0411. Peter Tosh
Legalize It

Okay, so you remember I said that the Wailers re-release album cover was the one that gave reggae a push as the go to music for some sinsemilla, right? Well, this is the album that made it into a fact, by simply demanding (that some unnamed one (maybe us? or the powes that be?)) Legalize It.

The title track of former Wailer Peter Tosh's solo debut has become the battle cry of the mellowly intoxicated, but it's not the only good track here. Whether it's protest songs like Burial or praisals like Igziabeher (Let Jah Be Praised) or the solitary No Sympathy, it's great lyrics and / or good melodies making the Bob Marley co-written Why Must I Cry a bit superfluous.

Although he was a multi-instrumentalist [fact check: also he knew knitting and unicycling, making him patron saint of hipsters everywhere] Tosh only played keyboards and guitar on this album, I guess due to both limitations of the equipment and that the band he amassed for the studio really delivered.