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The music of Phil Ochs has made its first appearance on CD. A&M has
released a compilation "The Best of Phil Ochs - The War is Over". I
didn't buy it, so I can't list all the songs here, but there are
selections from all his A&M albums, including out-of-print ones like
Rehearsal for Retirement (hooray!). I'm not sure what, if anything, is
included from his earlier Elektra albums.
I hope this is a prelude to releasing all of Phil Ochs' albums on CD,
including:
All the News That's Fit to Sing
I Ain't Marching Anymore
Phil Ochs in Concert
Pleasures of the Harbor
Tape From California
Rehearsals for Retirement
Phil Ochs' Greatest Hits
(this is a studio album, not a greatest hits collection)
Gunfight at Carnegie Hall
and the Rhino/Archives Alive compilation of demo material, the full
name of which I can't remember offhand. But in case it isn't, I'll be
buying this one as soon as someone puts it on sale.
Last week there was a Phil Ochs Song Night in Cambridge, where lots of
different folksingers sang one or two of Phil's songs. His sister
Sonny and niece Robyn served as MC's. It was quite a night, and showed
that most of Phil's songs still speak to the issues of today.
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| 1343.1 | SARAH::P_DAVIS | Peter Davis | Tue Oct 11 1988 08:59 | 15 | |
I picked this up at Rockit Records on Saturday. The sound on all but
one of the songs was good to great. One of the tracks was so noisy I
thought my stereo was dying. I don't remember all the cuts, but I know
that "Tape From California," "The Flower Lady", "Outside of a Small
Circle of Friends," "Pleasures of the Harbor," and "I Ain't Marchin'
Anymore" are included. I think there were 20 or 21 tracks altogether.
Overall, I was really glad to get this, and I'm eagerly awaiting future
Phil Ochs releases. In particular, I'd like to get the complete
"Pleasure of the Harbor" album.
For what it's worth, this was NOT Phil Ochs first appearance on cd.
These is a disc called "Storytellers: Singers and Songwriters" which
includes lots of good material from various artists. The last track on
this disc is a Phil Ochs number whose exact title I don't remember, but
it was something prophetic like "When I'm Gone."
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| 1343.2 | What's on "The War is Over" | BAVIKI::GOOD | Michael Good | Mon Nov 28 1988 09:30 | 26 |
"The War is Over: The Best of Phil Ochs" contains:
Tape from California
Flower Lady
Half a Century High
The Scorpion Departs but Never Returns
The War is Over
One Way Ticket Home
Rehearsals for Retirement
Chords of Fame
Gas Station Women
Outside of a Small Circle of Friends
Pleasures of the Harbor
Kansas City Bomber
White Boots Marching in a Yellow Land
Jim Dean of Indiana
No More Songs
I Ain't Marchin' Anymore (live version - Vancouver, B.C,
Winter 1968; Phil's first public performance after his
arrest at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago
that summer)
So besides the live track and the "Kansas City Bomber" single,
all of the songs come from Phil's last 4 studio albums - the
ones he made for the A&M label. The CD is about 70 minutes long.
I've listened to a couple songs, but not the whole disc yet.
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