Phil Ochs

incredibly talented and underappreciated

Would've been 84 today :(

love this guy, so glad i found his music <3

I would die right now if it meant he could be alive for 1 day #DeadSerious #truth

Phil Ochs is the Robyn to my Kody Brown

Протестный американский Б.Г., по лирике хуже не то что Дилана или Джанша,но даже и самого Б.Г.

Love ya Phil

happy birthday phil

A genius who continues to inspire young revolutionaries. "Phil Ochs In Concert" is perfect.

I think it's such a shame that his later albums don't get much attention, they're personally my favourites. Greatest Hits, Tape from California and of course the crazy Gunfight at Carnegie Hall are all incredible.

Often overlooked as one of the best of the singer-song writers who used their folk music to help build the Movement during the 60s. Such a sad End

He died way too young. Rest in peace to a real one.

love his voice!

I think he could compete with Bob Dylan.

"There I saw a laughing maniac who was writing songs like this."

Окс это Дилан для небыдла. Или же, возможно он просто не освоил электрогитару.

Dylan and Ochs loved the same music growing up and were enthralled by the Beatles, but Dylan had enough exposure from being the leading folk musician to actually make the transition to rock music early on; even then it jeopardized his career before the rock press decided to embrace him and eventually make their own careers out of writing pretentious drivel about Dylan's music and others. Ochs was initially very focused on maintaining the purity of his message (as well as nervous as all heck about derailing what he thought was a surefire path to success as a Woody Guthrie-style musician) and therefore eschewed additional "instrumentation"; his complete reversal on this for his A&M releases is likely partly due to his bipolar disorder. I think regardless of who it was, folk would've eventually found it's way to rock music, as did most of everything else at the time. Dylan just happened to be the one who conceptualized it first.

To my mind, Phil's greatness is in his outstanding sense of time, sense of the moment, that's what makes me constantly return to his songs, that's what's making his songs truly eternal.

Seriously though, I just cannot get over how great Phil Ochs is. Whether touching on political or personal matters, the man put my thoughts and feelings into music form decades before I was born.

You've got to love Phil's wittiness.

woah spooky

I first scrobbled Phil Ochs exactly one year ago today. I don't think I knew that was the day he died at the time :S

you are remembered. 39 years. rip

Happy birthday, Phil. Your words are the power and your legacy is the glory.

Happy birthday Phil. In these times of renewed upheaval, your silence is deafening

wow, this guy's life story is seriously depressing

a honest, talented man with amazing creativity and wittiness. he will be missed forever.

This man has taken over my last.fm charts. As far as I'm concerned, Phil WAS the 60's personified, from his beginnings up to his decline and death

mr. ochs nearly made me care about some thing [2]

One Way tickeettt hommee!

"A scar in the sky, it's time to say goodbye. He withers on the beat; he's dying. A white flag in my hand, a white boat in the sand, and it seems that there are no more songs."

if ya wanna get together and fight good buddy that's what i wanna hear

RIP, Phil. You will never be forgotten.

New Album "A Hero Of The Game" is on spotify now. Wish there was a full version of Positively 4th street!

Can't believe I've discovered him just now. "I Ain't Marching Anymore" is perfect.

Call it "Peace" or call it "Treason," Call it "Love" or call it "Reason"

Listen to Phil Ochs, Jackson Browne.. The world stays the same, but very brave people HAVE made a difference! The Dr. Rev. M. L. King, inspired by God and M. Gandhi, with help from many brave people used non-violent resistance to shame our government into making changes that were long overdue! I know it wasn't perfect, but this "movement" caused children to be taught in the same schools, so they could no longer favor white schools with more tax money. People died - but refused to kill - so that others were no longer bullied into not voting. They were also shamed into changing the voting age and abolishing the draft. A united refusal to co-operate with evil WORKS. I thank God for this music that reminds us that our liberty is a RIGHT, not a privilege. We have every right to be angry about the way our constitution is being ignored, even changed, so the rich can get richer still. What happened to " [all] we have to fear is fear itself."? Or "Christian" meaning to behave like Jesus...

Great poet and truly honest man. RIP

LOL at the similar artists.

The greatest singer of all time! :)

One of my favorite singer-songwriters - what a legend! A shame he's been gone for so long.

"Pleasures of the Harbor" is definitely his best album (also arguably one of the greatest albums of all time), although it's drastically different than everything else he's ever done. The compilation album "There But For Fortune" has all of his greatest songs on it, I would say.

My favorite album is definitively "Live at the Troubadour Nightclub"

Rehearsals for Retirement is probably my favourite album, it's impossible to choose a favourite song though!

his voice...

The lack of Phil Ochs in this world is earth shattering.