s. Today, as then, Vedder sings the songs of angst and disillusionment that so characterize the Gen-X zeitgeist. In his latest project, Vedder scored the soundtrack for "Into the Wild," a film that tells the true story of an ill-fated young man who, in 1990 - around the time Pearl Jam debuted - abandoned what he saw as the stifling materialism of conventional life and hit the road.
After director Sean Penn asked Vedder to compose the movie's sound-track, Vedder read the bestselling Jon Krakauer book on which the film is based to learn more about the story's protagonist. "It wasn't hard for me to understand the kid," he says in the film's production notes. "I still feel so connected and have such strong memories of being at that age ...".
Vedder himself had a tough childhood growing up in Evanston, Ill., but found some solace in rock music. By age 25 he was in Seattle, fronting the newly formed Pearl Jam. In 1991, the band hit the mainstream with their first album, "Ten," which has gone on to become certified twelve times platinum.
Stylistically, the "Into the Wild" soundtrack is a departure for Vedder: Leaving behind hard rock and his band mates, he ventures solo into the realm of folk. Vedder says he looked for sounds and instruments - acoustic guitars, ukuleles and mandolins - that "fit the emotion" of the film. The track, "Hard Sun," is a cover but nonetheless captures the themes of escape - and ultimately, sorrow - that haunt the story. Listen to "Hard Sun" on select Northwest flights.
- Elizabeth Oliver
Pearl Jam
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fuck that!
Once I get out of this town
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I really don't see the issue with the article. This is obviously an introductory piece aimed at a broad audience (say, the variety of folk who travel airlines, perhaps?) - not Pearl Jam fans. The inclusion of Kurt Cobain isn't anything to get upset about.
An inch is not a mile, a molehill is not a mountain, and so on. Perspective is in order.
she probably just knows nothing about PJ and wanted to sound accurate which she was in the beginning about the band and Eddie.......etc.........
as for the rest, she probably just doesn't listen much to them........dork......
Together we will float like angels.........
In the moment that you left the room, the album started skipping, goodbye to beauty shared with the ones that you love.........
the whole departing and leaving his band mates is a shitty
writers way of saying it even tho it was stated as a solo venture.
to my notion she's an office chic all rigid who has no clue what
grunge actually is.
she's using words she hasn't lived/experienced.
this is merely my opinion.
i could be way off base.
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
agreed, chaddy........
Together we will float like angels.........
In the moment that you left the room, the album started skipping, goodbye to beauty shared with the ones that you love.........
Sir Mike McCready is....THE MASTER!!! WAHHH!!!
EVENFLOW PSYCHOS H.N.I.C~FEEL THE FLOW!!!
"Pearl Jam fans are obsessed, they'd see the boys in HELL if tickets were sold."-CROJAM95
It takes balls to put out a UKE album!
They ALL say the same thing unless the writer is apparently a fan who knows their stuff... but otherwise, yeh, I've gotten bored reading reviews.
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
So what if she doesn't know much about Pearl Jam. Just because we love them, doesn't mean everyone should.
Charlotte 03
Asheville 04
Atlanta 12
Greenville 16, Columbia 16
Seattle 18
Nashville 22
Ohana Festival 24 x2
and yet, it continues
yup.
To read anything negative into what she said is taking the obsession a bit too far.
The departure she is speaking of is his departure from what the "radio fan" would know of Ed and Pearl Jam.
And I don't feel right when you're gone away
Neither did I... the lady writes for a fuckin' Northwest Airlines in-flight magazine. Did you actually think she was going to be commissioned to write a 25,000-word piece on the history of the band, complete with full background on each band member and THEN get into the solo Vedder stuff??? Think about the target audience for this magazine... people that don't know/care about Pearl Jam that are just thumbing through a magazine to kill some time or trying to find the crossword puzzle.
Not everything is a big conspiracy to keep PJ down... some of you folks gotta relax.
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
Exactly. The word "departure" is a staple amongst music reviews, too. Not exactly a new phrasing or anything.
I can hear it now ...
WHAT?! I never saw anything stapled to any music reviews! LIAR!
Its from an airline magazine; do you expect it to have a high degree of expertise?
For this album, he did leave hard rock and his bandmates behind.
It may not be the most informative article, but there are no real falsehoods.
It was used in the first season of the t.v. show Roseanne. I believe they were talking about dirty socks.
This is a very intellligent post. Impressive, Rockpants.