Everyone so filled with anxiety, and triggered nowadays by experiencing anything. Back then, we lived or died. Now I know exactly what my grandma was trying to tell me when I lost my first friend. People die. Keep living.
Jim Carrol's writing made my adolescence survivable. much love to you, sir; a poet in an age of poetic absence - you should still be alive at this hour, America has need of thee.
Can't hear this song or watch the movie Basketball Diaries without thinking about my childhood and wondering how the hell I'm still alive let alone a single parent with custody of my son and daughter,There was 11 close friends in my circle growing up and now there is only 3 of us left that's not dead,in prison,or strung out on dope. I don't know what made me so lucky, but I really miss the ones who weren't...
No radio station ever played this, not where I grew up. It wasn't that kind of song. But one night in 1983 when I was 13 I heard it on The Dr. Demento Show and it made a huge impact in my mind. But I never heard it again. The years went by and I began to think I'd actually imagined the song, maybe I was the only one who'd heard it, maybe it never really existed. Thank God for movie that revived this song, and thank everyone for internet and UA-cam. This is an amazing, true punk song.
We had an early shock jock station in the San Francisco area called KOME (Don't touch that dial it has KOME on it) that played songs like this all the time.
"bobby had leukemia, 14 years old he looked like 65 when he died, he was a friend of mine" gives me chills every time i hear it! this is the kind of song that's so good anyone could cover it and it would sound good every time (well, most of the time!)
I just watched "Basketball Diaries" & all I wanna say is: don't fuck up your life cause you only got on chance,one life to live! You can live normally ,even successfully but you can also live and feel like your already died. Please choose the first one! R.I.P. Jim, thanks for your strength&talent!
For my friend Keith we did acid and ate tons of other drugs together, you never got to see the 1980's. Fell to his death off a bridge in TX. Still think about you, fly on you gentle spirit you.
Had an English professor friend who lived downstairs from me in a row house in the middle of the city. Our mutual friend and fellow row house neighbor was a student of his. The professor gave him back a paper and had wrote on the top, regarding what he had wrote; " That's an ugly slice of life." When I listen to this song, that's what I think of; That's an ugly slice of life! I had eight friends or acquaintances die by the time I was 25 or so, but it wasn't this ugly. Holy crap. I used to love this song though.
I got turned on to Carroll late back in 86 while playing in a neo-punk band called Tired Starlings and we covered this song then. I never got over how much of himself was in his songs - a feat I've never come close to achieving. RIP, Jim. We'll miss ya. Rock on, brother.
I remember hearing this song on the radio shortly after its release. It was incredibly shocking, this upbeat tune with a hook that won't let go, and then you realized what the lyrics were, because you had only your ears and your friends, no lyrics or movie or video. Yes, people talked about it. We were simply stunned. And we knew it wasn't the Ramones. We didn't know who Jim Carroll was yet, but we did know he'd written a brutal song, and wondered what life must be like for him.
My best friend forever loved this movie, and the lifestyle... I love you brother, I’ll forever miss that smile and your smart ass sarcastic sense of humor. -bkm.
+MRXBOX n VAN BC It is a good song, but, Death is serious and like it or not it will happen to all of us because it is part of life, but I am afraid and worried and I don't like death, plus this song is really sad if you think about the lyrics.
R.I.P to my buddy from elementary all the way through to highschool. I dont remember the last time i saw you but i will always remember the good times we had together. I miss you buddy. Ride hard Dalton!
Ya know what's weird about "copyright"? Music companies spend thousands if not hundreds of thousands making music videos so they will be shown on MTV etc so that people will find out about said music and maybe go buy it. But when someone posts the same video on youtube they have to worry about it being taken down. l Isn't people seeing the music video exactly what the music company wanted when they made that video???
Josh got brain cancer when he was a teenager I was sad, he was my favorite skater His little brother Nate got sent to Iraq And now Nate a'int ever comin' back Cogsy Cogs blew out his own brain and my life hasn't ever been the same Frick's a guy who took his own life too And man I thought that really blew Brian caught cancer of the bones Now the cemetery is his home Those are people who died, died They were all friends of mine And they died! R.I.P. Jim Carroll.
The song's inclusion in The Suicide Squad movie is so bittersweet. While you can't deny the grief being shown in the song, its inclusion is quite fitting for the movie. Comedic or not.
First heard this song watching 2004's Dawn of the Dead remake. I have been obsessed with this ironically upbeat song celebrating life and death. When I die, I don't want a funeral, I want a party!
A mixture of fear, sadness and grief listening to this song, when it comes to death, even after my father died in 2009 I still don't understand it, I don't know what happens after you die, even though I mostly follow the whole Christianity thing, I still don't know how much of it is true and how much is BS.. No one who has died has ever come back and if they did there is no 100% proof of what happened, where they went, or what they saw.
My dad and a best friend have both come back to me in strange and unexplained ways ! Your believes and living as a good person will help you leave this 1 star and find more life out in 1 of the BILLION STARS in a BILLION GALAXIES ! Death can't destroy the electrical matter in your body . It can only change it into another Form or Being !!! Enjoy the little things and little time you have with people you care for , CAUSE LIFE IS REALLY HARD !
MRXBOX n VAN BC well we could make it easier by doing just what you said there. Just try to find anything that can make us happy and try to focus on those things, just try to stay away from negativity best we can and kind of take the attitude when something bad happens.. "Aww well you know at least I am alive, have a roof over my head, food in my belly, and.. bleh bleh etc etc.." it's hard to stay on your cloud, but I think if we kind of intentionally direct ourselves to try to find any little bit of happiness we can and good that we can in any situation, we might just make it you know?.. Maybe..
this song is one the best memorial/tribute songs i know of, definitely the best from his generation to present. i love to hear it--whether i'm sad, mourning (like now) or if i'm in a great mood.
Catholic boy is a great album, still have it on vinyl. used to play this song every new years eve party to tribute all the people we knew or didn't personally know who died that year, cranked it and everyone sang the lyrics. Awesome times!
I liked the Diaries film. Good performances by the actors and a realistic reflection of the mean streets but while I was impressed by the dark entertainment value I would have liked a glimpse into the structures of the heart that grips us so hard we become addicted, unaware we are designing our own destruction. I'm grateful that Jim Carroll left us this powerful message before going on to his next gig.
After beating drugs at an early age in high school he was very lucky to have survived that. But even after that like most people, it seems like he let his health go. He was only 60 when he died, he died.
Saw Mr Carroll in the early 80's. He could hardly stand or talk but when it came time for his stories...most exultant! It's good he straitened up & gave the world 30 more years of his insight.
@robojony91 In the movie "Basketball Diaries", Leonardo Dicaprio plays the role of Jim Carroll, a young teenager who gets addicted to drugs and his life crumbles around him, but in the end he finds a way out through his writing. Jim Carroll wrote "the Basketball Diaries" as an autobiography, but in addition to being an author/poet, he was also a musician. The man singing in this video is the real Jim Carroll. It's pretty cool that the man lived to see his autobiography made into a movie. RIP
Except he escaped the life and wrote this song. He was able to live and speak to others through his art. He didn't die. That is an inspiration to many.
Lots of army vets are like that too and the older you get the more dead people you probably knew it's not as if he killed them himself he is just expressing some of the loss and trauma he has experienced and honouring his friends.
I remember the very FIRST time I saw the music video when I first watched the Basketball Diaries at like probably 11 years old… listening now at almost 26 years old and now I have my own names to fill in the lyrics… “they were all my friends”.. pretty sobering. ❤️🩹
Great vid, great movie. I listened to Jim Carrol way before Basketball Diaries came out and I was glad the movie showed the misery of heroin addiction. Thankfully Jim kicked the dragon!
In there early to mid70s punk erupted in NY city in a club called CBGB's. Bands like The Ramones with their heavy guitar driven sound would later on influence British Punk super stars like the Sex Pistols turning the focus of the movement over seas. But there was a lighter side to early punk in Bands like Blondie and Richard Hell & the Voidoids. New wave is a term that was used by the press later on to describe the lighter side of this movement in music. this is sits some where in between. Imho
Tired of being overly sentimental. My brother Steve LOVED this song, now he's dead too. No anger, no tears, just love and rock!
never met you or your brother. But I assure you, my condolences are yours, man.
R.I.P Harambe
Your brother loved this song ... you miss him...and he died!
@@whiteskullmaskgh2638 nice one, full respect
He's a person who died
RIP Jim.
(He died.)
Those are people who DIED DIED.
Came here to say this. R.I.P., Jim.
I never heard it before today. They play it on Sat radio. My new fav song, its great...is it true he knew all those people ?
@@johathaw read the book.
Бля тупа дайд
Everyone so filled with anxiety, and triggered nowadays by experiencing anything. Back then, we lived or died. Now I know exactly what my grandma was trying to tell me when I lost my first friend. People die. Keep living.
Forgot about this song for decades....just rediscovered it ..glad I did ...
Me too! Heard it on the radio today and was like, “ I used to love this song… totally forgot about it!”
Fucking A!😮
@@ss630-ah yes, the glory days of the World Famous KROQ, the ROQ of the 80’s
Jim Carrol's writing made my adolescence survivable.
much love to you, sir; a poet in an age of poetic absence - you should still be alive at this hour, America has need of thee.
Can't hear this song or watch the movie Basketball Diaries without thinking about my childhood and wondering how the hell I'm still alive let alone a single parent with custody of my son and daughter,There was 11 close friends in my circle growing up and now there is only 3 of us left that's not dead,in prison,or strung out on dope. I don't know what made me so lucky, but I really miss the ones who weren't...
No radio station ever played this, not where I grew up. It wasn't that kind of song. But one night in 1983 when I was 13 I heard it on The Dr. Demento Show and it made a huge impact in my mind. But I never heard it again. The years went by and I began to think I'd actually imagined the song, maybe I was the only one who'd heard it, maybe it never really existed.
Thank God for movie that revived this song, and thank everyone for internet and UA-cam. This is an amazing, true punk song.
WBER in Rochester NY played it…..that’s why I know about it.
You should find out about Jim. He's got a story.
We had an early shock jock station in the San Francisco area called KOME (Don't touch that dial it has KOME on it) that played songs like this all the time.
The most down to earth song ever written by far
Saw dear Jim C live at Detroit Art institute...back in the 80s
Love the true Energy....
RIP
See also. "It's too Late" another Great song by JC
Especially for tony
Its really an accomplishment to make a song with so much energy when the lyrics are so sad. Love it!
"bobby had leukemia, 14 years old
he looked like 65 when he died,
he was a friend of mine"
gives me chills every time i hear it! this is the kind of song that's so good anyone could cover it and it would sound good every time (well, most of the time!)
U still alive buddy
@@ethansomer7362 lmaoo
My cousin got leukemia at 15, and is still alive, so this song we listen to sometimes as a “fuck you” to death
Listen to the Gwar cover.
@@freakingabagool3510 that is beautiful.
I just watched "Basketball Diaries" & all I wanna say is: don't fuck up your life cause you only got on chance,one life to live! You can live normally ,even successfully but you can also live and feel like your already died. Please choose the first one! R.I.P. Jim, thanks for your strength&talent!
The happiest sad song Ive ever heard
For my friend Keith we did acid and ate tons of other drugs together, you never got to see the 1980's. Fell to his death off a bridge in TX. Still think about you, fly on you gentle spirit you.
Keith couldnt fly.....Keith diieeedd!
@@dnlcast2 Fuk U
this song is for you my brother
Don’t do drugs, kids
You older hippies have a nice way of speaking about people. I think that's getting lost lately.
MTV played this when the movie came out, it was in the last years of MTV still being cool in the mid 1990s.
What a great song!!! The greatest tribute song !!!!! We miss Mr Carroll RIP
Had an English professor friend who lived downstairs from me in a row house in the middle of the city. Our mutual friend and fellow row house neighbor was a student of his. The professor gave him back a paper and had wrote on the top, regarding what he had wrote; " That's an ugly slice of life." When I listen to this song, that's what I think of; That's an ugly slice of life! I had eight friends or acquaintances die by the time I was 25 or so, but it wasn't this ugly. Holy crap. I used to love this song though.
I met him when he was doing a book signing for his book "Void of Course." I still have the autographed book in my bookshelf.
Lo:ved this in my twentys in my sixtys till think its great will play it at my funeral just to piss everyone off.
I loved this song as a kid, it really resonated with me. I never thought I'd see 40, tell you what.
Tell me about it. I was 16, going on 17 when this came out. Can't quite believe I'm still here either, especially when my 2 best friends are not.
You saw 40? Good for you!
Then one day you see 60, damn.
I got turned on to Carroll late back in 86 while playing in a neo-punk band called Tired Starlings and we covered this song then. I never got over how much of himself was in his songs - a feat I've never come close to achieving. RIP, Jim. We'll miss ya. Rock on, brother.
"More than all the others, this song is for YOU my brother..."
Too many... (Happy belated b-day JC).
I remember hearing this song on the radio shortly after its release. It was incredibly shocking, this upbeat tune with a hook that won't let go, and then you realized what the lyrics were, because you had only your ears and your friends, no lyrics or movie or video. Yes, people talked about it. We were simply stunned. And we knew it wasn't the Ramones. We didn't know who Jim Carroll was yet, but we did know he'd written a brutal song, and wondered what life must be like for him.
Jeffrey, I miss more than all the others, This song is for you, my brother.
This song is still sick after all these years! 🤘🏻
My best friend forever loved this movie, and the lifestyle... I love you brother, I’ll forever miss that smile and your smart ass sarcastic sense of humor. -bkm.
It sounds like you knew him personally. I did, and he certainly had the sense of humor you refer to.
one of the all time best shout out choruses
Dam right.. 2023 and the list builds..
Yup, we'll all be on it soon
Ya, Old Rock is still the BOMB !
Seriously if your head is not moving to this song .
CHECK YOUR PULSE ,
cause U've DiED DiED
so good!
+MRXBOX n VAN BC It is a good song, but, Death is serious and like it or not it will happen to all of us because it is part of life, but I am afraid and worried and I don't like death, plus this song is really sad if you think about the lyrics.
"The Basketball Diaries" brought me
Same here
R.I.P to my buddy from elementary all the way through to highschool. I dont remember the last time i saw you but i will always remember the good times we had together. I miss you buddy. Ride hard Dalton!
Ya know what's weird about "copyright"? Music companies spend thousands if not hundreds of thousands making music videos so they will be shown on MTV etc so that people will find out about said music and maybe go buy it. But when someone posts the same video on youtube they have to worry about it being taken down. l
Isn't people seeing the music video exactly what the music company wanted when they made that video???
Josh got brain cancer when he was a teenager
I was sad, he was my favorite skater
His little brother Nate got sent to Iraq
And now Nate a'int ever comin' back
Cogsy Cogs blew out his own brain
and my life hasn't ever been the same
Frick's a guy who took his own life too
And man I thought that really blew
Brian caught cancer of the bones
Now the cemetery is his home
Those are people who died, died
They were all friends of mine
And they died!
R.I.P. Jim Carroll.
This man experienced real life.
Thanks for leaving such an iconic song that never gets old
Man, 90s “indie” movies, or cult movies, whatever they’re called….Im so thankful they were during my teenage years. Amazing films like this one.
I heard this song covered a bunch of times. I found the OG.
The entire Catholic Boy album is great from start to finish.
Bobby , this songs for you my brother.
As Th n
Rbgbkl
Love this song! Really well used in Dawn Of The Dead (2004) in my opinion!
The music in that movie is incredible. It's basically constructed around Down with the Sickness. Best zombie movie ever.
Next year will be the 20th anniversary of the Dawn of the Dead remake...also the first time I heard this song. 👍❤️👍
The song's inclusion in The Suicide Squad movie is so bittersweet. While you can't deny the grief being shown in the song, its inclusion is quite fitting for the movie. Comedic or not.
Never saw that saw basketball diaries though not into certain clown shows.
Doesnt fit
@@jeffolsen7566 ok
suicide squad sucks dont mention it
@@kirtonos lol 2016 suicide squad
If you don’t love ❤️ this song then we can’t be friends…
Today, it's been one year since my previous dog died. He was the closest thing I had to a younger brother and I loved him like my own. R.I.P. Scooby
I'm sorry for your loss. I just lost my best buddy, Bruno.
First time hearing this master piece
First heard this song watching 2004's Dawn of the Dead remake. I have been obsessed with this ironically upbeat song celebrating life and death. When I die, I don't want a funeral, I want a party!
A mixture of fear, sadness and grief listening to this song, when it comes to death, even after my father died in 2009 I still don't understand it, I don't know what happens after you die, even though I mostly follow the whole Christianity thing, I still don't know how much of it is true and how much is BS.. No one who has died has ever come back and if they did there is no 100% proof of what happened, where they went, or what they saw.
My dad and a best friend have both come back to me in strange and unexplained ways !
Your believes and living as a good person will help you leave this 1 star and find more life out in 1 of the BILLION STARS in a BILLION GALAXIES !
Death can't destroy the electrical matter in your body . It can only change it into another Form or Being !!! Enjoy the little things and little time you have with people you care for , CAUSE LIFE IS REALLY HARD !
MRXBOX n VAN BC well we could make it easier by doing just what you said there. Just try to find anything that can make us happy and try to focus on those things, just try to stay away from negativity best we can and kind of take the attitude when something bad happens.. "Aww well you know at least I am alive, have a roof over my head, food in my belly, and.. bleh bleh etc etc.." it's hard to stay on your cloud, but I think if we kind of intentionally direct ourselves to try to find any little bit of happiness we can and good that we can in any situation, we might just make it you know?.. Maybe..
One more religious presumption of "I KNOW IT" among thousands of other ones...as though any of us are God TO know....???
this song is one the best memorial/tribute songs i know of, definitely the best from his generation to present. i love to hear it--whether i'm sad, mourning (like now) or if i'm in a great mood.
Catholic boy is a great album, still have it on vinyl. used to play this song every new years eve party to tribute all the people we knew or didn't personally know who died that year, cranked it and everyone sang the lyrics. Awesome times!
R.I.P. Milton Norman, R.I.P. Sam Harvey, R.I.P. Keith Ritchie.....Three of my friends who died in the last month. See you guys later.
R.I.P. corporate music industry. Sorry for the loss of your beamers.
RIP, JC
This is not Rock People this is Punk
I liked the Diaries film. Good performances by the actors and a realistic reflection of the mean streets but while I was impressed by the dark entertainment value I would have liked a glimpse into the structures of the heart that grips us so hard we become addicted, unaware we are designing our own destruction. I'm grateful that Jim Carroll left us this powerful message before going on to his next gig.
Sometimes I listen to this song when I can’t sleep. I’m usually dozing by the time it ends.
Basketball diaries.....great classic based on Jimmy's life...love this song 🎵 👌
NY Punk and hardcore scene had so much soul in it, you will never get music like this again cuz there is no more soul in this country
I saw this movie, didn't know it was Jim till the end of the movie.
I looked for this song for a long time.....reminds me of the 80's . Good tune.
After beating drugs at an early age in high school he was very lucky to have survived that. But even after that like most people, it seems like he let his health go. He was only 60 when he died, he died.
Rip tommy love you brother
I use to train on the BMX course to this song and the Clash, good ole days indeed.
A forgotten group of people
I love this song. They play it on our local Alt. music station on the prehistoric show R.I.P. Jim.
A local rock band (Drunken Uncle - out of Buffalo, NY) played this last weekend
- the entire place was singing along...that brought me here.
Classic
Only just found this tune
Omg
Where have I been
Ledgend
I live this song daily on the streets of Washington DC. It ain't new York but a violent unforgiving city just the same
who's the girl on backup vocals?? she's HAWT!
Saw Mr Carroll in the early 80's. He could hardly stand or talk but when it came time for his stories...most exultant! It's good he straitened up & gave the world 30 more years of his insight.
AWSOME , thankyou UA-cam, I have been looking for this song for about 15 years. Thanyou whoever posted this song too.
Best music ever
R.I.P Jim 🥲
R.I.P. Jim
Kick Ass Song and Video, Miss You Jim..
The sogs rock
100 % clean
Good song can't stop listening to this song. I dedicate this song to one of my friends Anthony. I miss you buddy.
Song Of The Day.
RIP, Jim - I salute you brother!!
Perfect. Sad. Thanks.
Saw Airborne Toxic Event Friday night in Chicago they covered this with the Henry Clay People ..Thank you it was awesome.
What people do not understand about this song its mostly about people that live dangerously, die die.
Best way to deal with grief , but don’t get depressed, rock n roll baby
When we were young. Man this song was a powerhouse. Jim was NYC. Grit n grime.
Jim,
You described NYC landscape vividly & beautiful...R.I.P JIM
this song is awesome and i didnt no it was about basketball diaries till i saw this video..good movie good song
I'm from the same time and place as Jim Carroll. I identify a lot with his music and his story.
@robojony91 In the movie "Basketball Diaries", Leonardo Dicaprio plays the role of Jim Carroll, a young teenager who gets addicted to drugs and his life crumbles around him, but in the end he finds a way out through his writing. Jim Carroll wrote "the Basketball Diaries" as an autobiography, but in addition to being an author/poet, he was also a musician. The man singing in this video is the real Jim Carroll. It's pretty cool that the man lived to see his autobiography made into a movie. RIP
This guy knows an awful lot of people who died. I'd steer clear of him.
Except he escaped the life and wrote this song. He was able to live and speak to others through his art. He didn't die. That is an inspiration to many.
Lots of army vets are like that too and the older you get the more dead people you probably knew it's not as if he killed them himself he is just expressing some of the loss and trauma he has experienced and honouring his friends.
I love you so much Jim and Leo
To my friend, Messaiah Mensah. I'm sorry baby boy. Really wanted great things for you. Death came by too early. Continue resting in peace Messaiah
I remember the very FIRST time I saw the music video when I first watched the Basketball Diaries at like probably 11 years old… listening now at almost 26 years old and now I have my own names to fill in the lyrics… “they were all my friends”.. pretty sobering. ❤️🩹
Great vid, great movie. I listened to Jim Carrol way before Basketball Diaries came out and I was glad the movie showed the misery of heroin addiction. Thankfully Jim kicked the dragon!
Well, sort of. He was on methadone for the rest of his life.
Mr. Anderson brought me..God Bless Mr. Carroll..Extraordinary Artist!!
When you watch a movie around 100 years old and start reading the credits
In there early to mid70s punk erupted in NY city in a club called CBGB's. Bands like The Ramones with their heavy guitar driven sound would later on influence British Punk super stars like the Sex Pistols turning the focus of the movement over seas. But there was a lighter side to early punk in Bands like Blondie and Richard Hell & the Voidoids. New wave is a term that was used by the press later on to describe the lighter side of this movement in music. this is sits some where in between. Imho
For you Ricky miss you ever day God bless
awesome song really fitting with the lifestyle he had when growing up, got to say he has my respect.
so happy saw him @ the lucky og fun
I heard this on a burnt copy of "Chasing Ghosts: Beyond The Arcade",
what a great Rock N Roll tune. RIP Jim!
My Little Brother brought me here. R.I.P Christian. I miss you so much. You died in 2001, 2weeks after I got outta the joint. WHY CHRIS WHY
R.I.P Lil Brother Chris 10/25/75 01/18/01 your missed everyday.. heroin kills, nothing more