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- Touching the Game: The Story of the Cape Cod Baseball League (2004)
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U-MV112 - Jim Carroll - People Who Died
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- Duration: 4:05
- Published: 13 Nov 2007
- Updated: 22 Aug 2012
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Jim Carroll on NBC's "Today" Show (5/6/99)
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- Duration: 9:06
- Published: 20 Aug 2009
- Updated: 23 Aug 2012
Carroll talks with Matt Lauer about school shootings
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Jim Carroll Band - Catholic Boy
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- Duration: 3:07
- Published: 29 Oct 2008
- Updated: 21 Aug 2012
I was born in a pool, they made my mother stand And I spat on that surgeon and his trembling hand When I felt the light I was worse than bored I stole the doctor's scalpel and I slit the cord I was a Catholic boy I was redeemed through pain Not through joy I was two months early, they put me under glass I screamed and cursed at children when their nurses passed I was convicted of theft as I slipped from the womb They led me straight from my mother to a cell in the Tombs I was a Catholic boy I was redeemed through pain Not through joy They starved me for weeks, they thought they'd teach me fear I fed on cellmates' dreams, it gave me fine ideas When they cut me loose, the time had served me well I made allies in heaven, I made comrades in hell I was a Catholic child The blood ran red The blood ran wild I make angels dance and drop to their knees When I enter a church the feet of statues bleed I understand the fate of all my enemies Just like Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane I was a Catholic boy I was redeemed through pain An not through joy I watched the sweetest psalm stolen by our choir I dreamed of martyrs' bones hanging from a wire I make a contribution, I get absolution I make a resolution to purify my soul I'm a Catholic boy Redeemed through pain Not through joy And they can't touch me now I got every sacrament behind me I got baptism, I got penance I got communion, I got extreme unction Man, I've got confirmation I was a Catholic boy Redeemed through pain And not <b>...</b>
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Jim Carroll Band- People Who Died
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- Duration: 3:44
- Published: 22 Apr 2006
- Updated: 24 Aug 2012
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The Jim Carroll Band - People Who Died
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- Duration: 3:38
- Published: 04 Dec 2008
- Updated: 24 Aug 2012
The Jim Carroll Band - The Basketball Diaries Soundtrack (1995) Label: Island Rock Video Monthly - June 1995
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It's Too Late - The Jim Carroll Band
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- Duration: 3:53
- Published: 14 Dec 2009
- Updated: 24 Aug 2012
From the movie Tuff Turf, "The Ultimate '80s High School Showdown". Starring James Spader, Kim Richards, Robert Downey Jr.
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Jim Carroll Band - Wicked Gravity
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- Duration: 4:58
- Published: 14 Sep 2009
- Updated: 24 Aug 2012
Jim Carroll Band - Wicked Gravity
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JIM CARROLL RECITING "8 FRAGMENTS FOR KURT COBAIN" ON MTV'S SPOKEN WORD UNPLUGGED
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- Duration: 5:32
- Published: 07 Oct 2009
- Updated: 21 Aug 2012
~IN MEMORY OF JIM CARROLL~ "I am posting this briefly as a Memorial to the great Poet and Writer Jim Carroll that was a personal friend/acquaintance/inspiration. When I first met Jim Carroll backstage at the New Year's Poetry Marathon at St. Marks Poetry Project (in 1995?) he looked similar to what he looks like in this video and he was wearing the same beret hat. As we were chatting I mentioned to him that Alex Colletti and MTV Unpugged were porducing spoken word shows. Jim Carroll wasn't aware of that and I thought he would be perfect for that show and I had Colletti's telephone number in my pocket so I gave it to him. I'm not sure if Jim Carroll called Alex Colletti or one of his people did or from this awareness of the new show his people approached MTV in another way but shortly after that he was featured on this show. I am sharing all this because this was the last episode of this show that was ever filmed and Kurt Cobain committed suicide just prior to the taping. There were a lot of imititation suicides beginning to happen by young teenagers and I feel that Jim Carroll's quickly written, timely, sensitive brilliant, passionate, anti-suicide poem helped save many lives. I have talked with many teenagers and people in their twenty's at that time who were in despair that this poem touched very deeply and helped them get through a tough desparate moment in their lives. They connected with Carroll's lines about how Cobain could have seen Bellini's great art ain Italy <b>...</b>
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The Jim Carroll Band - People Who Died
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- Duration: 5:02
- Published: 14 Feb 2009
- Updated: 23 Aug 2012
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"people who died" Jim Carrol band live at the Mab .mov
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- Duration: 2:49
- Published: 30 Jul 2011
- Updated: 23 Aug 2012
Jim Carrol band shot live at the Mabuhay Gardens in San Francisco in 1978 by Joe Rees/targetvideo77
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Jim Carroll Band - Three Sisters
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- Duration: 3:21
- Published: 29 Oct 2008
- Updated: 31 Jul 2012
Though I don't really understand her I love my sister, her name's Miranda The boys from uptown they can't stand her The more she denies them the more they demand her But she just wants to lay in bed all night Reading Raymond Chandler She got high heel shoes She sings the blues She says abracadabra when she goes down on you She got a sister and her name is Anita Anita got one peculiar feature Every time that they come to meet her She turns out like a jungle cheetah She got spiked shoes She hums the blues She says razor when she goes down on you There's another one that makes a trio Her name is Sally but they call her Cleo She's a Leo She got a flat in Soho She breaks the ceiling Every time she twirls her mojo She ain't got no shoes Never had the blues She ain't never gonna go down on you I wish that all the girls were my sister Then all their dates would call me Mister You know, sisters are the only ones that talk to me true Hey, you could be my sister too catholic school boy
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Jim Carroll - Lorraine
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- Duration: 6:02
- Published: 27 May 2009
- Updated: 22 Aug 2012
From: Jim Carroll Band - Dry Dreams (1982) LP Vinyl Opening Poem: Seven blonde women They gather in the square They raise their hands up to the sun Their skin is so thin and white You know their fathers must surely be wealthy I watch the others stand around and form a crucifix A serpent of vapor Some stray birds rise The one on the end, the fine one on the end She called me over, she pulled me aside She said, You know, I have to make it all look different It seems that every time I lay down On it, and its like a snake in water And when I look out of it, It's like the one from last week Was breathing again And she said she had some white light You know, she said that she had some morphine But she didn't have no gimmicks So she just took this razor And she laid it on a white vein And then she took a black orchid And she just ripped apart that flower And then she took the white light Then she said, Hey, later for the morphine She took the razor and slit open her white vein She slit open her white vein She put the flower through the slit vein She poured the white light through the red stem She put the white light through the red stem She just poured it through the red stem I was talkin' with my angel I was talkin' with my angel then . . .
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Jim Carroll - People Who Died (1995)
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- Duration: 5:03
- Published: 25 Jul 2007
- Updated: 22 Aug 2012
[Apr-1995] Intro w/Donal Logue
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The Jim Carroll Band, "It's Too Late"
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- Duration: 3:05
- Published: 20 Aug 2009
- Updated: 22 Aug 2012
Live, on the TV show "Fridays" (2/6/81)
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People Who Died by Jim Carroll Band
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- Duration: 5:02
- Published: 09 Aug 2007
- Updated: 23 Aug 2012
It took me a while to get this up (computer saying "No! Okay, now you can"), and five hours to complete. I'm completely satisfied with how it came out, considering time. And honestly, this is an ironic song. It's really depressing, but has a tune that you just can't help but dance to. I couldn't help myself and integrated that into the video. I hope you people enjoy it. ^.^ Anime used (In order of appearance): Naruto, Cowboy BeBop, Tenchi Muyu, Ouran High School, SOS Brigade, Bleach, Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge (The Wallflower), Suskiyo. Lyrics: People Who Died - Jim Carroll Band (according to sing365.com, this song was released in 1980 in Catholic Boy, so there's the age gap.) Teddy sniffing glue, he was 12 years old Fell from the roof on East two-nine Kathy was eleven when she pulled the plug On 26 reds and a bottle of wine Bobby got leukemia, 14 years old He looked like 65 when he died He was a friend of mine CHORUS: Those are people who died, died Those are people who died, died Those are people who died, died They were all my friends They just died G-Berg and Georgie let their gimmicks go rotten So they died of hepatitis in upper Manhattan Sly in Vietnam, took a bullet in the head Bobby OD'd on Drano on the night that he was wed They were two more friends of mine Two more friends that died CHORUS Mary took a dry dive from a hotel room Bobby hung himself from his cell in the tombs Judy jumped in front of a subway train Eddie got slit in the jugular vein And, Eddie <b>...</b>
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THE JIM CARROLL BAND SWEET JANE PROMO VIDEO
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- Duration: 4:24
- Published: 10 Jul 2009
- Updated: 22 Aug 2012
PROMO VIDEO FOR THE JIM CARROL BAND "SWEET JANE". DIRECTED BY MERRILL ALDIGHIERI
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Jim Carroll Live @ Mass Art 5/9/98 1/10
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- Duration: 7:00
- Published: 04 Nov 2009
- Updated: 23 Aug 2012
In this segment, great American poet Jim Carroll performs "A Day At The Races" - the first chapter in "Forced Entries". Shot by Nicolas Lockheimers. Produced by Clay Fernald and Duncan Wilder Johnson for the Eventworks Festival of New Media and Art 1998. With a lot of help from the Studio For Interrelated Media.
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jim carroll on basketball in nyc 1/18/91 cleveland ohio
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- Duration: 9:23
- Published: 14 Sep 2009
- Updated: 26 Aug 2012
Recorded January 18, 1991 at Babylon A Go-Go in Cleveland Ohio, JIM CARROLL talks about basketball in New York City during his playing days. This interview was conducted for my local access cable show EYE SEE MUSIC.
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It's Too Late - The Jim Carroll Band
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- Duration: 3:00
- Published: 06 Nov 2009
- Updated: 21 Aug 2012
Another video from The Jim Carroll Band from the Lenny Kaye/Paul Sanchez period. From the 9:30 Club, so Lenny tells me.
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Jim Carroll Band - Nothing is true
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- Duration: 3:28
- Published: 10 Feb 2011
- Updated: 20 Aug 2012
Nothing is true - from Catholic Boy (1980) is an album by The Jim Carroll Band
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Jim Carroll w/ Lenny Kaye People Who Died
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- Duration: 6:57
- Published: 30 Jan 2008
- Updated: 31 Jul 2012
Jim Carroll performs People Who Died with Lenny Kaye at Lenny's Birthday celebration. Dec. 27, 1997. Coney Island High NYC.
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Jim Carroll - a Video Diary excerpt
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- Duration: 1:15
- Published: 14 Sep 2009
- Updated: 25 Aug 2012
Available with additional unseen clips on - artclips.free.fr as part of the handmade DANSPAK trilogy. This excerpt is from an unfinished collaboration with Jim Carroll I started in 1986.We met when I made the music video for "Sweet Jane" and planned to make a video "sequel" to the Basketball Diaries. I filmed him in various readings. This one was shot in my bedroom.
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Jim Carroll Live at the Middle East Cambridge, MA 3/29/01 Sweet Jane
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- Duration: 6:11
- Published: 10 Mar 2009
- Updated: 06 Aug 2012
I taped this when I saw Jim Carroll do spoken word at the Middle East in Cambridge and he gave us a special treat by playing "sweet jane" with one of his old band members.
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Earlier this year Chicago-based trio Unicycle Loves You released their latest LP Failure, a half-hour's worth of fuzzed-out, pop-tinged rock and roll that's completely unsuccessful at living up to its name. From the opening jolt of "Garbage Dump" and "Wow Wave Cinema" to the addictive noisepop rush...(size: 10.3Kb)
Jim Carroll to depart Ten Network in shakeup
17 Jun 2011
The Australian
JIM Carroll is to stand down as Ten Network's head of news and public affairs, as part of widespread management changes at the group. It is understood Mr Carroll has become...(size: 1.2Kb)
Jim Carroll: Where the money is
19 Mar 2011
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Jim Carroll: Let sports betting cover it
07 Dec 2010
The Providence Journal
If Governor Chafee and the Rhode Island...(size: 0.3Kb)
The Independent
The New York poet and punk rocker Jim Carroll was the author of The Basketball Diaries, a lurid account of his transformation from a clean-cut teenager attending a private school in Manhattan to a junkie hustling around Times Square to support his habit. Published in 1978, the book should have read...(size: 8.4Kb)
Jim Carroll obituary
22 Sep 2009
The Guardian
Poet and punk musician who documented his teenage drug addiction in The Basketball Diaries In the 1995 film of The Basketball Diaries, Leonardo DiCaprio (centre) played Jim Carroll as a teen. Photograph: Allstar/New Line...(size: 5.6Kb)
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Part 2 of a 2 part series, Part 1 ran on Wednesday, September 16th... With the death of Patrick Swayze and Kanye West's interruption of Taylor Swift's acceptance speech at the MTV VMA's last week. What may have been lost in the mix was the news of the untimely death of...(size: 12.3Kb)
Jim Carroll's death leaves a void in poetry
17 Sep 2009
The Guardian
Heroin may have prevented Jim Carroll from reaching his fullest potential, but his legacy as an unlikely poetry prodigy is undisputed Poet, author and musician Jim Carroll. Photograph: Andrew Serban/Getty Images With the , America has lost one of its singular and most under-rated poetic voices. As...(size: 4.3Kb)
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Part 1 of a 2 part series.. With, the sad death of Patrick Swayze and the MTV Video Music Awards featuring "Kaynegate", The death of legendary performance artist/singer/songwriter and poet, Jim Carroll, on September 14th, by a sudden heart attack, somehow got lost in...(size: 7.8Kb)
'Basketball Diaries' author Jim Carroll dies
16 Sep 2009
San Fransisco Chronicle
Jim Carroll, a poet-turned-punk rocker whose book "The Basketball Diaries" chronicled his descent from elite high school basketball star to Times Square drug addict, thief and prostitute, died Sept. 11 at his home in Manhattan after a heart attack. He was 60. Images View Larger Image Mr. Carroll's...(size: 9.1Kb)
For other people of the same name, see Jim Carroll (disambiguation).
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 Carroll in Seattle in 2000 |
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| Born | James Dennis Carroll (1949-08-01)August 1, 1949 United States |
| Died | September 11, 2009(2009-09-11) (aged 60) New York, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Author, poet, musician, autobiographer |
| Years active | 1967–2009 |
| Known for | The Basketball Diaries |
| Influenced by | Rainer Maria Rilke, Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, James Schuyler [1], Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs [2] |
| Influenced | Irvine Welsh, Danny Sugarman, James O'Barr, Harmony Korine, Pete Townshend [3] |
James Dennis "Jim" Carroll (August 1, 1949[1] – September 11, 2009) was an author, poet, autobiographer, and punk musician. Carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work The Basketball Diaries, which was made into the 1995 film of the same name, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll.
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Biography[link]
Carroll was born to a working-class family of Irish descent, and grew up on New York's Lower East Side, and when he was fifteen the family moved uptown to Inwood.[2] He attended Roman Catholic grammar schools from 1955 to 1963. In fall 1963, he entered public school, but was soon awarded a scholarship to the elite Trinity School. He attended Trinity from 1964-1968.
Apart from being interested in writing, Carroll was an all-star basketball player throughout his grade school and high school career. He entered the "Biddy League" at age 13 and participated in the National High School All Star Game in 1966. During this time, Carroll was living a double life as a heroin addict who prostituted himself to afford his habit but he was also writing poems and attending poetry workshops at St. Mark's Poetry Project.
He briefly attended Wagner College and Columbia University.[3]
Literary career[link]
While still in high school, Carroll published his first collection of poems, Organic Trains. Already attracting the attention of the local literati, his work began appearing in the Poetry Project's magazine The World in 1967. Soon his work was being published in elite literary magazines like Paris Review in 1968,[2] and Poetry the following year. In 1970, his second collection of poems, 4 Ups and 1 Down was published, and he 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 publication by a mainstream publisher (Grossman Publishers), the poetry collection Living At The Movies, was published in 1973.[4]
In 1978, Carroll published The Basketball Diaries, an autobiographical book concerning his life as a teenager in New York City's hard drug culture. Diaries is an edited collection of the diaries he kept between the ages of twelve and sixteen, detailing his sexual experiences, high school basketball career, and his addiction to heroin, which began when he was 13.
In 1987, Carroll wrote a second memoir entitled Forced Entries: The Downtown Diaries 1971-1973, continuing his autobiography into his early adulthood in the New York City music and art scene as well as his struggle to kick his drug habit.
After working as a musician, Carroll returned to writing full time in the mid-1980s and began to appear regularly on the spoken word circuit. Starting in 1991, Carroll performed readings from his then-in-progress first novel, The Petting Zoo.[5]
Music career[link]
In 1978, after he moved to California to get a fresh start since kicking his heroin addiction, Carroll formed The Jim Carroll Band, a New Wave/punk rock group, with encouragement from Patti Smith, with whom he once shared an apartment in New York City along with Robert Mapplethorpe.[6] The band was formerly called Amsterdam, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The musicians were Steve Linsley (bass), Wayne Woods (drums), Brian Linsley and Terrell Winn (guitars). They released a single "People Who Died", from their 1980 debut album, Catholic Boy. The album featured contributions from Allen Lanier and Bobby Keys. The song appeared in the 1985 Kim Richards vehicle Tuff Turf starring James Spader and Robert Downey Jr. (which also featured a cameo appearance by the band), as well as 2004's Dawn of the Dead. It was also featured in the 1995 film The Basketball Diaries (based on Jim Carroll's autobiography), and was covered by John Cale on his Antártida soundtrack. A condensed, 2-minute, version of the song was made into an animated music video by Daniel D. Cooper, an independent filmmaker/animator, in 2010. The song's title was based on a poem by Ted Berrigan.[7] Later albums were Dry Dreams (1982) and I Write Your Name (1983), both with contributions from Lenny Kaye and Paul Sanchez. Carroll also collaborated with musicians Lou Reed, Blue Öyster Cult, Boz Scaggs, Ray Manzarek of The Doors, Pearl Jam, Electric Light Orchestra and Rancid.
Death[link]
Carroll, 60, died of a heart attack at his Manhattan home on September 11, 2009.[1] According to a report, he was at his desk working when he died.[8]
His funeral Mass was held at Our Lady of Pompeii Roman Catholic Church on Carmine St. in Greenwich Village.
Books[link]
Poetry[link]
- Organic Trains (1967)
- 4 Ups and 1 Down (1970)
- Living at the Movies (1973)
- The Book of Nods (1986)
- Fear of Dreaming (1993)
- Void of Course: Poems 1994-1997 (1998) ISBN 0-14-058909-0
Prose[link]
- The Basketball Diaries (1978)
- Forced Entries: The Downtown Diaries 1971-1973 (1987)
- The Petting Zoo (2010),[9][10]
Discography[link]
Albums[link]
- Catholic Boy (1980)
- Dry Dreams (1982)
- I Write Your Name (1983)
- A World Without Gravity: Best of The Jim Carroll Band (1993)
- Pools of Mercury (1998)
- Runaway EP (2000)
Spoken word[link]
- Praying Mantis (1991) (Re-released 2008)
- The Basketball Diaries (1994)
- Pools of Mercury (1998)
Collaborations[link]
- Club Ninja, Blue Öyster Cult (1986)
- Other Roads, Boz Scaggs (1988)
- Between Thought and Expression: The Lou Reed Anthology, Lou Reed (1992)
- ...And Out Come the Wolves, Rancid (1995)
- Catholic Boy, [Pearl Jam] (1995)
- Feeling You Up, Truly (1997)
- Yes I Ram, Jon Tiven Group (1999)
Compilations and soundtracks[link]
- E.T. The Extra Terrestrial Soundtrack (1982)
- Tuff Turf Soundtrack (1985)
- Back to the Streets: Celebrating the Music of Don Covay (1993)
- Sedated in the Eighties (1993)
- New Wave Dance Hits: Just Can't Get Enough, Vol. 6 (1994)
- The Basketball Diaries (soundtrack) (1995)
- Put Your Tongue to the Rail: The Philly Comp for Catholic Children (Songs of the Jim Carroll Band) (1999)
- WBCN Naked 2000 (2000)
- Dawn of the Dead (2004)
- The Darwin Awards (2005)
References[link]
- ^ a b Grimes, William. "Jim Carroll, Poet and Punk Rocker, Is Dead at 60." NY Times. 13 September 2009. Web. <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/books/14carroll.html>.
- ^ a b Mallon, Thomas (6 December 2010). "Off the Rim: Jim Carroll's "The Petting Zoo"". The New Yorker (Condé Nast): 90–93. http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2010/12/06/101206crbo_books_mallon. Retrieved 2010-12-27.
- ^ "Jim Carroll: author of The Basketball Diaries", The Times, 15 September 2009, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6834246.ece, retrieved 25 March 2010
- ^ "Living at the Movies, First Edition - Books by Jim Carroll - CatholicBoy.com". www.catholicboy.com. http://www.catholicboy.com/movies.php. Retrieved 2009-07-10.
- ^ L.A. Times Obit
- ^ Smith, Patti (2010). Just Kids. New York: Harper Collins. pp. 162–164, 166–167. ISBN 978-0-06-093622-8.
- ^ MacAdams, Lewis. "Remembering Jim Carroll." Los Angeles Times. 16 September 2009. <http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-carroll16-2009sep16,0,1608675.story>
- ^ Cassie Carter note, written on the front page of catholicboy.com. Web. <http://catholicboy.com/index2.php>
- ^ "CatholicBoy.com". www.catholicboy.com. http://www.catholicboy.com/movies.php. Retrieved 2010-04-10.
- ^ "edelweiss". edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com. http://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com/ProductDetailPage.aspx?sequence=8&group=search&keywords=carroll&searchContext=1&searchOrgID=PP&searchCatalogID=828&searchMailingID=&sku=0670022187. Retrieved 2010-04-20.
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- Internet Movie Database
- Jim Carroll's memorial at Find A Grave
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| Name | Carroll, Jim |
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| Date of birth | August 1, 1949 |
| Place of birth | U.S. |
| Date of death | September 11, 2009 |
| Place of death | New York, New York |
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