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Key Information
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| Artist: |
Phil Ochs |
| Record Label: |
A&M Records (USA) |
| Genre: |
Folk |
| Subgenre: |
Singer/Songwriter |
| Release Date: |
October 12, 1988 |
| Album Duration: |
70m:03s |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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1. Tape From California
2. Flower Lady
3. Half a Century High
4. Scorpion Departs But Never Returns
5. War Is Over
6. One Way Ticket Home
7. Rehersals For Retirement
8. Chords of Fame
9. Gas Station Women
10. Outside a Small Circle of Friends
11. Pleasures of the Harbor
12. Kansas City Bomber
13. White Boots Marching in a Yellow Land
14. Jim Dean of Indiana
15. No More Songs
16. I Ain't Marchin' Anymore |
| More Information |
| Details: |
Producers: Jeffrey Gold/Geoffrey Schulman. Compilation producer: Michael Ochs. "I Ain't Marchin' Anymore" was recorded live at the Toronto Peace Festival 1968. THE WAR IS OVER is an excellent complement to the other single-disc Phil Ochs compilation, THERE BUT FOR FORTUNE. Where that album covers the singer/songwriter's first three albums for Elektra, THE WAR IS OVER anthologizes Ochs' three A&M releases, 1967's PLEASURES OF THE HARBOR, 1968's TAPE FROM CALIFORNIA and, 1970's deliberately misleadingly titled GREATEST HITS. These albums are entirely unlike Ochs' earlier topical folk records, with lengthy songs often featuring lush, sometimes bizarre, orchestrations--courtesy of Van Dyke Parks--and near-epic running lengths. Nearly every track here is a gem, but the opening "Tape From California" may be Ochs' masterpiece, an alternately tender and mournful personal rumination set to one of his prettiest melodies. Fans of Ochs' more strident and topical early records often denigrate the albums from which TH... |
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