NO CONDITION IS PERMANENT [Episode #398 ~ 05-25-24]

Pictured: Tim Buckley.

As unsettling and foreign as Starsailor had been two years before, Greetings from L.A., as the new work was called, is as close to a conventional rock record as Tim [Buckley] had ever made. Starting with “Move with Me,” which sports a juke-joint sax solo and honky-tonk piano, most of the songs find him and the band vamping over relatively direct chord changes and rhythms. “Nighthawkin’” started as a lyric excerpt from Larry Beckett, inspired by a night he walked into a convenience store and overheard a cab driver telling a clerk about a deranged passenger. [Producer Jerry] Goldstein, [guitarist/arranger Joe] Falsia, and Tim turned it into a boogie, complete with slippery lead guitars. (The reference to “a combat paratrooper daddy” could have been inserted by Tim, possibly referring to his father.) “Sweet Surrender,” the album’s most aching ballad, has a cascade of strings that undercuts Tim’s macho cheating-song lyric (“I had to be a hunter again/This little man had to try to make love feel new again”).

— David Browne, Dream Brother: The Lives & Music of Jeff & Tim Buckley.

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Here’s what we played in Ep. 398 of No Condition Is Permanent:

FIRST SLICE O’SCHEIßE…

The O’Jays — “This Time Baby” — Philly Freedom: 70s Dance Floor Anthems From The City Of Brotherly Love

Jo Bisso — “Lovers Concerto” — African Disco Experimentals 1974 to 1978

The Royal Jokers — “Vibrations” — Swing For A Crime

Anandji Kalyanji — “Ganges A Go-Go” — Bombay The Hard Way: Guns, Cars & Sitars

Lil’ Buck & The Top Cats — “Cat Scream” — Feeling Nice Vol. 2: A Collection Of Super Rare & Super Heavy Funk 45s From The Late ‘60s & Early ‘70s

Bilo y sus Típicos — “La Negra” — Merengue Típico: Nueva Generación!

B.B. King — “Poontwangie” — Kent 45rpm

Karl Bryan — “Red Ash” — Dancehall ’69: 40 Skinhead Reggae Rarities

IT’S MADISON TIME…

Edie & Robin with Six Feet Under — “Chocolate Sugar” — LeCam 45rpm

SECOND SLICE O’SCHEIßE…

Omar Khorshid — “Ya Dalaa” — Omar Khorshid With Love

Lil Buck & The Top Cats — “Monkey In A Sack” — Quantic Presents The World’s Rarest Funk 45s Vol.2: Sixteen Heavy-Weight Super-Tough Deep-Funk Ultra-Rarities By Quantic

Keith Hudson — “Musicology Dub” — Brand

The Downliners Sect — “Glendora” — A Slight Disturbance In My Mind: The British Proto-Psychedelic Sounds Of 1966

La Retreta Mayor — “Zambo” — Color De Trópico

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band — “Nowadays a Woman’s Gotta Hit a Man” — Clear Spot

Bokoor Band — “You Can Go” — Ghana Special: Modern Highlife, Afro Sounds & Ghanaian Blues 1968-1981

Junior Wesley & Band — “Go Wesley Go” — Orbit 45rpm

Charlie and His Go-Go Boys — “Let’s A’ Go-Go” — Let’s A Go-Go! Singapore And Southeast Asian Pop Scene 1964-69