Jim Carroll Band- People Who Died

[taffy2003]

Man, I forgot how good this song was.

[tonlo92]

I remember singing this with my older sister & my mother yelling at us for it, especially the "Eddie got slit in the jugular vein" part.

[TheK12student]

I am so sorry for your loss. I hope you rely on God during this time of sorrow.

Rev.21:3,4

[amerikanprincess]

Been listening to John Lennon and Jerry Garcia and got disgusted with mourning over ballads. So I put this on and now I feel much better, thanks! That's what I like about this song. Trust good punk rock to take the taste of mourning right outta your mouth!

[bclionsroar]

this song makes me think about all who have died and realize all my freinds have died............

[peterwelchfly]

to all my friends that died

[TheEssJayDub]

Jim was 60, had a heart attack.... and died. RIP

[rjplamf61]

I saw Jim Caroll at The Bottom Line in NYC in 1980 when I was 18 years old. His band played great that night and I will never forget the show. RIP to JC. and The Bottom Line.

[nsupv1]

Everyone should here this AT LEAST ONCE

[JaminRebel]

I used to trade music online a good bit with a guy named Jim Carroll. I wonder if it was the same guy. I think he had been in his own band?

[7ohnnyramone]

I saw him at the Bayou in Washington DC. No, they don't make music like this anymore. What they make today is a joke!

[SuperSteeler75]

I remember watching this live on the show " Fridays ". They had also done " Day and Night " as the second song . My little garage band back in Pa. used to do these songs back to back . Jimmy , I miss you more than all of the others . And I salute you brother ! Rest in peace , Jim Carroll...........

[Wormtongue13]

Kind of a Vegas-style version, but still conveying the truth.

[Remisimeon]

Steve was 48 yrs old and died from ????

[SlinkyMcman]

junior giant!

[TheJezzka01]

jim died, he was a friend of mine, i salute you brother !

[amybarbaradonovan]

well done jamesie boy!

[PeteDesnoyers]

Saw Jim and the boys at the peppermint beach club in Virginia beach, Va. I guess 1981ish. RIP Jim.

[danger0usknowledge]

Saw him on the bus on the eastside going uptown.

Looked exactly like Jim Carroll. Saw him play at the Roxy.

[CraigG1960]

I'm glad I wasn't a friend of Jim's. Life expectancy wasn't too good.

[littlewolf60]

I can relate to this song. You were ok ... for a catholic.

[scaryfairyboi]

one of the best songs i have ever listened to

[EddyGil]

Tony couldnt fly...Tony died

[SLACKER614]

Jim Carroll  RIP....

[RandallFlaggNY]

Bitchin' PROOF!!!!!

[rs500gsoat]

Seems like all his friend's needed some type of psychiatric help. Or the number to suicide prevention.

[LasVegasJim]

@rs500gsoat With all respect, you are too young to appreciate NY City in the 70’s. The heroin, homeless VietNam vets, street violence, Studio 54, Pres. Ford to NYC: Drop Dead, Gay Liberation Front, Plato’s Retreat at Broadway and West 73d, Mayor Beame, etc. Jim came from a real place. If he had written this song a few years later it would likely have included all the friends who died from AIDS. It’s not about “psychiatric care.” It’s about real NYC people who Jim well knew. RIP, Jim.

[shortbus138]

@LasVegasJim Your words are deep Las Vegas Jim. I appreciate you man.

[LasVegasJim]

@shortbus138 You're too kind, Bro, Thanks.

[MikeB260]

@LasVegasJim There's about 20 songs, each of which I think is the best rock song ever. People Who Died is one of them. Deeply tragic, but you just gotta dance to it. I figure like you Vegas Jim, I was about 20 when People Who Died came out. What I remember from the first time I heard it, and listening to it over and over, isn't the sadness, but that it was so fucking funny. True stories? Yes. Whoppers? Yup. So much brutality on the street back then. In its face we cried, raged and laughed.

[LasVegasJim]

@MikeB260 Thanks for your comment, Mike B. You really get what I meant to write. There is a new book just out: “The Savage City” by T.J. English which reviews the police corruption, racism, organized crime, etc., in NYC in the 1960-70’s. Jim Carroll grew-up in that world, he daily lived that life, and “People Who Died” is true to his real experiences. I’m not pushing a book, but only offering my respect and admiration for Jim Carroll and his music. Thanks, Mike.

[notthatmike]

those are people who've died... died those are people who've died... died those are people who've died... died they were all my friends... they died...

[WeaponAmerica]

I hate amine but I love the song!

[birdhaldol]

@WeaponAmerica He also knew how to hunt. He was an southern outdoorsman. He loved to fish. He was born in huntsville AL. He took his crossbow onto indian reservations and raped the squaws he found that looked pretty good. He was homeless when he arrived in NYC. Lou Reed seduced and raped him. Thats where his NYC City Slicker angle comes from...Me and Lynnyrd Skynnyrd came and rescued him He is/not and neverwas anygood at basketball.

[funkyhandle]

@birdhaldol Your an idiot, and obviously know nothing about Jim Carrol.

[daisyplomo]

Thanks for posting. Love it.

[187killerCali]

Jim Carroll RIP author, poet, and punk musician

[siloheaven]

uplifting song.

[NETWORK23STUDIOS]

Messed up song but its a TRIBUTE SONG to all our buddies, ESPECIALLY JIM CARROLL WE LOVE U JIM!!!!!!! EAT THOSE TACOS IN HEAVEN, man.

[NETWORK23STUDIOS]

R.I.P. JIM!!!!!

[yesihavenocigarettes]

Dumb question: Is that Patty Scialfa singing backup?....My audio cuts out halfway...

[tubiebrother]

@yesihavenocigarettes No, it's not Patti. There is another JCB video here, "Day and Night" that has this girl singing with Jim. You see her much clearer

[corruptsoul69]

In my almost 41 years on this planet I've lost a great many friends and relatives. It hurts to think about them at times. The one memory that kills me everytime I think about it is the day I found out my mother had to be taken off life support after having been hit by a car. She was kept alive for an entire week-end and eventually she was euthanised. The cappper that day was having some bitch social worker tell me she went without pain. How's that for sentimental bullshit?

[xxKr1mexx]

watch "the basketball diaries"

[VegaValentino]

I sure going to miss that redhead man.

he whas one of the best, he whas a redhead bob dylan. live happy in heaven jim.

[ironlion321]

love for u mothereffers. to the teeth,

[silmalila]

This is definitely my song.

My entire family is dead, along with a great deal of my friends...

Thanks, Jim.

(Of course, I was listening to this before they all died.)

Ironic or what?

[TheSonicchick]

Where is the art today? Fucking Lady Gaga?!!!!! What a fucking joke!

I'm glad I grew up when there was real music still being made!

[degradedfootage]

@TheSonicchick Look harder. It's there.

[M26MASH]

@TheSonicchick What makes your music/art vs. Lady Gaga. Please respond intelligently, or not at all. Referencing melody, notes, beats, lyrics or any other justification your kinder soul can find relevant. Otherwise seek your hugs elsewhere. What criteria do you define as "real music"?

[wheelofmasks]

@TheSonicchick Yeah, I think they easily got up to three different chords in that whole song! True artistry.

(I'm just teasing, punk is awesome. But c'mon, the whole idea of punk was that it WASN'T artful.)

[USARobert59]

Amen :-)

[Evilspanky19]

the girls voice didnt go good with them

[eeelz1]

looked like 55 when he died

[enslaved2God]

wow

[FiiNALHOUR]

Herbie said, "Tony, can ya fly?".

But Tony couldn't fly, Tony died!

Man, this song was one of the many works of musical art that formed my childhood. Good shit!

[prgvidiot]

WOW--Live.

Young punx could learn so much from this song

[TMFlynn3000]

@prgvidiot Young Punk in doing alright in the U.K, they just don't put it on Youtube.

[creepbehindyourback2]

gay justin biever has died

[lowgeemudbone]

i miss my dead freinds !

[szjozsi]

Who is that black guy with the guitar? awesome

[7seveng7]

Obama

[PaulsGirlAbbyBrooke]

@7seveng7 lol!

[elsewhere92109]

@szjozsi Tiger Woods

[placeboaremygodes]

this song is so emotional and the way he perform........

r.i.p jim

[MrJasondvoyles]

rodney i miss u more than all the others, THIS SONG IS FOR U MY BROTHER!!!!!!

[jackmcclain171]

and Pat I miss you like i will never miss the others, THIS SONG WAS FOR YOU MY BROTHER!!!! (Rip 9/3/2009)

[MrJasondvoyles]

stringer bros. R.I.P. we all love you....

[superwesman]

is lenny kaye on keyboards??

[SwampThizzle]

Is that Exene Cervenka of X? It sounds like her. It looks like her. I'm calling it: Exene.

[connerb141986]

this song is on ''DAWN OF THE DEAD''

[Sectionxx8]

@connerb141986

ya and this song was made n 1980

[t795]

Buried alot of good thinking of this song.

[lisettelarkin]

I realized I wasn't alone with my pain the day I first heard this song in 1980(?).

Thank you, Jim; RIP.

[ReeseMac]

I'll be honest. The first time I heard this song a long time ago...I thought it was The Ramones.

[t00thead]

999 do a great version live

[gluserty]

sure, but Jim Carroll's adverse opinion needs a few who have a voice of breath

[bassackward360]

Jim Carroll died, 11 September 2009. Rest in peace.

[ckr78641]

Basketball Diaries movie is based on Jim Carroll's life

[filmerado]

This vid is 1980 or so, Rollins born 1961.

[6alan6]

Henry Rollins was a a kid when this video was made. We're the same age. In "Basketball Diaries" Jim makes a cameo in the dope house giving Leo his philosophy on life, before shooting up.

[ChrisKay54]

Jim Carroll is the "Jim" in Lou Reed's song Sweet Jane, in the verse "Riding around in a Stutz Bearcat, Jim, you know those were different times." He hung around the Velvets in his very young days. People Who Died should have made the Bourgeoisie' hair stand up.  He was singing about their lost kids...all the poets wrote their rules of verse...goodnight Jimmy..

[edslides]

is that henry rollins on bass?

[franklanguage]

I first heard this song on the radio in 1980 and I was shocked! I was a college freshman of 18, and I'd never heard lyrics like that!

Oh, and don't watch The Basketball Diaries; read the book.

[tebonz]

rip

[cokehorse]

just reading a little bit from the 'book of nods'.

[Sally9999]

It just wouldn't be the same if they sang : Those are people who passed on.

Here's to calling a spade a spade, and dead, dead!

[3folds333]

haha i really like this song...ive never heard of JIM b4 or this song and i've watched dawn of the dead...i never saw the basketball diaries, but i will watch it soon...i found a newspaper / sept. 27th / the other day w/ the article about JIM in it...there was a reason i MusT have found tht paper & be enriched by his gift. peace & RIP Mr. Jim.

[3folds333]

~& i DO NOT live in a bubble of any kind especially w/ music...& i'm from Boston / shaking my head wondering how i missed out on all this talent???

[icedogsvl]

Thanks

[makedonia1903]

this song is from dawn of the dead 2004 ending movie song the one where they were at the boat

[Ddonko]

it first appeared in E.T.

[Snotra]

Argh...new york is so 1970's.

[roadkillchristmas]

RIP Jim Carroll

[terani666]

Love you, Jim R.I.P.

[EchoBoomer1987]

I keep expecting zombies to suddenly burst out into the crowd.

[giannireb68]

"Not dying young can be a dilemma..." Only Jimmy Carroll could write that. Candle always burning for Jim, Mr. Thunders, Jerry, Dee Dee, Joey, Johnny,Sterling, Bob Quine, Richard Sohl and all the other NYC lost boys. Wherever you guys are, I hope you are happy. And thank you. For all of it.

[pfmo5678ramone]

where the fuck would rock n' roll be w/out these guys putting their lives on the lines for it?

[chromefree]

In a better place.

[pfmo5678ramone]

you gotta be fucking joking...stick to something you understand...

[franklanguage]

It's kind of amazing he lived to be 60.

[fraterlucifer888]

@giannireb68 dont forget the next generation punks D.Boone, Kurt Cobain and Mia Zappata

[ciudaddeplata]

Fucking great long live Jim I miss you great we all are gonna died some now some later but we are goin to died so long

[Denco83]

Glen had liver cancer and he died in May 2008. Steve died of brain cancer in September 2009. They were friends of mine.

[stickynyki]

this performance has done music a service.

[GlocalAble]

in what year is showed this live?

[Vincentdeep]

That song is a tribute to all the ones who were crazy enough to do what we were'nt willing to do!

[SophiaGettys]

Sweet! I haven't heard that song in soo long... during my Sophmore year of HS we had like 6 kids die,,, 2 of them I knew 1 was suicide... Then Columbine happend and I need to leave this place... but listening to this song, let me know I wasn't alone.

Thanks for subscribing to my page:)

[cantonadenmark]

RIP....best song Lou Reed never wrote

[dokokai]

Perfect comment!

[gnisnot]

@cantonadenmark

NOT written by Lou Reed !!!!!!

[funkyhandle]

@cantonadenmark you do realize that Lou Reed did not write this song, right? It was written by Jim Carrol, and it's about the friends he lost through his life. Unless I am missing some type of inside joke here.

[cantonadenmark]

@funkyhandle read my post again...I said the best song Lou Reed never wrote:-)

[belbird]

@funkyhandle

Best song he NEVER wrote. It just something that people say. 'The best guitar NEVER made' about a great guitar that you have made adjustments to yourself. The person who wrote that is well aware Lou Reed didn't write it, but is commenting that it is in his sort of style. No inside joke.

[funkyhandle]

@cantonadenmark Ok, I need to put down my bong, and put on my glasses. My bad, Nice comment!

[basharasha]

What about Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary???

[Great2bewhite]

Michael Jackson, Patrick Swayze, Tippy Tom, DJ am, Les Paul, Jon Hughes, Walter Cronkite, and this guy.

[jamhilly]

joey ramone, joe strummer, jim carroll. the great ones.

[hopkins4545]

Jim Carroll was one of a kind. RIP

[RAHSZONE]

My favorite song by his band is "City Drops into Night." Love his peotry, his autobiographic novel that was published when he was 13. Sad loss.

[smittenkitten]

Love ya Jim. I'm gonna miss you a lot.

goodnight. xxoxoxox.

[Gothiczartan]

he is the people who died.

[Gothiczartan]

He really died

[SuperSpiritwalker]

I salute you my brother, Rock on with the rest of your friends. R. I. P. and keep rocking in heaven.

[kreed1]

One more freind of ours well miss him~

People who died~I will salute you Brother:RIP 9/11/09

Thanks for the influence on my Life~for how it was to be an addict, the Basketball diarys, and much much more,,,drink one for me in Heavan!!

[AngryShutIn]

RIP. You've joined all your friends that died. You will be missed.

[Ledbeatle94]

tippin' one for you, my brother.

[xlamatrix]

RIP Jim, you were authentic...

[MtnWorker]

thanks jim for the basketball diaries.

[grnxlt]

RIP JIM....Rock on

[BroScottsdale]

Can someone put Barricades up? I'm desperate to hear that now.

[eugenia628]

you joined the list much too soon, my brother..

[reay4321]

i ve just heard this fucka on the off chance for the first time in years and still sounds great so have I missed something on the off chance?

[320blues]

one more salute to you, brother. rip

[monkeyfiste]

"I salute you, brother!"

[scottvska]

RIP Jim

[luvumo2day]

isnt death embarassing, surreal,well its how you lived your life that is the thing,titanic,rockonbonzo76!!!

[Paneeks1960]

An honest man with more feelings than a homeless puppy that was just adopted. Rest on Jim, you we loved by people who really knew you and your music and poetry will live on my brother,

Rob/Boston

[TakumiTanuki]

RIP Jim

[Russ666eviljesus]

Yeh real bad, oh well we all gotta go some day,and junkies by there very nature will always be at the front of the cue im afraid, yeh real bad X R X I X P X

[KimAcrylic]

R.I.P JIM I LOVE YOU!!!!

[retep557]

RIP

[NotAWarPerson]

PEOPLE WHO DIED LIKE JIM LIVE ON

[somerled73]

legend

[mayarose354]

I salute you brother !

[merrilld]

Jimmy had a heart attack, 60 years old,

Hot for 15 minutes but now he's growing cold.

Just another poet with an album on the side;

Another poet who DIED!

[wizdumb420]

...i like

[SuperRoddogg]

jim would have have loved it!

[LetsNotBeL7]

Hasta luego Jim!

[RevPaul2]

He was one of my heros,but he died

[bunnyzero0]

R..I.P. Jim.

[Medusaesque]

we should write a final verse...RIP Jim. you made my life better, and that's success by any artist's standard.

[pseudocaveman]

RIP, Jim.

[jrsunolan]

speaking of...

[BeTheNet]

I salute you my brother

[JohnCesano]

I managed a nightclub back in the 80's and we had Jim in for a night of entertainment. First he read from a (then) new book that was coming out, and then after a break, he came back out with a band and performed this and a few more songs.

I was genuinely shocked and saddened at his passing. R.I.P. Jim!

[KatyMayBates]

RIP Jim

[davedoug]

rip jim. ...

[DeanLeonard1]

I salute you, Jim, on this day that you died, died.

[BellaStrega50]

RIP Jim :(

[funds450]

RIP jIm..thanks

[fishgirl314]

May you be on God's All Star basketball team... xo

[mibeha1022]

RIP to a real legand!!! He will be missed...

[3DBurns]

That floor has no waxy built up!

[bramblebrook]

rip jim carroll... a catholic boy

[Depressedbarbie]

RIP You are an real artists amont many fake ones.

[thebiglebowski2010]

never fucking heard of the guy, outside of that book he wrote. Never heard of this song until now. I'm glad. He sucked.

[kortan]

..And out come the Wolves! Out come the wolves!

[cruzinptgrl]

and who the f**k are you that we should care?

[thebiglebowski2010]

and who the fuck are you, cunt bubble. get your pussy flaps back in the kitchen and make my sammiches you daft cunt.

[presh42182]

wow, way to speak ill of the dead. you are clearly undereducated in the class dept. your momma should have taught you better.

[thebiglebowski2010]

aint no sweat off my arse. this song sucks, he's dead and i dont care.

[igoape]

Rip jim. Now we have to add you too the list of all the people that died. You were a great writer and musician. Thanks for sharing your soul

[toterola451]

I just heard! Gosh, where does the time go?!?

R.I.P., Jim Carroll! You were the real deal, buddy!

[fladgyglitz]

RIP

[illphilwolny]

RIP to an NYC Legend

[daviddowns81]

Jim Carroll, he was a friend of mine, but he died, died :(

RIP Jim... Rock In Peace

[raidersrobert]

RIP Terrible thing to lose your friends!