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, March 23, 2013

Funny Blues Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 3/24/13

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

Things To Come - Darkness (I Want Out)

Einsturzende Neubauten - Tan-Ze-Dub (Kalte Sterne: Early Recordings)

Tom Waits - In Shades (Heartattack and Vine)

Metamorphosis - Musak From Hawthorne Court (V.A. - The Elephant Table Album)

Section 25 - No Abiding Place (The Key Of Dreams)

Hoosier Hotshots - I Like Bananas (Because They Have No Bones) (V.A. - Flashbacks #2: Novelty Songs 1914 - 1946 Crazy & Obscure)

The Amnesia Quartet - Let the Children In (V.A. - Insomnia)

Kennelmus - The Raven (S/T)

Sonny Day - Creature From Outer Space (V.A. - Drunken Guitars)

Nocturnal Emissions - Moss Side / Erasure (Fruiting Body)

Heinz Kiesling Orchestra - Palm Beach (V.A. - Days of Summer)

Emmett Lee Brooks - After Hours (V.A. - Detroit After Hours)

F/i - And So It Goes (Danse Macabre) (Space Mantra)

The Blackeyed Susans - I Can't Find Your Pulse (Mouth to Mouth)

Mater Susperia Vision - Exorcism of the Hippies (Second Coming)

Sad Lovers and Giants - Imagination (E-Mail From Eternity - The Best Of Sad Lovers And Giants) ‎

Wendy & Bonnie - By The Sea (Genesis)

London Underground - Dreams Are Better (V.A. - Wild Paarty Sounds Volume One)

Oscar Peterson - Sunny (Motions and Emotions)

Afro Blues Quintet Plus One - Some Velvet Morning (New Directions in Sound)

Ed Kuepper - All of These Things (Frontierland)

Telstar Ponies - A Feather on the New Breath (Voices From the New Music)

Hard Meat - Free Wheel (Feel The Spirit: Other Worldly Folk Music Gems And Psychedelics)

Wolf & Cub - Targets (S/T)

Blair 1523 - Fantasy of Folk (Beautiful Debris)

The Third Wave - Don't Ever Go (Here and Now)

Anita Lane - Do That Thing (Sex O' Clock)

Nancy Wilson - Call Me (A Touch of Today)

Honey Cone - Deaf, Blind, Paralyzed (V.A. - Progressively Funky)

David McWilliams - Can I Get There By Candlelight? (Days Of Pearly Spencer - Who Killed Ezra Brymay)

Workdogs - Painting the Devil's Office (Old)

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

The Sadies - Translucent Sparrow (Favourite Colours)

Gong - National Anthem / Chainstore Chant: Pretty Miss Titty (Magick Brother)

Kaleidoscope - Beacon From Mars (A Beacon From Mars)

Gary Walker and Rain - If You Don't Come Back (Album #1)

There's a Ghost in This Radio Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 3/17/13

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

Shadowbug 4 - Howl (We Are Beginning our Descent)

Gary Numan - Stormtroopers In Drag (Dance - extra CD track)

Gil Mellé - Shadow And Substance (Part A - Vintage Autumn) (Mindscape)

John Foxx - Blurred Girl (Metamatic)

Pye Corner Audio - End of All Eras (Superstitious Century EP)

Acetone - Good Life (S/T)

The Czars - Side Effect (The Ugly People Vs. the Beautiful People)

Julie London - When the Sun Comes Out (For The Night People)

Martin Denny - Island of Dreams (Exotica II)

Tim Rose - Morning Dew (The Musician)

Die Anderen / Apocalypse - Elenor (Kannibal Komix)

The Stranglers - Let Me Down Easy (Aural Sculpture)

Spell (Boyd Rice & Rose McDowall) - Down From Dover (Seasons in the Sun)

Halgrath ‎– He Led Me Through The Dark Caverns (Out Of Time)

Die Kreuzen - Melt (October File)

Skinny Puppy - Grave Wisdoms (Too Dark Park)

Ed Kuepper - Dispatch From the High Castle (The Blue House)

Thomas Dolby - One of Our Submarines (Blinded By Science EP)

Urge Overkill - Your Friend is Insane (Jesus Urge Superstar)

Black Light Orchestra - Morricone (A Man And His Harmonica / Once Upon A Time In The West (Once Upon A Time...)

Impala Syndrome - Land of No Time (S/T)

Minimal Compact - Burnt-out Hotel (Deadly Weapons)

Artificial Horizons (Tom Behrens) - Excerpt From Side One of Bedroom Drone

Cabaret Voltaire - The Operative (BBC Recordings 84-86)

Dandruff Deluxe - Hawaii High (Deal With the Devil)

Buddy Merrill - Beyond The Reef (Beyond The Reef)

Billy Vaughn - Theme From The Valley of the Dolls (Quietly Wild)

The Jet Black Berries - Long Distance (Desperate Fires)

Ennio Morricone - Il Buio (L'Antichristo Sndtrk)

Dizzy Gillespie - Love Theme From Lolita (Dizzy Goes Hollywood)

Kenyon Hopkins - Dreams (Rooms)

Henry Mancini - Whispering Sea - Stereo Version (The Versatile Mancini)

Wallace Collection - Stay (Un Beau Monstre sndtrk)

Tor Lundvall - Ghost Girl (The Mist)

Bill Ryder-Jones - By The Church of Appolonia (If..)

Gene Harris And the Three Sounds - Love For Sale (Live At the It Club)

Sunday, March 10, 2013

The Day For Night Show

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

Vangelis - The Dragon (The Dragon)

Cabaret Voltaire - In the Shadows (The Crackdown)

Calibro 35 - L'Uomo Dagli Occhi di Ghiaccio (Rare)

Barry Adamson - Cinematic Soul (The King of Nothing Hill)

Tuner - Car Advert (9 Loaves 5 Fishes)

Sounds Galactic - Summer (The First Time) (Nova-Sounds of the Stars)

Lee Hazlewood - I've Got to be Moving (Movin' On)

The Haunted - I'm Just Gonna Blow My Little Mind to Bits (S/T)

Art Van Damme - Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (So Nice)

Nancy Sinatra - Light My Fire (Sheet Music)

James Last - Sandy (Caribbean Nights)

Tor Lundvall - Grey Sunday (Ghost Years)

Thin White Rope - Astronomy (In the Spanish Cave)

Tony Mottola - Shadow of Your Smile (Guitar USA)

Chris D - History is Only Made at Night (Love Cannot Die)

David Vanian and the Phantom Chords - This House is Haunted (S/T)

Michael J. Sheehy - Mystery Train (Ill Gotten Gains)

Bailter Space - Argonaut (Capsul)

Julian Cope - The Subtle Energies Commission (Jehovahkill)

The Fibonaccis - TerrorVision (Repressed: The Best of...)

The Flaming Stars - Mansion House Blues (Sunset and Void)

Migala - Our Time of Disaster (Arde)

Mae West - Criswell Predicts (The Fabulous Mae West and Other Wonderful Girls)

April Stevens - Don't Do It (The Fabulous Mae West and Other Wonderful Girls)

Track From the Film Fantasma Y Un Muchacho - The Witch Doctor (The Music of Forgotten Horrors Vol. 2)

Trevor Jones - Nightmare (Angel Heart Sndtrk)

Arthur Lyman - The (Jungle) Cat (Lyman '66)

The Ink Spots - That Cat is High (Instant Classics)

David Whitaker - Quiet Nights (Latin in the Night)

Pete Rugolo - Mixin' The Blues (Adventures in Rhythm)

Ray Anthony - Girl From Ipanema (Dream Dancing Today)

Rhonda Flemming - Cold Rain (Sings Just For You)

Walter Schumann - Love (Exploring the Voice of...)

Jeffrey Lee Pierce - From Temptation to You (Wildweed)

Isaac Hayes - I'll Never Fall in Love Again (Black Moses)

Skip Heller - Snowdrift (demo) (Lua-O-Milo: The Exotic Sounds of...)

Robert Mitchum - O-He-O-Hi-O-Ho (Soundtrack to Rachel and the Stranger)

Milt Buckner - Turquoise (Send Me Softly)

Umberto - Night Fantasy (Confrontation)

Monday, March 4, 2013

The Incongruity Of It All

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

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Spike Jones - I Search For Golden Adventure (In My Seven Leaky Boats) (Omnibust)

Tangerine Dream - Choronzon (Exit)

Faine Jaide - Cold Winter Sun (Symphony in D Major) (Introspection: A Faine Jade Recital)

Tarnation - The Well (Gentle Creatures)

Mutiny - Lump (Cruising Sndtrk)

Edd "Kookie" Byrnes - Kookie's Mad Pad (Kookie)

Wes Montgomery - Impressions (Willow Weep For Me)

Lew Davies and His Orchestra - In a Mist (Strange Interlude)

Henry Mancini - Charlie's Angels (Mancini's Angels)

Chris and Cosey - The Need (Collectiv One)

Lustmord - IXAXAAR (The Monstrous Soul)

Phillip Lambro - Introduction and Hannah's Atmosphere / The Long Darken Passageway (Crypt of the Living Dead Sndtrk)

Hideous in Strength - Shadow In the Valley (V.A. - Taste of Tongues)

Congo Norvell - Drift Away (Music to Remember Him By)

Elmer Bernstein - Poi and Juice (Johnny Staccato Sndtrk)

Billy May - Batman / Longstreet (Green Hornet Sndtrk)

Antoni Maiovvi - Horsehead Blue (The Thorns of Love)

Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra - Outside Atmosphere (Raumpatrouille Sndtrk)

Das Synthetische Mischgewebe - 3:40 (V.A. - Hare, Hunter, Field: The Secret Passion Of Rudolf Peterson - A compilation Of Sad Love Songs)

Francisco Semprum & Michel Christodoulides - Voutes (Metamorphoses)

Throbbing Gristle - Excerpt from In The Shadow of the Sun Soundtrack

Hot Butter - Day By Day (Popcorn with Hot Butter)

Kali Bahlu - Cosmic Remembrance (Cosmic Remembrance)

Creation Rebel - Chemical Specialist (Historic Moments Volume 2)

Barney Kessel - Laura (Blues For a Playboy)

Stefano Torossi - Walking In the Dark (Feelings)

Slow Choke - Caribbean Western (Lydia Lunch: Hysteria 1976 - 1986)

Oscar Brown Jr. - A Dime Away From A Hotdog (Movin' On)

Blossom Dearie - Meditation (For Cafe Apres-midi)

Perrey & Kingsley - Cosmic ballad (The In Sound from Way Out!)

Harry Bruer and his Quintet - Bumble Bee Bolero (Mallet Magic)

Robert Drassin - Enchantment (Voodoo!)

Al Viola - Nocturne (Contemporaries Of the Jazz guitar)

Mark Snow - X-Files Theme (V.A. - Songs in the Key of X)