Bob Marley and the Wailers persevered against ism and schism of devil philosophy in the Babylon system with this bold statement of liberation through unification. His previous two albums ('Exodus' and 'Kaya') had broken his music around the world and given him a platform from which to espouse his vision of the world. The sessions for 'Survival' took place at Tuff Gong Recording Studio in Kingston, Jamaica were produced by the band with Alex Sadkin and featured Bob Marley on lead vocals, rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, and percussion; Aston "Family Man" Barrett on bass, rhythm guitar, and percussion; Carlton Barrett on drums and percussion; Tyrone "Organ D" Downie on keyboards, percussion, and backing vocals; Alvin "Seeco" Patterson on percussion; Junior Marvin on lead guitar and backing vocals; Earl "Wire" Lindo on keyboards; Al Anderson on lead guitar; and Rita Marley, Marcia Griffiths, & Judy Mowatt on backing vocals.
'Survival' was characterized by a more direct political theme. The album cover was controversial with its depiction of a typical slave ship cargo hold amid the flags of forty-eight African countries. Marley would expound at the time: "Media. If I were in the Newspaper, I would do a lot of interviews, because what I want to say I would get it across. But when you talk to someone, you have to go to someone, and it must be healthy for their business. And if it too militant, them try fi spread a type of propaganda. You know the media (laughs) … Control....Dabble in Politics? I don’t know what that is. You say stand up and talk fi my rights? I know that that is. See? And I don’t care who the guy is… because my right is my right. Like my life. You know? All I have is my life. That means that I can say I don’t want that or I don’t want this. When I check it out, the biggest man was a baby one time, so I don’t know when [they] get all of these big ideas, want to be ruler, want people, and help enforce ‘devilism.’ Can’t dig it. Can’t take it. Me a rebel man. Me a revolutionist...Yeah me see myself as a revolutionary, who don’t have no help. And nah take no bribe from no one, meh fight it single-handed. The music. Rasta is the future. See? (laughs) Rasta is the future...Well, you know, the way I feel about the music… It can be copied you know. But, it’s not copied direct... It’s the feel. You know? It carry a feel. If you ask plenty musicians… Them know it – but them can’t do it. So people still searching for this truth here, which this Reggae music you know, bring cross to them. And the only purpose it serve is to tell the people about Rastafari...In a sense. Me really used to listen to a lot of music, you know? I mean first time… Used to listen to music that play on the radio. We couldn’t afford to buy records so we listened to the Radio, and anything the radio play is that we hear. So I wasn’t really into them thing, I was really into like – they call it spiritual music. You know? ‘Cause it got me revolutionized. You know?...Well I’ve been a Rasta from ever since. You know? But it’s not how long you’ve been a Rasta, it’s how long it take you to grow – because what you is – is what you is. From beginning to the end. You can never change, ‘cause if you even adopt things later – your own fate ah write out. So we ah just Rasta from creation, you know? It’s not an easy thing to explain. We’ve got educated standards and we still have people who can’t do it. But me ah common sense man, that mean when we explain things we explain it very, very simple way that me explain to a baby. The baby’ll understand too, you know? So we ah say now, like the Bible. The Bible say, God say he shall return as the King of King, the Lord of Lords, The Conqueror, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, and him shall come in a new name. And his new name shall be dreadful among the heathen."
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So Much Trouble in The World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou5dkZcZ0Wk
So much trouble in the world now (repeat)
Bless my eyes this morning
JAH sun is on the rise once again
The way earthly things are going
Anything can happen
You see men sailing on their ego trips
Blast off on their spaceships
Million miles from reality
No care for you, no care for me
So much trouble in the world now (repeat)
All you've got to do is give a little
Give a little, give a little
One more time ye-a-h! ye-ah!
So you think you have found the solution
But it's just another illusion
So before you check out your tide
Don't leave another cornerstone standing there behind
We have got to face the day, ooh we come what may
We the street people talking, we the people struggling
Now they are sitting on a time bomb
Now I know the time has come
What goes up must come down
Goes around comes around
So much trouble in the world
So much trouble in the world
So much trouble in the world
There is so much trouble, there is so much trouble
There is so much trouble
There is so much trouble in the world
There is so much trouble in the world
Africa Unite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpfxD0yY6f8
Africa, Unite
'Cause we're moving right out of Babylon
And we're going to our father's land
How good and how pleasant it would be
Before God and man, yeah
To see the unification of all Africans, yeah
As it's been said already let it be done, yeah
We are the children of the Rastaman
We are the children of the Higher Man
Africa, Unite 'cause the children wanna come home
Africa, Unite 'cause we're moving right out of Babylon
And we're grooving to our father's land
How good and how pleasant it would be
Before god and man
To see the unification of all Rastaman, yeah
As it's been said already let it be done, yeah
I tell you who we are under the sun
We are the children of the Rastaman
We are the children of the Higher Man
So, Africa, Unite, Africa, Unite
Unite for the benefit of your people
Unite for it's later than you think
Unite for the benefit of your children
Unite for it's later than you think
Africa awaits its creators, Africa awaiting its creators
Africa, you're my forefather cornerstone
Unite for the Africans abroad, unite for the Africans a yard
Africa, Unite
Zimbabwe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnpBtRlfdjc
Every man gotta right
To decide his own destiny
And in this judgment
There is no partiality
So arm in arms, with arms
We will fight this little struggle
'Cause that's the only way
We can overcome our little trouble
Brother you're right, you're right
You're right, you're right, you're so right
We gonna fight, we'll have to fight
We gonna fight, fight for our rights
Natty dread it ina Zimbabwe
Set it up ina Zimbabwe
Mash it up ina Zimbabwe
Africans a liberate Zimbabwe
No more internal power struggle
We come together, to overcome
The little trouble
Soon we will find out
Who is the real revolutionary
'Cause I don't want my people
To be contrary
Brothers you're right, you're right
You're right, you're right, you're so right
We'll have to fight, we gonna fight
We'll have to fight, fighting for our rights
Mash it up ina Zimbabwe
Natty trash it ina Zimbabwe
I and I a liberate Zimbabwe
Brother you're right, you're right
You're right, you're right, you're so right
We gonna fight, we'll have to fight
We gonna fight, fighting for our rights
To divide and rule
Could only tear us apart
In everyman chest
There beats a heart
So soon we'll find out
Who is the real revolutionaries
And I don't want my people
To be tricked by mercenaries
Brother you're right, you're right
You're right, you're right, you're so right
We gonna fight, we'll have to fight
We gonna fight, fighting for our rights
Natty trash it ina Zimbabwe
Mash it up ina Zimbabwe
Set it up ina Zimbabwe
Africans a liberate Zimbabwe
Africans a liberate Zimbabwe
Natty dub it ina Zimbabwe
Set it up ina Zimbabwe
Africans a liberate Zimbabwe
Every man got a right
To decide his own destiny
One Drop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyLLlgdY2aQ
Feel it in the one drop
And we'll still find time to rap
We're making the one stop
The generation gap
So feel this drum beat
As it beats within
Playing a rhythm resisting against the system
Ooh-we I know Jah'd never let us down
Pull your rights from wrong
I know Jah'd never let us down
Oh no! oh no! oh no!
They made the world so hard
Everyday we got to keep on fighting
Everyday the people are dying
From hunger and starvation, lamentation
But read it in Revelation
You'll find your redemption
And then you give us the teaching of His Majesty
For we no want no devil philosophy
Feel it on the one drop
And we still find time to rap
We're making the one stop
And we fill in the gap
So feel this drum beat
As it beats within, playing a rhythm
Fighting against ism and skism
'Survival'
full album:
All songs written and composed by Bob Marley, except where stated.
side one:
1. 0:00 So Much Trouble in The World
2. 4:00 Zimbabwe
3. 7:51 Top Rankin'
4. 11:02 Babylon System
5. 15:24 Survival
side two:
6. 19:18 Africa Unite
7. 22:14 One Drop
8. 26:06 Ride Natty Ride
9. 29:56 Ambush in The Night
10. 33:12 Wake Up And Live (Bob Marley, Anthony Davis)
bonus:
11. 38:13 Ride Natty Ride
total time: 44:25
Bob Marley: Live in Santa Barbara 1979
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3jtfsJdy8s
1:Positive Vibration, 2:Wake Up And Live, 3:I Shot The Sheriff, 4:Ambush In The Night, 5:Concrete Jungle, 6:Running Away, 7:Crazy Baldhead, 8:Them Belly Full, 9:Heathen, 10:Ride Natty Ride, 11:Africa Unite, 12:One Drop, 13:Exodus, 14:So Much Things To Say, 15:Zimbabwe, 16:Jamming, 17:Is This Love, 18:Kinky Reggae, 19:Stir It Up 20:Get Up Stand Up
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