The War Is Over: The Best of Phil Ochs was a 1988 compilation of Phil Ochs

Phil Ochs

Philip David Ochs was an American protest singer and songwriter who was known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, earnest humanism, political activism, insightful and alliterative lyrics, and haunting voice...

' works on A&M Records

A&M Records

A&M Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group that operates under the mantle of its Interscope-Geffen-A&M division.-Beginnings:...

 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

Gunfight at Carnegie Hall

Gunfight At Carnegie Hall was Phil Ochs' final album, comprising songs recorded at the infamous, gold-suited, bomb-threat shortened first set at Carnegie Hall in New York City on March 27, 1970, though it contains less than half of the actual concert...

(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

I Ain't Marching Anymore (song)

"I Ain't Marching Anymore" is an anti-war song by Phil Ochs, a U.S. protest singer from the 1960s known for being a harsh critic of the American military industrial complex...

" 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

There and Now: Live in Vancouver 1968

There And Now: Live in Vancouver 1968 [sic] was a 1990 archival release of a concert by Phil Ochs in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, at the PNE Garden Auditorium on Thursday, March 13, 1969...

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Now out of print, it has been replaced by 2002's 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Phil Ochs and 2004's Cross My Heart: An Introduction to Phil Ochs

Cross My Heart: An Introduction to Phil Ochs

Cross My Heart: An Introduction to Phil Ochs is a British best-of compilation of the U.S. folk singer's A&M recordings. The CD features three tracks each from Pleasures Of The Harbor, Tape From California, and Rehearsals For Retirement as well as two from Greatest Hits and one from Gunfight At...

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Track listing

All songs by Phil Ochs.

1. "Tape From California" – 6:46
2. "Flower Lady" – 6:03
3. "Half A Century High" – 2:50
4. "The Scorpion Departs but Never Returns" – 4:14
5. "The War Is Over
   The War Is Over (song)
   "The War Is Over" is an anti-war song by Phil Ochs, a U.S. protest singer from the 1960s known for being a harsh critic of the American military-industrial establishment. The song, which was originally released on Tape from California , has been described as "one of the most potent antiwar songs of...
   
   " – 4:22
6. "One Way Ticket Home
   One Way Ticket Home
   "One Way Ticket Home" is a 1970 song by Phil Ochs, an American singer-songwriter best known for the protest songs he wrote in the 1960s."One Way Ticket Home" is the first song on Greatest Hits, which—despite its title—was a collection of new songs...
   
   " – 2:35
7. "Rehearsals for Retirement" – 4:11
8. "Chords Of Fame" – 3:30
9. "Gas Station Women" – 3:29
10. "Outside Of Small Circle Of Friends" – 3:41
11. "Pleasures of the Harbor" – 8:07
12. "Kansas City Bomber
    Kansas City Bomber (song)
    "Kansas City Bomber" is a song by Phil Ochs, a U.S. singer-songwriter best known for the protest songs he wrote in the 1960s.In 1972, record producer Lee Housekeeper asked Ochs to write the theme song for the film Kansas City Bomber, a film about roller derby starring Raquel Welch...
    
    " – 2:27
13. "White Boots Marching In A Yellow Land" – 3:31
14. "Jim Dean Of Indiana" – 5:01
15. "No More Songs" – 4:15
16. "I Ain't Marching Anymore" (Live) – 4:31

Source listing

• Tracks 1, 3, 5 and 13 from Tape From California
  Tape from California
  Tape From California is Phil Ochs' fifth album, released in mid-1968 on A&M Records. A step back from its predecessor Pleasures of the Harbor, a sort of cross between that album and 1966's Phil Ochs In Concert, it features folk with shades of rock, bluegrass and baroque music.The best-known track...
  
  (1968)
• Tracks 2, 10 and 11 from Pleasures Of The Harbor
  Pleasures of the Harbor
  Pleasures of the Harbor was Phil Ochs' fourth full-length album and his first for A&M Records, released in 1967. It is one of Ochs's most somber albums...
  
  (1967)
• Tracks 4 and 7 from Rehearsals For Retirement
  Rehearsals for Retirement
  Rehearsals For Retirement was Phil Ochs' sixth album, released in 1969 on A&M Records. Recorded in the aftermath of Ochs' presence at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago , it is the darkest of Ochs' albums, a fact exemplified by its cover, a tombstone...
  
  (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
  1968 Democratic National Convention
  The 1968 Democratic National Convention of the U.S. Democratic Party was held at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois, from August 26 to August 29, 1968. Because Democratic President Lyndon Johnson had announced he would not seek a second term, the purpose of the convention was to...
  
  in Chicago, but this is incorrect.