No Condition Is Permanent

Pictured: Don Sonrabiab.

He extends the mouthpiece to me, tends to the position of the pipe and the steady coddling of the bubbling chandoo. The taste, the scent—yes, there is to them that lovely, sweet-roasting hazelnut aroma, that delicate perfume of unknown flowers; but these are just the airs that drift through what can only be called ambrosia. My lungs cannot have enough of it, so unimaginable the taste, so soft and gentle the vapors.

“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.”

I am aswirl, bird-soul and breeze, amid the cool high mountain trees of the myriad-meaninged knowledge of that thing, savior and destroyer, within. Never has an afternoon passed in such serenity, in life lived so fully, so freely of the maggots of that glob of gross crenulated meat that we call mind. To be here now, wordless, every breath a bringing forth, peering calm and adrift through the interstices of forever.

— Nick Tosches, The Last Opium Den.

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Here’s what we played in Ep. 351 of No Condition Is Permanent:

THE FIRST SET

MFSB w/The Three Degrees — “T.S.O.P. [The Sound of Philadelphia]” — Love Train: The Sound of Philadelphia

Remi Kabaka — “Aqueba Masaaba” — Son of Africa

The Tempests — “Lemon Lime” — Strummin’ Mental! Vol. 4

Sakir Oner Gunham — “Ben Bu Yaralara Nerden Dus Oldum” — Turkish Freakout 2: Psych-Folk 1970-1978

The Road Runners — “Pretty Me” — Screamers, Bangers & Cosmic Synths Vol. II

Polibio Mayorga y Su Conjunto — “Culebrita Dormida” — Ecuatoriana: El Universo Paralelo de Polibio Mayorga 1969-81

The 13th Floor Elevators — “You’re Gonna Miss Me” — The Psychedelic Sounds Of The 13th Floor Elevators (Mono)

IT’S MADISON TIME…

Don Sonrabiab — “Soul Dracula” — Thai Beat A Go Go Vol. 3: Groovy 60’s Sounds from the Land of Smile!

THE SECOND SET

Wess and the Airedales — “Black Out” — That’s What Friends Are For

Gregory Isaacs — “Embarrassment” — Trojan Dub Box Set Vol. 2

The New Philadelphians — “The Mustang Pt. 1” — Movements, Vol. 10

Henri Guedon — “Zinglindou” — 10 Ans De Musique Caraïbe

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

Tabu Ley — “Paquita” — Congo: Rumba on the River

Lela Martin & The Soul Providers — “You Can’t Have Your Cake (And Eat It Too)” — Melatone 45rpm

Wganda Kenya — “Bayesa” — Wganda Kenya

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers — “I’m Your Witchdoctor” — The Immediate Singles Collection

THE THIRD SET

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

Crystal Image — “Gonna Have A Good Time” — Mainstream Disco Funk

Najib Alhoush — “Free Music II” — The Free Music (Part 1)

T. Rex — “Jewel” — The Peel Session

Joseph Kabasele — “Tujala Tshibemba” — Le Grand Kallé: His Life, His Music – Joseph Kabasele and the Creation of Modern Congolese Music

Ike Turner — “Do You Mean It” — Federal Records 55-60 Story: I’ll Go Crazy

Rung Fah Puping — “Pu Yai Lee Santana” — Thai? Dai!: The Heavier Side of the Luk Thung Underground

The Don Thompson Quartet — “Cheese Blintzes” — Frolic Diner Pt. 1

THE FINAL SET

The Funkees — “Slipping Into Darkness” — Dancing Time: The Best Of Eastern Nigeria’s Afro Rock Exponents 1973-77

Bob Johnson — “Walking On The Moon (Men Are Starving)” — Trip To The Moon: 14 Obscure R&B, Garage Rock And Deepfunk Songs About The Moon

The Aggrovators and King Tubby’s — “Straight To Channel 1’s Head” — Jackpot Dub: Rare Dubs From Jackpot Records 1974-1976

The Velvet Underground — “I’m Waiting For The Man (Mono Version)” — The Velvet Underground & Nico

Los Invasores De Progreso — “Humo En La Selva” — Perú Selvático – Sonic Expedition Into The Peruvian Amazon 1972-1986

Funkadelic — “You Can’t Miss What You Can’t Measure” — Cosmic Slop

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

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Dorothy Ashby — “Soul Vibrations” — Afro-Harping

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Pictured: John Otway.

“Five windows light the cavern’d Man: thro’ one he breathes the air;

Thro’ one hears music of the spheres; thro’ one the eternal vine

Flourishes, that he may recieve the grapes; thro’ one can look

And see small portions of the eternal world that ever groweth;

Thro’ one himself pass out what time he please; but he will not,

For stolen joys are sweet & bread eaten in secret pleasant.”

— William Blake, “A Prophecy” from Europe (1794).

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THE FIRST SET

The Street People — “You’re My One Weakness Girl” — Frankie Crocker “Do It Frankie, Do It To It!”

Livy Ekemezie — “Delectation” — Friday Night

The Chandelles — “El Gato” — Sleazy Surf! Vol. 2

Ongart Jeerapan — “I Come Alone” — Thai Funk: ZudRangMa

The 101ers — “Silent Telephone” — Deviation Street: High Times in Ladbroke Grove 1967-1975

Joe Gibbs — “International Treaty” — Majestic Dub

Wire — “Our Swimmer [2nd Length]” — 154

Fadoul — “Tayeh” — Al Zman Saib

IT’S MADISON TIME…

Soul Continentals — “Goobah (African Twist)” — Funky Crimes

THE SECOND SET

Wganda Kenya — “Combate A Kung-Fu” — The Afrosound of Colombia Vol. 1

John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett — “Louisa On A Horse” — John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett

Sadistic Mika Band — “Time Machine ni Onegai (Time Machine)” — Kurofune (Black Ship)

The Detroit Cobras — “Green Light” — Tied & True

Sonido Gallo Negro — “Inca-A-Delic” — The Rough Guide To Psychedelic Cumbia

The Stallions — “Why” — Hey Baby It’s The Stallions

The Son Of P.M. — “Hey Klong Yao [Klong Yao]” — Hey Klong Yao! Essential Collection Of Modernized Thai Music From The 1960s

Jeff Simmons — “Zondo Zondo” — Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up

Yabby You & The Prophets — “Mash Down Rome Dub” — The Yabby You Sound (Dubs & Versions)

Hallmarks — “I Know Why” — Back from the Grave #4

THE THIRD SET

The Oriental Brothers International — “Tax Drive” — Afro Psych (Journeys Into Psychedelic Africa 1972 – 1977)

John Fred & The Playboys — “Shirley” — Modernists: A Decade Of Rhythm & Soul Dedication

Fatoş Balkır, Ve İstanbul Gelişim Orkestrası — “Hey!… Taksi” — Bosporus Bridges 3: A Wide Selection of Turkish Funk And Jazz

Judi & The Affections — “Dum, Dum, De Dip” — Basement Beehive: The Girl Group Underground

Johnny Zamot — “Soul Makossa” — New York Latin Hustle! The Sound of New York

Ramones — “Cretin Hop” — Rocket to Russia

Wang Xiang Ling — “Love Spirit” — Taiwan & Singapore Disco

Young John Watson — “Space Guitar” — R&B Hipshakers Vol. 4: Bossa Nova and Grits

The Prophets — “Ten To One (Version)” — King Tubby’s Prophecies Of Dub

THE FINAL SET

The Isley Brothers — “Wild As A Tiger” — R&B Humdingers 4

Vaudou Game — “Bella” — Noussin

Roxy Music — “Trash” — Manifesto

Alcibiades y Su Banda — “Bomba de Pobres” — Ecuatoriana: El Universo Paralelo de Polibio Mayorga 1969-81

Buzzcocks — “Time’s Up” — Spiral Scratch EP

Pamelo Mounka — “Non Monsieur” — L’incontournable

Monad & The Electrons — “Foam Song” — Screamers, Bangers & Cosmic Synths Vol. II

LORD BUCKLEY’S WEEKLY BENEDICTION…

Masters of Reality — “100 Years (Of Tears on The Wind)” — Sunrise on the Sufferbus

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Pictured: Joe Gibbs.

Welcome to ‘Tribesman Rockers’, one of the many high spots of the 1978 dub album [African Dub Almighty Chapter Three], conceived, created and superbly crafted by the Mighty Two, aka studio owner/producer Joe Gibbs and his engineer Errol ‘ET’ Thompson. Just as you’re coming to terms with what’s going on around you, a familiar melody percolates out of the maelstrom. Lord Creator’s ‘Kingston Town’. Somewhat disconcertingly, as it’s not really possible to imagine a song further mutated from what its composer intended it to be – either musically or sociologically – yet still remain recognizable.

But disconcerting is just what it ought to be. To take each element of the tune as separate – the bass, the drums, the horns, the bongos, the keyboards and so on – then set out to refocus the whole piece of work by adjusting, tweaking, bringing forward or pushing back each of them individually until the whole is satisfactorily rebalanced is to reach back to Africa and the practices that came over to Jamaica as obeah. Behind the smoke and mirrors and the waving of chickens are the art’s central planks – the far less-photogenic healing ways: homoeopathy, herbalism, that sort of thing. It’s an ancient African medicine that splits the body up into seven centres or ‘selves’ – sexual, digestive, heart, brain, etc. – and by prescribing various herbs and potions would, as practitioners always describe it, ‘bring forward or push back’ different centres; remixing, as it were, a person’s physical or mental state into something very different. In other words, obeah could be used to cure a headache, just as it could make the worst grouch love the whole world or set the meekest of souls up to do battle. In the same way, by adjusting the controls at the mixing desk, a tune as bright and breezy (some might say cheesy) as ‘Kingston Town’ can be reinvented as something so edgy and surprising as ‘Tribesman Rockers’.

— Lloyd Bradley, Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King.

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Here’s what we played in Ep. 349 of No Condition Is Permanent:

THE FIRST SET

Archie Bell & The Drells — “The Soul City Walk” — Philadelphia International Records: 40th Anniversary

Monomono — “Tire Loma Da Nigbehin” — Nigeria 70: The Definitive Story of 1970’s Funky Lagos

The Renegades — “Charge!” — Impossible But True: The Kim Fowley Story

Los Megatones De Lucho — “Pa’ Los Bravo” — Dj Hecu Presenta: Wild Rhythms Vol. 2 By Salsa Son Timba

Don & Dewey — “Bim Bam” — Specialty 45rpm

Money Chicha — “Yo No Soy Turku” — Echo en Mexico

John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett — “Louisa On A Horse” — John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett

The Versatiles — “Push It In” — Trojan Box Set: X-Rated Box Set

Devo — “Uglatto” — Hardcore Devo: Vol. 1

IT’S MADISON TIME…

The New Bangs — “Go Go Kitty” — Beat Jazz / Pictures from The Gone World Vol. 1

THE SECOND SET

Ray Barretto — “Acid” — Acid

The Misunderstood — “My Mind” — Deviation Street: High Times in Ladbroke Grove 1967-1975

Yol Aularong — “Yuvajon Kouge Jet (Broken Hearted Man)” — Cambodian Nuggets

The Flamethrowers — “Whippy Wow” — The Michigan Box: 1950s & 1960s Oddball Labels

Sylvia Hall — “Don’t Touch That Thing” — Cult Cargo: Grand Bahama Goombay

George Clinton & The Parliaments — “The Goose (That Laid The Golden Egg)” — The Singles 1967-1971

Gul Sorgun — “Ara Leyli” — Turkish Ladies: Female Singers From Turkey 1974-1988

The Moon Dawgs — “Baby As Time Goes By” — Trip To The Moon: 14 Obscure R&B, Garage Rock And Deepfunk Songs About The Moon

Joe Gibbs & The Professionals — “Chapter Three” — African Dub All Mighty Chapter 3

Stelvio Cipriani — “Blindman’s Mariachi #2” — Blindman OST

THE THIRD SET

The Only Ones — “Creature Of Doom” — The Only Ones

Junior y Su Equipo — “America India” — Ecuatoriana: El Universo Paralelo de Polibio Mayorga 1969-81

Gram Parsons — “Ooh Las Vegas” — Grievous Angel

Ibo Combo — “Engendre” — Engendre

Roy Brown — “Boogie At Midnight” — Pay Day Jump: The King & Deluxe Acetate Series

Buari — “Ku Ka Maria” — Buari

Whitefield Brothers — “Yakuba” — In The Raw

Juan-Juan Zou — “Pond Side” — Taiwan & Singapore Disco

THE FINAL SET

Dave Hamilton — “Tell Your Mama” — Detroit City Grooves

Yabby You & The Prophets — “Mash Down Rome Dub” — The Yabby You Sound (Dubs & Versions)

Jimmie Haskell and His Orchestra — “Astrosonic” — Count Down!

Armand Pascal Lido & L’Ivoiro Star — “Dogbo Zo N’Wene” — Assalam Aleikoum Africa Vol. 1

Buzzcocks — “Breakdown” — Spiral Scratch EP

Najib Alhoush — “Free Music I” — The Free Music (Part 1)

Rudy Greene — “Wild Life” — Stompin’ 10

La Orquesta Carnaval Swing — “Descarga Colombiana” — The Afrosound of Colombia, Vol. 3

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The Fugs — “Fingers Of The Sun” — Tenderness Junction

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Pictured: Robert Calvert.

An occasional frontman and poet-in-residence with Hawkwind, Robert Calvert was one of the truly great English rock’n’roll eccentrics of our age. As a science fiction poet and novelist, he seemed to be living a decade ahead of the rest of the world, anticipating everything from virtual reality and the internet while cyberpunk author William Gibson was still in short pants, to punk rock while a long-haired John Lydon stood in the audience at numerous Hawkwind shows.

As well as writing “Silver Machine” and its follow up “Urban Guerrilla” for Hawkwind, Calvert used that band, along with fellow English eccentrics Twink (Pink Fairies drummer), Brian Eno, Arthur Brown and Viv Stanshall, for Captain Lockheed And The Starfighters, his first of five solo albums recorded intermittently until his death in 1988.

Songs from the album, such as “The Widow’s Song,” continue to crop up in Hawkwind sets from time to time… The sketches, such as Stanshall’s upper-class German twit in Two Test Pilots Discuss The Starfighter’s Performance are genuinely funny: First pilot: “How does she handle?” Second pilot: “Pretty good. I found I could balance a glass of beer on my oxygen mask, while I was flying it in a slow roll… go into a loop, light a cigarette, peel a banana and thread a needle at twenty-five-thousand feet… go into a dive, do the three-card trick, write my name backwards, catch a peanut in my mouth and juggle my eyeballs from one socket to the other.” First pilot: “Sounds like a pretty nifty kite.”

— Tommy Udo, Classic Rock.

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THE FIRST SET

MFSB — “Brothers And Sisters” — Philadelphia Freedom

Christy Ogbah — “Advise” — Duomo Sounds Ltd: Nigerian 80s Disco Music to Move Your Soul

Zorba & The Greeks — “Shockwave” — The Surf Creature

Perihan — “Nerden Nereye” — Turkish Freakout 2 (Psych-Folk 1970-1978)

Apostolic Intervention — “(Tell Me) Have You Ever Seen Me” — The Immediate Singles Collection

Wang Xiang Ling — “Love Spirit” — Taiwan & Singapore Disco

Dream Team — “I’m Not Satisfied” — Eccentric Soul: The Shiptown Label

IT’S MADISON TIME…

GMC & The Arcells — “The Witch” — Back from the Grave # 10

THE SECOND SET

R. D. Burman Feat. Asha Bhosle — “Mera Naam Hai Shabnam” — The Bombay Connection Vol. 2:  Bouncin’ Nightclub Grooves from Bollywood Films 1959-1972

The Deejays — “Blackeyed Woman” — British Mod Sounds of the 1960s

Johnny Zamont — “Fat Mama” — Rough Guide to Boogaloo Vol. 2

The Cramps — “Zombie Dance” — Songs the Lord Taught Us

Najib Alhoush — “Ana Qalbi Ehtar” — The Free Music (Part 1)

Ohio Players — “Ruffell Foot” — Pleasure

Dead Men’s Orchestra — “Totencombo” — Hồ! #1 Roady Music From Viêtnam

Robert Calvert — “The Right Stuff” — Captain Lockheed & The Starfighters

THE THIRD SET

Phil Flowers — “Twistin’ Beat” — ‘Black’ Rock ‘n’ Roll – Savage Kick Vol. 10

King Tubby — “Stealing Version” — King Tubby’s Hometown Hi-Fi Dubplate Specials 1975-1979

The Knickerbockers — “One Track Mind” — Nuggets I: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era

Orkes Kelana Ria — “Sajang” — Padang Moonrise: The Birth of the Modern Indonesian Recording Industry ⋆ 1955-69

Rangers — “Snow Skiing” — HO-DAD HOOTENANNY!

Dur-Dur Band Int. — “Wan Ka Helaa” — The Berlin Session

Danny & the Demons — “Phelpio” — High School Rumble Vol 2: 18 Explosive 50’s/60’s Instrumentals

Kalyanji Anandji — “Cabaret Dance Music” — The Bombay Connection

THE FINAL SET

Adrienne Posta — “Shang A Doo Lang” — The Girls’ Scene

Pamelo Mounk’a — “L’Argent Appelle L’Argent” — Pamelo Mounk’a

The Stooges — “T.V. Eye” — Fun House

Olmedo Torres y Los Gatos — “Don Alfoncito” — Ecuatoriana: El Universo Paralelo de Polibio Mayorga 1969-81

The James Quintet — “Paw’s In The Kitchen” — Dangerous Doo-Wop 4

Junior Murvin — “Lucifer” — Police & Thieves

Andre Williams — “Whip Your Booty” — Whip Your Booty! Rare & Unreleased Soul, Funk & Dance Jams From The Vaults Of Andre Williams – 1967-1977

Rei Nakanishi & Kunihiko Suzuki — “Kinjirareta Ichiya” — Killing Melody: Instrumental Music from Japanese Pinky Violence Movies

LORD BUCKLEY’S WEEKLY BENEDICTION…

Peter Cook & the Dudley Moore Trio — “Bedazzled” — Bedazzled: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

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Pictured: Najib Alhoush.

They thought I was American and they came up to me and said, “Man we have to score some hash, where can we go?” They asked my name and I told them and Gregory [Corso] said, “That’s a Frog name!” I said, “Yeah, I’m French!” and they couldn’t believe it. Anyway, so we took the Metro and we went to the Bastille. At the Bastille there was a little Algerian place called Chez Madame Ali, and we used to spend a lot of time Chez Madame Ali. Ali was an Algerian fellow, and his wife was French, it was Madame Ali’s place. It was on the Passage Thiere, near the Place Bastille. There was two rooms. The first room was [sic] tables and you would eat couscous and when you entered there you were stoned immediately because the thickness of the smoke was so heavy that you couldn’t breathe without getting stoned, just breathing the air. We would buy little cubes of hash, as thick as a finger, for three francs. It was black stuff, coming specially from Khetama in Morocco, really good stuff. Madame Ali had a dog, and the dog was so stoned, he would always bump himself into chairs. The dog was totally out of his mind, he couldn’t walk straight. To go from here to there he would go around the room. The dog was completely wrecked.

—  Jean-Jacques Lebel, as quoted in Barry Miles’ The Beat Hotel.

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THE FIRST SET

Calender — “Hypertension” — Disco 75

Kris Okotie — “Show Me Your Backside” — Brand New Wayo: Funk, Fast Times & Nigerian Boogie Badness 1979-1983

The Pyramids — “Contact” — Lost Legends of Surf Guitar, Vol. 1: Big Noise From Waimea!

Anibal Velasquez y Su Conjunto — “Cecilia” — Mambo Loco

Alvie Self — “Let’s Go Wild” — Let’s Go Wild

Esmeray — “Ölmeden De Yaşamak” — Turkish Ladies: Female Singers From Turkey 1974-1988

Michael Moorcock and the Deep Fix — “Kings of Speed” — Deviation Street: High Times in Ladbroke Grove 1967-1975

IT’S MADISON TIME…

East-West Pipeline — “Angels Die Hard” — Savage Pencil presents Angel Dust: Music for Movie Bikers

THE SECOND SET

The Nitty Gritty Sextet — “Say Listen” — Let’s Boogaloo Vol. 6: Explosive Deep Funk, Northern Soul & Dancefloor Jazz En El Barrio

Tony & Tyrone — “Turn It On” — The Jerk Boom! Bam! 2

King Tubby & Thompson Sounds — “Loving Dub” — Whip Them King Tubby! Linval Thompson & Friends

The Light Nites — “Same Old Thing” — Best of Dunwich Records Vol. 2

Georgette Sayegh — “Ya Nassini” — The Groovy Sounds of 1970s Lebanon

Mars — “3e” — New York Noise 2016 Edition: Dance Music from The New York Underground 1977-1982

Ros Sereysothea, Sinn Sisamouth And Friends — “Month After Month Always Busy, Can’t Go Out” — Cambodian Psych-Out

Jack Fascinato — “Happy Medium” — Jack Fascinato Arranges Things

Fela Ransome-Kuti & His Koolalobitos — “Omuti” — Lagos Baby 1963-1969

The Missing Links — “You’re Driving Me Insane” — Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire & Beyond 1964-1969

THE THIRD SET

Rob — “More” — Funky Rob Way

Monad & The Electrons — “Foam Song” — Screamers, Bangers & Cosmic Synths Vol. II

Alcibiades y Su Banda — “Bomba de Pobres” — Ecuatoriana: El Universo Paralelo de Polibio Mayorga 1969-81

Paul Gayten — “Beatnik Bounce” — The Ultimate Beatnik Collection Vol. 2

Black Ark Players — “Rasta Man” — Black Ark In Dub

The Kinks — “Got My Feet On The Ground” — Kinda Kinks [mono]

Henri Guédon — “Eti Yo” — Karma

Tony March & The Rockets — “Show Down” — Instrumental Madness!

THE FINAL SET

Les Djinns — “Nadia” — 1970’s Algerian Folk and Pop

The Detroit Cobras — “Cha Cha Twist” — Mink, Rat or Rabbit

Syran Mbenza — “Vie Ya Moto” — Signé Eddy’Son

Don McGinnis — “Star Light Star Bright” — Travelin’ Light

The Aggrovators and King Tubby’s — “You’re All I’ve Got Version” — Jackpot Dub: Rare Dubs From Jackpot Records 1974-1976

Suicide (Alan Vega and Martin Rev) — “Fast Money Music” — Suicide (Second Album)

Najib Alhoush — “Arb Share’I” — The Free Music (Part 1)

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Del Shannon — “Silently” — Home and Away

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Pictured: Anna Karina in ‘Souviens-toi (2017).’

Doris Wishman’s style is all her own. Only Jean-l.uc Godard can match her indifference to composition and framing; if two people are talking and one is partially obscured by a post, so be it-the camera will nat change its angle. Some­ times we are treated to static shots of feet-or torsos, or hands-while voices talk off-screen. At other times Ms. Wishman will trade off shots in such a way that we never see the person who’s talking — instead we watch the listener, his head nodding thoughtfully to words from a speaker we can’t see. Often her camera imitates a human eye roving restlessly around the room, occasionally allowing insignifi­cant objects to hold its attention. for example, the camera might follow a person to a dresser, then stop to dwell on the various items (objects completely irrelevant to the plot) it finds there.

— Jim Morton “Doris Wishman Biography” Incredibly Strange Films.

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THE FIRST SET

Loleatta Holloway & The Salsoul Orchestra — “Runaway” — The Anthology

Rock Town Express — “Peaceful Solution” — Rock Town Express

The Dantes — “Zebra Shoot” — Strummin’ Mental! Vol. 4

Najib Alhoush — “Law Yom Saalak Had” — Free Music Pt. 1

The Bobbettes — “I Don’t Like It Like That, Pt. 1” — Beat from Badsville Vol. 3

Boris Gardiner — “Meltin’ Pot” — I Gotta New Dance

IT’S MADISON TIME…

Alonzo & Boppers — “Juicy Melon” — Las Vegas Grind Vol. 7

THE SECOND SET

Banda Los Hijos De La Niña Luz — “Dejala Corre” — Soundway EP

The Webb People — “Bump With Me” — Dave Hamilton’s Detroit Funk

Augustus Pablo — “Feeling Moody” — Andy’s 45rpm

The Guess Who — “Shakin’ All Over” — Greasy Rock ‘N’ Roll Vol. 2

Chris Ajilo and His Cubanos — “Ariwo” — Catchy Rhythms From Nigeria Vol. 1

The Valentines with Cal Valentine — “That’s It Man” — West Coast Guitar Killers Vol. 3

Baris Manco — “Mozart” — Turkish Freakout 2: Psych-Folk 1970-1978

Gram Parsons — “Still Feeling Blue” — GP

Los Locos Del Ritmo — “Yo No Soy Rebelde” — Santo Presents…Mexican Rock And Roll Rumble

THE THIRD SET

Freddie Terrell & The Soul Expedition — “Itching” — Soul Expedition

Kalyanji & Anandji feat. Anand Prayag & Chorus — “Pretty Pretty Priya” — The Bombay Connection: Vol. 2: Bouncin’ Nightclub Grooves From Bollywood Films 1959-1972

Funkadelic — “Philmore” — America Eats Its Young

The Aggrovators and King Tubby’s — “The Poor Barber (Ali Ba Ba – Jackie Edwards)” — Jackpot Dub: Rare Dubs from Jackpot Records 1974-1976

The Real Kids — “She’s Alright” — The Real Kids

Orti, Mayorga y Chiriboga — “Di Que Me Amas” — Ecuatoriana: El Universo Paralelo de Polibio Mayorga 1969-81

Shadows Of Knight — “I’m Gonna Make You Mine” — Nuggets I: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era

Vaudou Game — “Zorromi” — Noussin

THE FINAL SET

The Modern Lovers — “Roadrunner” — The Modern Lovers

Pasteur Lappé — “Sekelimania (Nku Bilam)” — African Funk Experimentals 1979 to 1981

Wire — “Too Late” — Chairs Missing

Dennis Bovell — “Dub Guide” — Dub 4 Daze

Bob Seger & the Last Heard — “Heavy Music (Pt. 1)” — Heavy Music: The Complete Cameo Recordings 1966-1967

Ralph Robles — “Taking Over” — We Got Latin Soul!

Roxy Music — “Dance Away” — Manifesto

LORD BUCKLEY’S WEEKLY BENEDICTION…

Anna Karina — “Jamais Je Ne T’ai Dit Que Je T’aimerai Toujours” — Bandes Originales des Filmes de Jean-Luc Godard

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Pictured: The b-52’s.

Yet talk of difference concealed important ties. Participant and critic Steven Hager would go on to argue that the Club 57 crowd was “more interested in the sort of sensibility embodied by the b-52’s” than its Mudd Club counterpart, preferring grooviness, camp, and color to dissonance, seriousness, and black, yet the b-52s performed at the Mudd Club several times, Fred Schneider worked at the White Street spot, and his cohosting of the “Hawaiian Beach Party” set the tone for future forays into kitsch and irony. Twisting in the other direction, Mudd Club diehards Amos Poe and James Nares screened films at Club 57, the Contortions performed at the St. Mark’s spot long before they debuted on White Street… “Most of the things were extreme and very sexual, gender-bending or campy — a cross between drag shows and social critique,” recalls Diego Cortez, another participant whose social allegiance was never singular. “It was high-level camp and interesting from a theatrical point of view. I went there all the time.” Nor did clichés about drug consumption straightforwardly apply, for while mushrooms were popular on St. Mark’s Place, heroin hardly went down at all on White Street, in part because coke was the drug of choice, in part because of the sheer impracticality of shooting up in a bar. “Early on there was a bit of a rivalry,” observes [Club 57 founder Ann] Magnuson. “But I hesitate to even call it that now, even though I’ve been quoted saying as much.”

— Tim Lawrence, Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980-1983.

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Here’s what we played in Ep. 345 of No Condition Is Permanent:

THE FIRST SET

KC and the Sunshine Band — “That’s the Way (I Like It)” — KC and the Sunshine Band

Gboyega Adelaja — “Funky City” — Colourful Environment

The Elite UFO — “Tarantula” — Surf-Age Nuggets

Charanjit Singh — “Chhailla Babu (From “Chhailla Babu”, 1978)” — Jonny Trunk & Joel Martin Present Bollywood Funk Experience

B-52s — “52 Girls” — DB 45rpm

Prince Far I — “Message From the King” — Message From the King

Wayne Walker — “All I Can Do Is Cry” — Desperate Rock ‘N’ Roll Vol. 7

IT’S MADISON TIME…

Wganda Kenya — “Combate A Kung-Fu” — The Afrosound of Colombia Vol.1

THE SECOND SET

The Teacher Haters — “Cut Loose” — Wholesale EP

Noppadol Duangporn — “Yaak (Want)” — Luk Thung! The Roots Of Thai Funk: Zudrangma Vol. 3

Sam Gopal — “Cold Embrace” — Deviation Street: High Times in Ladbroke Grove 1967-1975

Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou — “Ahouli Vou Yelli” — Albarika Store Archive Vol. 1

The Royal Jokers — “Beatnik” — Beat, Beat, Beatsville! Beatnik Rock ‘n’ Roll

Hùng Cường & Mai Lệ Huyền — “Hờn Anh Giận Em (Jealousy)” — Saigon Rock & Soul: Vietnamese Classic Tracks 1968-1974

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band — “Safe As Milk” — It Comes to You in a Plain Brown Wrapper

The Lebron Brothers — “Boogaloo Lebron” — Playtime: Pure 70’s Latin Soul & Boogaloo

The Rivingtons — “Mama-Oom-Mow-Mow” — Papa Oom Mow Mow: Rockin’ R&B and Boss Ballads

THE THIRD SET

Don Bruce and The Angels — “Kinuye” — Nigeria 70 Vol. 4: No Wahala – Highlife, Afro-Funk & Juju 1973-1987

Ohio Players — “Runnin’ From the Devil” — Fire

Fatoş Balkır, Ve İstanbul Gelişim Orkestrası — “Hey!… Taksi” — Bosporus Bridges 3: A Wide Selection Of Turkish Funk And Jazz

The Crestones — “She’s A Bad Motorcycle” — The Madness Invasion Vol. 2

Al Massrieen — “Bahebek La” — Habibi Funk 006: Modern Music

The Emperors — “Karate [Mono 45 Rpm Version]” — Penniman 45rpm

THE FINAL SET

The Rubies — “Take It Easy Casanova” — Souvenirs of the Soul Clap Vol. 3

Pamelo Mounk’a — “Ngaï Mwana Ya Mana” — Pamelo Mounk’a 

The Velvet Underground — “Rock & Roll (Full-Length Version)” — Loaded

Abdou El Omari — “Raksatoun Fillail” — Nuits D’été Avec Naima Samih (Yellow Album)

Panic Buttons — “Come Out Smokin’” — The Philly Sound Get Down: Funky Philly Instrumentals

LORD BUCKLEY’S WEEKLY BENEDICTION…

Michael Boddicker — “End Credits (Long Version)” — The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension OST

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Pictured: Mando and the Chili Peppers.

The form of the music boxes was a story in itself. Through its form, the jukebox was supposed to stand out “from its not always very colorful surroundings.” The most important man in the company was therefore the designer; while the basic structure for a Wurlitzer was a rounded arch, Seeburg as a rule used rectangular cases with domes on top. The principle seemed to be that each new model could deviate from the previous one only so much, so that it was still recognizable. This principle was so firmly established that a particularly innovative jukebox, shaped like an obelisk, topped not by a head or a flame but by a dish containing the speaker, which propelled the music up toward the ceiling, proved a complete failure. Accordingly, variation was confined almost exclusively to the lighting effects or to components of the frame: a peacock in the middle of the box, in constantly changing colors; plastic surfaces, previously simply colored, now marbled; decorative moldings, once fake bronze, now chromed; arched frames, now in the form of transparent neon tubes, filled with large and small bubbles in constant motion, “signed Paul Fuller”—at this point the reader and observer of this history of design finally learned the name of its main hero and realized that he had always unconsciously wanted to know it, ever since he had first been overcome with amazement at encountering one of these mighty objects glowing in all the colors of the rainbow in some dim back room.

— Peter Handke, The Jukebox & Other Essays On Storytelling.

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Here’s what we played in Ep. 344 of No Condition Is Permanent:

THE FIRST SET

Rose Royce — “Is It Love You’re After” — Greatest Hits

Segun Bucknor — “Dye Dye” — Who Say I Tire

Jerry Cole & His Spacemen — “Midnight Surfer” — Lost Legends of Surf Guitar, Vol. 2: Point Panic!

Polibio y Su Vibrafono — “Altas Horas” — Ecuatoriana: El Universo Paralelo de Polibio Mayorga 1969-81

The 101ers — “Silent Telephone” — Deviation Street: High Times in Ladbroke Grove 1967-1975

Liu Guan Lin — “Love Dance Theme Song” — Taiwan & Singapore Disco

Warner Bros Combo — “Study Hall” — Ho-Dad Hootenanny!

Tennors — “Ride Your Donkey” — Let’s Do Rocksteady: The Story of Rocksteady 1966-68

Mando And The Chili Peppers — “Congo Mombo” — Golden Crest Instrumentals Featuring the Wailers

IT’S MADISON TIME…

The Ramrods — “Soul Express Pt. 1” — Funky Crimes

THE SECOND SET

Ginger Johnson And His African Messengers — “Witchdoctor” — African Party

American Breed — “It’s Getting Harder” — Best of Dunwich Records Vol. 2

Joe Gibbs & The Professionals — “Jungle Dub” — African Dub All Mighty Chapter 3

Television — “See No Evil” — Marquee Moon

Sonido Verde De Moyobamba — “La Cervecita” — Perú Selvático: Sonic Expedition Into The Peruvian Amazon 1972-1986

Dicky Doo & the Don’ts — “Doo Plus 2” — Crypt of Instros #2

Halim “Janda-Ku” Yatim & the Sangam Boys — “Jauh Pandangan” — Pop Yeh Yeh: Psychedelic Rock from Singapore and Malaysia 1964-1970 Vol. 1

Crabby Appleton — “Go Back” — Crabby Appleton

Van Shipley — “Jan Pahechan Ho” — Bollywood Steel Guitar

THE THIRD SET

James Brown — “Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine” — Funk Power 1970: A Brand New Thang

Pope Flyne Ackah — “I Think You Are Right (Jepense Que Tu A Raison)” — Borga Revolution! Ghanaian Music In The Digital Age, 1983 – 1996 Vol. 2

Public Image Ltd — “Public Image” — Public Image Ltd

Dr. Alimantado — “Ital Galore” — Best Dressed Chicken In Town

Roy Brown — “Butcher Pete (Part 1)” — Pay Day Jump: The King & Deluxe Acetate Series

Ojoobe Ha — “Beware” — Raks Raks Raks: 27 Golden Garage Psych Nuggets From The Iranian 60s Scene

Young John Watson — “Space Guitar” — R&B Hipshakers, Vol. 4: Bossa Nova and Grits

THE FINAL SET

U-Roy — “Penny For Your Dub” — Riding The Roots Chariot

Alan Vega and Martin Rev — “Be Bop Kid” — Suicide (Second Album)

Joseph Kabasele — “Tika Ndeko Na Yo Te” — Le Grand Kallé: His Life, His Music – Joseph Kabasele and The Creation Of Modern Congolese Music

Ron Rogers — “Yaya” — Mutant Disco Volume 3: Garage Sale

Los Kintos / Tin Marin — “Kintos Jala Jala” — Mag All Stars Vol. 3: The Best of The Peruvian Orquestras Of The 50’s & 60’s

Big Brown — “My Testament” — I Still Hate CD’s: Norton Records 45 RPM Singles Collection

The Fore Thoughts — “Jungee” — Pakistan: Folk and Pop Instrumentals 1966-1976

The Only Ones — “Peter And The Pets” — Vengeance 45rpm

Phương Tâm — “16 60 Năm (60 Years)” — Saigon Surf Twist & Soul (1964-1966)

The Yardbirds — “Hot House Of Omagarishid” — Roger The Engineer (a.k.a. Over Under Sideways Down) [mono]

LORD BUCKLEY’S WEEKLY BENEDICTION…

Benny Goodman & His Orchestra feat. Dottie Reid — “Easy to Love” — Jazz and Hot Dance in Thailand

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Pictured: The late Tom Verlaine.

The other night I was walking home from a restaurant when I saw Tom Verlaine going through the dollar bins outside a used-book store. I’d been surprised to see him there a few times in recent weeks. Usually I only spot him somewhere once every two or three years. In public he always holds himself nervously apart from everyone, meeting no eyes, as if he assumes everyone wants to accost him. His head and neck perch like a raggedy spooked hawk on the high bulky prospect of his middle-aged body, above the crowds, his eyes self-consciously focused on something in the distance. When I see him on the street I don’t try to get his attention, but this time I was too curious to let the moment pass. What was he doing? The books in the dollar bins are as useless as they come—outdated textbooks, forgotten mass-market trash, operating manuals. I walked up to him and asked, “Finding out anything about flying saucers?” The last time I’d spoken to him in person, as opposed to a few e-mails, had been seven or eight years before. “Yes, this is the Greek edition.” He grinned at me, holding out a Greek-language three-volume set of some sort, proffering it theatrically, as if it were a great, but fragile, and possibly dangerous, prize and he was an animated cartoon, like Gumby, the way he does. He smiled something else, wide-eyed, going along with the flying saucer stuff. I replied, “I hear Plato came from Pluto.” He continued to smile widely. His teeth looked brown and broken in the night light, even worse than mine (he still smokes), and his face was porous and expanded and his hair coarse gray. I turned away and walked on, shocked. We were like two monsters confiding, but that wasn’t what shocked me. It was that my feeling was love. I felt grateful for him and believed in him, and inside myself I affirmed the way he is impossible and the way it’s impossible to like him. It had never been any different. I felt as close to him as I ever did. What else do I have to believe in but people like him? I’m like him for God’s sake. I am him.

— Richard Hell, I Dreamed I Was A Very Clean Tramp: An Autobiography.

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Here’s what we played in Ep. 340 of No Condition Is Permanent:

THE FIRST SET

The Salsoul Orchestra — “Chicago Bus Stop” — The Anthology

Voices Of Darkness — “Mota Ginya” — Nigeria Disco Funk Special: The Sound Of The Underground Lagos Dancefloor 1974-79

The Jaguars — “Jaguar” — Las Vegas Grind! Vol. 6

Prince Alla — “Naw Go A Them Burial” — Top Ranking DJ Session Volumes 1 & 2

Screamin’ Joe Neal — “She’s My Baby” — ‘Black’ Rock ‘N’ Roll – Savage Kick Vol. 01

Lee Pei Jing — “Silver $100,000” — Taiwan & Singapore Disco

Lora Logic — “Wonderful Offer” — Pedigree Charm

IT’S MADISON TIME…

Soul Continentals — “Goobah (African Twist)” — Funky Crimes

THE SECOND SET

Wganda Kenya — “Bayesa” — Quantic Presents Tropical Funk Experience

Les Fleur De Lys — “Wait For Me” — The Immediate Singles Collection

Ferry Djimmy And His Dji-Kins — “Atakpa DC 9” — Rhythm Revolution

Tom Verlaine — “Mr. Bingo” — Tom Verlaine

Salamat — “Shamandoura” — Mambo El Soudani

Mourning Reign — “Our Fate” — Garage Beat ’66, Vol. 6: Speak of the Devil…

Ray & His Court — “El Bimbo” — Cookie Crumbs: A Funk Anthology

The Move — “Do Ya” — Message from the Country

THE THIRD SET

Ali Hassan Kuban — “Habibi” — Walk Like A Nubian

The Stallions — “Why” — Hey Baby It’s The Stallions

Mohjah — “Zion Gates (Dub)” — Body Beat: Soca-Dub and Electronic Calypso (1979-98)

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band — “Call on Me” — Safe As Milk [mono]

Ersen — “Kara Yazi” — Love, Peace & Poetry: Turkish Psychedelic Music

The A-Bones — “Oh Yeah” — Ears Wide Shut

Los Camaroes — “Boo A Nun Muna” — A Journey Into Cameroonian Music

The Elite — “One Potato” — Fort Worth Teen Scene Vol. 1

THE FINAL SET

Pazy & The Black Hippies — “Elizabeth” — Wa Ho Ha

Iggy & the Stooges — “Death Trip” — Raw Power [Iggy Pop Mix]

The Techniques — “Gambling Dub” — Techniques In Dub

Experience Unlimited — “Functus” — Free Yourself

Crown Heights Affair — “Every Beat Of My Heart” — On The Real Side: The Modern End Of Northern Soul

LORD BUCKLEY’S WEEKLY BENEDICTION…

Ennio Morricone — “L’Assoluto Naturale” — L’Assoluto Naturale OST