WHAT GOES ON HERE?

THE USUAL DECAYING CITY IS A RADIO SHOW THAT AIRS ON WCSB IN CLEVELAND, OHIO.


IT APPEARS OUT OF THE FOG AND DARKNESS AT 4:00AM AND LASTS UNTIL 7:00AM ON SUNDAY MORNINGS.

IF YOU ARE IN CLEVELAND, YOU CAN LISTEN IN THE COMFORT OF YOUR HOME. IF YOU MAKE THE SCENE IN ANOTHER CITY, YOU CAN LISTEN ON-LINE HERE.


THE SHOW'S CONTENT OCCUPIES THAT OTHERWORLDLY PLACE IN BETWEEN JACKIE GLEASON'S POT DEALER'S COMFY, MOHAIR COUCH AND THE GHOSTLY STATIC AND HISS ON THE SOUNDTRACKS OF POVERTY ROW HORROR FILMS FROM THE 1930's.

I HOPE YOU DIG IT.

Sunday, September 30, 2012

The Dreams of Agnes Moorehead

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 9/30/12

1. Walter Schumann - Shadow Waltz (Exploring the Voices of Walter Schumann)

2. Jerry Goldsmith - The Invaders (Twilight Zone sndtrk)

3. Slam Stewart - Bye Bye Blackbird (Fish Scales)

4. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - I Put a Spell on You (Live) (Viva Las Vegas - bootleg)

5. Marlene Dietrich - Peter (Falling in Love Again)

6. Live Skull - Pusherman (live) (Don't Get Any On You)

7. The Stranglers - It's a Small World (Feline)

8. John Beal - Chained Melody (Funhouse Sndtrk)

9. Gallon Drunk - Night Panic Bossa (The Rotten Mile)

10. Peter Thomas Orchestra - Moontown (Orion 2000)

11. Frankie Stein and the Ghouls - Bodies Under the Bridge (Shock! Terror! Fear!)

12. Jerry Allen - I Was a Persian Fly (V.A. - Get Smarter: 60s Instrumental Grooves From Around the World)

13. Ink Spots - I Never Had a Dream Come True (Trees Lounge Sndtrk)

14. Lee Hazlewood - Think I'm Coming Down (Poet,Fool or Bum)

15. Llynn Stevens - Picture of a Fool (Hits the Road)

16. London Underground - Strange Things (On U Sound Discoplate 10 Inch)

17. Frank Sinatra - When the World Was Young (Point of No Return)

18. Animals That Swim - Pink Carnation (Workshy)

19. Vincent Price - The Ballad of the Jabberwalk (A Hornbook for Witches: Stories and Poems for Halloween)

20. Shadowbug 4 - Room with Voice (Tiny Voices of Love and Fear)

21. Milton Delugg - Creature From Under the Sea (Music for Monsters, Munsters, Mummies and other TV Fiends)

Milton DeLugg - Music for Monsters, Mummies and Other TV Fiends

22. The Damned - Wait for the Blackout (The Black Album)

23. Jonesy's Combo - Ting Ting Boom Scat (V.A. - Great Googa Mooga)

24. DM Bob & the Deficits - Quit That Job (Bad with Wimen)

25. '68 Comeback - Paper Boy Blues (Golden Rogues Collection)

26. David Bowie - Please Mr. Gravedigger (The Deram Anthology 1966 - 1968)

27. Russ Garcia and Orchestra - Water Creatures of Astra (Fantastica - Mono version)

Russell Garcia - Fantastica: Music From Outer Space

28. Doodles Weaver - Eleanor Rigby (V.A. - Dr. Demento's Delights)

29. Nightmare Lodge - Tentacled (Tentacled)

30. Roy Budd - The Carey Treatment (Rebirth of the Budd)

31. Tangerine Dream - The Big Sleep in Search of Hades (Statosfear)

32. Three Haircuts (Carl Reiner, Sid Caesar and Howie Morris) - Goin Crazy (Rare Novelty)

33. Ace Cannon - Sunday Blues (The Hi Records Years)

34. Diana Dors - Roller Coaster Blues (V.A. - Sex Kittens in Hi-Fi: The Blondes)

35. Leonard Cohen - The Butcher (Songs From a Room)

36. Einsturzende Neubauten - Morning Dew (5 On the Open-ended Richter Scale)

37. The Dave Graney Show - Drugs are Wasted on the Young (Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye)

38. Peer Rabin - Blues for Franz from the film The Third Generation (Film Music From Rainer Werner Fassbinder Films)

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39. Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band - Bluejeans And Moonbeams (Bluejeans And Moonbeams)

40. Cabaret Voltaire - Kneel to the Boss (Voice of America)

41. Kaleidescope - A Beacon From Mars - edited (A Beacon From Mars)

Saturday, September 22, 2012

Boris Karloff's Meticulously Kept Flower Garden

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 9/22/12

1. Walter Schumann - Shadow Waltz (Exploring the Voices of Walter Schumann)

2. Barry Adamson / Pan Sonic - The Hymn of the 7th Illusion (Self-Titled EP)

3. Batcheeba - Those Without Skin (A Collection of Trails)

4. Eat - Mr and Mrs Smack (Sell Me a God)

5. Neal Hefti - Splanky (Pardon My Doo-Wah)

Neal Hefti - Pardon My Doo-Wah

6. Burl Ives - The Almighty Dollar (Sweet, Sad & Salty)

7. Peggy Lee - Sneakin' Up on You (Pass Me By)

8. Kris Kristofferson - Border Lord (Border Lord)

9. Mystic Tide - Mystery Ship (Solid Sound/Solid Ground)

10. Gun Club - Lucky Jim (Lucky Jim)

11. John Barry - Midnight Cowboy (Midnight Cowboy Sndtrk)

12. Kenneth Patchen with the Chamber Jazz Sextet - Do the Dead Know What Time it is? (Kenneth Patchen reads his poetry with the Chamber Jazz Sextet)

13. Cabaret Voltaire - Seconds Too Late (The Living Legends...)

14. Kava Kon - Behind the Sun (Tiki for the Atomic Age)

15. Phantom Band - Nervous Breakdown (Nowhere)

16. Hugo Montenegro - Lady in Cement (Lady in Cement Sndtrk)

17. Dean Martin - Singing the Blues (Country Style)

18. Slim Gaillard - Travelin' Blues (V.A. - Beat Jazz: Pictures From a Gone World)

19. Marty Paich - Drool's Blues (Jazz For Relaxation)

20. Barney Kessell - Summertime (Bossa Nova)

21. Jerry Goldsmith - Border Crossing (The Last Run Sndtrk)

22. Babs Gonzales - The Cool Cat's Philosophy (Tales of Manhattan)

23. The Godz - Permanent Green Light (2)

24. Cicero - Come Together (V.A. - Basic Principles of Sound)

25. Wil Malone - Death Line (Death Line Sndtrk)

Wil Malone - Death Line

26. African Head Charge - Animal Law (In Pursuit of Shashamine Land)

27. Lietterschpich - ZIZ (Cum Blood in the Think Tank)

28. Gun - Situation Vacant (Gun Sight)

29. The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation - Run You Off the Hill (To Mum, From Aynsley and the Boys)

30. Orson Welles / Dana Koproff - Excerpt from the soundtrack to The Late Great Planet Earth

31. Kevin Ayers - The Confessions of Dr. Dream (The Confessions of Dr. Dream and Other Stories)

32. Wally Richardson - Senor Boogaloo (Soul Guru)

33. Vivian Stanshall - LaKonga (extra track on the CD re-ish of Men Opening Umbrellas Ahead)

34. John Barry - Beat Girl (The EMI Years - Vol. 1)

35. Perio Picconi - Sartana (V.A. - More Delicious Spaghetti Westerns)

36. Martin Mull - Humming Song (I'm Everyone I've Ever Loved)

37. Acetone - Endless Summer (Cindy)

38. Henry Mancini - The Whispering Sea (Mono Version) (The Versatile Henry Mancini)

39. Buddy Merrill - Pagan Love Song (Beyond the Reef)

40. Martin Denny - Voodoo Dreams (Hypnotique)

41. Gallon Drunk - Some Fool's Mess (You, The Night...and the Music)

42. Dion - Purple Haze (Dion)

43. Leonard Cohen - Please Don't Pass Me By (A Disgrace) (Live Songs)

44. Phyllis Diller - Cesspool of Culture/I'd Rather Cha Cha Than Eat/Cornflakes on the Rocks (Wet Toe in a Hot Socket - Phyllis Diller with the Three Flames Live at the Bon Sour)

Phyllis Diller - Wet Toe in a Hot Socket

45. Astrud Gilberto - Beginning (V.A. - Basic Principles of Sound)

Thursday, September 20, 2012

THE USUAL DECAYING CITY APPEARS

The first show airs this Saturday morning, the 22nd, from 4am to 7am. Tune in, stream or dream. gleason--acid20trip