Audio Cassette review:
Phil Ochs - The War Is Over: The Best of Phil Ochs

Phil Ochs - The War Is Over: The Best of Phil Ochs

Band: Phil Ochs Title: The War Is Over: The Best of Phil Ochs Rating: Release Date: 17 October, 1990 Media: Audio Cassette Tracks: 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: Rehearsals for Retirement 8: Chords of Fame 9: Gas Station Women 10: Outside of 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 Marching Anymore [Live]

Editoral Review " On the other, the title is apt: this is a collection of Ochs after his most political period, and is dominated by difficult, uneven, and harrowing post-'67 material. On the one hand this compilation is hardly a "best of. Hanging up his solo activist persona, Ochs experimented with strings, folk rock, and full-tilt rock & roll, looking for a way out of the troubadour cult status he'd created for himself. The set may not be representative of Ochs as a whole, but there's an affecting poetic impressionism at work, and the sound of a man trying to make sense of his own life, as he also tries to make sense of the changes around him. --Roy Francis Kasten .. You can see a complete list of all Phil Ochs discography, or go back to the Phil Ochs tabs