No Condition Is Permanent

Pictured: The Feelies.

The ghosts of Manhattan are not the spirits of the propertied classes; these are entombed in their names, their works, their constructions. New York’s ghosts are the unresting souls of the poor, the marginal, the dispossessed, the depraved, the defective, the recalcitrant. They are the guardian spirits of the urban wilderness in which they lived and died. Unrecognized by the history that is common knowledge, they push invisibly behind it to erect their memorials in the collective unconscious. The myth of the city insists on progress, bigger and better and more all the time; nostalgia of the usual sort is founded on regret for vanished coziness and civility. The city’s unconscious is the repository of all that these two outlooks omit, the repressed history of vice and crime, misery and graft, panic and despair, chaos and saturnalia. While New York has adopted as its nickname the Big Apple, that hopeful tag given it by jazz musicians when their art was remuneratively in fashion, the city might more truthfully answer to the twin appellations by which it was known to tramps: the Big Smear and the Big Onion.

— Lucy Sante, Low Life.

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Here’s what we played in Ep. 333 of No Condition Is Permanent:

THE FIRST SET

The Four Tops — “Are You Man Enough” — Fourever

Orchestre Super Jheevs des Paillotes — “Ye Nan Lon An” — African Scream Contest

The Original Surfaris — “Surfs Up” — Lost Legends of Surf Guitar, Vol. 1: Big Noise From Waimea!

Orkes Teruna Ria — “Tak Ton Tong” — Padang Moonrise: The Birth of the Modern Indonesian Recording Industry ⋆ 1955-69

Essential Logic — “Quality Crayon Wax OK” — Beat Rhythm News (Waddle Ya Play?)

The Boris Gardiner Happening — “She Dub” — Ultra Super Dub Vol. 2

Stillroven — “Little Picture Playhouse” — Cast Thy Burden Upon

Johnny Sedes And His Orchestra — “Guajira Dancers” — Mama Calunga

Damn Sam the Miracle Man and the Soul Congregation — “L.A. 26000” — Damn Sam the Miracle Man and the Soul Congregation

IT’S MADISON TIME…

Stelvio Cipriani — “Fifty Women For Blindman” — Blindman OST

THE SECOND SET

Buari — “Karam Bani” — Buari

Lee & The Satellites — “Countdown” — High School Rumble Vol. 1: 18 Explosive 50’s/60’s Instrumentals

Germán Neciosup y Su Orquesta — “Casamiento No” — MAG: 14 Magníficos Bailables

The Cramps — “Bop Pills” — Stay Sick!

Prince Alla [w. Phillip Fraser] — “Black Rose” — Only Love Can Conquer 1976-1979

Two Crows & The Diggers feat. Lloyd Rowe — “Poison Ivy” — West Coast Guitar Killers Vol 2 (‘52-‘69)

Judy Teng — “Looking for Love” — Taiwan & Singapore Disco

Lou’s Band — “Don’t Stop” — Taste Me

Vaudou Game — “Bella” — Noussin

THE THIRD SET

The Contours — “First I Look At the Purse” — Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971

Tito Puente — “Para Los Rumberos” — New York Latin Hustle! The Sound of New York

Claude McLin — “Jambo” — Great Googa Mooga

La Düsseldorf — “La Düsseldorf” — La Düsseldorf

Link Wray & The Wraymen — “White Lightnin’” — Big Box of Link Wray and More Kings of Distortion

Coco Lagos Y Su Orates — “Descarga Jala Jala” — Gozalo! Bugalu Tropical Vol. 1

Mose Allison — “Parchman Farm” — Walk on The Wild Side: The Jazz Side of Mod

Thongmark Leacha — “Teaching the Daughter” — Molam: Thai Country Groove From Isan Vol. 2

THE FINAL SET

The Feelies — “Forces at Work” — Ork Records: New York, New York

Pamelo Mounka — “Non Monsieur” — L’incontournable

Billy Larkin & The Delegates — “Pigmy” — The Rustlers Roots of Funk

The Revolutionaries — “Seventy Nine Rock” — Linval Thompson & Friends: Rockers From Channel One

The Shandillons — “Shoop De Hoop Twine” — Teen Expo: The Cleopatra Label

Bich Loan and CBC Band — “Tinh Yêu Tuyệt Vời (The Greatest Love)” — Saigon Rock & Soul: Vietnamese Classic Tracks 1968-1974

LORD BUCKLEY’S WEEKLY BENEDICTION…

Spike Jones — “Cocktails For Two” — Dinner Music …for People Who Aren’t Very Hungry