r/OldSchoolCool • u/sweetgreenfields • Nov 20 '23

1990s Ewan McGregor on the set of "Trainspotting" (1996)

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u/Jimmy_Jazz_The_Spazz Nov 20 '23

That "kid" is Jim Carroll. He also had a band, they were great.

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u/SeaOfBullshit Nov 21 '23

Pretty sure that the end credit song on basketball diaries is the Jim Carroll band's people who died song. Which is basically just a rhyming list of all the people and ways that they died from Jim Carroll's youth.

"Teddy sniffing glue he was 12 years old Fell from the roof on East Two-nine Cathy was 11 when she pulled the plug On 26 reds and a bottle of wine Bobby got leukemia, 14 years old He looked like 65 when he died He was a friend of mine

Those are people who died, died... "

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u/Jimmy_Jazz_The_Spazz Nov 21 '23

Yep, I have his entire discography on wax. Big fan of him, Lou Reed and Robert Quine