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Hearing about Lee Hazlewood inevitably got me thinking about other dead singer-songwriters. For some reason Phil Ochs popped into my mind. While Hazlewood made it to the old age of 78, Ochs hung himself at the comparatively young age of 36. A quick search on Mog shows that I'm the only person who's posted an Ochs song; so i figured I should probably post some more.
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Maybe you saw this story about the 78 yr. old man in Hartford, Conn. who was the victim of a hit and run.It was disturbing, to say the least. More story and video at:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/06/05/ignored.hitrun.ap/index.html#cnnSTCVideo
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Presidents would rather kill my sons than themselves. I'd prefer the opposite. What else is new? I think we'd be better off if there was a lottery that started with superdelegates going to Irag; put the people who pay the politicians on the front lines. Fuck em, if the best we can do is hate em let's hate em to death. Is there anybody here who'd like to change his clothes into a uniform, Is there anybody here who thinks they're only serving in a raging storm. Is ther... MORE
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Early on in his career, someone described Phil Ochs as a "singing journalist. From 1967 Such a Happy little ditty until the lyrics kicks in. The first verse is a commentary on the murder of Kitty Genovese. She was murdered March 14th, 1964 in NYC. Even though 47,000 New York City residents have been murdered since, hers remains the most tragic because 38 "citizens" awakened by her cries for help watched as she was assaulted not once, but three times over a half hour p... MORE
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Last week, in a post entitled "Live Fast, Deaf Young," the always entertaining The Deciblog posted the above photos with the following text: "Metal is a life-long commitment to nihilism and self-destruction. You don’t bang your head because it’s good for your neck, you don’t get drunk because it’s good for your liver, and you don’t [...]
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Original Story: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Metalsucks/~3/38...
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Phil Ochs was a contemporary of Bob Dylan. Dylan was once quoted as saying he wished he could write songs like Phil Ochs. This was the more political Dylan, the younger more naive one who hadn't yet seen the pigeon holing that accompanied being known as a "protest singer". Well we all know what happened to Dylan, but what, perchance, happened to Mr. Ochs. Well, Phil never really shook the label of being a 'protest singer" and his work continued being political as ever. ... MORE
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Ending a piece looking twenty years back on the suicide of his friend Phil Ochs, Marty Gallanter says:
An article in the October, 1976 edition of Esquire, by John Berendt was headlined with "While the Movement died a natural death, the music died by hanging." He was only half right. The Movement did not die, it evolved. Despite what those on the right say, even now, there are lots of us who remain true believers and live those beliefs most days of our lives. But Phil Ochs d... MORE
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Many of those who want to rush this country into war and think it would be so quick and easy don't know anything about war. They come at it from an intellectual perspective, versus having sat in jungles or foxholes and watched their friends get their heads blown off.--2002 Look at the deficits that have been run up... And Republicans have been in charge... We've been adrift in a sea of incompetence, with no fiscal responsibility.--Fall 2004 The tough questions were not... MORE
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So I'm half-listening to this iTunes playlist of random guy singer-songwriters: John Stewart doing his own version of "Daydream Believer," Lee Hazlewood singing about going back to Houston, some Fred Neil and Donovan, and in the midst of this: "Trust your leaders/Where mistakes are almost never made" The lines are from a Phil Ochs song, "The War Is Over." At a certain point, as the Vietnam War dragged on, Ochs decided he would just call an end to it (in the late '60s, ... MORE
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Sometimes I think that nothing is being said that's worth the oxygen being expended. Of course, then I realize that I'm wrong and naive. There's always something worth saying, even if it was said a long time ago.
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I cried when they shot Medgar EversTears ran down my spineI cried when they shot Mr. KennedyAs though I'd lost a father of mineBut Malcolm X got what was comingHe got what he asked for this timeSo love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal I go to civil rights ralliesAnd I put down the old D.A.R.I love Harry and Sidney and SammyI hope every colored boy becomes a starBut don't talk about revolutionThat's going a little bit too farSo love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal ... MORE
