Phil Ochs What are you fighting for?

[marym625]

Just switch up a few of the pictures. Same shit, different day.

Or, to quote Janis, "it's all the same fucking day man!"


Phil Ochs: What are you fighting for?:

[GliderGuider]

1. God, I miss Phil Ochs.

I cut my folksinger teeth on his songs back in the mid-60s.

"I Ain't Marchin' Any More" was one of my favourites.

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 saber and the gun
Tell me is it worth it all?

[marym625]

3. He was awesome!

What a great way to cut your folk singer teeth on.

I think I Ain't Marching Anymore is my favorite

One of my favorite, "Draft Dodger Rag"

Sarge, I'm only eighteen, I got a ruptured spleen
And I always carry a purse
I got eyes like a bat and my feet are flat
And my asthma's getting worse

[GliderGuider]

7. In that song he was practically sitting on the "Group W" bench with Arlo!

[marym625]

9. Arlo!

My father actually worked on The City of New Orleans on edit - oops that was Steve Goodman wasn't it?

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[Chathamization]

13. He was great, and I think more influential than is usually realized

They Might Be Giants did a cover of Och's One More Parade. I was listening to a Death Cab for Cutie song, and realized that it was really reminding me of Phil Ochs. Did a search, and found one of the members had recorded an Ochs cover album.

The stuff he made in Africa is on youtube, and pretty interesting:

[Chathamization]

2. Heh, I made a topic about this song a week or two ago. Current events definitely bring it to mind.NT

[marym625]

4. Wow!

Well that's a coincidence!

[marym625]

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[elias49]

5. "Don't ask me I don't give a damn,

next stop is Kurdistan"

SOSDT

Same Old Shit, Different Town

[marym625]

6. and it's 5, 6, 7

Open up the pearly gates
Well there ain't no time to wonder why
Whoopee we're all gonna die!

Country Joe & the Fish -- Vietnam song:

[marym625]

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[badtoworse]

8. "Love me, love me, love me..."

[marym625]

10. Oh that's a good one

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