Covers of (deep breath): Madonna, The Beatles, Jim Carroll, Kings of Leon, Phil Collins, Polaris, Björk, The Smiths, Bruce Springseen, The Dream, Talking Heads, Santo & Johnny, the Allman Brothers, and Eurythmics.
(via prismkiller) Just a quick FF today. We needed a short vacation this week in order to let the new Gorillaz' album Plastic Beach sink in. Inititally, we were going to wait for the review to post a track, but since everyone and their mother has posted it on Hype Machine, I figured I'd at least [...]
"...all dead/ all dead..." George Harrison - What Is Life (Mp3) Led Zeppelin - Nobody's Fault But Mine (Mp3) The Sound - Fatal Flaw (Mp3) Queen - Dead on Time (Mp3) Harry Nilsson - Don't Forget Me (Mp3) T-Rex - Life's a Gas (Mp3) Jim Carroll Band - People Who Died (Mp3) Think Lizzy - Suicide (Mp3) John Lennon - Whatever [...]
Having been lucky enough to see Airborne Toxic Event at SxSW earlier this year, it is fair to say MM was a little over-excited to be heading off with pal Stu, to Birmingham this evening to catch a full set from the band.We were not disappointed.No support band meant they took the stage just after 8.30 and entertained us non-stop for nearly two hours. The level of intensity and energy was, if
Were I to finally succumb to the quasi-cosmic entropy that envelops soft California skulls, I'd blame the melodramatically named "Summer of Death" on a psychic shift between old and new blood, some paroxysm of pestilence, some inauspicious wormhole of time. But I don't buy it. This is nothing more than a litany of "So It Goes," or in Jim Carroll's case, "these are the people who died." Far from anonymous, the author/rocker/one-time All-City baller, never attained the level of modern fame that envelops Facebook Feed R.I.P.'s. Such is life, when you lack a Point Break on the resume. [...]
Jim Carrol has shuffled off this mortal coil . Right about the time I was discovering that there was music outside of my parent's strange tastes I heard People Who Died and was hooked. And while I know 9b is a little late with this news I thought it only fitting that some sort of tribute be posted here after all we mentioned Patrick Swayze and the music we review and post for your pleasure is influenced as much by punk rock as it is by country. People Who Died is probably [...]
"I fucked up. I sit here with my liver and kidneys vibrating inside from uncertainty in every direction. Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities, too many possibilities, each with its own endless set of variations. It's like looking too closely and too long into a mirror; soon your features distort, then erupt. You look too closely into your poems, or listen too closely to them as they arrive in whispers, and the features inside you--call it heart, call it mind, call it soul--accelerate out of control. They distort and they erupt, and [...]
Jim Carroll reached the pinnacle of his fame when The Basketball Diaries movie came out in 1995. I knew about him before that through his connection to the Beat Poets , especially Allen Ginsberg . He was highly regarded among a small group of music artists and poets from New York City. He also wrote one of my favorite punk songs: The Jim Carroll Band - People Who Died (mp3) I am not going to eulogize the man, but I will say thanks for making [...]
For most of us, Jim Carroll will be remembered as the author of this book. T he Basketball Diaries is Carroll's autobiography, his own diaries, written as a boy from the ages of 12-16. And unlike most of us who passed through those ages, Carroll actually had something to write about other than the tortured inner dialogue of adolescence. He led this tri-furcated life, you see. Basketball star/heroin junkie-hustler/poet-literary prodigy tri-furcation is one mighty feat to pull off, no matter what age you are. His first book of poetry was published at age 17, Organic Trains [...]
They don't really make artists like Jim Carroll anymore - that time has passed. Born in 1950 in New York City, Jim was undoubtedly a product of both the Beat influence on American culture and punk's ramshackle ethics. Carroll's writing and his music were twin forces that clawed and raked at an urban existence that [...]
Context is everything. And sometimes it's the mere shift of geography, the slighter or greater roar of the narrator that can make the biggest difference in a song. Jim Carroll's "People Who Died" is a legendary song all its own. Originally released on 1980's Catholic Boy, "People Who Died" runs through a litany of [...]
Punk rock and reading, two great tastes that believe it or not go together. I know that leather jackets, mohawks and three chord guitar playing doesn't exactly scream "I read french...
Here at YuppiePunk World HQ we love to group things, be it literary tattoos , rock stars that died at age 27 or rejected movie posters . It's one of our favorite things to do. We even do it in our podcasts, focusing them on a theme: trios, bands named after cities, actors who sing, etc. Which leads us to our current podcast: A list of songs that list things. As per usual, the songs are available ala carte until they expire, or you can grab them all in the podcast itself, which you can subscribe [...]
The Prince caught it in the back down on Bourbon Street. Don was a pacifist, now he's cold meat. Tula choked on a lungful of toxic waste. Kid Psycho was squashed into a fine paste. And Psycho, I miss you more than all the others and I salute you, brother . Those are [...]
Of Story of Fate, Porn Kings, Preacher's Wives, Dive Bars & Dueling Saxophones I just got back from a sojurn around the Napa Valley wine country where I tend to drink more beer than grape juice, and made a stop for Margaritas in Vallejo at an artist friend's pad whose now exiled from his former life in the Mission. Upon returning, I saw that manic mascara matron Tammy Faye died, a woman you can either ignore, deride mercilessly, or empathize & adore... and i suppose I'm guilty of all of [...]
WOLF Nash The Slash Children of the Night Dindisc : 1981 [Buy it] PEOPLE WHO DIED The Jim Carroll Band Catholic Boy Atco : 1981 [Buy it] A NEW ENGLAND Billy Bragg Back to Basics Elektra : 1987 [Buy it] CEREMONY New Order Substance Factory : 1987 (1981) [Buy it] [...]
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Part 1 here . Part 2 here . Part 3 here . Part 4 here . #151. Song: "Photobooth" Artist: Death Cab for Cutie Album: Forbidden Love EP Year: 2000 Length: 3:46 Download Death Cab for Cutie - "Photobooth".mp3 [...]
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