The War Is Over: The Best of Phil Ochs

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The War is Over
Greatest hits by Phil Ochs
Released	1988
Recorded	1967-1970
Label	A&M

The War Is Over: The Best of Phil Ochs was a 1988 compilation of Phil Ochs' works on A&M Records recorded between 1967 and 1970. With varying amounts of tracks from the albums, between two and five, from each album except Gunfight At Carnegie Hall (which was unrepresented), it paints a portrait of Ochs' later works that does not emphasize his folk songs, instead presenting the more introspective and/or experimental tracks. It did feature a live version of "I Ain't Marching Anymore" later reissued as a part of the 1991 album that presented the entire concert from which it was culled, There And Now: Live in Vancouver 1968.

Now out of print, it has been replaced by 2002's 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Phil Ochs and 2004's Cross My Heart: An Introduction to Phil Ochs.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Tape From California" (P. Ochs, – 6:46)
2. "Flower Lady" (P. Ochs, – 6:03)
3. "Half A Century High" (P. Ochs, – 2:50)
4. "The Scorpion Departs but Never Returns" (P. Ochs, – 4:14)
5. "The War Is Over" (P. Ochs, – 4:22)
6. "One Way Ticket Home" (P. Ochs, – 2:35)
7. "Rehearsals for Retirement" (P. Ochs, – 4:11)
8. "Chords Of Fame" (P. Ochs, – 3:30)
9. "Gas Station Women" (P. Ochs, – 3:29)
10. "Outside Of Small Circle Of Friends" (P. Ochs, – 3:41)
11. "Pleasures of the Harbor" (P. Ochs, – 8:07)
12. "Kansas City Bomber" (P. Ochs, – 2:27)
13. "White Boots Marching In A Yellow Land" (P. Ochs, – 3:31)
14. "Jim Dean Of Indiana" (P. Ochs, – 5:01)
15. "No More Songs" (P. Ochs, – 4:15)
16. "I Ain't Marching Anymore" (Live) (P. Ochs, – 4:31)

[edit] Source listing

• Tracks 1, 3, 5 and 13 from Tape From California (1968)
• Tracks 2, 10 and 11 from Pleasures Of The Harbor (1967)
• Tracks 4 and 7 from Rehearsals For Retirement (1969)
• Tracks 6, 8, 9, 14 and 15 from Greatest Hits (1970)
• Track 12 from the 1973 single
• Track 16 was performed live in Vancouver, British Columbia on Thursday, March 13, 1969. According to the liner notes of the CD, this performance was Ochs' first since his arrest at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, but this is incorrect.

Phil Ochs
Discography
Studio albums: All the News That's Fit to Sing • I Ain't Marching Anymore • Pleasures of the Harbor • Tape from California • Rehearsals for Retirement • Greatest Hits
Live albums: Phil Ochs in Concert • Gunfight at Carnegie Hall • There and Now: Live in Vancouver 1968 • Live at Newport
Other albums: The Campers: Camp Favorites • Interviews with Phil Ochs
Posthumous releases: Songs for Broadside • The Broadside Tapes 1 • A Toast to Those Who Are Gone • The Early Years
Posthumous compilations: Chords of Fame • The War Is Over: The Best of Phil Ochs • There But for Fortune • Farewells & Fantasies • American Troubadour • 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Phil Ochs • Cross My Heart: An Introduction to Phil Ochs
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