Phil Ochs appreciation thread

[Reverend_Smitty]

I found a few old video clips of him on YouTube and thought I'd share with the lounge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTjRPugJ8CA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5pgrKSwFJE

If you had to pick a favorite Ochs song, which one would it be? Personally I don't think I could choose a favorite because he wrote so many good songs but I would have to say "I ain't Marching Anymore", "The Power And The Glory" and "When I'm Gone" are among my favorites

[Mojambo]

1. Thanks for sharing those.

I love Phil Ochs, even though his time was way before mine.

So many great songs to choose from. Aside from the obvious ones, I really like Ringing of Revolution, We Seek No Wider War, When in Rome, and Crucifixion.

When I'm Gone... That song makes me cry, every time.

[Heidi]

2. YES!

:thumbsup:

http://www.billybragg.co.uk/releases/albums/internationale/inter2.html

[murielm99]

3. I like

Cops of the World, and When I'm Gone.

[Heidi]

4. Kick for the Phil Ochs fans.

:kick:

[Magrittes Pipe]

5. Kansas City Bomber

"Topical" songs are boring. As Dylan famously said, "you're not a songwriter, you're a journalist."

Now roller derby, on the other hand... THAT's a subject for high art. :thumbsup:

[ButtScratchinMike]

11. What's wrong with doing topical material.

If it's done well, it's not boring, but that's true of any song. I don't understand why Dylan would criticize topical songwriting (if that's what he was doing,) since he's done it throughout his career.

Is it a crime that music be about something, that not everything is Burt Bacharach and Phil Spector girl groups?

[raccoon]

6. He wrote so many good ones, it's hard to say.

But I guess I'd say, other than "I Ain't Marching Anymore," my favorite would be "Is There Anybody Here?"

He wrote so many songs that really kick butt.

[DinahMoeHum]

7. His sister carries on his legacy through "Song Nights". . .

www.sonnyochs.com

As for my favorite song of his, I like too many of them to pick just one. Sorry.


:bounce:

[1gobluedem]

8. I love Changes the best

But I'm hard pressed to find a Phil Ochs song I don't like. That Noyes poem he put to music, The Highwayman, I guess I can live without that.

There But For Fortune and When I'm Gone, two of my other favorites. But I love them all.

[BrotherBuzz]

9. Outside Of A Small Circle Of Friends

The song was my introduction to him. We used the song in an exercise for a social criticism and political satire class back in the sixties.

[Reverend_Smitty]

10. yay my thread found life over night!

[Metta]

12. Most everything he did had merit. Lots of it was really great.

He certainly was the voice of the anti-war contingent of the '60s.