Phil Ochs

[Earth_First]

[enigmatic]

1. Pleasures Of The Harbor and Rehersals For Retirement

The whole "Gunfight At Carnegie Hall" album, too.....

[The empressof all]

6. Pleasures of the Harbor

and Rehersals for Retirement have got to be my two favorites.

He was such a bright talent who left us too soon.

[Magrittes Pipe]

2. "Kansas City Bomber"

Ochs never really hit his stride until given the opportunity to write about roller derby.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

3. I'm cheating here, but...

...Jason & The Scorchers did a cover version of "My Kingdom For A Car" that I liked for two reasons...first, it was a typical J&TS "all hell breaks loose" train wreck kind of rocker. Second, any time a performer gives recognition to someone like Phil, I think it's worth noting.

It's on their album "Thunder & Fire."

:toast:

[enigmatic]

4. Squirrel Bait did a great cover of "Tape From California"

on their Skag Heaven album. I miss those guys; their first record (w/ "Sun God")was years ahead of it's time...

[NoPasaran]

5. Power and the Glory

[immoderate]

7. "Changes"

Best romantic folkie song.

--IMM

[Doc_Technical]

8. "No More Songs"

n/t

[gratuitous]

9. Give me Miranda or give me death

Actually, in "I've Had Her (She's Nothing)", Phil kinda gets both.