Survival (album)

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Survival
Survival cover
Studio album by Bob Marley & The Wailers
Released October 2, 1979
Recorded Tuff Gong Recording Studio, Kingston, Jamaica
Genre Reggae
Length 38:02
Label Tuff Gong/Island
Producer Bob Marley & The Wailers, Alex Sadkin
Professional reviews
Bob Marley & The Wailers chronology
Babylon by Bus
(1978)		 Survival
(1979)		 Uprising
(1980)

Survival is a roots reggae album by Bob Marley & The Wailers released in 1979.

In the song Africa Unite, Marley proclaims Pan-African solidarity. The song "Zimbabwe" is a hymn dedicated to later-independent Rhodesia. The song has been performed at Zimbabwe's Independence Celebration in 1980, just after the official declaration of Zimbabwe's independence. "Zimbabwe" is seen as an unofficial national song.

Survival was primarily called Black Survival to underscore the urgency of African unity, but the name was shortened to prevent misinterpretations of the album's theme. Marley originally planned to publish Survival as the first part of a trilogy, followed by Uprising in 1980 and Confrontation in 1983.

In South Africa the album has been partly censored (scratched with knives on arrangement of the local governments).

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All tracks written by Bob Marley, except where noted.

[edit] Side one

  1. "So Much Trouble in the World" – 4:00
  2. "Zimbabwe" – 3:51
  3. "Top Rankin'" – 3:11
  4. "Babylon System" – 4:21
  5. "Survival" – 3:54

[edit] Side two

  1. "Africa Unite" – 2:55
  2. "One Drop" – 3:51
  3. "Ride Natty Ride" – 3:51
  4. "Ambush in the Night" – 3:14
  5. "Wake Up and Live" (Marley/Davis) – 5:00

[edit] Musicians

[edit] Flags on album cover

The record album front cover (shown top right) depicts 48 flags of 47 African countries and one flag of a Pacific island nation (row 7, column 3; perhaps included in error). Presumably the flags were in use when the album was designed, in preparation for publishing in 1979, though many became obsolete.

Below are listed the 7 rows, top to bottom, then the 7 flags in each row--left to right.

  1. Kenya, Angola, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Chad, Egypt, Ghana.
  2. Senegal, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Tunisia, Niger, Nigeria, Guinea.
  3. The Gambia, Somalia, Upper Volta, République Démocratique du Congo (Kinshasa)(Zaire), Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Swaziland.
  4. Madagascar, Togo, Mozambique, Central African Republic, Zimbabwe, Seychelles, Zambia.
  5. Lesotho, Uganda, Algeria, Mali, Sudan, Botswana, Morocco.
  6. République du Congo (Brazzaville), Tanzania, Burundi, Zimbabwe, Mauritius, Mauritania, Gabon.
  7. Benin, Equatorial Guinea, Papua-New Guinea, Malawi, Sao Tome and Principe, Djibouti, Rwanda.

See note about the 2 Zimbabwe flags in source #1 below. No flags are shown for these 7 countries in or off the coast of Africa: Cape Verde, Comoros, Eritrea, Libya, Namibia, South Africa, and Western Sahara.

Flag sources--

  1. Flags of the World (Web site) http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/ . The 2 Zimbabwe flags (row 4, column 5; and row 6, column 4) are Z.A.P.U. political party flags. They are at (Web site) http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/zw%7D.html .
  2. Flag Identifier by Ivan Sarajcic (Web site) http://www.flagid.org .
  3. Siobhan Ryan, editor, Flags: The visual guide to more than 300 flags from around the world (Eyewitness Handbooks, DK Publishing, New York, NY, USA, 1997) ISBN 0-7894-4224-8.
  4. Robert Famighetti, editor, The World Almanac 1994 (Funk and Wagnalls, Mahwah, NJ, USA) ISBN 0-88687-745-8; pages 481-484.

[edit] External links