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 22, 2013

The "I Looked Into The Abyss and I Saw One of My Old Grade School Teachers Playing the Accordian in Her Underwear" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 9/22/13

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

Ferrente and Teicher - Out Of This World (Easy Listening Favorites)

Lorna - Understanding Heavy Metals Parts I and II (Static Patterns and Souvenirs)

Steven Stapleton and David Tibet - The Great And Beautiful Name Of Sadness (Sadness of Things)

The Three Suns - Peg Of My Heart (V.A. - Love Organs)

Dollar Brand - The Pilgrim (Cape Town Fringe)

Butthole Surfers - Concubine (Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's Soc)

X-Mal Deutschland - Schwartz Welt (Singled Out (1980-1989)

13th Floor Elevators - Splash 1 (The Psychedelic Sounds of...)

Nick Cave, Mick Harvey And Ed Clayton-Jones - Lamentation (And The Ass Saw The Angel)

Orbitronik ‎– Holding The Wheel (777) (Orbitronik)

Gods Gift - Man of Two Men (Pathology 1979-1984)

Flaming Stars - Black Mask (Pathway)

Migala - Sweet Anarchy (Diciembre, 3 AM)

Lowlife - Hollow Gut (Eternity Road: Reflections Of Lowlife)

Nikki Sudden - The Price of Nails (The Truth Doesn't Matter)

The Gun Club - The Fire of Love (Miami)

Sixteen Horsepower - Dead Run (Low Estate)

Demon's Claws - That Old Outlaw (Satan's Little Pet Pig)

The Crows - Dead Beat (S/T)

Makers – Don't Challenge Me (V.A. ‎– Personal Space Electronic Soul 1974 - 1984) ‎

Artery - The Slide (Afterwards - Recordings From 1979 To 1983)

Kitchens of Distinction - Here Come the Swans (Cowboys and Aliens)

Viv Akauldren - Inn'er Current (I'll Call You Sometime)

Ruth Price - Time After Time (Ruth Price Sings With Johnny Smith)

Felipe Diaz - Speak Low (The Latin Jazz Quintet)

Irving Joseph - The Contract (Murder Inc.)

Marty Wilson and his Orchestra - Harlam Nocturne (Jun'gala)

Coleman Hawkins - Whisper To Me (Hawk Talk)

Frank Comstock - Galaxy / Out of Space (Project Comstock: Music From Outer Space)

Hugo Montenegro - Dizzy (Moog Power)

The Soft Machine - 10:30 Returns to the Bedroom (Volume 2)

Lou Donaldson - Midnight Creeper (Midnight Creeper)

Shirley Scott - Days of Wine and Roses (On A Clear Day)

Armando Trovaioli - Racconto Televisivo (V.A. - Bistro: Erotica Italia)

Sunday, September 15, 2013

The "Where Can A Fella Find A Good Seance These Days?" Show.

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 9/15/13

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

Tangerine Dream - Origin of Supernatural Probabilities (Zeit)

Brother Theodore - The Curse of the Toad (Theodore In Stereo)

Thug - Bulb (Everything Is Beautiful in Its Own Way)

Alpha Stone - Slow Motion Mind (Soulweed)

Marianne Faithful - Desperanto (Before the Poison)

Bonnie Dobson - Winter is Going (S/T)

Roy Budd - Quiet Nights (Blue Budd)

Lydia Lunch (w/ Lucy Hamilton) - A Quiet Night of Murder in Greenwich, CT (The Drowning of Lucy Hamilton)

The Swell Maps - The Graveyard Shift (Train Out of It)

John Cacavas - The Party's Over (Velvet is My Beat)

Possession - Performance Parts 1-3 (V.A. - Life At the Top)

Angelo Badalamenti - Main Title/Night Streets/Sandy and Jeffrey (Blue Velvet Sndtrk)

Dakota Staton - The Late, Late Show (The Late, Late Show)

Vernon Wray - Facing All the Same Tomorrows (Wasted)

David Hemmings - War's Mystery (Happens)

Arkansaw Man - The Ballroom (S/T)

John Cage - Imaginary Landscape (V.A. - Forbidden Planets: Music From the Pioneers of Electronic Sound)

Ken Nordine - Reaching Into In (You're Getting Better: The Word Jazz Dot Masters)

The Caretaker - Long Term (Remote) (Persistent Repetition of Phrases) ‎

The Mills Brothers - I Can't Give You Anything But Love (V.A. - This Is Art Deco)

Epic Soundtracks - Cry a Tear (Good Things)

Clock DVA - Pool of Shades (Sign)

Tindersticks - City Sickness (Donkeys 92-97)

Nico - These Days (Chelsea Girl)

Lollipop Shoppe - Underground Railroad (Just Colour)

Calibro 35 - Death Comes At Midnight (Ritornano Quelli Di... Calibro 35) Request

Lonnie Liston Smith - Footprints (Cosmic Funk)

Tomasz Stanko - The Lark in the Dark (From the Green Hill)

Shel Silverstein - Have Another Expresso (V.A. -Beat Jazz: Pictures From A Gone World)

John Patton - Milk and Honey (Boogaloo)

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

The "Ohhh OOOhhhh Nooooooooo" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 9/8/13

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

Kingdom Come - Time Captives (Journey)

Faust - Jennifer (Faust IV)

Popol Vuh - Dream 4 / Dream 5 (Affenstunde)

Nick Cave And the Bad Seeds - Slowly Goes the Night (Tender Prey)

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

Howe Gelb - Bible Black, Book II (Dreaded Brown Recluse)

The Black-Eyed Susans - The End Of The World (Dedicated To The Ones We Love)

Ann Magnuson - Sex With the Devil (The Luv Show)

Percy Mayfield - Lost Mind (Poet of the Blues)

The Propositions - Groovin' For the Groove (Africana)

Barry Adamson - Officer Bentley's Fairly Serious Dilemma (Stranger On the Sofa)

Lydia Lunch - Lady Scarface (Queen of Siam)

Chrome Cranks - Dead Cool (Dead Cool)

The 31 Flavors - Distortions of Darkness (Hair)

Lincoln Street Exit - Sunny Sunday Dream (EP)

Mistress Mary - And i Didn't Want You (Housewife)

John Thome - Nightmares 73 (John Does His Thing)

Ant Trip Ceremony - Four in the Morning (24 Hour)

Agincourt - Though I May be Dreaming (Fly Away) ‎

Bongwater - Porpoise Song (Double Bummer)

Roger Rubin & Rotfree Anderson (Album Atlanta Undergound) - Redneck Woman (Freek Music)

Current 93 - The Long Shadow Falls / All the Pretty Little Horsies (All the Pretty Little Horsies)

Hawkwind - The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear in Smoke) (Hall of the Mountain Grill)

Donald Byrd - Estavanico (Electric Byrd)

Cal Tjader - Fuji (Talkin' Verve: The Roots of Acid)

Eno / Cale - The River (Wrong Way Up)

The Handsome Family - Drunk by Noon (Milk and Scissors)

John Cale - Rosegarden Funeral of Sores (Extra Track on Sabotage (live) CD Re-issue)

Jimmy Smith - The Sermon (The Sermon!)

Thursday, September 5, 2013

The "Let's Continue That Weird Old Dream...Remember?" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 9/1/13

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

Guru Guru - Atommolch (Best of Guru Guru Part 2)

Can - Tony Wanna Go (Peel Sessions - 1/29/74)

Swans - Blackout (Filth)

Bruce Haack- Party Machine (Farad)

Skintologists - Skintology (Dubble Trubble)

Brian Eno - Everything Merges with the Night (Another Green World)

Crispin Hellion Glover - Clowny Clown Clown (Big Problem Solution Let It Be)

Harpers Bizarre - Cotton Candy Sandman (4)

Alberta Hunter - I've Got a Mind to Ramble (Amtrak Blues)

The Grassroots - Feelings (Feelings)

Blueset - Let's Boogie (Rock Machine)

Daily Flash - Cantaloupe Island / Queen Jane Approximately (I Flash Daily 1966-67)

John Gilbert - Travellin' Free (Meade River)

Heldon - Baader-Meinhof Blues (Singles Collection - 1972 - 1980)

Igra Staklenih Perli - Tiha Eksplozija (Soft Explosion)

The Groupies - Hog (I'm a Hog For You, Baby) (V.A. - Ear Piercing Punk)

The Moffs - Horto (The Collection)

Bobby Fuller & The Fanatics - Our Favorite Martian (B-side of Those Memories Of You single)

Al Hirt - Nature Boy (Music to Watch Girls By) ‎

William Strickland - World War 3.5 (William Strickland, Is Only the Name)

Died Pretty - Mirror Blues (Free Dirt - extra track)

Horton - Rages of Emptiness (Dance Hall for Midgets)

Feather Da Gamba ‎– Gregory Lane (Like It Or Get Bent)

Jimmy Troy - The Brain (V.A. - Land Of 1000 Dunces: Best Of The Bug-Outs)

The Scamps - Goodnight Wherever You Are (V.A. - More Mellow Cats 'N' Kittens)

Waring's Pennsylvanians - I Scream, You Scream(V.A. -Flashbacks, Vol. 2 - Novelty Songs 1914-1946: Crazy & Obscure)

James Barnes - Blue Grumble / Piquette Bounce (V.A. - Detroit After Hours - Vol. 1)

The Wooden Glass (featuring Billy Wooten) - Monkey Hips and Rice (Recorded Live)

There Ain't No Such Swing if you Ain't Got that Thing Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 8/25/13

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

Bernard Herrmann - Themes From Fahrenheit 451 (The Fantasy World of Bernard Herrmann)

Tom Dissevelt & Kid Baltan - Orbit Aurora / Twilight Ozone (Song Of The Second Moon: The Sonic Vibrations Of Tom Dissevelt & Kid Baltan)

Jaime Delgado Aparicio - Sexy Surf (El Embajador Y Yo Sndtrk)

Sandie Shaw - Hurting You (V.A. - Mondo Girls)

Neil Hefti - Oh, What a Night For Love (Pardon My Doo-Wah)

Bernard Herrmann - excerpts from the soundtrack to White Witch Doctor performed by The National Philharmonic Orchestra

Nino Nardini & Roger Roger - Jungle Mistery (Jungle Obsession)

Russ Garcia and his Orchestra - Birth of a Planet (Fantastica - mono version)

Illusion of Safety - Confusion / Flowering Blossom To The Full Moon (excerpt) (Ecstatic Crisis)

Cabaret Voltaire - Baader Meinhoff (Listen Up with Cabaret Voltaire)

Hartmann - Message 1 (Music While You Work - split cassette with Bourbonese Qualk)

Mad Professor - Ragga Roll (V.A. - Macro Dub Infection - Volume One)

Timi Yuro - Teardrops 'til Dawn (V.A. - Hard Workin' Man - The Jack Nitzsche Story Vol. 2)

Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood - The Rain Is Making Mirrors (Enter The Cult Until The Dust To Represent The World Discovers The Hallucinogens And Bent Us To Their Use )

Psychic TV - Southern Comfort (Allegory and Self)

Siglo XX ‎– After the Dream (Answer EP)

Achwghâ Ney Wodei - Les Kolkhoziens (Triptyque)

Ultravox - Dangerous Rhythm (Slow Motion)

Les Baxter - Excerpts from the Soundtrack: Black Sunday ‎

Alessandro Alessandroni - Demon Arise (Devil's Nightmare)

Rod Mckuen - Listen to the Warm (Listen to the Warm)

Waldo de los Ríos and his Orchestra - Everybody's Talkin' from Midnight Cowboy (EL SONIDO MÁGICO DE WALDO DE LOS RÍOS VOL. 2)

Bernard Herrmann - Nocturne/ The Flashlight / The Robot / Space Control (The Day The Earth Stood Still Sndtrk)

Quincy Jones - End Titles (Hot Rock Sndtrk)

Percy Faith - Cheesecake (Love Goddess Sndtrk)

John Carpenter - Opening Titles (Assault on Precinct 13)

Ray Martin - Big Spender (The New Rocking Sound)

John Dankworth - Opening Titles (Fathom Sndtrk)

Honey LTD - Come Down (The Complete LHI Recordings)

Jerry Murad's Harmonicats - Charade (Great Themes)

Michel Polnareff - The Rapist (Lipstick Sndtrk)

Buddy Morrow and his Orchestra - Annabel Lee (Poe For Moderns)

Kenyon Hopkins - Penthouse Serenade (Cocktail Party) (The Sound of New York - A Music Sound Portrait)

Ernie Kovacs - Hotcakes and Sausage (The Ernie Kovacs Record Collection)

Fred Katz and his Jammers - Feeling the Blues (S/T)

Roy Budd - Diamonds (featuring Three Degrees) / Diamond Fortress (Diamonds Sndtrk)

Fred Lane - French Toast Man (Radio Car Jerome)

Stan Getz - Once Upon a Time / Mickey's Theme (Plays Music from the Soundtrack of Mickey One)