Jim Carroll Band - Wicked Gravity

[Candlemanification]

great to see and hear all these great songs by JC band.A day at the races next

[AZURETOM]

maaaaaaan, I love this guy!!!!!

[tlm315]

fucking awesome....

[missopan]

Great lyrics man, who would not want to sleep where the angels dwell?..

[MrTenitis]

Blew out my earwax!

[lalala6751]

Love love LOVE this song!!!!!!

[soxrock2007]

Jim Carroll would have been McCartney and Lennon's poet of choice. He is a torched scalpel that tears through soul and sinew with precision. He is a razor to your psyche and your conscious...he grabs your balls and begs you pay extreme attention. He is THE most under-rated American literary genius. His writings are beyond all comprehension- they are sublime.

[MasKistershi]

@soxrock2007 could not have been said any better

[soxrock2007]

@MasKistershi You the man! His work is so unique. He makes Lou Reed look like Kermit the Frog!

[MrTenitis]

@soxrock2007 Kool! I like Lou Reed a little bit but I LOVE this!

[AlwaysRecording]

Kick ass jam

[KISSMEMYFOOL69]

I love you Jim!! We all do! R.I.P <3

[frankyforearmsnycnh]

Stones aside, doesn't get much better than this.

[oleggirl]

I haven't heard Jim in a while! I gotta get Catholic Boy out again! Wow. And his band is oh so awesome. God that guitar work!

[stramurto]

MASSIMO VOLUME BROUGHT ME HERE.

[doeloeish]

Got this on vinyl when i was 14 and met Jim when i was 16 he drew me a picture of a guy with an arrowhead on a paper plate and told me it was a flashback he had @ Patty Smith,i hung it on my wall for years .Jim encouraged me in many ways one when i kicked heroin i thought of his time in Rikers i was in another jail 3 thousand miles away but i knew if any of my idols could do it then i was in good company,GREAT SONG.

[metallicatt316]

I had this album when in high school. It didn't come with a lyric sheet and I can remember spending an entire afternoon writing out the lyrics to every song. I miss you Jim!

[lizzy11291950]

@metallicatt316 You and me, both, and I have every album he did. I saw Jim Carroll live at the Whiskey in Hollywood, in 1980; I was transformed. He put his poetry to music to make it more accessable. If you haven't heard him do a reading, you are missing out. I tell everyone: even if you have seen the film,'Basketball Diaries' read his book. It's Jim writing about Jim. Only after will you get who he was. We lost him way to early. I will mourn him til I die.

[lingertooth]

Amazing song. Amazing record. Talk about good lyrics. MAN!

[REBELENE66]

i love this record....

[writingtheblackhorse]

I love his work.

[ribluesy]

great song, great poet, great songwriter, great rock n roll! Pock on in the afterlife Jimin hte world without gravity.

[ligger2]

Jim said it was Keith`s fave song on the album.

[DURGATHECAT]

My fav song. Thanks for posting!

[bruswift]

Great song. It's good that Jim left us a legacy.

[SomethingInTheWay200]

The Last great fucking Punk album.

[linsanda]

i missss u jim i want some pure pure white we can do it all night

[linsanda]

i missss u jim

[timjessa1]

love the picture of jim with william borroughs, two kindred spirits .. RIP jim..

[seandeeify]

Jim and Lou at the Danforth Music Hall!!!!!!!!! Where the hell was I that night!?!?!?!?!?!

[grumpysoreolbastard]

fav quote the devils greatest accomplishment was convincing us that he didn't exist

[seandeeify]

This album and this song!!!!!!!!!!25 years ago!!!!!!!!! What a coming out soundtrack!!!!!

What a think piece of museic!

[defjux420]

RIP JIM!

[Mr1tommyboy]

VERY UNDERRATED BAND!!!!!

[MAGADIR]

HAPPY B'DAY, JIM r.i.p. xxxxxxx

[MrJohnnysinn]

Awesome!! I bought Dry Dreams first on cassette and wore it out!! Then Catholic Boy!! I'm now trying to get everything on CD or mp3. Forced Entries is my fave book, I read it at least twice a year. But I love Living at the Movies and Void of Course. I don't have Book of Nods as of yet, but hope to add it to my J.M. collection soon. Basketball Diaries is incredible as well. Thanx for the upload!! It is much appreciated!! God bless ya Jim, May the angels carress you and God seat you by his side.

[smartalek1]

Great slide show for a great song.

The two-shot w/Mr Burroughs is the best; I love the little smile he's got on.

Thanks for all of it.

[nzstrawman]

I stumbled onto catholic boy when it was released due to jim's links with lou reed.....catholic boy is still a fave album of mine, basketball diaries is still one of my fave reads...thanks for those jim...rip

[Seekthetruth2010]

RIP JC

[hirepimike]

happily reminds me of school and the guy I knew in the dorm who could play these riffs over and over. Distinct music and poetry.

[highlighterlady]

he is a good singer to bad he died

[hendoballs]

Just an amazing song. Very very good stuff! Every rock fan should have the Catholic boy Record.

[sinewavefunction]

Went back and listened to these songs for the first time in twenty five years.

Kicks ass as much as ever. Thanks JC

[MKUltra3]

this was my favorite off this album

it was an actual high reading basketball diaries for the first time and listening to this LP at the same time

[pineconemuffin]

RIP Jim thanks for a great show in SFran - back in 82

[socalmax]

Saw TJCB perform at the old Country Club in Reseda, CA in 82. Band was hanging out before the show in the parking lot, so I introduced myself (helped that I just move out from the upper westside of Manhattan) and was invited to hang out and and kill time. Shared stories about growing up in the city. Jim couldn't have been kinder or cooler. RIP

[adamnhalo]

Brilliant Pic w/ Stiv n Treggy at 2:36!!!

rest in peace and love, JC

[ScottAln05]

Thanks! I know it's trite, but I'll say it: this is an "underrated" song. Carroll's inflection & attitude are outstanding.