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Peter Tosh - Mama Africa Audio CD

A fair review of the Peter Tosh "Mama Africa" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Peter Tosh reviews here, or go back to the Peter Tosh tabs.

Peter Tosh Band: Peter Tosh
Title: Mama Africa
Rating:
Release Date: 2002-07-30
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Mama Africa 2: Glass House 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 10: Johnny B. Goode [Long Version][#][*] 11: Where You Gonna Run [Long Version][#][*] 12: Mama Africa [7" Version][#][*]

Sorry for maga dog...
Get "Legalize It," "Equal Rights," "Bush Doctor," and "Complete Captured Live" before you get this. This is an awesome cd, however, this should not be your introduction to Peter's music. They are all better intros to Peter's work than this is. That being said, this is still a great album.

A lot of these songs appear on "Complete Captured Live," and, in my opinion, they are better on that than this studio album. There's just more energy live than in the studio when it comes to Peter Tosh. However, if you don't get this album, you're going to be missing out on some fantastic songs. "Stop That Train," "Peace Treaty," "Feel No Way," and "Maga Dog" are all awesome and don't appear on CCL. "Stop That Train" appears on The Wailer's "Burnin" album, but both versions are equally good with different feels. In conclusion, get this album, but not before you get the albums I listed above.


Outstanding 5 star effort
Great songs, great rhythms. Peter Tosh is in top form on this great sounding cd. I know a lot of folks are going to just listen to some of his better known releases but believe me if you like reggae then you'll love Mama Africa.

One of the big surprises is his take on 'Stop This Train'. Instead of competing with untouchable Wailers' version Tosh goes for more of blues vibe and it works so well you forget all about other versions.


Yes I
I'm 36 now. I've been listening to this album at least once a week since I was 13. 'Mama Africa' is an emotionally overwhelming song for any conscious Black person. 'Where You Gonna Run' insists on love, wisdom and over-standing as the only solution. 'Peace Treaty' is pure politics and last but not least is 'Not Gonna Give It Up' which I think is the most outstanding Nationalist song ever created. it is instructive and it guides the African mind on what his/her mission is. If you listen to how the chorus is orchestrated, you can hear that he is literally hypnotizing us. Psychology 101.


Feel No Way

And even though I try my best
I still can't find no happiness, no happiness"
The words of the truth seeker and philosopher. Not only has this album, originally released in 1983, got an incredible beat that you will give you the reggae sensation through your body, Tosh also gives us the most incredible quotable lyrics such as on 'Stop That Train':
"All my life, I've been a lonely man
Trying to teach people who don't understand.
The album begins with deep spiritual ode to a return to Africa with Mama Africa
There is the catchy message in Glass Houses: " If you living in a glass house, don't throw stones. And if you can't take stones, well then don' throw stones"
The famous reggae rocker Johnny B Goode, the cynical 'Peace Treaty' referring to Tosh's take on Jamaican politics at the time, and the funky Maga Dog. And the rhythmic musing on "Feel No Way' about coming close to 'pay day'.
If reggae is your type of music, then you simply have to have this album
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Buy all the remasters.
Groove," I have all the remastered albums. I am in a position similar to the reviewer "Dr. This one and Equal Rights are so alike in message that Tosh could have released it along with Equal Rights as a double album. Like Equal Rights, this one is a keeper. It has awesome solos in "Glasshouse," and "Not Gonna Give it Up. " All the remasters are worth getting for the rare pictures of Peter, and interviews that were conducted specifically for the releases.


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