Eddie Vedder/Northwest Airlines World Traveler Article

Heineken Helen · January 2008

Motown322 wrote:

Not everything is a big conspiracy to keep PJ down... some of you folks gotta relax.

It is... it fuckin IS I tells ya!

rockpants · January 2008

TrixieCat wrote:

This is a piece commissioned by the airline to introduce people to his music that is being featured on their inflight station.
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.

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!

CitizenRick · January 2008

That article never went anywhere...just a bunch of nothin'.

KosmicJelli · January 2008

I used to write for a friggen newspaper and as magazine at least she could have done better RESEARCH!!!!! Why the negativity with the Evanston thing... whom gives a shit... who hasnt had a tough life? I think it could have explored more into the Movie and the Music....

IndianaPearl · January 2008

yeah, i see really nothing wrong with that too... and i may be way over interpreting this but i actually thought the "departure" thing was more of a pun..like she's takling about ITW, leaving things behind...arg, but maybe that's just me, i literally just came back from seeing the film

Brain Of E · January 2008

theres really nothing wrong with what she's saying in the article, the only problem is that the article is really lame, i've pooped better essays

JOEJOEJOE · January 2008

KosmicJelli wrote:

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

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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.

jwoodcock · January 2008

chadwick wrote:

i read it as she hasn't a very good idea what PJ is.
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.

There is no such thing as "grunge". "Grunge" is a word money making people used to sell things and market artwork we call music.

rockpants · January 2008

jamie w wrote:

There is no such thing as "grunge". "Grunge" is a word money making people used to sell things and market artwork we call music.

It was used in the first season of the t.v. show Roseanne. I believe they were talking about dirty socks.

Anon · January 2008

rockpants wrote:

She's not really wrong. The band has never released an album that is entirely made up of Driftin's, Around the Bend's, Elderly Woman's, Who You Are's, etc., which are the type of PJ songs that would be the closest to what Ed did for ItW.
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.

This is a very intellligent post. Impressive, Rockpants.

Eddie Vedder/Northwest Airlines World Traveler Article

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