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, December 22, 2013

The "New Lives, Strippers and Things of Otherworldly Natures" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 12/22/13

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

Tangerine Dream - Birth of Liquid Plejades (Zeit)

Acetone - Border Lord (I Guess I Would)

Mac Davis - Lucas Was a Redneck (V.A. - Country Funk 1969-1975)

Tex Perkins - She's A Friend of Mine (Far Be It From Me)

Al Viola - Nocturne (Solo Guitar)

Deviants - Nothing Man / Garbage (Ptooff!)

Dale Hawkins - LA Memphis Tyler Texas  (V.A. - Country Funk 1969-1975)

Kevin Ayers - Lady Rachel (Joy Of a Toy)

Simon Bonney - Someone Loves You (Forever)

Beasts of Bourbon -Day That Marty Robbins Died (Axeman's Jazz)

Tuxedomoon - In Heaven (Pinheads on the Move)

Big Maybelle  - Maybelle's Blues (The Complete Okeh Sessions 1952 - '55)

Paul Mauriat - Love Is Blue (V.A. - Exotic Embers, Forgotten Music)

Throbbing Gristle -  Hot on the Heels of Love (20 Jazz Funk Greats) (Request)

Ash Ra Tempel  -Timeship (Seven Up)

The Pin Group - Long Night (S/T)

Tara Key - Long Trail (Boubon County) Request By Everett Ayler Reed's Dad

Amon Duul II - Hawknose Harlequin (Carnival in Babylon)

Hototogisu + Burning Star Core - Untitled Track One (S/T)

The Blackeyed Susans - A Curse On You (All Souls Alive)

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - In The Ghetto (Extra Track From The Album From Her to Eternity)

Sabu Martinez - Sorcery (Sorcery)

Andre Previn and His Trio - Like Blue (Bachelor in Paradise)

Takeshi Terauchi - Rising Guitars (Nippon Guitars: Instrumental Surf, Eleki & Tsugaru Rock 1966-1974)

Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound - Blue Wire (Manzanita)

Embryo - Call... (Steig Aus)

Sunday, December 15, 2013

The "Decomposed Protein and Crumbling of the T-Bone" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 12/15/13

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

Epic Soundtracks - Meet Me on the Beach (Rise Above)

Leonard Cohen - Avalanche (Songs of Love and Hate)

Chrome - Submachine (Half Machine From the Sun: The Lost Tracks '79 - '80)

Nancy Sinatra - I Gotta Get Out of This Town (Movin' With Nancy)

Them - Square Room (Now And Them)

Loop - Vapour (A Gilded Eternity)

Gabo Szabo with The Chico Hamilton - El Toro (V.A. - The Dawn of Psychedelia)

Beasts of Bourbon - Cool Fire (Black Milk)

Ken Nordine - Midnight Sun (Love Words)

Mark Isham - Bugs (The Mist Sndtrk)

The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation - Down, Down, Down (To Mum, From Aynsley and the Boys)

Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - Son of Mirror Man - Mere Man (Strictly Personal)

'68 Comeback - Don't Judge Me Bad (Mr. Downchild)

Lee Hazlewood - Dark In My Heart (Lounge Legends)

Willie Dixon - Spoonful (I Am the Blues)

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

Tangerine Dream - Fly and Collision of Comas Sola (Alpha Centauri)

Dion - Purple Haze (S/T)

The Animated Egg - Sippin' and Trippin' (S/T)

Alessando Alessandroni - Prologue (Raise Your Hands, Dead Man, You're Under Arrest Sndtrk)

The Mind Expanders - A Night on Bald Mountain (What's Happening)

Nina Simone - Wild Is The Wind (Wild Is the Wind)

Frank Hunter - Strange Echoes (White Goddess)

Artie Shaw - Back Bay Shuffle (The Funeral Sndtrk)

Sonny Boy Williamson - Mr. Downchild (The Funeral Sndtrk)

Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood - Sand (Fairy Tales and Fantasies: The Best of Nancy and Lee)

Gandalf - Hang On To a Dream (S/T)

Arthur Lyman - Moon Over a Ruined Castle (More of the Best of Arthur Lyman Group)

Brother Theodore - Quadrupedism (Brother Theodore in Stereo)

Selections From I Cantori Moderni di Allessandroni / The Modern Voices...

Sunday, December 8, 2013

The "I'm Promoting the Film That Forms on My Eyeglasses" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 12/08/13

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

The Residents - Part 2: The Making of a Soul (Not Available)

th faith healers - Heart Fog (Imaginary Friend)

Bevis Frond - These Dark Days (Any Gas Faster)

Martial Solal - Selections from the soundtrack to Godard's Breathless

Migala - Aquel Incendio (Restos de un incendio)

Hugo Race and True Spirit - Icy Roads (Second Revelator)

Batcheeba - Spiderfly (A Collection of Trails)

Tom Verlaine - Mr. Blur (Dreamtime)

Tim Hardin - I'll Be Home (Simple Songs of Freedom: The Tim Hardin Collection)

Miss World - British Pharmaceuticals / Highway of Dead Roads (S/T)

Treponem Pal - Crimson Garden (Excess & Overdrive)

Beasts of Bourbon - Hard For You (Sour Mash)

Cal Tjader - Black Orchard (Breeze From the East)

Robert Mitchum - Sunny (That Man)

Lee Hazlewood - Jose (The Many Sides of Lee Hazlewood)

Michele Lacerenza - Concerto Per Un Killer (L'Ira Di Dio)

Thomas Feiner & Ulf Jansson - Bested Bones (Check Out His Website...)

Mental As Anything - Brain Brain (Creature of Leisure)

George Duning - Selections from the Pilot Episode of Then Came Bronson (TV Omnibus - Volume 1 (1962-1976)

Quickspace - Docile 2 (S/T) 

The Morning After Girls - Run For Our Lives (Prelude: EPs 1 and 2)

The Steve Miller Band - My Dark Hour (Brave New World)

The Rain Parade - Talking in My Sleep (Emergency Third Rail Power Trip)

Antoine Duhamel - Selections From the soundtrack Godard Film Week-End

Les McCann - The Lovers (Invitation to Openness)

The "Adventure with Clowns" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 12/01/13

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

Tangerine Dream - Journey Through a Burning Brain (Electronic Meditation)

Wes Montgomery - Movin' With Wes Pts 1 and 2 (Talkin' Verve: Best Of...)

John Gilmore - Nightmare On Yucca Street / Haunted / I Am Still Not Ashamed (Laid Bare)

John Carradine - Poets To Come (Jazz Canto)

Hoagie Carmichael - Tract (Jazz Canto)

African Head Charge - Free Chant, Churchical Chant Of The Iyabinghi (Live Goodies)

Twilight Circus Dub Sound System - Session Plate (The Essential Collection)

Del Close & John Brent - Selections From How To Speak Hip

Paul Chambers - Omicron (Whims of Chambers)

Babs Gonzales - Babs Mood For Love (Voila)

Ernest Hare - Santa Claus Hides in Your Phonograph (V.A. - Christmas Antiques - From the Collection of Michael Aitch Price)

Leigh Harline - Selections From the Soundtrack to Visit To A Small Planet

Flies Inside the Sun - White Walls (V. A. - Invisible Pyramid: Elegy Box)

Lee Hazlewood - Peculiar Guy / Trouble Is a Lonesome Town (Trouble Is a Lonesome Town)

Gordon Jenkins - Stella By Starlight (In a Tender Mood)

Herschel Burke Gilbert - Blues For a Dead Chick (Burke's Law)

Jerry Goldsmith - Almost a Wife (The Illustrated Man Sndtrk)

Arthur Moore - Morning Walk from the film 30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia (V.A. - Cinema De Funk - Volume 3)

Ixtahuele - Black Sand / Rarohengan Dance (Pagan Rites)

Chico Hamilton Quintet with Fred Katz, Paul Horn, John Pisano, Carson Smith - Caravan (Classical Katz)

Elmer Bernstein The Street (Main Title) - from The Sweet Smell of Success (V.A. - Crime Jazz: Music in the First Degree)

Buddy Morrow – Richard Diamond - from Richard Diamond (V.A. - Crime Jazz: Music in the First Degree)

Warren Barker & Warner Bros. Star Instrumentalists – The Stu Bailey Blues - from 77 Sunset Strip (V.A. - Crime Jazz: Music in the First Degree)

Michael Smalls - Selections From the Soundtrack to The Driver

Dick Contino - Whispering (Squeeze Me)

Eddy Manson - Wish You Were Here (Percussion Sounds & Harmonica)

Percy Faith - Black Magic Woman ( Black Magic Woman)

Sunday, December 1, 2013

The "I Had a Hilarious Dream" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 11/17/13

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

Ultimate Spinach - (Ballad Of) The Hip Death Goddess (S/T)

Alan Lorber Orchestra - Roopaka Dha Teri Dhin Dhin (The Lotus Palace)

Mick Turner - Mel to Adders (Tren Phantasma)


Barry Adamson - The Trigger City Blues (I Will Set You Free)

Acme Rocket Quartet - Ominous Prelude To Late Night Programming / Will Monster Zero Ever Die?
(UHF)

Korla Pandit - The Hypnotist (Remembering...)

David Hess - Now You're All Alone (The Last House On the Left Sndtrk)

Gallon Drunk (w/ Derek Raymond) - The Detective (Dora Suarez)

Max Steiner - Selections from the Soundtrack to King Kong

Factrix - Eerie Lights (Scheintot)

Henry Jacobs - Selections From The Wide Weird World of Henry Jacobs

The Three Haircuts (Carl Reiner, Sid Ceasar & Howie Morris)  - Goin' Crazy (V.A. - Rare Novelty)

Neil Hefti - Selections From the Soundtrack to Synanon


Jerry Goldsmith / Rene Garriguene - Jazz Themes From the Soundtrack to The Twilight Zone


Dudley Moore - Bedazzled from the soundtrack to Bedazzled

Selections From Jack Diamond's killer compilation It's Like...Murder


The Flaming Stars - London After Midnight (Sell Your Soul to the Flaming Stars)


Godz - Permanent Green Light (2)

Giant Sand - BBQ Suite (Backyard Barbecue Broadcast)

Cooley - Munson - Sightly Sue (In Debt)


John Lee Hooker - Endless Boogie, Parts 27 & 28 (Endless Boogie)

Sergio Mendes - On Green Dolphin Street (Dance Moderno)


The Upsetters - Kingdom of Dub (Lee Perry and Friends)

David Seville - Hey There Moon (The Music of David Seville...The Early Years)

Edward Williams - Selection From the Life On Earth Soundtrack

Johnny Dowd - Just Because (Pictures From Life's Other Side)

Stu Phillips - Hawaii - Incinerator (Suite One "Follow Me")

M. Giombini - Ehi Amigo C'E' Sabata (V.A. - A Ringo Beat Cocktail Collection: West Goes Pop)

Sammy Davis, Jr. - Baretta's Theme (Lounge Legends)

Demon's Claws - Behind the Barn (Satan's Little Pet Pig)

The Morning Dew - The Mann / Death is a Dream (S/T)

Stelvio Cipriani - Excerpts from the Bay Blood Soundtrack

Appalache - R55R (Fue)

Frank Cordell - The Gentle Rain (Best of Everything)

Martin Denny - Love For Sale (Romantica)

Brandon Hurtado - Warm Winter (Hotel)

Ken Nordine - Silly Ideas I Used to Have (You're Getting Better: The Word Jazz Dot Masters)

Berto Pissano - Selections From the Soundtrack to Sissingnore

Pye Corner Audio - Selections from The Back Mill Tapes Vol. 1 and 2  

Russ Garcia and his Orchestra - Into Space / Nova Exploding (Fantastica - Mono Version)

Hugo Montenegro - Selections from Lady in Cement soundtrack