No Condition Is Permanent

Pictured: Masters of Reality.

I believe that this is why this most delicately exquisite of intoxicants, this least stupefying of drugs—less so even than marijuana—is nevertheless so addictive. How could the taste of paradise be otherwise? Yes, of course, so much better it would be to possess that taste purely through understanding and living. But as wretched a thing as terminal opium addiction might be, it is no more wretched than addictions of more familiar and acceptable sorts. Opium addicts can live to fine old ages, and can an addiction to paradise, artificial as it may be, be considered more ignoble than an addiction to television, movies, or the other lower artificialities of a world so vacant as to be aware of and conversant in the pseudo-science of serotonin but not of or in the wisdom of Thomas, a world so vacant as to be enamored of the false connoisseurship of rancid grape juice but not the true connoisseurship of something such as opium, let alone of life?

— Nick Tosches, The Last Opium Den.

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Here’s what we played in Ep. 306 of No Condition Is Permanent:

THE FIRST SET

Brother to Brother — “Let Your Mind Be Free” — Disco 75

T-Fire — “Will Of The People” — Nigeria Disco Funk Special: The Sound Of The Underground Lagos Dancefloor 1974-79

PJ & The Galaxies — “Vamonos” — Rare Surf Vol 1: The South Bay Bands

The Tones — “Dream Wonder” — Let’s A Go-Go! Singapore And Southeast Asian Pop Scene 1964-69

Andre Williams & His Orchestra — “Loose Juice” — Movin’ On With… Andre Williams: Greasy And Explicit Soul Movers 1956-1970

I Roy — “A Noisy Place” — Step Forward Youth: Roots Masters from the “Punky Reggae Party”

Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant — “Lover” — Swingin’ on the Strings: The Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Collection, Vol. 2

Los Átomos De Paramonga — “Pa Oriente Me Voy” — Cumbia Arabe (Obscure Psych Cumbia Gems)

IT’S MADISON TIME…

Davie Allan & the Arrows — “Blue’s Trip” — Cycle-delic Sounds

THE SECOND SET

Rachid & Fethi — “Habit En Ich” — 1970’s Algerian Folk and Pop

The Exciting Sparklers — “Pull, Wiggle And Kick” — Show Me What You Got! Sixteen Soul Slathered Sizzlers!!!

Black Sugar — “Valdez In The Country” — Black Sugar II

The Haunted — “1-2-5” — Amy 45rpm

Gyedu-Blay Ambolley — “Mumunde” — Ghana Funk 45rpm

Mike Hanks — “The Hawk” — Instrumentals Soul-Style 1955-1962

The Congos — “Feast Of The Passover” — Baffling Smoke Signal: The Upsetter Shop Vol. 3

Paul & Barry Ryan — “Keep It Out Of Sight” — Halcyon Days: 60s Mod, R&B, Brit Soul & Freakbeat Nuggets

Surapon — “Ding Dong” — Thai Beat A Go Go Vol. 2: Groovy 60’s Sounds from the Land of Smile!

THE THIRD SET

The Velvelettes — “He Was Really Sayin’ Somethin’” — Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971

Tabu Ley Rochereau & African Jazz — “Succes African Jazz” — The Voice Of Lightness: Congo Classics 1961-1971

Small Faces — “Eddie’s Dreaming” — Small Faces [mono]

Kassav’ — “Ida” — Lagué Moin

Jape Richardson & The Echoes — “Monkey Song (You Made a Monkey Out of Me)” — Beat From Badsville Vol. 3

Baligh Hamdi — “Hanim” — Instrumental Modal Pop of 1970’s Egypt

Ramones — “Go Mental” — Road to Ruin Keith Hudson & The Soul Syndicate — “Bad Things Dub” — Nuh Skin Up

THE FINAL SET

Remmy Ongala & Orchestre Super Matimila — “Arusi Ya Mwanza (A Wedding In Mwanza)” — Nalila Mwana

The Flamingos — “Let’s Make Up” — Dangerous Doo-Wop 1

Sapan Chakraborty & R. D. Burman — “Baby Let’s Dance Together” — Bollywood Funk: 15 Funk-Fuelled Grooves From The Bollywood Classics

Masters Of Reality — “The Candy Song” — Masters Of Reality

Pier’ Rosier & Gazolinn’ — “Gadé Moin” — Gazolinn’

The Del-Vetts — “Last Time Around” — Nuggets I: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era

Los Beltons — “Cumbia Pop” — Cumbia Beat Vol.1

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