NO CONDITION IS PERMANENT [Episode #435 ~ 03-08-25]

Pictured: Hany Mehana and friend.

Having arrived in Egypt 600 years too late to see one of the Seven Wonders of the World – the Pharos lighthouse – I felt I couldn’t leave without seeing one that still exists – the Pyramids. I had always presumed they were in the middle of nowhere, marooned in the desert. In fact they are within five minutes’ walk of apartment blocks in the suburb of Giza. My first view of them is from a traffic jam on Pyramids Road. The 4,600-year-old apex of the Great Pyramid pokes up from behind a block of flats. My first full-frontal view of the Pyramids provokes an heretical comparison with the slag-heaps which used to litter the South Yorkshire countryside where I grew up. They had the same solid bulk, shape and immovable presence. Once free of the straggling suburb we are straightaway in desert. There’s no transition through savannah and scrubland, like in the geography books. The city ends, the desert begins, and it goes on until you reach Morocco. The dustiness of Cairo is explained. Every time a wind blows it dumps thousands of tonnes of desert on the city.

Closer now to the Pyramids and they are awesome. The blocks of sandstone at their base are twice as high as the small children playing around them. The structures rise serene and powerful above us, preserving an unmoving dignity, like great beasts surrounded by insects. Coaches ferry out an endless stream of human insects, deposit them at a tightly packed vantage point where they are assailed by camel-mongers, postcard salesmen, purveyors of trinkets and all the other free market forces which have ripped off tourists at this very spot for hundreds, if not thousands of years.

— Michael Palin, Around The World in Eighty Days

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Here’s what we played in Ep. 435 of No Condition Is Permanent:

FIRST SLICE O’SCHEIßE...

Crown Heights Affair — “Dreaming A Dream” — Disco 75

Orchestre Super Borgou de Parakou — “Dadon Gabou Yo Sa Be No.2 (Afro Beat Dendi)” — The Bariba Sound 1970-1976

The Rockaways — “Normee” — Strummin’ Mental! Vol. 4

The Upsetters — “Thunder Ball (Take 1)” — Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry Presents Soulful I: The Jamaican Upsetter Singles 1969-1970

Alan Dean & His Problems — “Thunder & Rain” — Too Far Out: Beat, Mod & R&B From 304 Holloway Road (1963-1966) (Joe Meek’s Tea Chest Tapes)

Asha Bhosle — “Dukh Bhare Din” — The Rough Guide to Bollywood Legends: Asha Bhosle

The Saints — “One Way Street” — (I’m) Stranded

IT’S MADISON TIME…

William Tasker — “European Women Really Know How to Take Care of a Man” — SuperVixens OST

SECOND SLICE O’SCHEIßE…

Los Pájaros — “Shake It Baby” — Color de Trópico Vol. 3

Roxy Music — “Whirlwind” — Siren

Orchestre Tropicana d’Haiti — “Foufoune” — Yolande

The Trashmen — “Bird Dance Beat” — The Big Hits of Mid-America: The Soma Records Story 1963-1967

Zaenal Combo — “Kaden Sadje” — Padang Moonrise: The Birth of the Modern Indonesian Recording Industry ⋆ 1955-69

Eddie Parker – “I Need a True Love” — Jack Ashford Just Productions Vol. 2

Jah Woosh — “Albert Classau” — We Chat You Rock (Two DJ Clash)

Jack & The Rippers — “Heart Attack” — Concussion!!! 18 Gougin’ Instrumentals 1958-1965

Maha — “Orkos” —Orkos

Jack Lancaster & Robin Lumley — “Duck Escape” — Peter and the Wolf

THIRD SLICE O’SCHEIßE…

Ros Sereysothea — “Shave Your Beard” — Dengue Fever presents Electric Cambodia

The Treasures — “Hold Me Tight” — Phil Spector Wall of Sound Vol. 6: Rare Masters 2

Willi Williams — “Universal Dub” — Messenger Man

Chuck Dallas — “Good Show But No Go” — Dr. Boogie Presents 26 Deranged and Smokin’ Cool Cats: The Rocketing Rise and Fast Decline Of A Music Form Called Rockabilly 1954-1959 (2008)

Chicha Libre — “Danza del Millonario” — Canibalismo

Jóhann Jóhannsson — “Rokkstig” — Dís

Tippie Washington — “Natural Man” — 1st Annual Inner-City Talent Expo (1972)

Setha — “Dteuu” — Thai Pop Spectacular 1960s–1980s