BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS—Survival (Island):: This album is something of a comeback from the Jimmy Buffett-in-blackface dope tourism of Kaya , at least as far as getting Marley back on the track of making with the Rastafarian protest songs. All the cuts here are concerned with the cause of Pan-African liberation, speaking in tongues both general ("So Much Trouble") and specific ("Zimbabwe"). If Marleys delivery of his righteous indignation sometimes seems overly muted (to someone more accustomed to the Polemics of the Clash, if not Peter Tosh), hes nonetheless on target philosophically, once more. Not a bad moment for us white folk to begin memorizing all those black-nationalist flags on the cover of Survival, just in case the Third World promo men feel like colonializing us one of these days.

R.R.