No Condition Is Permanent

Pictured: Fela Kuti.

Much as we’re not usually given to ‘theme’ shows, we can’t ignore the specter hanging over the landscape. That feeling of playing in the ruins, that school is definitely out, no one knowing when it will convene again. Flocks of large black birds spiral overhead, defining then defying the Coriolanus Effect. They shriek as though in collective pain, and are gone in a moment.  During tornado season Midwesterners routinely experience  a world coming apart at the joins. But that vibe dissipates once the rain begins. Not so today. The feeling we now know — and can’t escape — lingers in empty restaurants and theaters, on freeways reenacting the late ’70s. It rolls outward like an unending tidal bore, past geriatric hippies dressed for a moon landing, doggedly pushing their carts into grocery stores long ago ransacked. At the Purple Bat Lounge, regulars peer through various strains of smoke, regarding an unnerved city from a crack in the front door. They look out, then laugh like broken toys, coughing up years’ worth of accumulated THC and nicotine. “Business as usual,” they snort, summoning another round from bartender LaWanda. Regardless, the music plays on…

 

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Here’s what we played in Ep. 219 of No Condition Is Permanent:

THE FIRST SET

The Rolling Stones — “Doom and Gloom” — GRRR!

Fela Kuti — “Jeun Ko Ku (Chop ‘n Quench)” — Afrodisiac

Link Wray — “Jack The Ripper” — The Rumbling Guitar Sound Of Link Wray ‘58-‘62

Jaime Delgado Aparicio Y Su Orquesta Contemporanea — “Sexy Surf” — Movers!

Dave Rowland — “Besame Mucho” — Vampires Cowboys Spacemen And Spooks: The Very Best Of Joe Meek’s Instrumentals

Ali Kocatepe — “Yeni Bir Dünya ‘74” — Saz Beat Vol. 3: Turkish Rock, Funk, And Psychedelic Music Of The 1960s And 1970s

The Chanters — “No, No, No” — Doo Wop Box III: 101 More Vocal Group Gems – The Hits

IT’S MADISON TIME…

Tommy McCook — “Plague Of Horn” — Jesus Dread 1972-1977

THE SECOND SET

Love — “My Flash On You (Mono)” — Love

Alèmayèhu Eshèté — “Tchero Adari Nègn” — Éthiopiques 8 : Swinging Addis

Johnny Spinosa (feat. The Music Makers) — “Monkey Time” — Movements Vol. 10

Sadistic Mika Band — “Time Machine ni Onegai (Time Machine)” — Kurofune (Black Ship)

Terry Corin And Her Boyfriends — “Sick! Sick! Sick!” — Lux and Ivy’s Favorites Vol. 12: The Lux Interior Memorial Edition – Journey into Outer Space

Dr. Alimantado — “Poison Flour” — Best Dressed Chicken In Town

Bill Doggett — “The Worm” — Mighty Instrumentals R&B Style 1963-1964

Alessandro Alessandroni — “Richiamo” — Butterfly

Talking Heads — “Warning Sign” — More Songs About Buildings And Food

THE THIRD SET

The Latinaires — “Camel Walk” — Camel Walk

The Imperials — “Chinese Checkers” — Riot City: Rocking Northwest Instrumentals on Ace Records

Banyen Sriwongsa — “Ramwong Saraphan” — The Sound of Siam 2: Molam & Luk Thung Isan from North-East Thailand 1970-1982

Lester Williams — “I Can’t Lose With The Stuff I Use” — Blowing the Fuse: 1952

Los Satelites — “Ocaso Marino” — Cumbia Cumbia 2: La Epoca Dorada de Cumbias Colombianas

James Brown — “Licking Stick” — Star Time: The Hardest Working Man in Show Business

Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra — “Battle Of The Species” — Liberation Afrobeat Vol. 1

THE FINAL SET

The Arabians — “Crazy Little Fever” — Magnificant 45rpm

The Ethiopians — “Hong Kong Flu” — Train To Skaville

Captain Beefheart — “Click Clack” — The Spotlight Kid

Charanjit Singh — “Ek Din Bik Jayega” — Instrumental Film-Tunes

The Treniers — “Go! Go! Go!” — Rockin’ Is Our Bizness

Pamelo Mounk’a — “Ngaï Mwana Ya Mana” — Pamelo Mounk’a

  LORD BUCKLEY’S WEEKLY BENEDICTION…

Procol Harum — “A Souvenir of London” — Grand Hotel