Phil Ochs (lyrics, singer, genre, tunes, myspace)

**sleepy jack** · 12-02-2007, 05:01 PM

...Whats not to love about having a several hundred page FBI file?

TheBig3KilledMyRainDog · 12-02-2007, 08:04 PM

the music.

**sleepy jack** · 12-02-2007, 11:27 PM

Thank you for that informative post on what you dislike about his music. You've managed to take a step down from the usual "the music sucks lolz" all the way to just saying "the music." Congrats!

swim · 12-06-2007, 08:20 PM

I had only heard is stuff from his latter years before when I thought he was horrible. I Aint Marching Anymore and The Only News Fit to Sing are amazing.

TheBig3KilledMyRainDog · 12-06-2007, 08:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Crowquill

Thank you for that informative post on what you dislike about his music. You've managed to take a step down from the usual "the music sucks lolz" all the way to just saying "the music." Congrats!

pfff, but your claws away young man. You said you you liked a guy because he had an extensive FBI file. All bets are off on this one. How about I hate him because he tried to tell me his Magenta scarf was red.

**sleepy jack** · 12-06-2007, 08:32 PM

Yeah, seeing as I made a thread about him listing my favorite songs and stuff it's obvious I just care about the FBI file.

TheBig3KilledMyRainDog · 12-06-2007, 09:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Crowquill

Folk Singer for the FBI: The Phil Ochs FBI File by Eric Blair (Book) in History

This is why I love Phil Ochs.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Crowquill

...Whats not to love about having a several hundred page FBI file?

Sincerely in loving admiration,
TheBig3

**sleepy jack** · 12-06-2007, 09:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Crowquill

Phil Ochs is similar to Seeger, Guthrie, Dylan and all that, though most similar to Guthrie and Seeger. Vocally hes most like Seeger music wise Guthrie. I think I may like him best because I like his lyrics best and hes more consistent with good lyrics than Dylan is. "It's always the old to lead us to the war it's always the young to fall now look at all we've won with the sabre and the gun tell me is it worth it all?"

He was a protest singer but preferred to be called a topical singer. He usually played at political events, his best known songs were "Power and the Glory", "Draft Dodger Rag", "There But for Fortune", "Changes", "Crucifixion, "When I'm Gone", "Love Me I'm a Liberal", "Links on the Chain", "Ringing of Revolution", "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends", and "I Ain't Marching Anymore". Towards the end of his life he developed various problems and eventually killed himself in 76. This was just a kind of quick summary, read more here.

Recommendations:
The Highway Man
Here's To The State Of Richard Nixon
Love Me, I'm a Liberal
Power and Glory

MySpace.com - Phil Ochs - New York, New York - Folk - www.myspace.com/loveliberals

Sincerely in loving admiration,
Crowquill

TheBig3KilledMyRainDog · 12-07-2007, 11:27 PM

I don't give a rats ass what you wikipedia'd, the point you said this is why I love Phil Ochs.

That, right there, was why you loved him. And since im a post-modernist at heart, when you say things like this is the reason, you remove everything else from being the reason you, in this case, love phil ochs.

**boo boo** · 12-08-2007, 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by SEF

good music without decent lyrics is crap

Wrong.

And Big3, stop being a douche.

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12-02-2007, 05:01 PM
sleepy jack Bone Machine Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Jesusland Posts: 17,242	...Whats not to love about having a several hundred page FBI file? __________________ You're so evil and I'm so good, I'll make it up to you someday.

12-02-2007, 08:04 PM
TheBig3KilledMyRainDog Maybe I can keep this one Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Bostonia Posts: 3,830	the music. __________________ “The night falls gracefully for those who have a love to call their own. But alas, for those to whom love has turned a blind eye – love, it falls like a guillotine” “No more waiting for fate to befall me, no. I have my dreamboat, and together we will find our destiny, choose our ladder to the sky” - Markus Pierson

12-02-2007, 11:27 PM
sleepy jack Bone Machine Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Jesusland Posts: 17,242	Thank you for that informative post on what you dislike about his music. You've managed to take a step down from the usual "the music sucks lolz" all the way to just saying "the music." Congrats! __________________ You're so evil and I'm so good, I'll make it up to you someday.

12-06-2007, 08:20 PM
swim Everyone Does Everything. Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: coastal plain North Carolina Posts: 4,396	I had only heard is stuff from his latter years before when I thought he was horrible. I Aint Marching Anymore and The Only News Fit to Sing are amazing. __________________ you should be ashamed to be so proud of what you got http://www.mediafire.com/?ryxhwjmb1y9 http://www.mediafire.com/?g4wzjzjz1gu

12-06-2007, 08:32 PM
sleepy jack Bone Machine Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Jesusland Posts: 17,242	Yeah, seeing as I made a thread about him listing my favorite songs and stuff it's obvious I just care about the FBI file. __________________ You're so evil and I'm so good, I'll make it up to you someday.

12-07-2007, 11:27 PM
TheBig3KilledMyRainDog Maybe I can keep this one Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Bostonia Posts: 3,830	I don't give a rats ass what you wikipedia'd, the point you said this is why I love Phil Ochs. That, right there, was why you loved him. And since im a post-modernist at heart, when you say things like this is the reason, you remove everything else from being the reason you, in this case, love phil ochs. __________________ “The night falls gracefully for those who have a love to call their own. But alas, for those to whom love has turned a blind eye – love, it falls like a guillotine” “No more waiting for fate to befall me, no. I have my dreamboat, and together we will find our destiny, choose our ladder to the sky” - Markus Pierson