- Audio CD (6 Nov 2000)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: CD
- Label: Vanguard
- ASIN: B00004UB3Q
- Other Editions: Audio CD
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 80,976 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
If you've not gotten into Phil Ochs before, here's a a good place to start. Here are older and newer songs, Everything from his empathy-full classic "There But For Fortune," who so many others covered, to such memorable (and very humourous!) songs such as the "Draft Dodger Rag" which lists all the good reasons you might give the U.S. government for not being able to enlist and fight in their stupid and unnecessary war in Vietnam. Also anti-war, is the "I ain't Marching Anymore" where he observes; "It's always the old who lead us to the war, -it's always the young who fall...". Having originally attended a military college, Phil is swearing never to again march, (-in a military way), but continued, of course, to 'march' with the protestors and civil rights groups. Then, (from the A&M album 'Tape From California'), -at 25 years old, and already internationally acclaimed, Phil sings "..And now it can be told, I'm a half a century old, -but I'm a half a century high!" -a life affirming autobiographical song. Look out too for the early, and lovely work, "The ballad of Medgar Evers", where he again champions the cause of those who have been wronged... just as he did in "The Ballad of Joe Hill" and other songs. This is a good 'taster' of Ochs's songwriting skills, spanning many years. It's well worth the dollars!
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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful
SUMS UP EARLY YEARS OF HIS MUSIC
29 Aug 2000
Format:Audio CD
This album is awsome. I got it the first day it was out and i was thrilled. this will please any Ochs fan unless you already own live at newport(it has all those songs plus 2 unreleased songs plus 2 or 3 others you've probobly never heard of)Sorry if you got newport instead you got jacked. Buy this album NOW P.S.all Phil Ochs cds are 5 stars
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
phil at his confident best
8 Jan 2006
Format:Audio CD
The non concert tracks sees Phil at his quietly persuasive in addressing the civil rights causes of the day, an early cut of 'There but for Fortune',Phil's equal exercise in universality to Dylan's 'Blowing in the wind' plus his totally hilarious standout studio cut 'Talking Airplane Disaster.'The 1963/1964 appearances at Newport show slightly different words to studio songs which flower in the rapturous applause building up by 'Links on the Chain.'With one exception, you see Phil in 1966 preview in acoustic form much more personal songs later cut in 'Pleasures from the Harbour'.They are valid alternatives in acoustic setting,and 'Cross my Heart' gains from this setting.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Pretty good compilation
29 Sep 2001
Format:Audio CD
This recording is a pretty good compilation of Phil Ochs'early recordings. Although I was disappointed at the short, live version of "I Ain't Marching Anymore" this is a CD worth having for anyone who wants a sample of his early works and doesn't want to pay for a multiple-CD set.
I'll admit that I only starting listening to Ochs after 1966 and was somewhat unfamiliar with his earlier works. This CD gave me an appreciation for the breadth of his songs. Of course, it was good nostalgia, too.
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