#sorry to all others and nearly including joan baez

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between nina simone richie havens odetta mavis staples tracy chapman and the brothers and sisters ALONE black people really are the foremost interpreters of bob dylan like there is no competition

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BOY ARE YOU TWO ABOUT TO REGRET GIVING ME THE MILDEST POSSIBLE ENCOURAGEMENT.

I love Phil Ochs. He is easily my favorite of the protest folk/folk revival whatever you care to call that style and time in history. Bob Dylan is a better poet (but I mean, Jesus who can live up to Bob Dylan?) Joan Baez has a much better voice (A reviewer once said Phil had a 'nasally effective range of about half an octave' and given how many times he brought up/joked about it, i assume it stung), nearly everyone was easier to get along with, and yet with Phil Ochs it is love for me. I love the way he sings, it's simple and straightforward and sometimes plaintive in these ways that go beyond vocal theatrics. I like his patter, I like his humor, I like that he is willing to fight with Bob goddamn Dylan, I like the way he moves, i don't know. Fucking mess of a man. Love him. Do not get me started when i've had a few unless you're prepared to not get a word in edgewise for the next 20 minutes.

To the point, that a lot of the time I won't put anything of his on a mix album I make for someone! How stupid is that? I don't know, some things feel personal even thought they very decidedly are not. It's stupid. It's human. Whatever.

ANYWAY, SOME OF MY FAVORITE PHIL OCHS SONGS FOR THE UNINITIATED I THINK YOU SHOULD ALL LISTEN TO THEM. BUT I ONLY WANT TO KNOW IF YOU LIKE IT SO I THINK YOU ARE BETTER THAN OTHER PEOPLE.

The Power and the Glory: When I said Phil Ochs, man with a huge fucking FBI file on him by the time he died at only 35, wrote my favorite patriotic song, this was it. Beeb even knows part of this song, because when I walk her to the Y, I sing to her part of the way, and this is on the playlist.

There But For Fortune: This actually became a minor hit for Joan Baez! (Adding to his frustration about his own life) It's a really beautiful song about not thinking you're above anything.

I Ain't Marchin Anymore: I included this because if you've heard a Phil Ochs song in an American History class or something like that, it's this one. I do like it! It had an immense effect and I would be wrong to exclude it. It's much more of a straightforward protest song than anything else on this list.

Outside a Small Circle of Friends: I think about this song all the time, a cheerful rag about indifference to the suffering of others. Don't put yourself out! Remember, you need to think about what makes you comfortable!

No More Songs: This song always makes me so sad. I love it, but it does. After this song, he would only ever record about 5 more tracks. He never had another album. He had massive writer's block, he was disillusioned by the way the world was going, he was an alcoholic, he was very clearly starting to lose it*. And seemed to realize he was losing his grip. I love this very sad country-folk song, and I think a lot about the line, 'Is anybody home? I only want to say, I'm sorry."

*and boy did he. As in, for awhile he assumed a new name and said that person had killed Phil and replaced him lost it. Ranting about the Cia and the Fbi trying to kill him lost it. Getting into intentional barfights with patrons over nothing lost it. I feel bad, because as much as a pain in the ass as he could be, reportedly, he also clearly had a lot of people who felt a lot of affection for him. His brother tried to have him committed. His sister wrangled him from off the streets to live with her. His friends tried to help and encourage to record. Even Bob fucking Dylan talked to him about doing a tour together, and when Phil put together a benefit concert that was in danger of being canceled for lack of ticket sales, Dylan was like, 'I'll play" and it sold out immediately. Lots of people tried really hard to pull him out of it. But it was just...he felt like a political, personal, and artistic failure, he was out of his goddamn tree, and it was one of those situations where I just want to be like, "You tried your best, everybody! I'll accept literally any emotion about this from any of you but guilt." I feel bad for everyone.

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Radiohead's OK Computer to be preserved in the Library of Congress

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Radiohead's OK Computer to be preserved in the Library of Congress

It sounds just like the global’s maximum eclectic report collection, placing Radiohead’s Good enough Computer next to the Johnny Mercer fashionable Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Fantastic, with Steve Martin, Tennessee Ernie Ford and Lauryn Hill nearby. In reality, it’s the contemporary computer batch of recordings decided on for preservation by the Library of Congress.

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Twenty-5 sound recordings spanning from 1890 to 1999 were introduced on 25 March to the library’s Country wide Recording Registry. Each year the library chooses recordings which might be “culturally, traditionally or aesthetically considerable”.

Public nominations lifted Radiohead’s 1997 album Adequate Computer – with its data-age dystopia characterized by means of corrupt politicians, psychopaths, consumerism and airline disasters – to the curators’ interest.

“I see it as a part of a sure ongoing phenomenon in rock tune that maybe starts offevolved with the Velvet Underground however additionally the Doorways, who’re on the registry this 12 months. Pop music isn’t always entirely Superb in its outlook, shall we embrace,” curator Matt Barton said. “I suppose we will say that Good enough Pc certainly sums a variety of that up.” In addition to the contributions from Radiohead and Mercer, many of the recordings selected are The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Joan Baez’s first solo album, The Righteous Brothers’ You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ and Steve Martin’s A Wild and Crazy Guy comedy album, on which Martin broke new ground through swapping formulaic jokes and punchlines for less predictable humour. Upon listening to of his archive-worthy fulfillment, Martin deadpanned: “I could not be more pleased with this honour. This indicates the record became in all likelihood humorous.”

The Library of Congress has been looking for to keep vital sound recordings for 15 years underneath phrases of a maintenance act exceeded by way of Congress.

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The oldest are 600 wax-cylinder recordings, saved on the University of California, Santa Barbara, that were made with the aid of consumers within the Eighteen Nineties, 1900s and 1910s as snapshots of their normal lives. These are among the maximum endangered audio codecs, due to the fact their grooves are fragile and the wax decomposes over the years. Some other set of wax-cylinder recordings from the 1893 Chicago global’s Fair captured musicians from around the arena performing at the Fair, giving People their first publicity to “international music”.

Different historic recordings chosen for maintenance include radio insurance of President Franklin D Roosevelt’s funeral in 1945, and the 1953 theatrical recording of John Brown’s Body primarily based on a civil conflict poem that proved commercially successful as a non-musical play.

Curators also deemed a few more current recordings worthy of upkeep, such as tunes from the Television show Sesame Avenue. The kids’s show used tune as an necessary part of its academic programme, and attracted stars ranging from BB King to REM and the Dixie Chicks. The library chose the 1995 recording Sesame Road: All-Time Platinum Favourites for the registry. Sorry, Wrong Quantity (episode of Suspense radio series, May 25, 1943)

Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the High quality (unmarried) – Johnny Mercer (1944)

The Doorways (album) – the Doors (1967)

Good enough Laptop (album) – Radiohead (1997)

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (album) – Lauryn Hill (1998)

A Wild and Crazy Guy (album) – Steve Martin (1978)

You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ (single) – the Righteous Brothers (1964)

Stand! (album) – Sly and the Family Stone (1969)

Kiss Me, Kate (unique solid album) (1949)

The Vernacular Wax Cylinder Recordings at University of California, Santa Barbara Library (c 1890-1910)

Black Snake Moan/Matchbox Blues (single) – Blind Lemon Jefferson (1928)

Stand by way of Me (single) – Ben E King (1961)

Radio coverage of President Franklin D Roosevelt’s funeral – Arthur Godfrey, et al (April 14, 1945)

John Brown’s Frame (album) – Tyrone Power, Judith Anderson and Raymond Massey; directed by means of Charles Laughton (1953)

My funny Valentine (single) – the Gerry Mulligan Quartet providing Chet Baker (1953)

Sixteen Tons (unmarried) – Tennessee Ernie Ford (1955)

Mary Don’t You Weep (single) – the Swan Silvertones (1959)

Joan Baez (album) – Joan Baez (1960)

New Orleans’ Candy Emma Barrett and Her upkeep Corridor Jazz Band (album) – Candy Emma and Her renovation Hall Jazz Band (1964)

Lincoln Mayorga and Distinguished Colleagues (album) – Lincoln Mayorga (1968)

Sesame Road: All-Time Platinum Favourites (album) – Numerous (1995)

Songs of the Antique Ordinary Baptists (album) – Numerous (1997)

Fanfares for the Unusual Girl (album) – Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop, conductor; Joan Tower, composer (1999)

The Benjamin Ives Gilman series, recorded at the 1893 global’s Columbian Exposition at Chicago (1893)

The lads of the Lough/The Humours of Ennistymon (unmarried) – Michael Coleman (1922)

Participants of Congress were time and again thwarted whilst attempting to research simple data about the National Security Agency (NSA) and the name of the game FISA court docket which authorizes its activities, files supplied with the aid of two Residence Individuals reveal.

From the start of the NSA controversy, the Agency’s defenders have insisted that Congress is aware about the disclosed programs and exercises robust supervision over them. “These packages are issue to congressional oversight and congressional reauthorization and congressional debate,” President Obama said the day after the first story on NSA bulk series of smartphone facts turned into posted on this space. “And if there are Contributors of Congress who sense in another way, then they ought to speak up.”

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however Contributors of Congress, together with the ones in Obama’s celebration, have flatly denied knowing approximately them. On MSNBC on Wednesday night time, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Ct) was requested by using host Chris Hayes: “How a good deal are you getting to know about what the government which you are charged with overseeing and retaining responsible is doing from the newspaper and how much of this do you know?” The Senator’s respond: A city with out a library is sort of a graveyard.” the ones were the phrases that Malala Yousafzai, the inspirational Pakistani girls’s rights activist, used to open Birmingham’s new £189m library this month. A poignant announcement, considering the persevering with tide of public library closures announced recently.

To paraphrase a well-known scene from Monty Python’s Life of Brian, what do libraries do for us? Well, they introduce many into the arena of literacy and studying and help to make it a lifelong habit; they equalise; they train empathy and assist us to find out about Every Different; they hold our cultural history; they protect our right to recognize and to study; they build groups; they enhance and improve us as a state; they empower us as individuals. I personally would not have my lifelong ardour for literature, would by no means have emerge as a author and simply wouldn’t be the current kid’s laureate if it hadn’t been for journeying my neighborhood library as a child.

At the same time as I respect that in Those austere times all nearby government are in search of to make financial savings, there’s honestly a strong argument for library services, and specifically children’s library services, to be ringfenced against such cuts. Indeed, the 1964 Libraries Act states that each authority must provide a “complete and efficient” library carrier, and that the government’s duty is to investigate while there are extreme complaints that this isn’t the case. But this authorities has now not as soon as visible fit to intrude, now not even in Gloucestershire, wherein nearly half of the libraries had been scheduled for closure, and Herefordshire, wherein swingeing cuts to the general public library provider were first of all proposed.

current figures from Public Libraries News display that almost one zero five United kingdom libraries have both been closed or left neighborhood authority manage due to the fact that April 2012.

Closing week Sheffield’s city council announced plans to preserve only 12 of its 28 libraries open, until network groups come ahead to run them. within the beyond few weeks Moray council has voted to close seven out of 15 branches. Sefton libraries are due to close some of their branches. now not to say the Lincolnshire libraries’ cuts which have visible further public outcry, with plans proposed to hold just 15 out of 47 libraries open

In August, while there was a hazard of Jane Austen’s ring leaving the country, the tradition minister Ed Vaizey turned into short to intervene with a transient export bar as the ring is deemed to be a “national treasure” that should be “stored for the kingdom”. I’d argue that our public libraries are simply as an awful lot of a national treasure as Jane Austen’s ring and but I’ve visible no such outrage from Vaizey at their closure.

In these times of increasing authorities emphasis on children’s analyzing and their resultant instructional attainment, simply the closure of public libraries, reduced e book spend, confined beginning hours and the compulsory redundancy of librarians have had an immediate and bad effect in this aspiration? Most effective closing week the Institute of Schooling launched a study that gave yet more evidence that reading for pride between the a long time of 10 and sixteen improves vocabulary and boosts attainment in spelling, and also maths. studying changed into found to be even more essential for children’s cognitive improvement at secondary college than the affect of their mother and father.

Libraries are the great literacy aid we have. For kids they provide an equaliser that lets in everyone access to books, tale-telling periods, homework clubs; expert librarians who supply non-partisan help and recommendation concerning books; and warm and safe environments within which to find out and discover the sector of literature. Libraries switch kids on to a love of analyzing, with all the resulting advantages, and might make them lifelong readers. Without them, literacy can also more and more emerge as the province of the fortunate few, rather than the birthright of every person.

• This newsletter was amended on 23 September 2013. An earlier version said that Medway council had confirmed closure of 7 out of 15 branches. Medway has no plans to shut any of its 16 libraries. The item additionally stated swingeing cuts to the library provider have been first of all proposed in Hertfordshire. That reference need to had been to Herefordshire.