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, November 17, 2013

The "Endless Sleeping Beat" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 11/10/13

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

Miles Davis - In a Silent Way / It's About That Time (In a Silent Way)

Tindersticks - Chocolate (The Something Rain)

The Organization (Kraftwerk) - Noitasinwaqagro (Tone Float)


Amon Duul II - Luzifers Ghilom (Phallus Dei)

Chrome - 3rd From the Sun (3rd From the Sun)

Delmonas - Hello, I Love You (Dangerous Charms)

Sammy Davis, Jr - Azure (The Capitol Collector's Series)

Ken Nordine - Hunger is From (You're Getting Better: TheWord Jazz Dot Masters)

Fred Katz - Selections from the Soundtrack to The Little Shop of Horrors

Henry Mancini - Dreamsville (The Music From Peter Gunn)

Nordvargr / Drakh - Vessel (The Betrayal of Light)

And Also The Trees - River of Flame (Green Is the Sea)

Acanthus - Le Frisson des Vampires (V.A. - The B-Music of Jean Rollin)


Art Zoyd - Trois Miniatures (Generation Sans Futur)


Trees - The Garden of Jane Delawney (The Garden of Jane Delawney)

The Chico Hamilton Quintet (W/ Fred Katz) - September Song (Classical Katz)


Loop - Carry Me (Heaven's End)


Minimal Man - Lonliness (The Shroud of...)

Gene Clark - With Tomorrow (White Light)


The Psychedelic Furs - No Easy Street (Live) (Here Came the Psychedelic Furs: B-Sides and Lost Grooves)


Russ Huddleston & Robert Smith, Jr. - Selections From the Soundtrack to Manos: The Hands of Fate


Living Guitars - Theme From The Quiller Memorandum (Dedicated To the One I Love)


Demdike Stare - Excerpt From Side One of The Weight of Culture Cassette

Vangelis - Parts 1 and 2 (Sex Power)

Trevor Jones - Nightmare (Angel Heart Sndtrk)

Art Coates - Bubbles in the Wine (Whistling Like the Birds)


Giorgio Moroder - Aus (The End) (Einzelganger)

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

Vatican Shadow ‎– India Has Just Tested A Nuclear Device  (Ornamented Walls)

Stan Butcher - Time Out of Mind (The World of Barbara Moore)

Sammy Davis, Jr. - Sweet Gingerbread Man  (Lounge Legends)

John Patton - Milk and Honey (Boogaloo)

Beacon Street Union - Now I Taste the Tears (The Eyes of...)

Sunday, November 3, 2013

The "I Actually Know a Hole in the Ground" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 11/3/13

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

Lustmord - IXAXAAR (The Monstrous Soul)

Miles Davis - Selections from is wondrous soundtrack to the film Elevator To the Gallows

Shock Headed Peters - Prig Star Theta (Tendercide)

Egg - A Visit To a Newport Hospital (The Polite Force)

Beasts of Bourbon - Can't Say No (The Low Road)

Les Paul and Mary Ford - Bouquet of Rose (Bouquet of Roses)

Tom Newman - Sad Song (Fine Old Tom)

Love - Good Old Fashion Dream (Reel To Real)

Pete Kelley - The Man is Dead (Path of the Wave)

Subway - Can I Trade With You My Mind (S/T)

Ernan Roch - Round Round (Le Onda Pesada De Ernan Roch Con Las Voces Frescas)

Toad - Tomorrow Blue (Tomorrow Blue)

Medicine Head - Fire Under Mountain (New Bottles Old Medicine)


Akira Tana - Secret Agent Man (Secret Agent Man)


New Age Steppers - Fade Away (Massive Hits Volume 1)

Devastations - Avalanche of Stars (Yes, U)


Acme Rocket Quartet - The Airboat Pilot (Sound Camera)


The Sir Douglas Quintet + 2 - Can You Dig My Vibrations? (Honkey Blues)

Swara  Samrat - Samba For Lisa (Lottery of Memories)


Piri - Porta Do Sol (Voces Querem Mate)


Liliental - Adel (S/T)


Nelson Riddle - Ill Wind (Love Tide)


Corpus - Not Mine (Creation a Child)

Smegma - I Am Not Artist (Glamour Girl 1941)

Roky Erickson ‎– The First Tale From the Two Twisted Tales 7-inch

The Common People - They Didn't Even GHo to the Funeral (Of The People / By The People / For The People From The Common People)

Jack Lemmon - On the Sunny Side Of the Street (A Twist of Lemmon)

Jerry Murad's Harmonicats - Mack the Knife (Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White)

Bob Lind - Drifter's Sunrise (S/T)

Beachwood Sparks - By Your Side (Once We Were Trees)

Michael Rother - Katzenmusik 2 (Katzenmusik)

The Moffs - Stealing Cake To Eat the Moon (The Collection)

Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra - Seductive Fantasy  (On Jupiter)












































The "Digging the Terror" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 10/27/13

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

Pestrapellar - Dismembered Dead Things (Isle of Dark Magick)

Brother Theodore - Introduction / Berenice / The Willow Landscape (Theodore in Stereo)

The Creed Taylor Orchestra - Shock...The Entire LP!!

Jerry Wald -  The Creeper (V.A. - Monster Sounds and Boppin Tracks - Vol. 2)

Frankie Stein - What Kind of Ghoul am I  (V.A. - Monster Sounds and Boppin Tracks - Vol. 2)

Googie Rene - The Chiller (V.A. - Monster Sounds and Boppin Tracks - Vol. 2)

Curtis and the Creepers (V.A. - Monster Sounds and Boppin Tracks - Vol. 2)

Zen Fuller - Doomsday (V.A. - Monster Sounds and Boppin Tracks - Vol. 2)

Ted Cassidy - The Lurch (V.A. - Monster Sounds and Boppin Tracks - Vol. 2)

The Crystals - Vampire (V.A. - Monster Sounds and Boppin Tracks - Vol. 2)

Tony and the Monstrosities - Igor's Lament (V.A. - Monster Sounds and Boppin Tracks - Vol. 2)


Boris Karloff reads Tales of the Frightened Vol. 1 and Vol. 2....Both LPs played in their entirety!

Judy Garland - Purple People Eater (25th Anniversary Retrospective)



The Bonzo Dog Band - Monster Mash (Tadpoles)


Fabio Frizzi - Quella Villa (House By the Cemetary Sndtrk)


Paul Sawtell / Bert Shefter - Prologue / Main Titles (The Last Man on Earth Sndtrk)


Jay Chattaway - Inner Voices (Maniac Sndtrk)


Hans Conried / Alice Pearce and The Creatures - Not of this Earth / (I'm In Love With) The Creature From the Black Lagoon (Monster Rally)

Ennio Morricone - Per Organo E Ottoni (Nightmare Castle Sndtrk)


Allan Sherman - My Son, The Vampire (V.A. - These Ghoulish Things: Horror Hits For Halloween)