Flower Lady – Phil Ochs
One of my favourite songs. Brilliant lyrics he was a great song writer.
Video Rating: 4 / 5
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One of my favourite songs. Brilliant lyrics he was a great song writer.
Video Rating: 4 / 5
September 3rd, 2010 at %I:%M %p
He had a true Feanorian spirit (apologies to J. R. R. Tolkein).
September 3rd, 2010 at %I:%M %p
Damn he looks a little like Sean Penn and Sean once was going to do a movie about Phil and as much as I’d like to get the word out on Phil I don’t want one of my least favorite actors ever to do it. So I sabotaged the movie, sorry.
Listen to these lyrics .. poignant and powerful and Dylan can’t touch Phil or his stone staring at the sculpure asks are you absurd?
If only Phil had lived to be old, you’re old, you’re old.
September 3rd, 2010 at %I:%M %p
Just unbelievable melody and lyrics. And someday let me know if a full version of Changes shows up on youtube. Flower Lady lyrics are better than any great poems because I don’t think obscure references to Grecian Urns and such or the number of times you get out your Britannica should count towards a poem’s grandeur. Not that I think splendor in the grass is better presented as sex in the bushes.
September 3rd, 2010 at %I:%M %p
Love you Phil.
September 3rd, 2010 at %I:%M %p
Phil is the best folksinger of all time, imo. I think one of the contributing factors to Phil’s suicide was that he just feel he couldn’t write that well at a certain point in the 70s and then he had been mugged and his vocal chords (of fame) were damaged. But I think he was on Lithium and maybe he went off. It is a real shame.
September 3rd, 2010 at %I:%M %p
Maybe Allende admired Stalin’s regime (I don’t know because frankly, I hadn’t heard of the quote until today), but everything he DID suggested he was indeed a socialist and not a Stalinist. Allende never starved people to death, and never had massive purges, torture chambers or genocides. He created social services. But his successor, the pro-Capitalist dictator Augusto Pinochet, did do all those things. Pinochet may have supported US companies, but his methods would have made Stalin proud.
September 3rd, 2010 at %I:%M %p
Point being? Seeger was a great fan of Stalin until his true regime was revealed.
September 3rd, 2010 at %I:%M %p
Upon Stalin’s death in 1953, Chilean Communist Salvador Allende said “Stalin was a banner of creativity, of humanism and an edifying picture of peace and heroism!” he gushed while choking back the tears. “Everything he did, he did in service of the people. Our father Stalin has died but in remembering his example our affection for him will cause our arms to grow strong towards building a grand tomorrow– to insure a future in memory of his grand example!”
Humberto Fontova
September 3rd, 2010 at %I:%M %p
Allende was socialist not Stalinist, the British government have had many socialist government’s (Atlee), Supporting Allende does not mean he and may others shoud be tortured and killed…that is way more democratic!
September 3rd, 2010 at %I:%M %p
….and Victor Jara (great artist like Ochs) supported a Stalinist President Allende. Elected but so was Hitler and he tried to subvert the constitution in the same way. Let’s tell the whole truth shall we.
September 3rd, 2010 at %I:%M %p
Thanks for posting Phil’s songs. I also like the version of this by Peter & Gordon.
September 3rd, 2010 at %I:%M %p
But to say that bipolar disorder is solely responsible for his suicide would be to simplify matters. Ochs had seen the movements he believed in passionately shattered. A large number of progressive leaders in America shot were. His good friend, the singer Victor Jara was tortured and killed in public by an American-supported dictator (Pinochet) and to top it off, he couldn’t sing anymore because of a mugging in Africa that robbed him of his head-voice. True despair and bipolar don’t mix well
September 3rd, 2010 at %I:%M %p
nice bit of vibrato there…
September 4th, 2010 at %I:%M %p
This is what Youtube should be all about, anyway what it use to be about. Keep the music alive! God bless you Phil Ochs
September 4th, 2010 at %I:%M %p
awesome.Thanks so much for posting this gem.
September 4th, 2010 at %I:%M %p
He had bi polar disorder which no one really knew about, it makes you do crazy things.
September 4th, 2010 at %I:%M %p
Great song by the most underrated song writer of all time.
September 4th, 2010 at %I:%M %p
Sadly, Phil didn’t think there were any more songs, and that’s probably one of the reasons why he did.
September 4th, 2010 at %I:%M %p
Wonder why he really took his life think of all the songs the world lost that day!