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Peter Tosh Equal Rights (Legacy Edition)
Label:Columbia
Original Relese ; 1977
CD Relesed :21 July 2011
Peter Tosh served as a counterpoint to the worldwide success of his former partner Bob Marley. Their relationship is often compared to that of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, with Tosh playing the role of the cynical Lennon to Marley's love-song-oriented McCartney. The analogy worked loosely at best, as both musicians simply followed different muses after the 1974 break-up of the original Wailers. Tosh's recorded output had as much cross-over appeal as Marley's more commercial work, culminating in a duet with Mick Jagger on the song "Walk And Don't Look Back." But Tosh always had the more militant stance which resulted in many beatings and arrests leading up to his murder in 1987.
Tosh's 1977 album, Equal Rights, is a peak in his career. It begins with a new version of "Get Up, Stand Up," one of Marley's signature songs (co-written by Tosh). Tosh's version is more sinewy than Marley's, with biting guitar lines snaking throughout. Likewise, "Stepping Razor" struts with a dangerous swagger, "African" plays like a mirror to Marley's pan-Africanism, and "Apartheid" shows that Tosh is not afraid to indict any enemy, no matter how large. But the most chilling song is the title track, where Tosh sings, "Everyone is crying out for peace/None is crying out for justice," a self-assured call-to-arms as pertinent today as it was eighteen years ago. Equal Rights represents Tosh to a tee--no-nonsense, gritty, political reggae with some of the most fully realized and best produced tracks this side of Tuff Gong.
Tracklist:
Disc 1
01. Get Up, Stand Up
02. Downpressor Man
03. I Am That I Am
04. Stepping Razor
05. Equal Rights
06. African
07. Jah Guide
08. Apartheid
09. 400 Years
10. Hammer (Extended Version)
11. Jah Man Inna Jamdung
12. Vampire
13. Babylon Queendom
14. You Can't Blame The Youth
15. Mark Of The Beast
Disc 2
01. Get Up, Stand Up (Alternate Version)
02. Dub-Presser Man (Dub Version)
03. I Am That I Am (ShaJahShoka Dubplate)
04. Heavy Razor (ShaJahShoka Dubplate)
05. Equal Rights (Extended Version)
06. African (London Sound System Dub Plate)
07. Jah Guide (Dub Plate)
08. (Fight) Apartheid (Alternate Version)
09. Vampire (Demo)
10. Jah Man Inna Jamdung (Demo)
11. Hammer (ShaJahShoka Dubplate)
12. Blame The Yout (Dub Version)
13. Babylon Queendom (Dub Version)
14. Vampires (Dub Version)
15. Get Up, Stand Up (Extended Alternate Version)
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