Phil Ochs - No More Songs (Acoustic)

[@nbenefiel]

I met Phil when I was 16 and working for Gene McCarthy. There was a rally at Tiger Stadium. Phil sang and then came down to talk to the kids working the rally. I saw him many times after that. He played at nearly every demonstration I went to in the late 60’s and early 70’s. He would actually turn down paying gigs to play at protest rallies. I was living in Dublin when I heard of his suicide. I cried and felt that something uniquely American was gone.

[@RK4000]

the most underrated musician in history.

[@mosesmosestv]

Sadly a bit of a homophobe maybe

[@me4106]

what are you basing that on?

[@soullesspits425]

@@mosesmosestv Links on the chain?

[@michaelmiller7160]

@@mosesmosestv Phil Ochs wasn’t a homophobe. “Love Me I’m a Liberal” is a satirical song written from the point of a view of a narrator who is a faux liberal. Also if some one is cool or hot on gays, a race, a group .. it's all determined by genetics and environment.

[@michaelmiller7160]

@@soullesspits425 draft dodger drag ?

[@vsibirsky]

I cried the first time I heard Phil sing this song and here I am so many decades later, listening to this and crying.

[@jeffmatuszak477]

The imagery he conjures is akin to Steinbeck, Twain, and Poe. He was all those people. And so many more.💜

[@scottberkowitz6530]

Classic American hero.

[@lorijohnson2348]

If I told you that I only became aware of the music of Phil Ochs within the last 10 years, I guess it would tell you how under appreciated he was during his life. A brilliant talent who left us far too soon. I miss the man and his music. We could definitely use someone life him today.

[@paullavan785]

Love you, Phil, every day.

[@larrylar1000]

There is a longer version of this song with Phil actually in it that is sung with him in a decaying building out in the desert.It is hauntingly beautiful.Love and miss you Phil.You were a remarkable person who left us to soon.

[@ralphjaffe]

This is stunning. Absolutely beautiful version. This song is such a statement of Phil's sense of isolation; knowing that he eventually killed himself, this can be seen - along with Rehearsal for Retirement - as presaging his eventual suicide.

[@BazookaTooth707]

Only Phil could write a masterpiece of a song about not being able to write new songs.

[@Pibbs1]

Another great artist gone way too soon at 35. R.I.P. Phil ; (

[@AndyMossMetta]

Verses= Dm-C-Dm-Bb-C-Dm-F-Bb-C-Dm. The interlude=F-C-Bb-A Just five simple open position chords. Sounds great on the acoustic guitar.

[@melissapinol7279]

Leslie Fish wrote a tribute song to Phil Ochs called "Chickasaw Mountain" and in her first recording included this song afterwards which is where I first heard it.Here is one line of her song "...The power ran through every song he wrote and played, made him the best of his generation sang to the end of the war, and not a moment more".This may not literally be true but she got the point across."No More Songs" is hauntingly, incredibly powerful and heartbreaking.

[@tamara7210]

Best performance of this song. Love you, Phil, Rest in Peace.

[@svalentine4667]

Hello hello hello, is anybody home I've only called to say I'm sorry The drums are in the dawn And all the voice was gone And it seems that there are no more songs Once I knew a girl, she was a flower in a flame I loved her as the sea sings sadly Now the ashes of the dream Can be found in magazines And it seems that there are no more songs Once I knew a saint who sang upon a stage He told me about the world, his lover A ghost with no name Stands ragged in the rain And it seems that there are no more songs The rebels they were here they came beside the door They told me that the moon was bleeding Then all to my surprise They took away my eyes And it seems that there are no more songs A scar in the sky, it's time to say goodbye He withers on the beat, he's dying A white flag in my hand A white boat in the sand And it seems that there are no more songs. Hello hello hello, is anybody home I've only come to say I'm sorry The drums are in the dawn And all the voice was gone And it seems that there are no more songs.

[@chortkoffandriggio]

A very beautiful suicide note. Poor guy.

[@thefabs4022]

Beautiful, haunting and sad

[@markjamesmeli2520]

Simply breathtaking

[@RK4000]

Who the flying fucking fuck would give this angel a thumbs down/dislike?

[@annabrewer8054]

dylan

[@RK4000]

​@@annabrewer8054Fuck Dylan 😂😂😂 mumbling crackhead. Ochs > Dylan But lmao nice reply

[@BazookaTooth707]

​@@annabrewer8054Dylan sold out a long time ago. He'd like to forget these times.

[@jam-nc8ut]

This is stunningly beautiful, poignant, heartbreaking, wonderful music of, and for the soul.

[@chortkoffandriggio]

This song was written long before he died... I wish he could have been saved. Beautiful but sad song.

[@BazookaTooth707]

Although, it is the last song on his last official album. He did release a single Bwatua a few years later, but he wasn't making music like he was before this album.

[@jaygold9923]

yes, where is this from? a rare live one, but one of my faves. i miss mr. ochs, too. he was in a class by himself. thank you.

[@lucdesmarais2203]

Jay Gold This is from the Amchitka Concert in 1970 in Vancouver. It was the foundation of Greenpeace, a concert organized to finance a protest expedition out to the island of Amchitka where the Nixon administration had planned nuclear testing. The organization had invited Joni Mitchell, James Taylor and Phil.

[@margaretross9150]

@@lucdesmarais2203 Apparently all three donated their talents to this fundraiser.

[@BM-vi5hk]

Brilliant. I hear echoes of Dylan’s North Country Blues in this one.

[@LeeMike233]

Eerie and wierd song. Miss you Phil.

[@Krutponken]

Awesome, never heard this one! Thanks for the upload mate :D

[@はちこちゃ]

this song is nice

[@papajohnloki]

Thank you.

[@padraiggillon]

We're sorry too, Phil.

[@folksinger91]

Is this from the Amchitka concert in 1970?

[@JoelFinkel]

It is interesting to hear this version, which does not have opening stanza about Marilyn Monroe.

[@BazookaTooth707]

Where is this recording taken from?

[@brandonbrooks1782]

Anybody have an idea of where/when this was recorded?

[@bellboy67]

I think John Lennon was inspired by this song to his "Working class hero", just listen the intro

[@johncrann6557]

better than Dylan...

[@waytoomanycolors]

so sad..

[@aqeiwwrgunaug4ne3]

One of the great sad artists. Check out my music for more sadness

[@nomiddlenamenmn427]

I agree. I listen to a lot of singers, but I feel Phil Ochs and Tim Hardin underneath my skin and inside my soul.

[@aqeiwwrgunaug4ne3]

jackson c frank is a good one too, from that era and genre