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Product Identifiers

Record LabelReal Gone Music, Rlgm

UPC0848064008798

eBay Product ID (ePID)24070894642

Product Key Features

Release Year2019

FormatRecord

GenreSoundtrack

ArtistVarious

Release TitleBasketball Diaries

Dimensions

Item Height0.36 in

Item Weight1.07 lb

Item Length12.38 in

Item Width12.29 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Tracks15

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

TracksCatholic Boy - Jim Carroll with Pearl Jam, Devil's Toe - Graeme Revell with Jim Carroll, Down By the Water - PJ Harvey, What a Life - Rockers Hifi, I Am Alone - Graeme Revell with Jim Carroll, People Who Died - the Jim Carroll Band, Riders on the Storm - the Doors, Dizzy - Green Apple Quick Step, It's Been Hard - Graeme Revell with Jim Carroll, Coming Right Along - the Posies, Strawberry Wine - Massive Internal Complications, Star - the Cult, Dream Massacre - Graeme Revell, I've Been Down - Flea, Blind Dogs - Soundgarden

Number of Discs2

NotesHigh school basketball star, junkie, street poet sensation, rock star... Jim Carroll packed a lot of life into the 60 years he spent on this planet. The 1995 film The Basketball Diaries-based on his 1978 memoir-captures him at the beginning of his odyssey, juggling private school, poetry, hoops 'n' heroin, a timeless antihero set-up if there ever was one. That allowed the filmmakers to bring the movie into the present, and to assemble a soundtrack of all-star alternative rock stars with only one nod (The Doors' "Riders on the Storm") to the period of Carroll's actual youth. The result: one of the best alternative soundtracks of the '90s with some off-the-beaten-path finds. For example: not only do you get Carroll's rendition of "Catholic Boy" with Pearl Jam, but you get his classic "People Who Died" with The Jim Carroll Band, a song from an album that's currently in contractual limbo and unlikely to be reissued any time soon. There are also Carroll's own spoken word pieces with accompaniment by composer (and ex-SPV leader) Graeme Revell to lend a little Lower East Side grit to a soundtrack featuring such heavyweights as PJ Harvey, The Cult, and Soundgarden. But perhaps the real dark horse track is Massive Internal Complications' "Strawberry Wine," which has built up quite a following over the years and isn't up digitally except for excerpts of the film on Youtube, Now, in what would have been Jim Carroll's 70th birthday year, Real Gone Music takes great pride in releasing the original soundtrack to The Basketball Diaries for the first time ever on vinyl, exclusively for Record Store Day. The package features a newly-created gatefold jacket housing two LPs pressed in "basketball orange" vinyl. Limited to 2000 copies, this release puts this seminal alternative rock soundtrack where it belongs: on wax.