20th Century Masters (Phil Ochs album)

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Phil Ochs' 20th Century Masters is a brief compilation of his later works on A&M Records. Focusing heavily on his debut for the label, Pleasures Of The Harbor, offering five of its eight tracks, it only offered two tracks from his other three studio albums and only one from his 1974 live album. These selections tend to de-emphasize the folk leanings of those later albums while embracing the more experimental leanings. While the tracks presented are all first-rate, one would probably be better off seeking out the 1988 best-of, The War Is Over: The Best of Phil Ochs or the British compilation Cross My Heart: An Introduction to Phil Ochs, if not the original albums themselves.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Cross My Heart" (P. Ochs, – 3:19)
2. "Flower Lady" (P. Ochs, – 6:05)
3. "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends" (P. Ochs, – 3:43)
4. "Pleasures of the Harbor" (P. Ochs, – 8:08)
5. "Crucifixion" (P. Ochs, – 8:44)
6. "Tape From California" (P. Ochs, – 6:47)
7. "The War Is Over" (P. Ochs, – 4:23)
8. "Rehearsals For Retirement" (P. Ochs, – 4:14)
9. "William Butler Yeats Visits Lincoln Park and Escapes Unscathed" (P. Ochs, – 2:57)
10. "No More Songs" (P. Ochs, – 4:18)
11. "Chords of Fame" (P. Ochs, – 3:32)
12. "I Ain't Marching Anymore" (P. Ochs, – 3:47)

[edit] Track Sources

• Tracks 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 taken from Pleasures Of The Harbor (1967)
• Tracks 6 and 7 taken from Tape From California (1968)
• Tracks 8 and 9 taken from Rehearsals For Retirement (1969)
• Tracks 10 and 11 taken from Greatest Hits (1970)
• Track 12 taken from Gunfight At Carnegie Hall (1974)