No Condition Is Permanent

Pictured: Pere Ubu.

[Pere] Ubu’s music was never going to be accessible enough to reach an American mass market that had scorned the pop sensibilities of the Ramones and Television. Dub Housing and The Modern Dance passed largely without comment, outside the established havens of Cleveland and New York. Ubu’s primary market was England, where Rough Trade had provided the groundwork by distributing the Hearthan [label] singles, and where Ubu managed two tours in April and November of 1978, both critically acclaimed and well attended. Ironically, despite directly benefiting from the climate established by the English New Wave, Thomas has nothing but contempt for England’s punk exponents.

David Thomas: Punk to us was an alien thing. It wasn’t what we were doing. We weren’t doing loud, thrashing, anti-social, adolescent music. We saw ourselves as being more mature than that, more serious than that. We were embarrassed to be associated with the punk movement. We had done that three years earlier, four years earlier. We were doing the same thing in Rocket from the Tombs, but we had passed that stage and I hate to see things regress ’cause we were very serious about pushing music forward. You hate to see things cycle back which is what they always do.

— Clinton Heylin, From the Velvets to the Voidoids: The Birth of American Punk Rock.

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Here’s what we played in Ep. 375 of No Condition Is Permanent:

THE FIRST SET

First Choice — “Armed and Extremely Dangerous” — Sweet Soul Music: 23 Scorching Classics from 1973

Pat Thomas — “Yesu San Bra” — The Rough Guide to African Disco

Davie Allan & The Arrows — “Moondawg ’65” — Devil’s Rumble: The Davie Allan & The Arrows Anthology

Ersen — “Cakmagicak” — Turkish Freakout: Psych-Folk Singles 1969-1980

Bill Allen & The Backbeats — “Please Give Me Something” — The Roots of Psychobilly

The La Playa Orchestra — “Olvidate De Mi” — Boogaloo Pow Wow: Dancefloor Rendez-Vous In Young Nuyorica

Pere Ubu — “Waiting for Mary” — Cloudland

Susan Cadogan — “Dub It” — Clocktower 45rpm

IT’S MADISON TIME…

Ennio Morricone — “Twist Delle Zitelle” — I Malamondo OST

THE SECOND SET

Gene Walker And His Combo — “Empire City” — Blunderbuss: Scattershot Sleaze 58-67

Dur-Dur Band Int. — “Duurka” — The Berlin Session

The Equals — “Green Light” — Greatest Hits

Les Abranis — “Id Ed Was” — Amazigh Freedom Rock 1973–1983

The Loving Machines — “The Loving Machine” — Ho-Dad Hootenanny Too!

Joe Gibbs & The Professionals — “Bionic Encounter” — Majestic Dub

The Yardbirds — “Happenings Ten Years Time Ago” — Ultimate!

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

Nolan Strong & The Diablos — “Mind Over Matter” — Dirty Boogie: The Fortune Records Story

THE THIRD SET

Los Dandy’s — “Normal Nomás” — Lindo Amorcito

Ron Nagle — “Marijuana Hell” — Bad Rice

Teresa Khoo & Her Five Notes — “You Don’t Know, Baby” — Singapore Nuggets: The Ladies

The Undecided? — “Make Her Cry” — Garage Punk Unknowns Vol.1

Shorty The President — “Control Dub” — DJ Jamaica: Inna Fine Dub Style

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

Kassav’ — “Lagué Moin” — Lagué Moin

Abstracts — “The Beard” — Las Vegas Grind Vol. 7

THE FINAL SET

The Revolutionaries — “Kunta Kinte Version One” — Drum Sound: More Gems from Channel One Dub Room 1974-1980

The Necessaries — “You Can Borrow My Car” — Spy 45rpm

Afrosound — “Una Abeja En El Semáforo” — The Afrosound Of Colombia Vol. 2

Martha & The Vandellas — “(Love Is Like A) Heat Wave” — Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971

Afida Es & the Siglap Boys — “Jangan Goda” — Pop Yeh Yeh: Psychedelic Rock from Singapore and Malaysia 1964-1970 Vol. 1

Wire — “A Question Of Degree (Single Version)” — 154

Jimmy Sabater — “Times Are Changin’” — I Gotta New Dance

Jimmy Castor Bunch — “E-Man Par-Tay” — Maximum Stimulation

LORD BUCKLEY’S WEEKLY BENEDICTION…

Brigitte Bardot & Serge Gainsbourg — “Je T’aime…Moi Non Plus [1967 Original Version]” — Brigitte Bardot: Best of BB

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