Jim Carroll's harrowing saga of growing up troubled in New York City makes for a solid film with an excellent soundtrack to match. Cuts by a Vedder-less Pearl Jam (joining Carroll to rerecord his 1980 fav "Catholic Boy") a... more »nd Soundgarden (offering the gloomy "Blind Dogs") merit the hype. P. J. Harvey gets extra mileage out of the brilliant "Down by the Water," Green Apple Quick Step's "Dizzy" is a winner and there's the curiosity factor of a, frankly, awful solo debut by Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. --Jeff Bateman« less
Jim Carroll's harrowing saga of growing up troubled in New York City makes for a solid film with an excellent soundtrack to match. Cuts by a Vedder-less Pearl Jam (joining Carroll to rerecord his 1980 fav "Catholic Boy") and Soundgarden (offering the gloomy "Blind Dogs") merit the hype. P. J. Harvey gets extra mileage out of the brilliant "Down by the Water," Green Apple Quick Step's "Dizzy" is a winner and there's the curiosity factor of a, frankly, awful solo debut by Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. --Jeff Bateman
Sharon D. from SANDY LAKE, PA Reviewed on 8/27/2006...
Someone gave me this one and I have never really listened to it all that much. There are performances on here by The Cult, Flea, The Posies, The Doors, Soundgarden PJ Harvey and a track by Jim Carroll with Pearl Jam. Great lineup.
CD Reviews
It's a slam-dunk.
H3@+h | VT | 12/09/2003
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Like anyone, I picked this up because of all the bands I liked on it. But the real bonus is that the bands I didn't know are just as great, or these songs anyway. One of the well known songs on here is "People Who Died", by the "Jim Carroll Band". All the songs involving him are good. The tracks from "PJ Harvey" and "The Cult" are good. Obviously "Riders On The Storm" is classic. The songs "Coming Right Along" and "Strawberry Wine" are suprisingly good as well. The only disappointments here are from "Flea" and "Soundgarden". Neither song is bad, but I expected more from them. This also has a few inserts from the book "Basketball Diaries"."
Great Soundtrack
david gessert | Washington, DC | 01/31/2003
(4 out of 5 stars)
"This was an awesome movie and a it's a great soundtrack. The "songs" by Jim Carroll are different and if you buy this CD for any reason, it will have to be for the song "Strawberry Wine." Plain and simple, the song is amazing."
Surprisingly wonderful
david gessert | 11/20/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I actually bought the thing cause at the time I liked Leonardo DiCaprio. Well, suffice to say I'm *over* that phase, but I held onto the CD. This album has a great selection of songs..."Strawberry Wine" (Massive Internal Complications) still sends a chill up my spine. "Coming Right Along" is just as great. I'm able, actually, to listen to the whole CD without skipping around. A well-deserved 5 stars."
Strawberry Wine........
Terrence Aybar | New York City | 08/20/2006
(4 out of 5 stars)
"This soundtrack to the Leo DiCaprio movie is pretty good for the most part. The standouts on this disc include "Riders on the Storm" by the Doors, "Down by the Water" by PJ Harvey and "Strawberry Wine" by Massive Internal Complications.
The real reason that I'm even writing this review is just to draw your attention to "Strawberry Wine", which is just a great song that a lot of people haven't heard of. I think the song was just a one-shot because I can't find any information on the band itself or anything else they may have done. Anyway, try to get your hands on that song, it's absolutely fantastic."
As good as the movie...
Terrence Aybar | 06/18/1998
(4 out of 5 stars)
"I thought that the music was great, there were many artists that had really made the effort and added that extra thing to the song. At first I was going to give it five stars, until I heard that nr. 14 track with Flea, who seems to have the musical talent of one of those venerable bugs. After the first five seconds my opinion of the soundtrack completely dropped below ground level, but then I reminded myself of the other songs that could almost make up for this one, and the CD got a pretty decent four after all."