A World Without Gravity : The Best Of The Jim Carroll Band

Artist: Jim Carroll
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 081227129026
EAN: 0081227129026
ASIN: B000003327

Release Date: 1993-08-17

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Tracks:

People Who Died
Work Not Play
Differing Touch
It's Too Late
Wicked Gravity
I Want The Angel
Them
City Drops Into The Night (Live Version)
Dry Dreams
Jealous Twin
Plain Division
Voices
Lorraine
(No More) Luxuries
I Write Your Name
Love Crimes
Catholic Boy
Day And Night

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Customer Reviews:

Great poetry, good music.......2006-01-03

Jim Carroll is by far my favourite writer. Read some of his poetry or his famous diary and you'll understand.
As a fan, i bought his band's cds as well...what can i say? It sound so 80s in a way, you can feel N.Y.C's 5 boroughs in it, and tight punky jeans with dirty white converse shoes...
The music is ok (honest 80s garage-rock) but lyrics are the best...lyrics are top!
Read some of his books before buying this album!

Jim the Amazing.......2005-08-09

In 1984 James Spader & Robert Downey (this movie is so old school the he wasn't even a JR yet) starred in a movie called
Tuff Turf and in that movie there is a scene in a warhouse where this band was playing live and I heard Voices for the first time
Jim Carroll was the voice I heard and the Jim Carroll band was the band I fell in love with. If you buy this CD at no time will it disappoint you.

Punk as street experience.......2004-06-02

Jim Carroll's personality comes through strong in his poetry and famous "Basketball Diaries", but seemingly even stronger in his music. To read about this guy's unbelievable experiences is one thing, but to hear him put work them into songs with a 70's punk flavor is another thing entirely. "People Who Died", "Crow", and "Catholic Boy" are probably the most autobiographical songs in Caroll's canon. One is never sure of Carroll's position on his extensive drug use. In a "World Without Gravity" there is a catching lyric "We need some pure pure white/Yeah we can nod all night" and only after one hears it a few times does one realize just what he's making reference to. I've always wondered what Carroll would himself say about drug use in general as a result of his experiences. The closest you'll get is this album and his other ones, since in the diaries and poems he is flippant with the issue. All in all this is a great album, the smartass junkie tongue coming through loud and clear with a kind of existential abrasiveness that reminds us:Carroll still has the rebellious heart of the teenager and twentysomething he once was.

Where's The HYPE?.......2002-12-08

Even those who know and love Jim Carroll best would describe his
music and poetry a "CULT" thing. WHY? I don't know. I can't
figure why these songs aren't perennial "80's punk."

Although Carroll's music has been successful, maybe the number of those who appreciate it as POETRY is limited, and maybe that's it's labeled "CULT." You can't turn poetry on in the background like a CD--you have to involve yourself in it. And THAT'S the best way to experience this CD.

I like this better than anything else Jim's done. The music didn't thrill at first, but when I opened the cover and read the lyrics along with the music, I was hooked, AMAZED at how I hadn't really been listening.

Carroll once mentioned that he can sometimes enjoy poetry on paper, but not when it's performed, and that some poets do it for him in performance, but not in a book. JIM, if you ever read this: I THOUGHT you did it for me on paper, but I didn't know what enjoying your poetry was until I heard THESE poems lyricized and told in your voice.

JIM CARROLL ( STEVEN LINSLEY).......2002-11-13

THIS BEST OF THE JIM CARROLL BAND IS ABSOLUTE SWEETNESS TO THE EARS. STEVEN LINSLEY BASS PLAYER HAS DEFINATELY PROVED HIS TALENTS.AND HE IS STILL PROVING HIS TALENTS IN A DIFFERENT AREA,
THAT OF THE ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY FORM. THIS BAND WAS A DEFINATE TREAT FOR THE LOVER INTO PUNK,OR THE PUNK INTO LOVER,OR RATHER
THE PUNK MUSIC LOVER.THEY DON'T MAKE EM LIKE THIS ANYMORE.
2 THUMBS UP AND ***** FIVE PLATINUM STARS.

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