Catholic Boy


Catholic Boy is the debut album by The Jim Carroll Band, led by Jim Carroll who is notable for publishing the 1978 memoir The Basketball Diaries, and poetry collections including Living at the Movies. It spawned two FM hits, "It's Too Late" and "People Who Died". The front cover photograph was taken by Annie Leibovitz.

Cover versions

"People Who Died" has been covered multiple times: John Cale on the album Antártida, Drive-By Truckers on the live album Alabama Ass Whuppin', Lordz of Brooklyn on the album The Brooklyn Way, Paradime on his Spill At Will album, The Wildhearts on the album ‘’¡Chutzpah! Jnr., ’’Fang on the album Here Come The Cops, and Willie Nile on the album American Ride. In 2014, Gwar appended a version of "People Who Died" onto their cover of the Pet Shop Boys song "West End Girls" for the A.V. Club's Undercover series, with lyrics paying tribute to their recently deceased singer, Oderus Urungus. A cover of the song by the band Against Me! was included on the 2018 compilation album Songs That Saved My Life. In 2019, Hollywood Vampires recorded a version on their second album Rise.
"Catholic Boy" was played by Jim Carroll with Pearl Jam as backing band on the soundtrack of the 1995 film The Basketball Diaries.

Track listing

  1. "Wicked Gravity" – 4:56
  2. "Three Sisters" – 3:19
  3. "Day and Night" – 2:22
  4. "Nothing Is True" – 3:29
  5. "People Who Died" – 4:59
  6. "City Drops into the Night" – 7:23
  7. "Crow" – 3:02
  8. "It's Too Late" – 3:04
  9. "I Want the Angel" – 2:49
  10. "Catholic Boy" – 3:03

    Personnelhttp://www.catholicboy.com/cboy.php

;Jim Carroll Band
;Additional personnel
;Technical
"Special thanks to Allen Lanier, Suzanne del Regno, Art Collins, The Zen Center, Terry Bromberg and Earl McGrath"

Charts

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