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August 20, 2007

New Eddie Vedder (Feat. Corin Tucker) - "Hard Sun"

EdVed (thanks for the nickname, Nic Offer!!!) buddy Sean Penn produces and directs the forthcoming biopic Into The Wild (based on a novel of the same name by Jon Krakauer), dealing with the life and times of Christopher McCandless: a road traveler who starved to death at 24 after a temporarily successful/ultimately doomed attempt to live off the land in the Alaskan wilderness. Billboard reports that Vedder is the main music man involved with the flick's soundtrack, with some assists from Kaki King; composer Michael Brook; and on the Gordon Peterson (aka Indio) cover "Hard Sun," Sleater-Kinney punk princess Corin Tucker.

The Vedder/Tucker track's out there for your listening pleasure, and it's a nice treat for PJ lovers, opening with campfire acoustic-jangle feel, Corin filling out the refrain with open-skied harmonies, before moving into big hard sun 'n' fuzz-guitar terrain. Absorb at I Am Fuel, You Are Friends, and take the jump for EdVed's Into The Wild tracklist.

 

01 "Setting Forth"
02 "No Ceiling"
03 "Far Behind"
04 "Rise"
05 "Long Nights"
06 "Tuolumne"
07 "Hard Sun"
08 "The Wolf"
09 "End of the Road"
10 "Society"
11 "Guaranteed"

The Into The Wild soundtrack is out 9/18 on J Records.

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11 Comments

Thanks for the post. I know most of the kids don't dig Pearl Jam, but some of us Geezers still do.

Posted by: dfa1974 at 08/20/07 12:52 PM | Reply
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I wouldn't call us geezers yet! Great tune!

Posted by: Lance Gray at 08/20/07 1:27 PM | Reply
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Folks have been calling him "EdVed" for years and years and years now. Crediting Offer with that is kinda like hearing your little sister who's never seen an episode of 'Happy Days' shorten Fonzy to The Fonz and crying "eureka!".

Posted by: *sigh* at 08/20/07 1:33 PM | Reply
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Been a fan of pearl jam since i've caught them opening for nirvana and the red hot chili peppers in 90 or 91, yes i'll be qualified as a geezer! But this joint seems like the type of video that would be played on imf.com, the international music feed.

Posted by: vince s hguhley at 08/20/07 2:18 PM | Reply
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Am I just really high, or did not one sentence of that post actually make any sense whatsoever?

Posted by: B Drew at 08/20/07 3:14 PM | Reply
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Got this yesterday. Good song, but I was slightly disappointed because my sources claimed it was a duet. Solo album Corin (or S-K reunion!)!

Posted by: stef-k at 08/20/07 4:42 PM | Reply
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Come on 'Gum, Into the Wild is by no means a "novel." It's a true story, which makes it all that more phenomenal.

Posted by: jz at 08/20/07 8:28 PM | Reply
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Hey, you guys fixed you're html coding on this post. Good Job! It actually makes sense now.

Posted by: B Drew at 08/20/07 9:29 PM | Reply
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it's true, he's been ed ved as long as I can remember. that's not a recent thing...

Posted by: m at 08/21/07 1:28 AM | Reply
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Thank you Eddie, Music is back! Havent heard real music in a long time.

Posted by: Sandra at 09/19/07 7:59 PM | Reply
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The book is a great and compelling story. Read it while traveling the tubes back and forth from the Trade Centers in NYC to Slopoken NJ. And PJ is at the top for me. I'll be sure to take in this flick. I've been hoping someone would put this together...

Posted by: gp at 09/24/07 9:16 PM | Reply
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