Jim Carroll: People Who Died

You Tube ^ | 10/13/2009 | Jim Carroll

[fiscon1]

Video if his punk anthem...

[ClearCase_guy]

He had some really good songs. I'm not sure this is one of them -- but it caught the public's attention.

Carroll lived a lot longer than I expected he would.

[mdk1960]

Brought back memories!!! Thanks

[LiberConservative]

I had “outgrown” punk by quite a few years when this song came out - but I loved this song. Thanks for posting the memory. RIP Jim Carroll.

[fiscon1]

I saw him once in 1997 at a small bar in Chicago. He was brilliant and influential to a lot of different artists of all varieties. While Basketball Diaries was his most famous book, I liked Downtown Diaries a lot more. In that one he is of college age and meets up with the beatniks, Bob Dylan and a lot of the punk scene in New York.

It’s also during this period that he became serious about getting clean. The writing is much bolder, sophisticated, and intense than in Basketball Diaries and that shouldn’t surprise anyone since he was older and more experienced as a writer.

[Two Kids' Dad]

The lyrics to People Who Died still have the same effect on me as the first time I heard the song. It has such a depth and gritty realism that it never gets old. And RIP to my friend Kelly that offed herself from a hotel window many years ago. She wasn't famous like Carroll was, but she'll always be remembered well by those who knew her.

[Bigg Red]

So uplifting....

[fiscon1]

May both RIP.

[fiscon1]

He lived a lot longer than he expected. If you pick up Downtown Diaries he very eloquently says that he expected to be dead by then but since he wasn’t he felt it appropriate to write another book.

[fiscon1]

He lived a lot longer than he expected. If you pick up Downtown Diaries he very eloquently says that he expected to be dead by then but since he wasn’t he felt it appropriate to write another book.