No Condition Is Permanent

Pictured: Bobby Fuller & friends.

Back at the dorm by 4:30, I changed straight away and left for the record shop in Shinjuku to put in my hours. I looked after the shop from six o’clock to 10:30 and sold a few records, but mainly I sat there in a daze, watching an incredible variety of people streaming by outside. There were families and couples and drunks and gangsters and lively-looking girls in short skirts and bearded hippies and bar hostesses and some indefinable types. Whenever I put on hard rock, hippies and runaway kids would gather outside to dance and sniff paint thinner or just sit on the ground doing nothing in particular, and when I put on Tony Bennett, they would disappear.

Next door was a shop where a middle-aged, sleepy-eyed man sold “adult toys”. I couldn’t imagine why anyone would want the kind of sex paraphernalia he had there, but he seemed to do a roaring trade. In the alley diagonally across from the record shop I saw a drunken student vomiting. In the game arcade across from us at another angle, the cook from a local restaurant was killing time on his break with a game of bingo that took cash bets. Beneath the eaves of a shop that had closed for the night, a swarthy homeless guy was crouching, motionless. A girl with pale pink lipstick who couldn’t have been more than 12 or 13 came in and asked me to play the Rolling Stones’ “Jumpin’ Jack Flash”. When I found the record and put it on for her, she started snapping her fingers to the rhythm and shaking her hips as she danced around the shop. Then she asked me for a cigarette. I gave her one of the manager’s, which she smoked gratefully, and when the record ended she left the shop without so much as a “thank you”.

— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood.

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Here’s what we played in Ep. 352 of No Condition Is Permanent:

THE FIRST SET

MFSB — “Get Down with The Philly Sound” — Philadelphia International Records: 40th Anniversary

Roger Damawuzan — “Wait For Me” — African Scream Contest

Aki Aleong & The Nobles — “Body Surf” — The Surf Creature Vol. 2

Los Compadres Del Ande — “El Lorcho” — Andina: Huayno, Carnaval And Cumbia – The Sound Of The Peruvian Andes 1968-1978

Rudy & The Reno Bop’s — “Rudy’s Monkey” — Dr Boogie Presents Heavy Jelly

Lee “Scratch” Perry & The Upsetters — “Soulful I” — Return of Django

James Brown — “Mind Power (Alternate)” — Make It Funky: The Big Payback 1971-1975

Dao Bandon — “Tang Ngarn Si Nong” — The Sound Of Siam: Leftfield Luk Thung, Jazz & Molam from Thailand 1964 -75

IT’S MADISON TIME…

T. Valentine — “Hello Lucille Are You A Lesbian” — I Still Hate CD’s: Norton Records 45 RPM Singles Collection

THE SECOND SET

Remi Kabaka — “New Reggae Funk” — Son of Africa

The Gap Band — “Easy Life” — Magicians Holiday

Sinn Sisamouth — “Rom A Go-Go (A Go Go Dance)” — Groove Club Vol 4: Sinn Sisamouth

Bobby Fuller — “I Fought The Law” — El Paso Rock: Early Recordings Volume 3

Perez Prado And His Orchestra — “Kuba-Mambo” — Kuba-Mambo 1947-1949

New York Dolls — “Trash” — New York Dolls

The Techniques — “Marry Me” — Techniques In Dub

William “Bootsy” Collins — “Take A Lickin’ and Keep On Kickin’” — The One Giveth, The Count Taketh Away

Goblin — “La Via Della Droga” — Beretta 70: Roaring Themes From Thrilling Italian Police Films 1971-80

THE THIRD SET

The Wailers — “Mau-Mau” — Golden Crest Instrumentals Featuring the Wailers

Nese Alkan — “Tut Kalbimi Tut” — Turkish Ladies: Female Singers From Turkey 1974-1988

The Squires — “Do Be Oo Be Wop Wop” — Ai! Si! Si!: Mambo & Latin Flavoured Rhythm & Blues

Franklin Koukaka & Negro Succes — “Tombe Mire Spa” — Les Merveilles du Passé 1967

Silvertones — “Get It!” — Lux and Ivy’s Favorites Vol. 11

Mazouni — “Si Massoud (Je T’aime Et Je T’aimerai)” — Un Dandy En Exil / Algérie-France / 1969-1983

Baby Huey And The Babysitters — “Monkey Man” — Mad Mike Monsters: A Tribute To Mad Mike Petrovich Vol. 3

King Tubby — “Rock With I Dub” — Dub Chill Out

THE FINAL SET

Donovan — “Barabajagal” — Barabajagal

Brim — “Anti GanDJa” — Those Shocking Shaking Days: Indonesia Hard, Psychedelic, Progressive Rock and Funk 1970-1978

The Tickle — “Subway (Smokey Pokey World)” — Deviation Street: High Times in Ladbroke Grove 1967-1975

The Aggrovators — “The Big Apple” — Jammies in Lion Dub Style

Flash Terry — “She’s My Baby” — Stompin’ 28

Wganda Kenya — “Yoro” — Wganda Kenya

The Ugly Ducklings — “I’m a Man” — Garage Beat ’66, Vol. 2: Chicks Are for Kids!

LORD BUCKLEY’S WEEKLY BENEDICTION…

Moralito — “La Civilizacion” — Tierra Adentro

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