Jim Carroll

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People Who Died 00:00 Tools
Brooklyn Bridge Blues 05:47 Tools
Long Tall Shorty 02:50 Tools
It's Too Late 00:00 Tools
Catholic Boy 03:03 Tools
Nothing Is True 00:00 Tools
Wicked Gravity 00:00 Tools
Hairshirt Fracture 04:27 Tools
Three Sisters 00:00 Tools
I Want The Angel 00:00 Tools
Day and Night 02:22 Tools
City Drops Into The Night 07:23 Tools
Crow 03:02 Tools
Praying Mantis 01:20 Tools
Runaway 04:24 Tools
Falling Down Laughing 03:58 Tools
A Day at the Races 04:23 Tools
A Child Growing Up With the Sun 01:53 Tools
Sampling Nietzsche 00:32 Tools
Nightclubbing 01:52 Tools
Train Surfing 01:45 Tools
A Peculiar-Looking Girl 06:22 Tools
It's Too Late (live) 02:58 Tools
Desert Town 03:47 Tools
Pools Of Mercury 04:34 Tools
Dry Dreams 03:43 Tools
Times Square's Cage 02:05 Tools
My Ruins 01:46 Tools
Work Not Play 04:28 Tools
Them 02:41 Tools
Terrorist Trousers 02:35 Tools
Things That Fly 01:56 Tools
8 Fragments For Kurt Cobain 06:23 Tools
Tiny Tortures 11:24 Tools
Female As Thunder 01:30 Tools
It Goes 01:20 Tools
To the National Endowment of the Arts 01:48 Tools
Lorraine 06:06 Tools
Cinco De Mayo 01:38 Tools
For Elizabeth 02:33 Tools
Just Visiting 05:51 Tools
Zeno's Law Of High Heeled Shoe 01:53 Tools
Monologue: The Loss of American Innocence 13:41 Tools
I Am Not Kurt Schwitters 03:24 Tools
I Want the Angel (live) 02:51 Tools
The Beast Within 04:01 Tools
Jealous Twin 04:02 Tools
Message Left On A Phone Machine 03:39 Tools
Woman 02:25 Tools
Falling Down Laughing (live) 03:51 Tools
Rooms 03:08 Tools
Jody 06:06 Tools
Sweet Jane 07:12 Tools
Voices 04:13 Tools
Barricades 04:14 Tools
Still Life 02:36 Tools
The Brooklyn Bridge Blues 02:30 Tools
Evangeline 07:30 Tools
excerpts from The Basketball Diaries 03:29 Tools
Love Crimes 03:23 Tools
I Write Your Name 03:33 Tools
(No More) Luxuries 04:03 Tools
Differing Touch 02:30 Tools
Epic Fantasy: Sad Goodbyes 02:30 Tools
Brooklyn Bridge Blues (Album Version) 01:59 Tools
Epic Drama: Conversing with God / Redemption 03:01 Tools
Guitar VooDoo 07:55 Tools
from The Basketball Diaries, Age 13, Spring 1965 03:40 Tools
Low Rider 07:55 Tools
Hold Back the Dream 07:55 Tools
Freddy's Store 05:40 Tools
Epic Drama: Team Champions 07:55 Tools
Dance the Night Away 03:29 Tools
Plain Division 04:31 Tools
Black Romance 03:10 Tools
Epic Action: Big Screen-Small Screen Action 03:51 Tools
Catholic Boy (feat. Pearl Jam and Chris Friel) 03:05 Tools
Zeno's Law Of High Heeled Shoes 01:53 Tools
Epic Romance: Mended Heart 03:13 Tools
Part 1 - The Basketball Diaries 03:10 Tools
Epic Action: Snipers in Position-Team Arrival 02:51 Tools
Its Too Late 02:51 Tools
Epic Drama: Marathon Miracles 03:13 Tools
Epic Action: Dark Night for Heroes 02:31 Tools
Epic Adventure: Dark Pirates 02:55 Tools
Epic Action: The City 02:42 Tools
Zeno's Law Of High-Heeled Shoes 01:53 Tools
Epic Action: Eulogy / Mobilization 03:30 Tools
Hin und her 02:51 Tools
Woman (feat. Lee Ranaldo, Lenny Kaye & Anton Sanco) 02:25 Tools
City Drops into the Night [Live] 02:25 Tools
Epic Action: Noble Team in Action 03:41 Tools
Part 2 - The Basketball Diaries 02:25 Tools
Epic Drama: Sports Magic 04:03 Tools
Marionettenspieler 04:03 Tools
Epic Action: Avenging Heroes 04:03 Tools
Woman (feat. Lee Ranaldo & Lenny Kaye) 04:03 Tools
Epic Western: Sunrise-Stranger in Town 02:07 Tools
Epic Drama: Back in the Game 03:28 Tools
Epic Drama: Running from the Past 02:07 Tools
Epic Action: Tough Guys 03:30 Tools
I Am Alone 03:30 Tools
Plain Division [#] 02:21 Tools
Epic Action: Do or Die 02:21 Tools
Epic Action: Holy Land-Hunted 03:41 Tools
Epic Adventure: Last Stand of the Buccaneers 02:21 Tools
Part 3 - The Basketball Diaries 02:21 Tools
from "The Basketball Diaries" 02:21 Tools
R.I.P 03:30 Tools
Jim Carroll / Hairshirt Fracture 02:21 Tools
ItsTooLate 02:21 Tools
City Drops into the Night [Live Version][#] 07:02 Tools
Nigthclubbing 03:30 Tools
Sonderling 03:41 Tools
Epic Drama: Memories-Triumphant Entrance 03:29 Tools
All the People who Died 03:30 Tools
Part 4 - The Basketball Diaries 03:41 Tools
Jealous Twins 00:56 Tools
It's Been Hard 00:53 Tools
Epic Action: City Under Siege / Battle 02:21 Tools
Epic Action: Last Man Standing 03:48 Tools
Epic Drama: Call to Arms-Flight 03:29 Tools
"Heroin" and other poems 03:29 Tools
Welcher Weg 03:29 Tools
City Drops Into The Night (live) 00:56 Tools
Devil's Toe 00:56 Tools
Epic Drama: Strange Discovery-Life's Little Miracles 02:30 Tools
Epic Drama: the Verdict-Penitentiary 03:48 Tools
Epic Drama: A Soldier's Return 03:11 Tools
Epic Action: City Streets-The Dealers 03:11 Tools
Epic Western: American Frontiers 06:02 Tools
Catholic Boy (with Pearl Jam) 03:05 Tools
Epic Drama: Tragic Discovery 03:05 Tools
Epic Drama: Heroes of the Arena 03:21 Tools
Epic Drama: Love and Sorrow 03:21 Tools
Epic Action: Ivan the Terrible 03:21 Tools
Epic Drama: Revelations and Lamentations 03:21 Tools
Monologue- The Loss Of American Innocence 03:21 Tools
Epic Drama: Elegy-Emily's Story 03:21 Tools
Epic Fantasy: Music for Dungeon Masters 06:02 Tools
Fragment: Little NY Ode 00:30 Tools
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Jim Carroll (August 1, 1950-September 11, 2009) was an author, poet, autobiographer, and punk musician. Carroll is best known for his 1978 novel The Basketball Diaries, which was made into a movie in 1995 starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Raised in New York City, Carroll who attended several Catholic Grammar Schools from 1955 to 1963. In fall 1963, he entered public school, but was soon awarded a scholarship to the elite Trinity High School (a private school). He entered Trinity High School in 1964. Apart from being interested in writing, Carroll was a passionate basketball player throughout his grade school and middle school career. He entered the "Biddy League" at age 13 and participated in the National High School All Star Game in 1966, hence the title of his most famous book. As a teenager, Carroll was a heroin addict who sometimes prostituted himself to afford his habit. The novel The Basketball Diaries concerns his life in New York City's hard drug culture and his struggle to rid himself of his addiction. Carroll published his first book, Organic Trains, at age 17. Several of his poems have been published in such magazines as Paris Review and Poetry. In 1970, his second collection of poems, 4 Ups and 1 Down was published. That same year, Carroll started working for Andy Warhol. At first, he was writing film dialogue and inventing character names; later on, Carroll worked as the co-manager of Warhol's Theater. Carroll's first above-ground publication, the collection Living At The Movies was published in 1973. He formed The Jim Carroll Band, a New Wave/punk rock group, in 1980. Their biggest commercial success was the single "People Who Died," from their debut album, Catholic Boy. He has also collaborated with many influential punk and hard rock musicians, including Lou Reed, Blue Öyster Cult, Boz Scaggs and Rancid. Carroll died on September 11, 2009 of a heart attack. He was 60. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.