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, April 28, 2013

Ode to Allan Arbus

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 4/28/13

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

Gandalf - Nature Boy (S/T)

The Godz - Permanent Green Light (2)

Kenny and the Kasuals - Stings of Time (Nothing Better To Do)

Kraftwerk - Metropolis (The Man Machine)

The Fall - Elf Prefix/L.A. (Seminal Live)

Johnny Dowd - Butcher's Son (Pictures From Life's Other Side)

Ronnie Price with Arthur Greenslade - Church Windows (V.A. - Love Organs)

Kris Kristofferson - Stairway to the Bottom (Spooky Lady's Sideshow)

Nikki Sudden - Opium Pit (Extra Track on the Waiting on Egypt CD release)

The Flesh Eaters - Dragstrip Riot (Dragstrip Riot)

Stelvio Cipriani - Adventure Flight / Concorde Theme (Concorde Affair Sndtrk)

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Frank Sinatra - (Love is) A Tender Trap (Sinatra at the Movies)

Francesco De Masi & Alessandro Alessandroni - Qualsiasi Cosa (Lesbo Sndtrk)

Nick Garrie - The Nightmare of J.B. Stanislas (The Nightmare of J.B. Stanislas)

Cyclobe - Tarot (Sulphur, Tarot, Garden)

Zoogz Rift - Ah Peeked In Duh Devil's Secret Hell Files (Water II: At Safe Distance) ‎

Green on Red - Aspirin (S/T)

The Damned - Shadow of Love (Phantasmagoria)

The Screws - Story 16 (Shake Your Monkey)

Van Der Graaf Generator - Killer ('69-'71)

Hound Dog Taylor - Take Five (Natural Boogie)

Walter Christian Rothe - On the Beach (Solitude)

Berkowitz Lake & Dahmer - Fluids For Dark Pleasures (V.A: Malpractice - A Fflint Central Primer)

Stack Waddy - With One Leap Dan Was By Her Side, 'Muriel' He Breathed (S/T)

Van Morrison - Madame George (Bang Masters)

Stack Waddy - Meat Pies 'Ave Come But Band's Not Here Yet (Bugger Off!)

Glaxo Babies - Avoiding the Issue (Dreams Interrupted)

'68 Comeback - Shake Your Hips (Golden Rogues Collection)

Forever Amber - Better Things Are Bound To Come / On a Night In Winter (The Love Cycle)

Stu Phillips - Slim's Return / Shadows (performed by The Electric Prunes (The Name of the Game is Kill Sndtrk)

Sonny Bono and Cher - Chastity's Song (Band of Thieves) / Chastity's Overture (Chastity Sndtrk)

Russ Garcia - Ill Wind (Sounds in the Night)

Willie Nelson - September Song (Stardust)

The Inkspots - Java Jive (Instant Classics)

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

The Sweet Sound of Decadence

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 4/21/13

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

Alex Chilton - I Can Dig It (1970)

Roxy Music - The Bogus Man (For Your Pleasure)

Red Beat - Red Beat (V.A. Wild Dub: Dread Meets Punk Rocker Downtown)

Stanley Myers - Harry (End Titles) (Sitting Target Sndtrk)

Mario Nascimbene - Main Title Theme (Dick Smart 2.007 Sndtrk)

Johnny Mandel - Harper (Main Title)/Quietly There (w/ Ruth Price) (Harper Sndtrk)

André Hossein - The Rope And The Colt - Générique (w/ Scott Walker) / Concerto Pour Guitare (Scéne D'Amour) (Cemetary Without Crosses Sndtrk)

Larry Schaffer Orchestra - Two Guitars (Mission Impossible)

Jim Helms - Cain's Theme (Kung Fu Sndtrk)

Elmer Bernstein - Black Straight Jacket (The Caretakers Sndtrk)

David Axelrod - Ken Russell (Seriously Deep)

Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats (20 Jazz Funk Greats)

Cabaret Voltaire - Slammer (Microphonies)

Nancy Sinatra - The Last of the Secret Agents (The Last of the Secret Agents Sndtrk)

Stan Getz - Once (Voices)

Julie London - Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night In The Week) (For the Night People) ‎

Quincy Jones - The "in" Crowd (Talkin' Verve)

Neal Hefti - Zankie (Synanon Sndtrk)

Kim Salmon - Disconnected (Record)

The Fall - Sing! Harpy (Extricate)

Moloch - Maverick Woman Blues (Moloch)

Janko Nilovic - Love on the Moon (Psyc Impressions)

Mandingo - Witchdoctor (Mandingo III: Story of Survival)

Gallon Drunk - Two Wing Mambo (You, the Night...and the Music)

Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man Blues (The Complete Okeh Recordings)

Mallet Men - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (V.A. - Ultra-Lounge / Rhapsodesia Volume Six)

Ruts DC vs. Mad Professor - Love & Fire (Rhythm Collision Vol.1)

The Cruel Sea ‎– Reckless Eyeballin' / How Low (Down Below)

The Three Suns - I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You (Midnight For Two)

Lee Mason and his Orchestra - Deadly Nightshade (V.A. - On the Brink: Return of the Instro-hipsters)

David Bedford - Sad And Lonely Faces (Nurses Song With Elephants)

The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation - Don't Take The Power Away (To Mum, From Aynsley and The Boys)

Paul Phillips and His Band - Tenderly (The Sound of Midnight: Naked City)

John Barry - The Challenge (Stringbeat)

Leonard Rosenman - Opening Statement (Cornelius) / Main Title (Beneath The Planet of the Apes Sndtrk)

Eddie Warner - Checkpoint Charlie (Cops, Crooks and Spies)

Quincy Jones - The Last Man (Main Title (The Last Man Sndtrk)

Elmer Bernstein - Tung-Tze (The Silencers Sndtrk)

Shelley Manne - The Cyanide Touch (Checkmate)

Sunday, April 21, 2013

For Mr. Winters

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 4/14/13

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

Dick Jacobs and His Orchestra - Pisces: Beneath The Reef (V.A. - Love Handle Lounge)

John Buzon Trio - Ill Wind (V.A. Music For A Bachelor's Den)

Ashra - Midnight on Mars (Blackouts)

Medicine Head - Back to the Wall (Dark Side of the Moon)

David Bowie - The Bewley Brothers (Hunky Dory)

Gene Clark - White Light (White Light)

Stained Glass - Night Cap (Crazy Horse Roads)

Dr. Strangely Strange - Ship Of Fools (Kip of the Serenes)

Agamenon ‎– Blow Up the Candle (Todos Ríen De Mí)

Arthur Lyman Group - Caravan (V.A. - Shaken Not Stirred)

Lol Coxhill - Deviation Dance (Ear of the Beholder)

Chubby Checkers - Slow Lovin' (Checkered)

Chico Buarque - CONSTRUÇÃO (CONSTRUÇÃO)

Tony Hatch Orchestra - Ghost Squad (V.A. - The Thriller Memorandum)

Sir Julian - Movin' at Midnight (V.A. - Organs in Orbit)

Freddie Hubbard - Mr. Clean (Straight Line) Request

Tiny Lights - Song of the Weak (Prayer for the Halcyon Fear)

Kevin Coyne - Evil Island Home (Case History)

The Equals - Rub a Dub Dub (First Among Equals - The Greatest Hits)

Oscar Moore Trio - Come in Out of the Rain (V.A. - In a Cocktail Mood)

Peter Thomas - Beige Turtleneck (Moonflowers and Mini-skirts)

Joss Baselli - Cosmos Zone Bleue (Accordéon 2000)

Johnny Harris - Fragment of Fear (Movements)

Harumi - Sugar in Your Tea (S/T)

Nelson Angelo and Joyce - Hotel Universo (S/T)

Jean Michel Jarre - Part 1 (Oxygene)

Gino Peguri - Nightmare (V.A. - Up!!!!!! - The Second)

Der Plan - Die Letzte Rache (excerpts from the soundtrack to Die Letzte Rache)

Jonathon Winters - Introduction - Flying Saucer (The Wonderful World of Jonathon Winters)

Galaxy - Galaxy (Day Without the Sun)

The Memphis Goons - San Antonio Desert (Teenage BBQ)

Gary McFarland - Take Care...Beware (Capricorn) (V.A. - Talkin' Verve With a Twist)

Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra - The Spell of the Sinister One (Futuremuzik)

Cain and Able - Girl You Move Me (S/T)

Armando Trovajoli - Frenesia (V.A. - Easy Tempo Vol. 4)

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

Saturday, April 13, 2013

The Sensuous Massage Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 4/7/13

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

John Holt - Strange Things (V.A. - Solid Gold Coxsone Style)

Tomandandy - Movement 2: Point Pleasant/ Seeing Strange Things/ It's A Voice And It's Saying, Do Not Be Afraid/ He's Wrong/ Denver 9 (Mothman Prophecies Sndtrk)

REQ - Beatbox (One)

Tangerine Dream - Movements of a Visionary (Phaedra)

The Reels - This Guy's in Love (Requiem)

My Solid Ground - The Executioner (S/T)

African Head Charge - Breeding Space (Environmental Studies)

Sub Oslo - Reel to Reel Dub (Dubs In the Key Of Life)

Caesar Romero - 10,0001 Cuts (Matamoros)

AC Marias - Our Dust (One Of Our Girls (Has Gone Missing))

B-Movie - Remembrance Day (The Dead Good Years)

The Teardrop Explodes - The Strange House in the Snow (b-side of Treason single)

Colin Newman - Lorries (Not To)

Cornucopia - And The Madness... (Full Moon)

Gallon Drunk - Outside of Love (Fire Music)

Suicide - Rain of Ruin (A Way of Life) ‎

Alrune Rod ‎– Alrune Rod (S/T)

Butthole Surfers - Hetero Skeleton (Humpty Dumpty LSD)

Boris Sujdovic - Coming Down (Fuzz Machine EP)

Marketts - Other Limits (Out of Limits)

Anita Lane - The World's A Girl (Dirty Pearl)

Raymond Scott - String Piece (V.A. - God Came Between Us)

Jerry Goldsmith - The Gasser (Warning Shot Sndtrk)

Bryan Ferry - Mamouna (Mamouna)

David Sylvian - The Ink in the Well (Brilliant Trees)

Jacobites - She Sleeps Alone (God Save Us Poor Singers)

The Holy Modal Rounders - Radar Blues (Indian War Whoop)

Crime and the City Solution - American Twilight (American Twilight)

The Finks - Haunted Finks (Fill'er Up and Go)

Johnny Preston - City of Tears (Running Bear)

SRC - Morning Mood (S/T)

Billy Bob Thornton - Forever (Private Radio)

Sauter-Finegan Orchestra - A Foggy Day (Directions in Music)

Arthur Lyman (w/Ethel Azama) - Lullaby of the Leaves (Leis of Jazz)

The Treniers - Trapped in the Web of Love (In the 50s: This Is It)

Saturday, April 6, 2013

The Digging the Scene Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 3/31/13

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

Lenny Bruce - Dirty Toilet (To Is A Preposition; Come is a Verb)

Bernard Herrmann - Hangover Square - Concerto Macabre for Piano (Citizen Kane: The Classic Film Scores of Bernard Herrmann: Charles Gerhardt - National Philharmopnic Orchestra)

Paul Sawtell & Roy Webb - Born to Kill (Main Title / End Title) (V.A. - Murder Is My Beat: Classic Film Noir Themes and Scenes)

Onethirtyeight - The Squid Boy (The Sister)

John Cage and Kenneth Patchen - The City Wears a Slouch Hat

Berto Pisano - Kill Them All Main Theme (Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Sndtrk)

Walter Rizzati - Quelle Villa (House By The Cemetery Sndtrk)

Chip Taylor - Sleepy Eyes (This Side Of the Big River)

Nick Cave And the Bad Seeds - 500 Miles (Murderous Ends, Collaborative Odds)

Echo And the Bunnymen - No Dark Things (Heaven Up Here)

Nectarine No. 9 - The Unfunkadelic (I Love Total Destruction)

The Fall - Telephone Thing (Extended) (Listening In: Lost Singles Tracks: 1990-92)

Jack Webb - Midnight (Just The Tracks, Ma'am: The Warner Bros. Recordings)

The Fever - Hotel Fantom (In The City of Sleep)

The Gun Club - Bad America (The Las Vegas Story)

Jerry Goldsmith - Main Title (Seconds Sndtrk) ‎

Roy Budd - The Chase (Black Windmill Sndtrk)

Leonard Cohen - Death Of a Ladies' Man (Death Of a Ladies' Man)

Nelson Riddle & His Orchestra - Volcano's Daughter (Communication)

Bruno Nicolai - Excerpts From the Soundtrack Phenomenal and the Treasure of Tutankamen

Bridget St. John - Lazarus (Thank You For...)

The Beasts of Bourbon - The Big Sleep (Sour Mash)

Warren Baker and His Orchestra - Malayan Nightbird (V.A. - Paradise Found w/ Rare Exotic Sounds)

Burt Bacharach - Sir James' Trip to Find Mata (Casino Royale sndtrk)

Vic Mizzy - Daybreak at Malibu (Don't Make Waves sndtrk)

Laurence Rosenthal - The Voodoo Temple (The Comedians sndtrk)

The Flaming Stars - Forget My Name (Songs From The Bar Room Floor)

Barney Kessell - Tumbling Tumbleweeds (Bossa Nova)

Dislocation Dance - The Roof is Leaking (Music Music Music / Slip That Disc!)

Tim Buckley - Driftin' (Lorca)

Windy & Carl - Marble Dream (V.A. - Angelfood Electronics Vol. 1 and 2)