The Into the Wild music soundtrack is unique in that it was composed specifically for this movie. The compositions added really enhanced the inspirational and haunting elements in the movie and kept the heart dipping and soaring with the themes of freedom.
Composed by Pearl Jam vocalist Eddie Vedder, the Into the Wild music can be described as folk music with elements of rock and roll. Vedder claimed the project really brought him to a realization of how "song could [...] become another tool in the storytelling. Rolling Stone's David Fricke says Vedder "[tosses] his weighty baritone onto earthy, folky tracks that temper the romance of absolute freedom with an eerie foreboding." As this is inherently the theme of Into the Wild, Vedder seems to have done his job, and the album met with its own independent success, selling about 39,000 copies in the first week after it was release.
"Hard Sun," the album's most successful track, originally written by Gordon Peterson and featuring backup vocalist Corin Tucker, reached number thirteen on the Modern Rock charts. Vedder won a 2008 Golden Globe Award for the song "Guaranteed." The song was nominated for Best song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media at the 2008 Grammy Awards and a 2008 World Soundtrack Award for Best Original Song Written Directly for a Film. Another song, "Rise," was nominated for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Solo at the 2009 Grammy Awards. To further accent the album's success Vedder was nominated for a Golden Globe for his work on the Into the Wild music soundtrack.
The Tracklist:
"Setting Forth" – 1:37
"No Ceiling" – 1:34
"Far Behind" – 2:15
"Rise" – 2:36
"Long Nights" – 2:31
"Tuolumne" – 1:00
"Hard Sun" (Indio) – 5:22
"Society" (Jerry Hannan) – 3:56
"The Wolf" – 1:32
"End of the Road" – 3:19
"Guaranteed" – 7:22
"Guaranteed" contains the hidden track "Guaranteed" (Humming Vocal) at 4:40.
iTunes bonus tracks
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