Ochs, Phil

Vinyl Records and Rare LPs:

	A Toast To Those Who Are Gone New - LP - RNLP 70080 Sealed 1986 Original. Fourteen Rare, Previously Unissued Songs. Pressed On Quiex Type Virgin Vinyl. Liner Notes By Sean Penn. more
	A Toast To Those Who Are Gone Used - LP - RNLP 70080 1986 Original Pressed On Quiex Type Virgin Vinyl. LP Appears Virtually Unplayed. Liner Notes By Sean Penn. more
	All The News That's Fit To Sing New - LP - CGLP 4427 Sealed Reissue. more
	All The News That's Fit To Sing Used - LP - EKL-269 1966 US Mono reissue. Hole punch. Pressed on the Fifth Elektra Label ('66-69) on solid gold with the big white "E" logo. Still in shrink. "Early on in his career, someone described Phil Ochs as a "singing journalist," and his first album, All the News That's Fit to Sing, represented the state of the art in topical songs in 1964. That presents a bit of a problem when listening to it today; Ochs's debut is so much a product of its time and place that it just sounds perplexing a few decades on. Remember Lou Marsh? Or William Worthy? Well, if you don't, the songs about them on this album may not mean much to you, and while the facts behind the Vietnam War, the Cuban missile crisis, and the civil rights movement are doubtless clearer in your mind, that only gives them a perversely nostalgic quality that hardly becomes them. And past the issue of topicality, All the News That's Fit to Sing captures Phil Ochs when he was still young and a bit green; his vocals are sometimes hesitant, his material is often a bit obvious, and the spare two-guitar accompaniment (Danny Kalb plays the flashier licks) is a bit too generically folkie for its own good. But Ochs' remarkable talent is still apparent despite the album's flaws; "One More Parade" and "Power and the Glory" are as striking now as the day they were written, "Too Many Martyrs" and "Celia" summon an emotional power that has outlived their topicality, and his adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Bells" proves his musical instincts were as keen as his lyrical ones. A flawed but engaging debut which points to the stronger work Ochs would soon put to wax." All Music Guide - Mark Deming. more
	Broadside Tapes New - LP - SF 40008 Sealed 1989 Rounder Pure Virgin Vinyl Reissue. Originally Issued In 1980. more
	Broadside Tapes 1 New - LP - SF 40008 Sealed 1989 Reissue Of The Rare Folkways LP. more
	Chords Of Fame Used - LP - SP 4599 Beautiful 2LP White Label Promo Gatefold, Clean COH. WOBC. Both LPs Appear Unplayed. more
	Chords of Fame New - LP - SP 4599 Sealed 2LP Gatefold Original. Probably A White Label Promo. more
	Chords Of Fame New - LP - SP-6511 Sealed 2LP Gatefold Reissue. more
	Chords Of Fame Used - LP - SP-4599 1976 2LP Original Still In Shrink Wrap. more
	Greatest Hits Used - LP - SP 3125 1981 Reissue. more
	Greatest Hits New - LP - SP 4253 Sealed 1970 Heavy Vinyl Brown Label Original. “Searching For A New Direction, In 1970 Ochs Paired Up With Producer Van Dyke Parks And Released Greatest Hits, A Set Of New Material Whose Title Was Mostly A Joke, But Partly A Half-Hearted Wish For A New Beginning (Though The Back Cover Slogan, "Fifty Phil Ochs Fans Can't Be Wrong!" Proved Sadly Prophetic -- The Album Was A Commercial Bust). Much Of The Time, Greatest Hits Finds Ochs Looking To His Past For Some Sense Of A Place To Go -- Singing Of His Boyhood Dreams ("Boy In Ohio"), Celebrating The Heroes Of His Youth ("Jim Dean Of Indiana"), And Emulating The Rockabilly And Country Songs That Were His Earliest Influences ("Gas Station Women," "My Kingdom For A Car"). It's Hard To Blame Ochs For Wanting To Live In The Past, Since His Present Sounds Truly Harrowing, Particularly On The Calmly Desperate Opener, "One Way Ticket Home," His Meditation On The Stardom He Never Achieved, "Chords Of Fame," And A Closing Requiem To His Own Muse, "No More Songs." The Sorrow And Anguish Is Not Hard To Spot In Ochs' Performances, Though There's A Passionate Intensity That Rings Through From First Track To Last, And Parks' Arrangements And Production Are Imaginative And Make The Most Of The Material. Greatest Hits Is A Powerful Piece Of Work, But Also A Very Depressing One, Despite The Glossy Presentation, Occasionally Forced Good Cheer, And The Final Overheard Conversation In Which Ochs Mumbles "I'll Be Around For A While," And It's Both Sad And Appropriate That It Would Prove To Be Ochs' Final Studio Album; He Committed Suicide In 1976.” Mark Deming, AMG. more
	Greatest Hits New - LP - SP 3125 Sealed 1970 Heavy Vinyl First Pressing. Pristine. more
	Gunfight At Carnegie Hall Used - LP - SP 9010 Beautiful Canada Only 1975 Original. Clean COH. more
	Gunfight At Carnegie Hall Used - LP - SP 9010 Beautiful Canada Only 1975 Original Housed In A Textured Jacket. Appears Unplayed. First Copy Of This Rarity We Have Seen In Six Years. more
	Gunfight At Carnegie Hall Used - CD - MFCD 794 1990 Original Master Recording Aluminum CD Housed In Original Lift-Lock Jewel Case. CD Made In Japan. CD And Insert In Excellent Condition, Light Shelf Wear To Case. more
	I Ain't Marching Anymore New - LP - CGLP 4422 Sealed, Reissue more
	I Ain't Marching Anymore Used - LP - EKL 287 Beautiful 1965 Mono Original (Tan Guitar Player Label) In Glossy, Unplayed Condition. Ochs' Brilliant Second Album Sees The Immense Promise Of His Debut Come To Fruition. Only Copy We Have Ever Seen. more
	In Concert Used - LP - EKS 7310 1966 Gold Label Stereo Original In Shrinkwrap. more
	In Concert New - LP - EKS 7310 Sealed 2nd Issue Stereo. more
	In Concert New - LP - EKL 310 Sealed, Archival Quality 1966 Gold Label Mono Original. more
	In Concert Used - LP - EKL 310 1966 US Gold Label Mono Original. Hole Punch Near Top Right Corner, Creasing To The Back Cover & Corner Bumps. more
	Pleasures Of The Harbor New - LP - SP 4133 Sealed 1967 Stereo Original. His Most Musically Varied And Ambitious Album. 5 Stars In All Music Guide. Archival Quality Copy. more
	Pleasures Of The Harbor Used - LP - SP 4133 1967 Original. His Most Musically Varied And Ambitious Album. Tiny Corner Ding more
	Pleasures Of The Harbor Used - LP - SP 4133 1967 Stereo Gold Label Original. Jacket Is VG, With A Corner Crease, And Dent Plus A Small Jacket Tear At Mouth Near Bottom; Vinyl Is Beautiful With No Marks Whatosever On Either Side. more
	Pleasures Of The Harbor Used - LP - SP 4133 1967 Stereo Gold Label Original. His Most Musically Varied And Ambitious Album. Vinyl Appears Glossy, Unplayed. more
	Pleasures Of The Harbor Used - LP - SP 4133 2nd Issue Stereo In Shrink Wrap. Appears Unplayed. His Most Musically Varied And Ambitious Album. more
	Rehearsals For Retirement Used - LP - SP 4181 Beautiful 1969 Gold Label Original With Safeway Price Sticker Still On The Shrink Wrap. more
	Rehearsals For Retirement Used - LP - SP 4181 Beautiful 1969 Deep Groove, Heavy Vinyl White Label Promo. more
	Rehearsals For Retirement Used - LP - SP-4181 1969 Brown Label Heavy Vinyl Stereo Original. Light Crease on Front Cover. more
	Rehearsals For Retirement Used - LP - SP 4181 1969 US Original, Tan Label Terre Haute Pressing. Nice VG+ Copy. Cover Shows Some Light Indentation Markings And Few Spindle Marks On Center Labels. "On Rehearsals For Retirement, Ochs Retained His Poetic Sense, But His Songs Were Imbued With The Conflicts Of The Times. The Leadoff Track, "Pretty Smart On My Part," The Hardest-Rocking Number Ochs Had Yet Recorded, Is Sung In The Persona Of A Violent Right-Wing Extremist Who Fantasizes About Running Over Hitchhikers, Whipping Women, And Finally Assassinating The President And Taking Over The Government. Similarly, "I Kill Therefore I Am," A Twangy Rocker, Is Sung In The Voice Of A Policeman Who Hates Long-Hairs, Blacks, Students, And Homosexuals And Plans To Spray Them With Mace, Beat Them, And Shoot Them. Specifically Combining The Poetical With The Political, The Gentle Waltz-time Piano Ballad "William Butler Yeats Visits Lincoln Park And Escapes Unscathed" Is A Haunting Depiction Of The Confrontation Between Demonstrators And Police In Chicago, Quickly Followed By A Dancehall Ditty That Sends Up Its Somber Reflections Without Relieving The Tragic Tone. The Result Of The Convention And The Subsequent Election Of Richard Nixon As President Represents, In The Songwriter's Judgment, The Dawn Of "Another Age," And A Terrible One. That Declaration Is As Positive As Things Get On Rehearsals For Retirement. For Much Of The Album, Ochs Expresses Despair Rather Than Anger. "My Life," Another Attractive Piano Ballad Laced With Strings, Traces His Personal Disillusionment, While "The Scorpion Departs But Never Returns," Actually A Topical Song About A Nuclear Submarine That Sank In 1968, Evokes Familiar Ochs References To Sailors, Who, Here, All Drown. The Plaintive "Doesn't Lenny Live Here Anymore" Concerns The Drug Overdose Death Of Comedian Lenny Bruce. In Retrospect, Especially Because Of Ochs' Suicide Seven Years Later, It Is Impossible Not To See The Evidence Of The Songwriter's Personal Anguish In Rehearsals For Retirement." AMG Review By William Ruhlmann. more
	Sings For Broadside Used - LP - FD 5320 First Copy We Have Ever Seen Of This 1976 Rarity, Textured Cover In Shrink Wrap With 8 Page Illustrated Music Booklet. Appears Unplayed. more
	Tape From California Used - LP - SP 4148 1968 Brown Label, Heavy Vinyl Stereo Original. “On His Fourth Album, Pleasures Of The Harbor, Phil Ochs Broke From Both His Topical Songwriting Style And His Acoustic Folk Music Approach For An Album Of Long, Poetic Songs Set To Elaborate, Eclectic Arrangements. For Its Follow-Up, Tape From California, He Combined His Earlier And More Recent Styles, Addressing Such Issues As War And Union Organizing Along With More Discursive Efforts, And Including A Few More Complicated Arrangements Mixed In With Simple Guitar Accompaniments. There Were Some Directly Political Efforts, But In The More Poetic Songs, Ochs Seemed To Be Painting A Portrait Of A Desperate, Debased Society And His Own Sense Of Personal Decline. For Example, The Marathon "When In Rome" Conflated Images From Slavery, The Nuremberg Trials, And Ancient Rome To Compile A Compendium Of Evil And Decadence Through The Centuries, Clearly Implying That The Present Day Was Another Such Era. Ochs Imbued His Lyrics With His Characteristic Sense Of Irony, And The Arrangements By Producer Larry Marks, Bob Thompson, And Ian Freebairn-Smith Complemented The Songs Wittily. But Released In The Middle Of 1968, The Most Tumultuous Year Of The Tumultuous '60s, Tape From California Was Often Hard To Listen To, Because It Was Such A Frighteningly Accurate Portrait Of Its Times, Eerily Mirroring The Point At Which Passionate Argument Over The Direction Of The Country Spilled Over Into Violence And A Widespread Sense Of Absurdity.” William Ruhlmann, AMG. more
	Tape From California Used - LP - SP 4148 White Label Promo Pressed On Heavy Vinyl. Small Bottom Seam Split, Hence Price. more
	Tape From California Used - LP - SP 4148 Beautiful 1968 White Label Promo. more
	There But For Fortune Used - LP - 60832 Glossy, Unplayed 1989 2LP Housed In A Slip Cover. Tiny Saw Notch. Side A Is From The 1964 "All The News That's Fit To Sing," Side Two Is From "I Ain't Marching Anymore," Side 3 And 4 From "Phil Ochs In Concert." more
	There But For Fortune New - LP - 60832 Sealed 1989 2LP Compilation With Small Saw Notch. Side A Is From The 1964 "All The News That's Fit To Sing," Side Two Is From "I Ain't Marching Anymore," Side 3 And 4 Are From "Phil Ochs In Concert." more

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