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Stay safe everyone at the #NoKing rallies. #PhilOchs https://youtu.be/uIwYDsTPbbo

This Phil Ochs songs never made it onto an album, #WarIsOver #PhilOchs - https://youtu.be/o2muKGj9v04

We miss you Phil Ochs, you were the one who followed in Woody's footsteps - https://youtu.be/ELpy17PEubg #PhilOchs #WoodyGuthrie

Phil Ochs wrote this song about the US Navy #submarine USS Thresher, that sunk on 10 April 1963. #PhilOchs #USNavy @usnavy https://youtu.be/PVBvfUOMfno

"Greatest Hits" by Phil Ochs was released in February 1970.
#PhilOchs #GreatestHits #VintageVinyl

The bread and the circuses came to be nearing
The Saviour or somebody must be appearing
Pagans and pageants were all disappearing
Inside my head.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1c7htQ3irj8

#philochs #wheninrome #folk #folkmusic #1960s #societalcollapse #decay #decline #corruption #decadence

Happy 84th birthday to #PhilOchs on Thursday, https://youtu.be/cfAVU3gbc08

This song and its intro have come back into my head. A live recording from the days when #PhilOchs still had that lightness and humour available to him as the frame for his righteous anger.

'We were hardly aware of the hardships they bear,
for our time was taken with treasure....'

Phil Ochs, The Ringing of Revolution
https://youtu.be/OLlrc2rHIvI

@gwynnion
*Cries in #PhilOchs *

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLqKXrlD1TU
Or #ScratchALiberal ... as the saying goes.

Ok ok pinned intro post time:

Hi, I'm Gwen, I make #fanvids over at @gwenfrankenstien
The #ofmd / #izzyhands brainrot is still my primary focus on this site but feel free to talk to me at any time about:

#Arthuriana
#BackToTheFuture
#ChroniclesOfDarkness especially #ChangelingTheLost
#CrimsonPeak
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#DCComics (primarily between 1986-2011 but im loosely familiar with other eras)
#DianaWynneJones
#DoomPatrolHBO
#Dracula
#Frankenstein
#Hellblazer
#HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy
#IndieTTRPG
#Labyrinth1986
#OingoBoingo
#PhilOchs
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#VelvetGoldmine
#VincentPrice
#VorkosiganSaga
#YoungWizards

What happened? I'm still reeling a bit from the US Election, but I rather get the feeling that the explanation may be sitting out in plain sight in this 1966 #PhilOchs song, #LoveMeImALiberal, this week's #StupidAccordionTricks selection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw8U_H3sz9Y&feature=youtu.be

Bracero - Phil Ochs (1966)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U442h3Xj2qo

#Bracero #PhilOchs

*taps the sign* #PhilOchs #News #USA

A quote from the late great Phil Ochs.

"To sum up. This one thing I feel is a driving force: that I get repelled by certain things—or they strike me as funny, or weird or strange, or ridiculous—and my response comes out in the form of a song. And as I said before, it's not enough to know the world is absurd and restrict yourself merely to pointing out the fact. To me this was the essential flaw of the fifties: great perception leading to inaction. I often laugh at myself, and many times consider my role ridiculous. But still I am forced to go on… because the ugly fact is ingrained in my mind that I don’t want the world to be left in the hands of the Hitlers… I don’t want to have to read Dylan’s works smuggled out from prisons. I like to bring in the great Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis to illustrate a point. He says it is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win. Even though you can’t expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that’s religion. That’s art. That’s life."

Here is an extraordinary singer, Paul Robeson, who was more actively persecuted than Ochs for his political beliefs singing about Joe Hill who was fitted up and killed by the state for singing and organizing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8Kxq9uFDes

#TwasEverThus, #JoeHill, #PhilOchs, #PaulRobeson