Artist	Song
Phil Ochs	Santo Domingo
from Phil Ochs In Concert (2004)
Phil Ochs	When I'm Gone
from Phil Ochs In Concert (2004)
Phil Ochs	One Way Ticket Home
from Phil Ochs - Greatest Hits (2007)
Phil Ochs	The Bells
from All the News That's Fit to Sing (2006)
Phil Ochs	The Confession
from A Toast to Those Who Are Gone (2007)
Phil Ochs	Pretty Smart On My Part
from Rehearsals for Retirement (2007)
Phil Ochs	That's What I Want to Hear
from I Ain't Marching Anymore (2006)
Phil Ochs	We Seek No Wider War
from A Toast to Those Who Are Gone (2007)
Phil Ochs	Links On the Chain
from I Ain't Marching Anymore (2006)
Phil Ochs	Bracero
from Phil Ochs In Concert (2004)
Phil Ochs	William Butler Yeats Visits Lincoln Park and Escapes Unscathed / Where Were You In Chicago
from Rehearsals for Retirement (2007)
Phil Ochs	I Kill Therefore I Am
from Rehearsals for Retirement (2007)
Phil Ochs	Bound for Glory
from All the News That's Fit to Sing (2006)
Phil Ochs	The Doll House
from Rehearsals for Retirement (2007)
Phil Ochs	A Toast to Those Who Are Gone
from A Toast to Those Who Are Gone (2007)

Comment:

While social criticism was Ochs' calling card, he occasionally threw off the straitjacket of protest songs. Who could have guessed that one of his most appealing and upbeat tunes would find its genesis in a mid-19th century poem — Edgar Allan Poe's "The Bells" — that he set to music? But he returns to familiar territory in "Pretty Smart on My Part," the leadoff track from [i]Rehearsals for Retirement[/i], which weds right-wing paranoid delusion and twisted revenge fantasy in a strangely cheerful setting. And as if to prove that left-wingers could be just as paranoid as their conservative counterparts, "The Confession (Demo Version)" drags us into a generic jail interrogation room, as bad-guy cops browbeat suspects, seeking mere evidence — not truth.

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