Eddie and the ocean

Got a hard hard head
Got a hard hard head Posts: 638
edited March 2010 in Words and Music...Communication
Okay I'm sure I'm not the first to notice this, or to make a thread about it, but there are so many referrals to the ocean in Pearl Jam songs I wondered if there was any significance to this.

Is it just a love of the ocean, is there a deeper meaning to it or is it just a bizzare consequence?

Answers on a postcard please, to the usual address... ;)
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  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,376
    I think all of the Pearl Jam bandmembers have an appreciation of the ocean, and support causes to respect the ocean. Did you hear about the backspacer turtle race?

    I definitely appreciate the songs like Given to Fly and Against the Waves as they are incredible running songs. It's as if a runner's high is molded into the songs of waves.
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  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    Yes Eddie and the ocean is a given- like me and the sun. Its a love and a release, a source of creativity,
    earthly connections to our souls.
  • PJamGrungeFan
    PJamGrungeFan Posts: 289
    Oceans, of course, is the best song related to the ocean.

    You know it 8-)
  • loveheroine
    loveheroine Posts: 22
    edited November 2009
    Ms. Haiku wrote:
    I think all of the Pearl Jam bandmembers have an appreciation of the ocean, and support causes to respect the ocean. Did you hear about the backspacer turtle race?

    Yeah, I followed the turtle race at Conservation International, it was so cool that the Pearl Jam turtle won! Her name was Backspacer, and I didn't even know that was the name of their new album. doh :roll:

    Ocean and water is such a powerful force and topic, I guess like the other elements, fire, air ...
    I noticed my tendency to be drawn to the artists/musicians for whom the water theme runs strong through their work, maybe because it is so important and native to me as well.

    Isn't music like the water?
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  • ooba Fox
    ooba Fox Posts: 45
    I made a Pearl Jam surf culture playlist on my ipod with all the songs that mention oceans or waves and a few extras that I wanted to add.
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  • Freckles
    Freckles Posts: 17
    Definitely Eddie Vedder loves the ocean as he loves surfing. Once you learn to surf (or to sail, fish, dive or any other activity connected to the ocean) you will develop a kind of relationship to the sea. Being at and in the ocean frees your mind. You forget about a lot of things and just enjoy nature and your surroundings as they are. It helps to clear all your worries.
    I love Eddie´s lyrics about waves and the ocean. His lyrics just fit perfectly.

    Let the ocean dissolve away my past
    Four days, and not much longer
    Let my spirit pass

    :)

    Yes, sound waves are like water waves. Riding water, riding sound, it´s kind of the same (have a look at a book called "Nada Brahma - The world is sound" and a movie called "Life like liquid").
  • marqueemark
    marqueemark Posts: 31
    ooba Fox wrote:
    I made a Pearl Jam surf culture playlist on my ipod with all the songs that mention oceans or waves and a few extras that I wanted to add.

    What songs were on your playlist?
  • loveheroine
    loveheroine Posts: 22
    He said if they played all the songs about the ocean it would be a six hour show. ~ :D

    ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDidQEj1 ... re=related )
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  • loveheroine
    loveheroine Posts: 22
    Yes, sound waves are like water waves. Riding water, riding sound, it´s kind of the same (have a look at a book called "Nada Brahma - The world is sound" and a movie called "Life like liquid").

    Thanks! will have to check out those references.
    " I'm like an opening band for the sun "
  • BALLBOY
    BALLBOY Australia Posts: 1,035
    Pear Jam is the ocean. Always there, sometime very rough & dangerous but other times beautiful & calm. I really miss the ocean & it's beauty. Sea's & oceans are two totally different things. Oceans rule with whales & dolphins pounding their way & riding waves without a care in the world. Nice post.
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  • vedderfan10
    vedderfan10 Posts: 2,497
    How can anyone not fall under the ocean's spell? We came from it, we learn from it. It feeds us, mind, body, and soul...
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