Piano/Vocals: Love Me, I'm a Liberal - Phil Ochs

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  • Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
  • Sorry, I do not have the sheets. All arrangements are done by ear. Patreon Link if you'd like to support me: patreon.com/monsieurjack

Комментарии • 110

  • @silashellebrand462
    @silashellebrand462 Год назад +58

    I stand with Ukraine’s resistance
    Those Orcs will never get through
    And I support Taiwanese independence
    And their fight against Winnie the Pooh
    But Palestine has gone too far now
    We must help, and defend Israel
    So love me, love me, love me, I’m a Liberal.

    • @matty1094
      @matty1094 11 месяцев назад +9

      clever and topical

    • @SeanHartnett-t8c
      @SeanHartnett-t8c 10 месяцев назад +3

      sad but true.

    • @MCDreng
      @MCDreng 9 месяцев назад +7

      Gotta make it rhyme. "But Palestine has gone too far now / I give my support to the Jews"

    • @pigeonpower42
      @pigeonpower42 8 месяцев назад +12

      ochs did actually later himself update the lyrics to mention Israel/Palestine! in 1971:
      "I read underground papers and Newsweek, I’ve learned to take every view
      Ah, the war in Vietnam is atrocious, I wish to God that the fighting was through
      But when it comes to the arming of Israel, there’s no one more red, white and blue
      So love me, love me, love me, I’m a liberal"

    • @silashellebrand462
      @silashellebrand462 8 месяцев назад

      @@pigeonpower42 Wow, i did not know that.

  • @hans-rosakrause590
    @hans-rosakrause590 2 года назад +101

    Never heard this piece before. Absolutely love it and absolutely relevant.

    • @camaradecarter
      @camaradecarter Год назад

      Do you use twitter? I think i saw you tweet something

    • @hans-rosakrause590
      @hans-rosakrause590 Год назад +1

      @@camaradecarter Yes?

    • @camaradecarter
      @camaradecarter Год назад +1

      @@hans-rosakrause590 Wait, do you know about Finbols discord? or nah?

  • @ZemanTheMighty
    @ZemanTheMighty 2 года назад +37

    “As long as they don’t live next door!”
    Yep still true to this day.

  • @jplayzow
    @jplayzow 2 года назад +72

    I love the pace of the song almost as much as your voice
    This sort of feels like the other end of republican town from family guy

  • @ghostramen6134
    @ghostramen6134 2 года назад +25

    absolutely my favorite song by him. The level of irony and hypocrisy is so spot on

  • @jamesbrust2055
    @jamesbrust2055 2 года назад +61

    I know a lot of us have been waiting for this one but I'm glad you made us wait. Other Phil Ochs songs you've covered like "Another Age" and "The War is Over" have such power in them and I'm grateful that I got to hear them through you

  • @mcalkis5771
    @mcalkis5771 2 года назад +14

    If only Phill could actually see this. You breathed new life into it Jack. Thank you.

  • @starflowers1751
    @starflowers1751 2 года назад +39

    AHHH FINALLY!!!! LOVE THIS SONG!

  • @jplayzow
    @jplayzow 2 года назад +10

    I just saw the your doomer wojack said healthcare pls solid idea

  • @griffin2465
    @griffin2465 2 года назад +20

    This reminds me of "National Brotherhood Week" by Tom Lehrer, another song I think you could cover well

  • @zimmerwald1915
    @zimmerwald1915 2 года назад +18

    A couple awkward intonation choices in this one. The low notes at the beginning of the first phrase of each stanza are a step down from the recorded melody; the high notes at the end of the third line, a step up. Shows off your range, I guess.

    • @MonsieurJack95
      @MonsieurJack95  2 года назад +22

      Wow, I just relistened to Ochs' recording. I guess I remembered it wrong cuz you're right and that wasn't intentional. Maybe I'll have to play with it some more.

  • @yuven437
    @yuven437 2 года назад +6

    One of my favorites!

  • @flamingeskimo1136
    @flamingeskimo1136 2 года назад +21

    Not sure I'm the biggest fan of the decision to hold those notes and scale descents at the end of each bar, but a great song to cover nonetheless

    • @2Links
      @2Links 2 года назад +8

      yeah I've noticed he does that in pretty much all of his covers, very different from how Ochs sounds. guess it's part of Monsieur Jack's style. personally I do think it sounds a little off for Ochs covers but there's pros and cons to both

  • @imgonnasayitnow
    @imgonnasayitnow 2 года назад +6

    your thumbnails are fabulous

  • @Sunnycloudyrainy1
    @Sunnycloudyrainy1 2 года назад +20

    Why did you decide to omit the spoken intro? That was crucial to the song

    • @zimmerwald1915
      @zimmerwald1915 2 года назад +16

      In every American community there are varying shades of political opinion. One of the shadiest of these is the liberals - an outspoken group on many subjects, ten degrees to the left of center in good times, ten degrees to the right of center if it affects them personally. So here then is a lesson in safe logic. . .

  • @sabotabby3372
    @sabotabby3372 2 года назад +3

    You're spoiling us jack

  • @ashkitt7719
    @ashkitt7719 2 года назад +7

    You should do an updated version too btw.

  • @dd-fo8jv
    @dd-fo8jv 2 года назад +7

    can you do “all used up” by utah philips ?

  • @ABPHistory
    @ABPHistory 2 года назад +1

    he don't miss

  • @Shamrocks847
    @Shamrocks847 6 месяцев назад +5

    This is a banger, I LOVE LIBERALISM

  • @joshmorton7283
    @joshmorton7283 Год назад +3

    Just curious why doesn’t he like Pete Seeger I thought he was a leftist as well? (I’m not political so idk these things)

    • @MCDreng
      @MCDreng 9 месяцев назад +5

      Nothing wrong with Seeger. Ochs is making fun of liberals who act like they're more progressive than they are to get brownie points, so they'll go to leftist artist's performances

    • @joshmorton7283
      @joshmorton7283 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@MCDreng thanks

  • @Anon26535
    @Anon26535 Год назад +5

    I cried when they beat Rodney King up
    And they shot Jacob Blake in the spine
    I cried when they killed Floyd and Breonna
    All those pigs should be doing hard time
    But Chris Dorner got what was coming
    Killing's wrong, even if they were swine
    So love me, love me, love me
    I'm a liberal

  • @gangstalker2552
    @gangstalker2552 2 года назад +2

    what does the D.A.R mean?

  • @mikem668
    @mikem668 Год назад

    Crane

  • @KathleenMcCormickLCSWMPH
    @KathleenMcCormickLCSWMPH 2 года назад +2

    How prescient.

  • @adamski8985
    @adamski8985 Год назад +1

    how dare you Biden is the next marx

  • @phily708
    @phily708 2 года назад

    i guess the liberal in the title is not good for t he yt algorithm

  • @cameronmcallister7606
    @cameronmcallister7606 2 года назад +24

    Much the same as David Rovics "Democrats make me want to vomit", they're still the better choice. They're just not going to be the ones we should go to for change.

    • @whatifiputsomethingsilly
      @whatifiputsomethingsilly 2 года назад

      It's so annoying because on the one hand you have people who absolutely hate pragmatism saying that we just shouldn't vote and the Democrats just keep doing nothing (ignoring some obviously good things, for example child tax credit) to the insanity of the Republicans ;-;

    • @mnamesname6059
      @mnamesname6059 2 года назад +10

      Democrats are never a better choice

    • @whatifiputsomethingsilly
      @whatifiputsomethingsilly 2 года назад +11

      @@mnamesname6059 If you care about any marginalized group they really are, even though they refuse to do anything substantial.

    • @ashkitt7719
      @ashkitt7719 2 года назад +13

      @@whatifiputsomethingsilly They are the better choice. Ipecac is also the better choice to bleach in terms of beverages.

    • @mnamesname6059
      @mnamesname6059 2 года назад

      @@whatifiputsomethingsilly Wrong. Democrats are just evil. Republicans may be moderates but they're way better.

  • @__40su
    @__40su 2 года назад

    sounds like something from freedomtoons

  • @chickeness1976
    @chickeness1976 2 года назад +1

    skill issue

  • @Fordring1776
    @Fordring1776 2 года назад +4

    i fundamentally disagree but the thumbnail is really funny

    • @aidank7090
      @aidank7090 2 года назад +14

      K Liberal

    • @Natalietrans
      @Natalietrans Год назад +1

      You don’t even want social democracy?

    • @freudianslippers6567
      @freudianslippers6567 11 месяцев назад +4

      @@Natalietrans Why would people within the leftwing spectrum just want more capitalism?

    • @Natalietrans
      @Natalietrans 11 месяцев назад

      @@freudianslippers6567 I thought they were saying that they were a liberal

    • @yaous2081
      @yaous2081 Месяц назад

      Smartest liberal

  • @ashmarten2884
    @ashmarten2884 2 года назад +1

    Most cursed song x.x

  • @conangaming2156
    @conangaming2156 2 года назад +15

    Capitalism for the win, y’all don’t understand what an absolute god send the free market is.

    • @rom26ik
      @rom26ik 2 года назад +60

      🤡

    • @conangaming2156
      @conangaming2156 2 года назад

      @@rom26ik communists are the real clowns.

    • @whatifiputsomethingsilly
      @whatifiputsomethingsilly 2 года назад +17

      How

    • @conangaming2156
      @conangaming2156 2 года назад

      @@whatifiputsomethingsilly to answer that question I will ask you one.
      How many died under Mao? Or Stalin? Or Castro?
      Any of that is proof enough that Marxism and any of its derivatives are wrong.

    • @Niko_from_Kepler
      @Niko_from_Kepler 2 года назад +15

      Oh, a „god“ person.

  • @IrieFiery
    @IrieFiery 2 года назад

    You should have used a photo of Bernie Sanders.
    Joe Biden is no liberal.

    • @Niko_from_Kepler
      @Niko_from_Kepler 2 года назад +26

      But Bernie has too much backbone to be represented in such a satirical way.

    • @jdw3843
      @jdw3843 2 года назад +3

      Actually Bernie shows up and doesn't necessarily fund things...look at him 45 years ago and his ideas have not shifted enough for anyone to notice

    • @mikem668
      @mikem668 Год назад

      I think you missed the point.

    • @Natalietrans
      @Natalietrans Год назад +1

      1st: how is he not
      2: Bernie is more left wing then the democrats (he is actually an independent)

    • @mikem668
      @mikem668 Год назад +1

      @@Natalietrans I don't disagree with point 2. Biden is an opportunist who blows whichever way the wind does. He's a grandstander, a third-rate mind and politician. He only succeeded because of death: his wife and kids and Covid. The whole term liberal is meaningless unless uttered by someone old enough to have lived through most of Biden's political career. And many of them are old fools, who clutch to their past, while Rome burns. A young Dylan once wrote, Get out of the way if you can't lend a hand. Biden isn't an old wise man or a steady hand, he's a senile mediocrity and grifter.