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, February 24, 2013

The Drinking Wine and Having a Good Time Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 2/24/13

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

Tindersticks - Falling Down a Mountain (Falling Down a Mountain)

Kevin Ayers - Lady Rachel (Singing the Bruise -The BBC Sessions 1970 - 1972)

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Soft Machine - Jet-Propelled Photograph (a.k.a. Shooting At The Moon) (Jet-Propelled Photograph)

Kevin Ayers - When Your Parents Go to Sleep (Bananamour)

Kevin Ayers - May I (Shooting at the Moon)

Kevin Ayers - Song From The Bottom of a Well (Whatevershebringwesing)

Kevin Ayers - Shouting in a Bucket Blues (Bananamour)

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Soft Machine - Why Are We Sleeping (Soft Machine 1)

Nico - We've Got the Gold (The End)

Kevin Ayers - The Confessions Of Doctor Dream (a) Irreversible Neural Damage (b) Invitation (c) The One Chance Dance (d) Doctor Dream Theme / Two Goes Into Four (The Confessions of Dr. Dream and Other Stories)

John Lurie - Stink (Get Shorty Sndtrk)

The Stomach Mouths - Something Weird (V.A. - Declaration of Fuzz)

The Long Ryders - And She Rides (V.A. - The Rebel Kind)

Klaus Lenz - Grashalme (V.A. - Amiga a Go-Go Vol. 1)

Maze - Twilight (V.A. - The Best of Capitol Rare: Funky Notes From the West Coast)

Munx - Our Dream (V.A. - Come to the Sunshine: Soft Pop Nuggets From the WEA Vaults)

New Order - Dreams Never End (Movement)

Nick Cave - There is a Light (Batman Forever Sndtrk)

Contact - Constant Beat (V.A. - 7" Up)

Phil Shoenfelt - Well of Souls ("god is the other face of the devil")

Sudden Afternoon - Acid Rain (V.A. - Nocturnal: The Best of Midnight Music)

She Brings the Rainbows - a title in Japanese (V.A. - Night Gallery - Vol. 3)

Les Baxter - Lunar Rhapsody (V.A. - Rhapsodesia: Ultra Lounge 6)

Dolores Gray - You're My Thrill (V.A. - Rhapsodesia: Ultra Lounge 6)

Tony Perkins - Hit the Road to Dreamland (S/T)

Oscar Peterson Trio + One: Clark Terry - Mumbles (S/T)

P. Roelens - Intimate Conversations - (V.A. Stroboscapia - Vol. 2)

Eartha Kitt - Love For Sale (V.A. - Spectrum)

The Three Suns - Blue Tango (Midnight For Two)

DNJ - Moonchild (V.A. - Night Gallery - Vol. 3)

Kevin Ayers - Song for Insane Times (Joy of A Toy)

Aswad - Warrior Charge (V.A. - Andrew Weatherall's Nine O' Clock Drop)

Big John Patton - Congo Chant (Understanding)

Monday, February 18, 2013

Robert Mitchum's Zombie Calypso BBQ

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

Dave Graney with the White Buffaloes - World Full of Daughters (My Life on the Plains)

Richard H. Kirk - Force of Habit (Time High Fiction)

The Congoes - Congo Man (V.A. - Lee "Scratch" Perry Arkology)

The Upsetters - Return of Django (V.A. - The Big Gundown)

Alternative TV - Communication Failure (Apollo)

Jerry Goldsmith - The Latest Victim (The Mephisto Waltz Sndtrk)

Ennio Morricone - Rampage (Rampage Sndtrk)

Tangerine Dream - Ossiach Lake (V.A. - Electric Monster Rock: Live German TV Performances 1969 - 1972)

Baxter Dury - Oscar Brown (Len Parrot's Memorial Lift)

Magic Muscle - Here and Now (The Pipe, The Roar, The GRID)

David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights - Left By Soft (Left By Soft)

Reg Tilsley - Tuxedo (V.A. - Inside the Crime Story)

Basil Kirchin - The Scene Around (V.A. - Inside the Crime Story)

Roy Webb - Out Of the Past (V.A. - Legendary Film Noir Movies)

Gavin Friday - In the Shadow of a Gun (The Boxer Sndtrk)

Michael Small - The Tape / Rooftop Intruder (Klute Sndtrk)

Gary Numan - Remember I Was Vapour (Telekon)

The Mesmerizing Eye - Opus 71 (Psychedelia - A Musical Light Show)

Spike Drivers - Strange Mysterious Sounds (The Spike Drivers 1965-1968)

Bandolero - I Got it (S/T)

Rotary Connection - I Took a Ride (Caravan) (Aladdin)

Sapphire Thinkers - Melancholy Baby (From Within)

Scorpio Tube - Yellow Listen (V.A. - Psychedelic Disaster Whirlwind)

Tiny Young - Syracuse (L'Integrale)

Nazareth - Morning Dew (S/T)

Handgjort - ? (S/T)

Tee and Cara - A Hard Day's Night (As They Are)

Wolfgang Riechmann - Wunderbar (Wunderbar)

Michael Bundt - Whose Eye Is the Sun (Just Landed Cosmic Kid)

Hildegard Knef - Insel Meiner Angst (Knef)

The Shacklefords - First Street Blues (Extra Track on The Shacklefords Sing Re-ish CD)

Gilli Smyth - Time of the Goddess (Mother)

Buzzy Linhart - Willie Jean (Buzzy)

Robert Calvert - Fly on the Wall (Test Tube Conceived)

Tim Buckley - Chase the Blues (Blue Afternoon)

Excursions - Picture Woman (S/T)

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Lucifer Rising, Showering, Shaving, Brewing a Pot of Coffee and Sitting Down with a Copy of The Plain Dealer...

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 2/10/13

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

Amon Duul - Paramechanische Welt (Paradieswarts Duul)

Ennio Morricone - Lullaby in Blue (The Cat O' Nine Tails Sndtrk)

The Mumbles Club - The Noise Mark (Listen Here)

The Velvet Underground - All Tomorrow's Parties (The Velvet Underground & Nico) Request

Mystic - Gloomy Sunday (The Funeral sndtrk)

Paula Frazer - Deep Was the Night (Indoor Universe)

And Also The Trees - 6th Floor Elevator Blues (Angelfish)

Merle Haggard - Branded Man (Branded Man)

Leonard Cohen - If It Be Your Will (Various Positions)

Skip Heller - Going Back to Cali (Career Suicide)

Tommy James and the Shondells - Cellophane Symphony (Cellophane Symphony)

Randy Greif - The Soothing Data Waves (excerpt) (War of the Worlds)

Barry Adamson - My Friend the Fly (Stranger On the Sofa)

Roy Budd - Mr. Easy (The Internecine Project Sndtrk)

Stone Harbour - Thanitos (Emerges)

Bernard Herrmann - All the Animals Come Out at Night (Taxi Driver Sndtrk)

Billy R. Couvson - Funk to Funk, New Dance (Bongo Sensational Soul)

Gallon Drunk - You Should Be Ashamed (From the Heart of a Town)

Jean-Luc Roudiere - Star Flipper (Overchoses)

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

Blues Addicts - Simple Expression (S/T)

Gutterball - When You Make Up Your Mind (S/T)

John Barry - Midnight Cowboy (Midnight Cowboy Sndtrk)

Bill Page - Nature Boy (Sound of the Sonic Sixties)

Sparks - Pulling Rabbits Out Of a Hat (Orchestral Version) (Plagiarism)

The Bevis Frond - Termination Station Grey (Inner Marshland)

Tarkus - El Pirata (S/T)

Ultravox - Mr. X (Vienna)

Died Pretty - Sweetheart (Doughboy Hollow)

Isaac Hayes - Pursuit of the Pimpmobile (Truck Turner Sndtrk)

Barney Kessell - Days of Wine and Roses (Contemporary Latin Rhythms)

Scott Walker - Plastic Palace People (Scott 2)

The Artwoods - A Taste of Honey (Singles A's and B's)

George Shearing - Sorry Wrong Rhumba (V.A. - The Cool Scene at Cafe Bizarre)

The Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra - Black and Tan Fantasy (Stomp It Off)

Donovan - Everlasting Sea (Sutras)

Osamu Kitajima - Taiyo (Benzaiten)