****PETER TOSH - ESSENTIAL****

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****PETER TOSH - ESSENTIAL****

1 Johnny B. Goode Berry

2 Mystic Man

3 Buk-In-Hamm-Palace

4 Bush Doctor

5 Legalize It

6 Get Up Stand Up

7 Legalize It

8 Coming in Hot

9 I'm the Toughest

10 Apartheid

11 The Day the Dollar Die

12 Soon Come

13 Dem Ha Fe Get a Beatin'

14 Don't Look Back (You've Gotta Walk)

Peter Tosh

AlbumEssential (Red Gold and Green)

Release DateApr 27, 2004

LabelEMI Music Distribution

This album is a budget trawl through Peter Tosh's legacy, culling through all his albums to create a short but sweet compilation that just about lives up to its title. As any fan would argue, 14 songs can't really do the former Wailer's solo career justice, but it can provide a good overview, particularly as the set is heavily weighted in favor of Tosh's cultural and tougher numbers. Those include, of course, the boastful "I'm the Toughest," where Tosh takes on all comers, and "Dem Ha Fe Get a Beatin'," in which he threatens to deliver a pounding to anyone who gets in his way. But for all his yardie braggadocio, the Wailer was also a "Mystic Man" and a "Bush Doctor" who was devoted to his Rastafarian religion. In both respects, then, he spoke for an entire generation of Rastas on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as giving voice to the underclass at home and abroad. And it's with these cultural themes that Tosh really hit home. "Legalize It" remains the world's most potent ganja anthem, "Get Up Stand Up" its most empowering. "The Day the Dollar Die" looks forward to the celebration that will break out with the demise of the dollar economy and the economic ravages it delivers upon the poor, while "Fight Apartheid," its title truncated to "Apartheid" here, is a powerful condemnation of that woeful institution. And the strength of Tosh's music equaled the potency of his words and themes. "Buk-in-hamm Palace" is one of his most extraordinary -- a ferocious and funky club-flavored number that chases the vampires right out of the dancehalls. Contrast that disco inferno with his phenomenal dread version of Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode," and you learn all you need to know about Tosh's ability to turn all styles to his own ends. Needless to say, no self-respecting reggae fan would end his or her Tosh collection with this set, but it is one hell of an introduction to Jamaica's late, great son.

PETER TOSH - LIVE AT THE RITZ; NEW YORK USA

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PETER TOSH - LIVE AT THE RITZ; NEW YORK USA


* 00:00:00 - Pick Myself Up
* 00:06:11 - African
* 00:11:04 - Coming In Hot
* 00:15:20 - Walk & Dont Look Back
* 00:22:12 - Mystic Man
* 00:29:11 - Rastafari Is... (cover says Lord Of Lords)
* 00:37:44 - Wanted: Dread and Alive
* 00:43:20 - Get Up, Stand Up
* 00:50:03 - Oh! Bumba Clot
* 00:55:14 - Funeral / Babylon Queendom / Legalize It!


Recorded: July 20, 1981

****PETER TOSH - LA COLLECTION ****

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****PETER TOSH - LA COLLECTION ****

TRACKLIST


01. Peter Tosh – Get Up, Stand Up
02. Peter Tosh – Legalize it
03. Peter Tosh – Equal Rights
04. Peter Tosh – African
05. Peter Tosh – Apartheid
06. Peter Tosh – Hy Must I Cry
07. Peter Tosh – Burial
08. Peter Tosh – Whatcha Gonna Do
09. Peter Tosh – No Sympathy
10. Peter Tosh – Igziabeher
11. Peter Tosh – Ketchy Shuby
12. Peter Tosh – Till Your Well Runs Dry
13. Peter Tosh – Brand New Second Hand
14. Peter Tosh – Jah Guide
15. Peter Tosh – Downpressor Man
16. Peter Tosh – I Am that I Am

DATE 2011

****PETER TOSH - LIVE AT CASINO MONTREUX****

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****PETER TOSH - LIVE AT CASINO MONTREUX****

TRACKLIST


1. 400 Years
2. Steppin' Razor
3. African
4. Get Up, Stand Up
5. Don't Look Back
6. I'm the Toughest
7. Bush Doctor
8. The Day the Dollar Die
9. Burial
10. Buk-In-Hamm Palace
------Encore-----
11. Mystic Man
12. Pick Myself Up


Guitarra Principal: Darryl Thompson or Ed Elizalde
Segunda guitarra: Mikey Chung
Bajo: Robbie Shakespeare
Bateria: Sly Dunbar
Teclados: Robert Lynn
Teclados: Keith Sterling
Coros: The Tamlins


DATE 1979

****PETER TOSH - MAMA AFRICA****

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****PETER TOSH - MAMA AFRICA****

TRACKLIST


1- Mama Africa
2- Glasshouse
3- Not Gonna Give It Up
4- Stop That Train
5- Johnny B. Goode
6- Where You Gonna Run
7- Peace Treaty
8- Feel No Way
9- Maga Dog




mama africa lyrics




(CHORUS)
Mama Africa
How are you doing Mama
Mama Africa
Long time me no see you Mama
They took me away from you Mama
Long before I was born
They took me away from you Mama
Long before I came on in
CHORUS
There's so many things about you
Wondering where you are
They try their best to hide you Mama
But I search and I find you
CHORUS
In you there's so much beauty
In you there's so much life
In you there's so many kingdoms
To me it's out of sight
CHORUS
You're the maker of gold Mama
You're the maker of diamond
You're the maker of pearls
And the maker of all precious goals
CHORUS
I've been waiting, yearning, looking
Searching to find you
I've been crying, praying hoping
That I may find you Mama
CHORUS
You're my mother Africa
You're my father Africa
CHORUS
I'm proud of you Mama
I love you Mama
I'm proud of you Mama
I love you heavenly
CHORUS

johnny be goode lyrics

Deep down in Jamaica close to Mandeville
Back up in the woods on top of a hill
There stood an old hut made of earth and wood
Where lived a country boy named Johnny B Goode
He never learned to read and a write so well
But he could play his guitar like ringing a bell yell
CHORUS (we all know this)
He used to carry his guitar in a gunny sack
Sitting in a tree in the railroad track
Old engineer in the train sitting in the shade
Strummin' with the rhythm that them drivers made
People passing by would stop and say
Oh my oh my what the boy can play
CHORUS
Mama said son you gotta be a man
You gotta be the leader of a reggae band
People coming in from miles around
To hear you play until the sun goes down
Boy someday your name will be in the lights
Saying Johnny B Goode tonight
Fotze Urlaub Camping

****PETER TOSH - MIX****

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****PETER TOSH - MIX****

MIX

PETER TOSH - LEGALIZE IT

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LEGALIZE IT

TRACKLIST


1. Legalize It 4:39
2. Burial 3:53
3. Whatcha Gonna Do 2:25
4. No Sympathy 4:33
5. Why Must I Cry 3:04
6. Igziabeher (Let Jah Be Praised) 4:35
7. Ketchy Shuby 4:56
8. Till Your Well Runs Dry 6:07
9. Brand New Second Hand 4:03
10. Ketchy Shuby 3:15


Label: Sony
1976


BACKING VOCALS: Rita Marley, Judy Mowaat, Bunny Wailer, Peter Tosh
BASS: Familyman, Robbie
DRUMS: Carlton Barrett, Santa
GUITAR: Peter Tosh
LEAD GUITAR: Al Anderson, Donald Kinsey
KEYBOARDS: Tyrone Downie, Peter Tosh
HARP: Robbie, Ras Lee


PRODUCED BY: Peter Tosh
RECORDED AT: Treasure Isle, Randy's
MIXED AT: CBS
ENGINEERED BY: Karl Pitterson, Jerry Smith


LEGALIZE IT LYRICS


Legalize it - don't criticize it
Legalize it and i will advertise it
Some call it tampee
Some call it the weed
Some call it Marijuana
Some of them call it Ganja
Legalize it - don't criticize it
Legalize it and i will advertise it
Singer smoke it
And players of instruments too
Legalize it, yeah, yeah
That's the best thing you can do
Doctors smoke it
Nurses smoke it
Judges smoke it
Even the lawyers too
Legalize it - don't criticize it
Legalize it and i will advertise it
It's good for the flu
It's good for asthma
Good for tuberculosis
Even umara composis
Legalize it - don't criticize it
Legalize it and i will advertise it
Bird eat it
And they leave it
Fowls eat it
Goats love to play with it

IGZIABEHER LYRICS

Igziabeher
Let jah be praised
Negusa neghast
Let jah be praised
Me don e-ah lamb
Let jah be praised
Let him be praised(3x)
He watereth the hills
From his chambers
And the earth is satisfied
So satisfied
He maketh the grass to grow for animals
Jah made the herb for man(3x)
Fret not thyself
Because of evildoers
Neither be thou envious
Against the workers of inequity
For they shall soon be cut down
Cut down like grass
And they shall wither like corn
Let jah arise
And let all his enemies be scattered
Let them that hate jah
Now scat up shut up butt up and flat up
As the smoke was driven away
Jah, drive them away
As the rocks melted
Let them be melted jah-jah
Igziabeher
Let jah be praised
You don e-ah lamb
Let jah be praised
Negusa neghast
Let jah be praised
Let him be praised(4x)
Ahh...lightning
Earthquake
Brimstone
For the fire
I said lightning
Brimstone and fire
Igziabeher
Weakheart scat up shut up flat up and butt out
I feel it
Weakheart feel it
Kill them dead before them spread...

PETER TOSH - LIVE AT THE ONE LOVE PEACE CONCERT

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LIVE AT THE ONE LOVE PEACE CONCERT

TRACKLIST


1. Igziabeher (Let Jah Be Praised) [Live]
2. 400 Years
3. Stepping Razor
4. Intro Rap
5. Burial/Speech
6. Equal Rights
7. Speech
8. Legalize It/Get up Stand Up


Product Details
Audio CD (July 25, 2000)
Original Release Date: July 25, 2000
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Live
Label: Jad Records (Koch)

PETER TOSH - THE TOUGHEST THE SELECTION 1978-1987

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THE TOUGHEST THE SELECTION 1978-1987

TRACKLIST




1. Coming in Hot
2. Don't Look Back
3. Pick Myself Up
4. Crystal Ball
5. Mystic Man
6. Reggaemylitis
7. Bush Doctor
8. Maga Dog
9. Johnny B. Goode
10. Equal Rights / Downpresser Man
11. In My Song


Label Capitol / EMI
Orig Year 1988
Release Date Oct 25, 1990

Not to be confused with another Peter Tosh release of the same name (issued in 1996 on the Heartbeat label), 1988's THE TOUGHEST on Capitol is not a best-of collection that tries to cash in on Tosh's death, but a set of odds and ends mixed in with a few familiar compositions. Included here is Tosh's dub remake of Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode," as well as "Don't Look Back," "Bush Doctor," and such standards as "Coming in Hot" and "Equal Rights/Downpresser Man." THE TOUGHEST offers plenty of gems for longtime Tosh fans and completists alike.


Includes liner notes by Neil Spencer.


Producers: Peter Tosh, Marlene Tosh, Michael C. Collins, Chris Kimsey, Robert Shakespeare.




LYRICS PICK MYSELF UP


Sittin' in the morning sun
And watching all the birds passing by
Oh how sweet they sing
And oh how much I wish that I could fly
And I try
I said I try
I try
I really try try try
But I got to
Pick myself up
Dust myself off
Start all over, again (CHORUS 2x)
Sittin' in the midday sun
And wondering where my meal's coming from
After working so hard
Not even piece of bread at the yard
And I said I try
Oh Lord I try
I try
I really try try try
Sittin' in the evening sun
And watching the same birds passing by
Sittin' and wondering
And waiting for the time for me to fly
And I try
I said I try
Good Lord I try
I really try try try
So long and I just find
It was just a waste of time
So long and I just find
I been been wasting all my time
I've got to pick myself up...

PETER TOSH - NO NUCLEAR WAR

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NO NUCLEAR WAR


TRACKLIST


1. No Nuclear War
2. Nah Goa Jail
3. Fight Apartheid
4. Vampire
5. In My Song
6. Lesson in My Life
7. Testify
8. Come Together


On NO NUCLEAR WAR, the final release of his sadly abbreviated career, Peter Tosh continues to speak out against injustice and oppression. Tosh's rich, expressive baritone is right out front, conveying passion and urgency on every song. The title track begins the proceedings on a serious note, and this feeling continues on "Nah Goa Jail" as he declares his resistance to being imprisoned for using marijuana.


There are a few eerie ironies here. The accusatory "Vampire" contains the sound of a bloodcurdling scream that doesn't sound like mere kitsch, and in "Lessons in My Life," Tosh declares "money can make friendship end." At moments like these, it's hard not to think of his death later that year, in a botched robbery, at the hands of someone he knew. The record ends on a hopeful note on "Come Together," a straightforward plea for unity. On the last track on his final record, Tosh sings with his trademark rawness, and turns in a lovely solo on the melodica, an instrument he mastered when he was a young rising star in the world of Jamaican music.


Recorded in 1987. Includes liner notes by Roger Steffens.


Personnel: Peter Tosh (vocals, keyboards, background vocals); David Madden, Dean Fraser, Nambo (horns); Tyrone Downe, Keith Sterling (keyboards); Scully Sims, Uziah "Sticky" Thompson (percussion); Cynthia Schloss, June Lodge, Nadine Sutherland, Pam Hall, Ruddy Thomas (background vocals).


Audio Mixers: Dennis Thompson; Peter Tosh.


Liner Note Author: Roger Steffans.


Recording information: Kingston, Jamaica.


Photographer: Adrian Boot.


Personnel: Peter Tosh (vocals, arranger, guitar, keyboards); Steve Golding (guitar); Dean Fraser, David Madden, Nambo, Chico (horns); Keith Sterling, Tyrone Downie (keyboards); George Fullwood, Gilbert Morrison, Danny (bass); Santa Davison (drums); Sticky Thompson, Scully Sims (percussion); Ruddy Thomas, Pam Hall, Nadine Sutherland, Cynthia Schloss, June Lodge (background vocals).


Label EMI Music Distribution
Orig Year 1987
Discs 1
Release Date Jul 30, 2002
Studio/Live Studio
Mono/Stereo Stereo
Producer Marlene Tosh; Peter Tosh


NO NUCLEAR WAR LYRICS


We don't want no nuclear war
With nuclear war we won't get far
I said that We don't want no nuclear war
With nuclear war we won't get far


Said no, just another holocaust
It's just another holocaust
And we can't take no more
(CHORUS)


Too many people are hungry
They don't have food to eat
They are naked
'Cause they don't have clothes to wear


They are going insane
Because of the condition
A million babies
Are suffering from malnutrition


CHORUS
I can't take no more


I saw WWI
Where lotsa trouble begun
I saw WWII
When the pirates came right through


Lookin' for WWIII
But you got to set me free
Free from the chains
And this here misery


CHORUS
We can't take no more


Unemployment
I said the rate is high
So much sick people
I'm sure they gonna die


So much mad people
Gettin' ready to explode
'Fore somebody
Come help them carry this load


CHORUS


One country deploying MX
Another country deploying SS
Inflation goin' way up high
And the dollar is going way down low


CHORUS


Crying, bawling, they can't take no more
I hear them moaning they can't take no more
They don't wanna die
They want to go to Heaven, yeah


But they can't
They can't take no more
They gettin' low
They can't take no more


They gettin' grief
They can't take no more
They gettin' beat
They can't take no more


They gettin' lazy
Cause They can't take no more
Bored
They can't take no more


Frustrated
They can't take no more
Pleading for them
They can't take no more


Can't you hear me pleading for them
Cause They can't take no more


They want to live in peace
And happiness
Let the trees grow
Let the waters flow...


LYRICS NAH GOA JAIL


Nah Goa Jail
Said me Nah Goa Jail
Fe ganja no more
I'm a Nah Goa Jail
(CHORUS)
This here smoke
That you see me with sir
I just got it from an officer
And this here little bit of green sensimilla
I just got it from an inspector
He's my friend
CHORUS
When you see me
Walking down the street
It is time that you respect to me
'Cause from I ever know myself
I don't know why you always harass me
CHORUS
I hear one leader say
If it wasn't for the little sensi
Him no know what happen to the economy
I see another leader
Go in a Half Way Tree
And he set them ganja prisoners free
CHORUS
This here spliff that you see me with sir
I just got it from a priest sir
And this little bit of brown sensimilla
I just got it from a minister
My my my friend
CHORUS
I been there too many times...
Too many work to do...

PETER TOSH - THE GOLD COLLECTION

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THE GOLD COLLECTION


TRACKLIST


1. Johnny B Goode
2. Bush Doctor
3. (You Gotta Walk) Don't Look Back
4. No Nuclear War
5. Come Together
6. Na Goa Jail
7. Coming In Hot
8. Pick Myself Up
9. In My Song
10. Reggaemylitis
11. Equal Rights
12. Crystal Ball
13. Vampire
14. Lesson In My Life
15. Testify
16. Maga Dog


GOLD COLLECTION gathers 16 hit tracks by reggae master Peter Tosh.


Collection of classic Reggae from former Bob Marley sideman (he was one of the original Wailers) and solo superstar Peter Tosh. His outspoken nature may have caused outrage during live appearances, but his recorded legacy is as beloved in his homeland as former bandmate Marley's recordings. This compilation features 'Johnny B Goode', 'Bush Doctor', `No Nuclear War', 'Equal Rights', 'Maga Dog', 'Don't Look Back (You Gotta Walk)' featuring Mick Jagger and more! EMI.


Label EMI Gold
Orig Year 1996
Discs 1
Release Date Jan 05, 1999
Studio/Live Studio
Additional Info England


LYRICS EQUAL RIGHTS


Everyone is crying out for peace yes
None is crying out for justice
(2x)


(CHORUS)
I don't want no peace
I need equal rights and justice (3x)
Got to get it
Equal rights and justice


Everybody want to go to heaven
But nobody want to die
Everybody want to go to up to heaven
But none o them (2x) want to die


CHORUS
(Just give me my share)


What is due to Caesar
You better give it on to Caesar
And what belong to I and I
You better (2x) give it up to I


CHORUS
(I'm fighting for it)


Everyone heading for the top
But tell me how far is it from the bottom
Nobody knows but
Everybody fighting to reach the top
How far is it from the bottom


CHORUS


Everyone is talking about crime
Tell me who are the criminals
I said everybody's talking about crime, crime
Tell me who, who are the criminals
I really don't see them


CHORUS


There be no crime
Equal rights and justice (Precedes each line below)
There be no criminals
Everyone is fighting for
Palestine is fighting for
Down in Angola
Down in Botswana
Down in Zimbabwe
Down in Rhodesia
Right here in Jamaica

PETER TOSH - WANTED DREAD & ALIVE + BONUS TRACKS

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WANTED DREAD & ALIVE + BONUS TRACKS
DIGITAL REMASTER

1. Coming In Hot
2. Nothing But Love
3. Reggaemylitis
4. Rok With Me
5. Oh Bumbo Klaat
6. Wanted Dread And Alive
7. Rastafari Is
8. Guide Me From My Friends
9. Fools Die (For Want Of Wisdom)
10. The Poor Man Feel It
11. Cold Blood
12. That's What They Will Do
13. Rok With Me (Alternate Long Mix)
14. Nothing But Love (Long Version) Peter Tosh With Gwen Guthrie




Peter Tosh
Release Date: 07/30/2002
Original Release: 1981