Music for the Motion Picture Into the Wild

This soundtrack is great, especially if you saw the movie, because than it brings back the images. Some songs are a little rough for me, but overal it's beautiful music. Just as you would expect from Eddie Vedder.

This is great music. Rise, Hard Sun and Guaranteed are favorites but the entire soundtrack is really outstanding.

Not a movie score but a series, almost a suite, of songs that perfectly capture McCandless' tragic but inspiring wanderlust. Trust the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to utterly get it wrong again by not nominating at least one of the songs; they apparently forgot two great songs from Brokeback Mountain, too, but then the Academy have a three-week attention span, and a terror of all things new.

Vedder and company have made some great sounding stuff here, to drive to, to think to, to wander to. A beautiful accomplishment.

You don't have to like Pearl Jam to like this soundtrack because it is so different. Very nice.

Having greatly enjoyed the film "Into the Wild", as well as Eddie Vedder's musical contributions to the film, I was really looking forward to this album. However, the album by itself doesn't have nearly the same kind of resonance as in context with the movie.

The album is all Eddie, achieving a much more stripped-down effort than this work with Pearl Jam (something along the lines of Nick Drake meets Neil Young). Musically, there's a lot of great stuff here, consisting largely of acoustic-driven ballads, and of course Eddie's signature vocals.

However, the problem lies with the fact that this album is WAY too short. Most of the songs don't top 3 minutes, and many don't even top 2. I'm guessing the intended effect here was something similar to a "Pink Moon" experience, but at times it comes off more like an old Napalm Death album, with songs whizzing by as quickly as they begin. There are exceptions, such as the hugely epic "Hard Sun", which serves as the album's centerpiece, and some other great songs, like "Guaranteed", "End of the Road", the haunting "Society", and the nice instrumental piece "Tuolumne", but many of them, like "No Ceiling" and "The Wolf" just feel way too brief to amount to much of anything.

Overall, I'd give this album about a 3.5 out of 5. Musically, there's nothing wrong with it, I just find myself wishing there were way more to it. Still plenty of great melodies here though, and everything fits in really well with the movie (seriously, if you haven't seen this movie, go see it, it's so damn good). The packaging is nice too, with some cool photos taken from the movie included in the booklet. I'm definitely not sorry I bought this, but to really appreciate the music here, you have to hear it in combo with the movie. Believe me, it makes a big difference.

Oh, and you might have possibly heard somewhere that Kaki King played on this album, but unfortunately this is not true. Like Vedder, she did contribute some music to the movie, but none of it was included here. She does make an awesome appearance on the new Foo Fighters though, so definitely check that out.

So yeah, recommended, but maybe don't expect too much...

Uno de los mejores cd que compre en el ultimo tiempo. Si sos un fan de Pearl Jam , definitivamente debes comprar este disco. Eddie Veder en su estado mas salvaje!

One of the best cds that Ive ever listen in the last time. If you enjoy Pearl Jam as much as me, you definitely have to buy this album. Eddie Veder in his wildest side!!!!