Fela Kuti "Zombie" 2025-03-28 over-the-top rock explosions

over-the-top rock explosions

bassist Karl Alvarez (Descendents

and was released just under three months before their album It’s Hard

Available again on collectible cassette

propelling it to become the #2 most Shazamed song in America

Fela Kuti "Zombie" 2025-03-28 over-the-top rock explosionsOn the title track of 1976's Zombie, Fela and the backup singers ridicule the mindset of men in uniform over an urgent, quick march accompaniment from Afrika 70. "Attention! Quick march! Slow march! Salute!" sings Fela, "Fall in! Fall out! Fall down! Go and kill! Go and die! Go and quench!" Each phrase is followed by the women singers' taunting response, "Zombie!" Just a few months later on 18 February, 1977, around 1,000 soldiers, most of them armed,