TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Peter Tosh
Peter Tosh
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.4516
Peter Tosh Album Rankings
1
The more I listen to reggae artist Peter Tosh, the more I have to question why he never achieved the superstardom that his former bandmate Bob Marley did.
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2
After years of being overshadowed byBob Marley, Peter Tosh leftthe Wailersto pursue a solo career.
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3
Scrolls of the Prophetis the first single-disc Tosh best-of to contain tracks from his Columbia, Rolling Stones, and EMI albums.
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4
The Columbia label finally answers Peter Tosh fans' prayers with this seminal three-CD box set.
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5
Wasting no time in the aftermath of Peter Tosh's murder in September 1987, his label, Capitol, quickly readied and released a retrospective compilation, which arrived in the new year.
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6
AsGold Collectionwasn't much of a wrap-up, concentrating so heavily on theNo Nuclear Warset, and certainly didn't deserve any gold medals, EMI/Capitol had another go with this compilation, although to
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7
Captured Live is a good, but unremarkable, latter-day live concert from Peter Tosh that finds the reggae superstar running through many of his most familiar songs.
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13
One of the most ferocious performances of the artist's career, Peter Tosh was initially ambivalent about appearing at the Peace Concert, held in Kingston on April 22, 1978.
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17
Peter Tosh's final album for the Glimmer Twins' imprint label found him continuing to relish his image of urban bandit, as the Wild West-style wanted poster graphics aptly illustrate.
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19
In retrospect, it's beginning to look as though there were some sound reasons why the great reggae invasion never quite caught on in the States.
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21
Peter Tosh's most "accessible" solo album, Mama Africa would also be his best seller outside Jamaica, the only one of his albums to break into the U.K.
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23
His valedictory album has "Lesson in My Life," strangely foreshadowing his murder by a "friend.
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25
In a genre noted for its fiery protest singers, reggae artist Peter Tosh has long been an especially choleric standout.
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28
The words "Wolde Senayet" are scrawled in silver ink across a black-and-white image of Peter Tosh on the cover of this long overdue "best-of" from Tosh's EMI period.
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34
Every great group has its mixture of elements, and the Wailers were no exception. They were far from just Bob Marley's band.
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