Survival (album)

Survival
Studio album by Bob Marley & the Wailers
Publication (s)	2nd October 1979
Label (s)	Tuff Gong / Island Records
Format (s)	LP, MC, CD
Genre (s)	reggae
Title (number)	10
running time	38:02
occupation	Vocals / rhythm guitar / keyboard / percussion : Bob Marley Bass / rhythm guitar / keyboard / percussion : Aston Barrett Drums / Percussion : Carlton Barrett Keyboard / percussion / backing vocals : Tyrone Downie Percussion : Alvin Patterson Lead guitar / backing vocals : Junior Marvin Guitar : Al Anderson Keyboard / percussion / backing vocals : Earl Lindo Backing vocals : The I-Threes
production	Bob Marley & the Wailers, Alex Sadkin
Studio (s)	Tuff Gong Recording Studio in Kingston (Jamaica)
chronology Babylon by Bus (1978) Survival Uprising (1980)

Survival is a reggae album by Jamaican reggae legend Bob Marley and his band The Wailers . It was released on October 2, 1979. In the song Africa Unite, Marley callsfor pan-African solidarity. Zimbabwe is a stirring hymn for Rhodesia, which was liberated a little later. The song wasperformed by Marleyas part of the Zimbabwe Independence Celebration in 1980 , immediately after the official declaration of independence. Thus, Marley's Zimbabwe is considered the unofficial national anthem of Zimbabwe.

Survival was first called Black Survival to underline the urgency of African unity, but the name has been shortened to avoid misinterpretation of the album's theme. Marley originally planned to release Survival as the first part of a trilogy , followed by Uprising (1980) and Confrontation (1983, posthumously).

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The album was partially censored in Africa (so the records were scratched with knives by order of the government). The colonial powers, especially Great Britain and France , wanted to prevent the militant texts from leading the black locals to revolts and uprisings.

Playlists

Survival (LP, MC, CD)

1. So Much Trouble In The World - 4:00
2. Zimbabwe - 3:49
3. Top Rankin '- 3:09
4. Babylon System - 4:21
5. Survival - 3:54
6. Africa Unite - 2:55
7. One Drop - 3:52
8. Ride Natty Ride - 3:53
9. Ambush In The Night - 3:14
10. Wake Up And Live - 4:58

Survival (CD) (The Definitive Remasters, 2001):

1. So Much Trouble In The World - 4:00
2. Zimbabwe - 3:51
3. Top Rankin '- 3:10
4. Babylon System - 4:21
5. Survival - 3:53
6. Africa Unite - 2:54
7. One Drop - 3:51
8. Ride Natty Ride - 3:50
9. Ambush In The Night - 3:12
10. Wake Up And Live - 4:58

Bonus track:

1. Ride Natty Ride (12 ″ Mix) - 6:23

Survival (LP, 2015)

1. So Much Trouble In The World
2. Zimbabwe
3. Top rankin '
4. Babylon system
5. Survival
6. Africa Unite
7. One drop
8. Ride Natty Ride
9. Ambush In The Night
10. Wake Up And Live

Cover

Forty-eight flags are depicted on the cover, 47 of which are African and Papua New Guinea , which is in Oceania .

Kenya	Angola	Ivory Coast	Ethiopia	Chad	Egypt	Ghana
Senegal	Sierra Leone	Cameroon	Tunisia	Niger	Nigeria	Guinea
Gambia	Somalia	Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso )	Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo )	Guinea-Bissau	Liberia	Swaziland
Madagascar	Togo	Mozambique	Central African Republic	Zimbabwe ( ZAPU )	Seychelles	Zambia
Lesotho	Uganda	Algeria	Mali	Sudan	Botswana	Morocco
People's Republic of the Congo (now Republic of the Congo )	Tanzania	Burundi	Zimbabwe ( ZANU )	Mauritius	Mauritania	Gabon
Benin	Equatorial Guinea	Papua New Guinea	Malawi	Sao Tome and Principe	Djibouti	Rwanda

There are four African countries whose flags are missing: Cape Verde , Comoros , Libya , and South Africa ( Namibia did not have its own flag because it was administered by South Africa at the time.)

Web links

• Survival at Allmusic (English)