{"id":5887,"date":"2022-01-28T23:52:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T07:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/?page_id=5887"},"modified":"2025-05-31T00:39:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T07:39:34","slug":"cmj-the-best-of-the-jim-carroll-band","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/research\/music-reviews\/cmj-the-best-of-the-jim-carroll-band\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best of the Jim Carroll Band"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Best of the Jim Carroll Band<\/span><\/span>
\n<\/span>CMJ New Music Report<\/a><\/span>
\nReview by\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/span>James Lien<\/span>
\n4 October<\/span><\/span><\/b>\u00a01993<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Anyone who witnessed the phenomenal crowds at Patti Smith’s poetry reading in New York’s Central Park this past summer knows that the interest in the punk poets of the late `70s has not dimmed. On the printed front, Jim Carroll’s Basketball Diaries is an essential component of the slacker literary canon. But except for a few budget-line cassettes, anyone trying to find Jim Carroll’s music has been out of luck; Carroll has long been one of those artists whose work fell too close to the “death” of vinyl to warrant a serious reissue campaign. Enter Rhino with The Best Of The Jim Carroll Band. As important as Jim Carroll’s albums were, they’re even better when distilled into one action-packed CD. A little like David Bowie’s late’70s work, its mixture of humor, anger and tinges of paranoia take on greater dimensions when heard today.
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\u00a9 2000 College Media, Inc.<\/span><\/p>\n

The original review can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Best of the Jim Carroll Band CMJ New Music Report Review by\u00a0James Lien 4 October\u00a01993 Anyone who witnessed the phenomenal crowds at Patti Smith’s poetry reading in New York’s Central Park this past summer knows that the interest in the punk poets of the late `70s has not dimmed. On the printed front, Jim … Continue reading The Best of the Jim Carroll Band<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3987,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"folder":[48],"class_list":["post-5887","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9VlUH-1wX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3987,"url":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/research\/music-reviews\/","url_meta":{"origin":5887,"position":0},"title":"Audio Reviews","author":"Cassie Carter","date":"January 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are some reviews of \"audio recordings.\" So far the reviews are of albums by the Jim Carroll Band and solo albums by Jim Carroll\u00a0. More to come later . . . 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Addresses: Office, c\/o Penguin USA, 375 Hudson St, New York, NY, 10014-3658 .Awards: Recipient young writer's award Random House Books, 1970.Positions Held: writer, poet, spoken word performer, writing instr.,\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4620,"url":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/research\/performance-reviews\/preview-university-of-montana-1999\/","url_meta":{"origin":5887,"position":4},"title":"\u201cOne wrist in heaven, one ankle in hell\u201d: Jim Carroll to Speak in Missoula\u00a0","author":"catholicboy.com","date":"January 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"University of Montana (Missoula, MT)8 November 1999Nate Schweber, Eye Spy Reporter\u00a0Kaimin Online19 October 1999 When I discovered Jim Carroll a week before my 20th birthday, it took me 30 seconds to adopt the last sentence of the first chapter of his book \u201cForced Entries\u201d as a personal motto. 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