NO CONDITION IS PERMANENT [Episode #500 ~ 06-27-26]
Pictured: Ali Hassan Kuban.
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.
LISTEN TO EPISODE 500 OF NO CONDITION IS PERMANENT…
LISTEN TO EPISODE 500 OF NO CONDITION IS PERMANENT…
Here’s what we played in Ep. 500 of No Condition Is Permanent:
FIRST SLICE O’SCHEIßE...
Soul Generation — “Key To Your Heart” — On The Real Side: The Modern End Of Northern Soul
J. M. Tim — “More and More (Ye-Male)” — Africa Airways Six: Mile High Funk 1974-1981
The Routes — “Love Will Tear Us Apart” — Surfin’ Pleasures
Chalermpon Malakum — “Pleng Show” — Thai Pop Spectacular 1960s–1980s
This Heat — “S.P.Q.R.” — Deceit
Los Zheros — “Toro En Órbita” — Psychedelic Cumbia Party
The Brentwoods — “Kooky Buri Buri” — Fun In South City
Ouiness — “Zina” — Habibi Funk 015: An Eclectic Selection Of Music From The Arab World Pt. 2
J.C. Davis — “Coconut Brown” — New Day 45rpm
SECOND SLICE O’SCHEIßE…
Prince Jammy — “Brothers Of The Blade” — Kamikazi Dub
Wire — “Our Swimmer [2nd Length]” — 154
Lee Pei Jing — “Silver $100,000” — Taiwan & Singapore Disco
Ron Rogers — “Yaya” — Mutant Disco Volume 3: Garage Sale
Hamad Kalkaba — “Tchakoulaté” — Hamad Kalkaba and The Golden Sounds 1974-1975
Sammy Cotton & F. Mitchell’s Orchestra — “Back Bitin’” — Stompin’ 22
Omar Khorshid — “Hebbina Hebbina (Love Us Like We Love You)” — Guitar El Chark
Doctor Mix And The Remix — “I Can’t Control Myself (Version)” — Rough Trade 45rpm
Asha Bhosle — “Aye Naujawan Sab Kuch Yahan” — Bollywood Nuggets
THIRD SLICE O’SCHEIßE…
The Undertones — “Mars Bars” — The Undertones
Hiroshi Segawa — “White Room Where We Lived” — Far East New Rock Invention 1969-1975
L.A. Carnival — ”Color” — The Funk 45 Files
Los York’s — “El Loco” — Los York’s ’69
Dusty Springfield — “Bring Him Back” — Where Am I Going [mono]
Malavoi — “Gadé Manzel’” — Mano Césaire Et La Formation Malavoi: La Naissance De La World Music Antillaise En 1969
The Undecided? — “Make Her Cry” — Garage Punk Unknowns Vol.1
The Slickers — “Zion Calling” — Break Through
THE FINAL SLICE O’SCHEIßE…
Donald Austin — “Crazy Legs” — Everything Is Gonna Be Alright: Celebrating 50 Years Of Westbound Soul & Funk
Pamelo Mounk’a — “Buala Yayi Mambu” — Samantha
The Cramps — “Twist & Shout (1977 Version)” — Gravest Gravy
Big Youth — “Marcus Garvey Dread” — Dread Locks Dread
The Velvet Underground — “There She Goes Again (Version 2 / Live)” — Party at Marty’s Place S.F. ’69
Ali Hassan Kuban — “Ya Waladi” — Walk Like A Nubian
LORD BUCKLEY’S WEEKLY BENEDICTION…
Alix Dobkin — “View from Gay Head” — Lavender Jane Loves Women
NO CONDITION IS PERMANENT MERCH!
No Condition Is Permanent 
