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.

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Samuel Beckett's Cupcake Shop.

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 11/11/12 Photobucket

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

2. Bevis Frond - Miskatonic Variations II (New River Head)

3. Henry Mancini - Slow Hot Wind (Symphonic Soul)

4. Kay Starr - I Love Paris (Ultra Lounge: Cocktails With Cole Porter)

5. Buddy Morrow and His Orchestra - Candy (Time After Time)

6. Acetone - Border Lord (I Guess I Would)

7. Soft Cell - Down in the Subway (Last Night in Sodom)

8. SPK - Slogun (Auto-Da-Fé)

9. The Shadows - Jungle Fever (V.A. - Del-Fi Jungle Jive!)

10. Bourbonese Qualk - Propane (Unpop)

11. Throbbing Gristle - Catholic Sex (For Paula) (Journey Through A Body)

12. Zombi– New Flame (V.A. ‎– Secrets And Sounds (An Animal Disguise compilation))

13. Alternative TV - Viva La Rock 'n' Roll (Live 1978)

14. Barry Adamson ‎– For Your Ears Only: Alfred Hitchcock Presents/Chocolate Milk Shake/The Man With The Golden Arm (Moss Side Story)

15. Paul Haig (w/Cabaret Voltaire)– The Executioner (At Last)

16. Revolutionary Dub Warriors – Industrial (2nd Version) (Adrian Sherwood Presents the Master Recordings, Volume 2)

17. Les Baxter With His Chorus And Orchestra - Batumba (Tamboo!)

18. The Bonniwell Music Machine - Bottom Of The Soul (S/T)

19. Ria Bartok - Action (V.A. - Mondo Girls)

20. Ann-Margret - The Swinger (Songs From The Swinger And Other Swingin' Songs)

21. Butterfield 8 - Harlem Nocturne (S/T)

22. The Corporation - India (S/T)

Friday, November 9, 2012

Theater of Blood and Bongos: Three Weeks of Playlists

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 11/4/12

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

2. Tangerine Dream - Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares (Phaedra)

3. Can - Entropy - 1970 recorded live somewhere in Germany (Radio Waves - bootleg release)

4. Randy Greif and Dan Burke - Utter Back Fields (Fragment 56)

5. Andrew Belling - Gathering of the Heavies/The Charge of the Heavy Brigade/The Battle Picks Up Tempo/The Punchup/ The Elves Lose 6:36 (Wizards soundtrack - Essential, brand-new release on La-La Land Records)

6. Henry Mancini - Baretta's Theme (Cop Show Themes)

7. The Essence - Like Christ (V.A. - Nocturnal -The Best Of Midnight Music)

8. Andy Fairley - False Starts (System Vertigo)

9. The Longshoremen - The Cab (Grr Huh Yeah)

10. Chrome - Insect Human (Blood on the Moon)

11. Ultravox - I Want to Be a Machine (Ultravox)

12. Laughing Clowns - The Laughing Clowns (History of Rock and Roll - Volume One)

13. The Cakekitchen - Tomorrow Came Today (World of Sand)

14. Monochrome Set - Love Zombies (Colour Transmissions)

15. Cabaret Voltaire - Digital Rasta (Microphonies)

16. R. Dean Taylor - Shadows (Essential Collection)

17. Duane Eddy - Cottonmouth (Duane A-Go-Go)

18. Living Percussion - Jungle Fantasy (Jungle Fantasy)

19. Bobby Bland - I’ll Take Care of You (Best of...)

20. Animals - Gratefully Dead (Animalize - bootleg release)

21. Alexis Corner’s Blues Incorporated - Spooky But Nice - (R&B from the Marquee)

22. Alan Vega - Viet Vet (Collision Drive)

23. Alan Pellay - Parasitic Machine (V.A. - In Dub Daze: An On-U-Sound Compilation)

24. Ananda Shankar ‎– Night in the Forest (Sa-Re-Ga Machan)

25. Eddie Kirk - The Hawg Pt.2 (V.A. - 4000 Volts of Stax & Satellite)

26. Cruel Sea - Down Below (Down Below)

27. Coil - The Hills are Alive (V.A. - Macro Dub Infection (vol. 1))

28. Marianne Faithfull - Strange Weather (Strange Weather)

29. Roy Budd - Car Chase (Fear is the Key Sndtrk)

30. Susan Justis - Theme From Forbidden World (Forbidden World sndtrk)

31. Les Baxter - Hearse of a Different Color (Comedy of Terrors sndtrk)

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Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 10/28/12 1. Walter Schumann - Shadow Waltz (Exploring the Voices of...)

2. Complete Episode of Ach Oboler’s Radio Horror/Suspense show, Lights Out!: The Spider (Original air date: 5/18/43)

3. Mater Susperia Vision - Welcome to the Witchhouse (Second Coming)

4. Anton LaVey - Satanic Mass (Satanic Mass)

5. Louise Huebner - Witches and Wizards (Seduction Through Witchcraft)

6. Bruno Nicolai - Seq. 7 (Virgin Among the Living Dead sndtrk)

7. Bonzo Dog Band - Monster Mash (Tadpoles)

8. Charles Brown - Graveyard Song (Blues ‘n Brown)

9. John Cooper Clarke - Teenage Werewolf (Disguise in Love)

10. Peppino De Luca - Dorian Gray (Shake 5) (Dorian Gray Sndtrk)

11. 45 Grave - Surf Bat (Debasement Tapes)

12. Current 93 - Dog’s Blood Rising (Dog’s Blood Rising)

13. Fad Gadget - Collapsing New People (Gag)

14. Haunted George - Son of Satan (Pile O’ Meat)

15. Satan’s Cheerleaders - Tribute to Elvis (Infinity)

16. Easter Monkeys - Channel Fo’ (Splendor of Sorrow)

17. Birthday Party - Deep in the Woods (Peel Sessions)

18. Blacktop - The Grave (I Got a Baaad Feelin’ About This)

19. Giuliano Sorgini - The Arisen Dead (Let Sleeping Corpses Lie Sndtrk)

20. Artie Shaw and Orchestra - Nightmare (V.A. The Haunted House)

21. Mantovani - The Deserted Ballroom (An Album Of Favourite Melodies, Volume 3)

22. Cyril Smith (with Rudy Valle and his Connecticut Yankees) - With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm (V.A. The Haunted House)

23. T.A.G.C. (The Anti-Group) - Blood Burns Into Water/Dog Star (Digitaria)

24. Ronald Stein - Main Title (Invasion of the Saucer Men sndtrk)

25. Schloss Tegal - Beyond the Wall of Sleep (Oranur III: The Third Report)

26. New Math - They Walk Among You - (They Walk Among You EP)

27. Spencer Moore - Driveway to the Cemetery (V.A. - The Night of the Living Dead Sndtrk)

28. Pete Rugolo - Voodoo Man (Thriller Sndtrk)

29. H.G. Lewis - Excerpts from the soundtrack to Blood Feast (The Eye-Popping Sounds Of Herschell Gordon Lewis)

30. Lawrence Welk - Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte (Today’s Greatest Hits)

31. Malcolm Williams - Opening Credits - Horror of Frankenstein (Frankenstein Film Music Collection)

32. Chrome - Into the Eyes of the Zombie King (Into the Eyes of the Zombie King)

33. Belbury Poly - The Hidden Door (From an Ancient Star)

34. Perez Prado/Shorty Rogers - Voodoo Suite (edited) (Voodoo Suite)

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Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 10/21/12

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

2. Bevis Frond - Miskatonic Variations (The Aunt Winnie Album)

3. Cabaret Voltaire - Kirlian Photograph (Mix-Up)

4. The Coasters - The Shadow Knows (20 Great Originals)

5. Jack Larson - Roaches (V.A. Hollywood Hi-Fi)

6. Kill Ugly Pop - Black Crowe (Leatherface Get Religion ( The Story So Far))

7. MX-80 Sound - Halloween Theme (Das Love Boat)

8. John Cooper Clarke - (I Married) A Monster From Outer Space (Disguise in Love)

9. Japan - Halloween (Quiet Life)

10. Creepniks - Shadow of Elkhart (Graveyard Shindig)

11. James Horner - Carnival After Dark (Something Wicked This Way Comes Sndtrk)

12. Gil Melle - Excerpts from the soundtrack to Intruder Within (Bootleg)

13. Ectoplasm Girls - Continuous Manifestations (TxN)

14. Abominations of Yondo - Black Ashes of Extinguished Suns (S/T)

15. Frank Sinatra - Deep in a Dream (In the Wee Small Hours)

16. Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - Making Love to a Vampire with a Monkey on My Knee (Doc at the Radar Station)

17. Karl Blake - Characteristics of a Rainy Day (Paper-thin Religion - Solo Archives 77-81)

18. Nico - The Sphinx - (Nico Icon)

19. The Raymen - Haunted House on the Hill (The Rebel Years 85-87)

20. Cheater Slicks - Ghost (Forgive Thee)

21. Thee Michelle Gunn Elephant - Free Devil Jam (Gear Blues)

22. The Holy Ghost - Mortician’s Suit Drag (Shot Love on a Black Line)

23. Mick Farren - Bela Lugosi (Vampires Stole My Lunch Money)

24. The Beguiled - Imp of Satan (Blue Dirge)

25. Virgil Holmes - Ghost Train (V.A. - These Ghoulish Things: Horror Hits for Halloween)

26. Ivor Slaney - Walk in the Woods (Terror/Prey (The Original Unreleased Soundtracks))

27. Attrition - Casual Nightmare (Action & Reaction)

28. Savage Republic - Flesh That Walks (Tragic Figures)

29. Henry Mancini - Theme From Phaedra (Our Man in Hollywood)

30. The Creatures - Dracula Trot (Monster Rally)

31. Spike Jones w/ Thurl Ravenscroft - Teenage Brain Surgeon (Spike Jones In Stereo: A Spooktacular in Screaming Sound!

32. Momus - Monsters of Love (Forbidden Software Time Machine)

33. Billy Childish - Living in a Grave (I am The Billy Childish)

34. Ghost - I’ve Been Flying (S/T)

35. Satan’s Cheerleaders - Lysergia (Infinity)

36. Einsturzende Neubauten - Kalte Sterne (Kalte Sterne: Early Recordings)

37. Billy Childish and the Black Hands - The Axeman Cometh (Original Chatham Jack)

38. Route 66 Killers - Mummy’s Curse (Murder on Beaver St.)

38. Advisory Circle - Eyes Which Are Swelling (Other Channels)

39. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins - Voodoo (Portrait of Man)

40. Philly Joe Jones - Blues For Dracula (Blues For Dracula)