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, January 26, 2014

The "Morning Becomes Hectic" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 1/26/14

Max Gregor - Night Train (Gregor's Groove Party)

Cabaret Voltaire - Diskono (Hai!)

Hunting Lodge - Nomad Souls (Necropolis)

Vladimir Cosma - Transmutation (Insolite & Co.)

Harmonia '76 - Almost (Tracks and Traces)

Peter Perrett In The One - Shivers (Woke Up Sticky)

The Electric Prunes - Big City (Underground)

Fred Neil - Please Send Me Someone To Love (Extra Track on CD re-issue of Neil's S/T lp)

Mississippi John Hurt - Hop Joint (The Immortal Mississippi John Hurt)

Neal Hefti - Two For the Blues  (Pardon My Doo-Wah)

Nocturnal Emmissions - Boo (Autonomia)

Brian Eno - Hazard (The Drop)

Ed Kuepper - Spook Strain (Starstruck)

Ed Kuepper - I Am Right And You Are Wrong (The Blue House)

Dub Syndicate - Dubbing Psycho Thriller (Echomania)

Taboo - Vampire Tango (Extra Track on the CD re-issue of 126's Curtain Falling lp)

Nico Fidenco - Excerpts from the Soundtrack to Emanuelle In America

Martin Rev - Whisper (V.A. - A Mind Expansion Compilation 2)

Henry Fielding - Night Dig (Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia Sndtrk)

The Asphalt Ribbons - Over Again (The Orchard ep)

Serge Gainsbourg - Discophoteque (Madame Claude Sndtrk)

Michel Colombier - Excerpts from the film L'Heritier

Nightmare Lodge - Tentacled (Tentacled: A NIghtmare Lodge Anthology)

Mike Vickers - Excerpts From the film Dracula A.D. 1972

Don Morrow - All That Jazz / A Little Night Music (Grimm's Hip Fairy Tales)

Pete Rugolo - Conversation (Adventures in Rhythm)

International Studio Orchestra - Tuxedo (Assignment London)

David Raksin - Force of Evil (Bottom of the World)  (V.A. - Murder Is My Beat)

Irving Joseph - Bad Day in Brooklyn (Murder, Inc)

Ray Price - A Girl In The Night (Night Life)

Johnny Hartman & Oliver Nelson - Sunday (I Love Everybody)

Peggy Lee - We Laughed At Love (V.A. - Sex Kittens in Hi-Fi: The Blondes)

Slim & Slam - Groove Juice Special (The Groove Juice Special)

Little Axe - Hear My Cry (The Wolf That House Built)

Tony Hatch - Latin Velvet (Hatchback)

Al Hirt - Taboo (Latin In The Horn)

Babs Gonzales - Cool Cookin' (Voila)

Peter Reno - Silver Thrust (V.A. - Music Dewolfe)

Harry Roche Constellation - The Pad of the Mountain King (Casino Royale And Other Hit Sounds)

Berry Lipman - Night Fever (The Unique Sound of...)

Jerry Byrd - Theme From "Adventures In Paradise" (Byrd of Paradise)

Donald Byrd - Xibaba (Electric Byrd)






Sunday, January 19, 2014

The "You Never Know How Long This Is Going To Go On" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 1/19/14

Max Gregor - Night Train (Gregor's Groove Party)

C.A. Quintet - Trip Thru Hell (Part 1) (Trip Thru Hell)

Binary - Groovy (V.A. Untitled (ten))

Danielle Dax - Brimstone In a Barren Land (Dark Adapted Eye)

Tindersticks - This Fire of Autumn (The Something Rain)

The Cruel Sea - High Plains Drifter (This Is Not The Way Home)

Hula - Junshi (The Best Of...)

And Also The Trees - Under The Stars (Listen For The Rag and Bone Man)

Marlene Dietrich - Honeysuckle Rose (In London)

The Three Sounds - The Look of Love (V.A. - Blue Bacharach)

Hawkwind - Be Yourself (S/T)

100 Flowers - Reject Yourself  (V.A. - Hell Comes To Your House)

The Fall - Leave The Capitol  (In Palace of Swords Reversed)

Keith Hudson - Playing It Cool (Playing It Cool & Playing It Right)

Ligeti Tobia Hazan - Chaotic Scales After Ligeti's Luntano (Chaos In Expansion)

Les Baxter - Black Mass (The Dunwich Horror Sndtrk)

Felt - Primitive Painters (Ignite The Seven Cannons)

Kay Starr - Wheel Of Fortune (LA. Confidential Sndtrk)

Recordings By The Future And The Human League - Dada Duchamp Vortex (The Golden Hour Of The Future)

The Shamen - Omega Amigo (En-Tact)

William Burroughs - "Thank You" at The Nova Convention Re-Visited 11/26/96

Garden Odyssey Enterprise - Sad & Lonely (V.A. - Neurotic Reactions)

Robert Delgado - Return of Django (Lounge Legends)

Zane Cronie & Charles Segal - The Hustler (Glenda: Snake Dancer Sndtrk)

Gil Evans - Spoonful (Verve Masters)

The Corporation - India (S/T)

Webley Edwards - Fire Goddess (Fire Goddess)

Joe Berluck - Don't Cry Little Girl (The Erotic Voice Of...)

A Child's Garden of Grass...Psychological Effects...

Miles Davis - Go Ahead John (Big Fun)






Sunday, January 12, 2014

The "There Is A Flat Tire That Simply Can't Be Fixed" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 1/12/14

Max Gregor - Night Train (Gregor's Groove Party)

Einsturzende Neubauten - Die Genaue Zeit (Drawings of Patient O.T.)

Sun Ra - On Jupiter (On Jupiter)

Grant Green - The Final Comedown (V.A. - Blue Break Beats)

Jerry Van Rooyen - Sundown (At 250 Miles Per Hour)

Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Monkey's On Juice (The Singles 1982 - 1987)

Siouxsie And The Banshees - Mirage (The Scream)

The Mustangs - Jack The Ripper (V.A. - Strummin' Mental Vol. 1)

Pere Ubu - Non-Alignment Pact (The Modern Dance)

Hawkwind - Valium Ten (Mighty Hawkwind Classics 1980-1985)

Mugwump Establishment - Mondo Hollywood Freakout (Buzz Buzz Buzzzzzz - Vol. 1)

Royal Guardsmen - Om (Buzz Buzz Buzzzzzz - Vol. 1)

Inner Light - All The Way In (Buzz Buzz Buzzzzzz - Vol. 1)

Peter Pan & The Good Fairies- Balloon (Buzz Buzz Buzzzzzz - Vol. 1)

John Zacherle - Scary Tales (from Mother Goose)  / A-Tisket, A-Casket / Hansel and Gretel / Clementine

The Electric Prunes - Shadows and...more than a few excerpts from the Soundtrack to the film The Name of the Game is...Kill composed by Stu Phillips

The Electric Prunes - Benedictus (Mass in F Minor)

Sonny Rollins - Alfie's Theme / He's Younger Than You (Alfie)

Les Baxter - Selections from the Soundtrack to Sadismo

Christopher Gunning - Selections From the Soundtrack to Goodbye Gemini

The Mar-Keys - About Noon (V.A. - 4000 Volts of Stax & Satellite)

Frankie Lane - Man Without Star (Man Without A Star Sndtrk)

The Raven - Ghoul Friend (V.A. - Highly Strung - Volume 1)

Warren Barker - Hawaiian Eye (Hawaiian Eye Sndtrk)

Ultravox - Stranger Within (Rage In Eden)

Nina Simone - Ooh Child (Here Comes The Sun)

Lowland Studio Band - Trash One (V.A. - Local Customs: Lone Star Lowlands)

Franco Micalizzi - Dark Suspense (Geneva A Mano Armata Sndtrk)

Monte Cazazza - First / Last (The Worst of Monte Cazazza)

Gene Harris - Hugga Boom (V.A. - Blue Break Beats - Volume 2)

Gil Melle - Main Title (The Organization Sndtrk)

Piero Umiliani - Selections From the Soundtrack to La Morte Bussa Due Volte

Brian Bennett - Pendulum Force (Voyage)

Grant Green - Ain't It Funky Now (V.A. - Blue Break Beats - Volume 2)




Sunday, January 5, 2014

The "I Know Why The Caged Gorilla Thinks About a Singing Bird" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 1/05/14

Max Gregor - Night Train (Max Gregor Groove Party)

Bixio-Frizzi-Tempera  - Operazione K-Sparate A Vista: Nucleo Antirapin (V.A. - Beretta 70)

Monte Cazazza - A Gringo Like Me (The Cynic)

Space Box - Introfunction (Kick Up)

Spectrum - Quicksilver Glide Drive (Soul Kiss (Glide Divine))

Astrud Giberto - Funny World (The Silver Collection)

Piero Umiliani - Open Space / Green Valley (To-day's Sound)

John Berry - Midnight Cowboy  (Midnight Cowboy Sndtrk)

The Sandpipers - Beyond the Valley (Beyond The Valley of the Dolls Sndtrk)

Sonny Lester & His Orchestra - Big Millie From Philly (V.A. - Take It Off!  The Strip Tease Classics)

Opal Butterfly - Groupie Girl (Groupie Girl Sndtrk)

Eddie Palmieri & Cal Tjader - Mi Montuno (V.A. - Fabuloso Groovin')

The Cyrkle - The Party / Nicole (The Minx Sndtrk)

Alex North - The Misfit's Theme (Cocktail Mix Vol. 4: Soundtracks With a Twist)

Billy Strange - Rockford Files (Secret Agent Files)

John Barry - Blues For Rubber (The Chase Sndtrk)

Annie Ross - Invitation To The Blues (A Gasser!)

Gibson Bros. - Coming up (Memphis Sol Today)

Roy Ayers - Green and Gold (Baadasssss! Sndtrk)

The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Black Star (Extended Revelations)

Shirley Bassey - Light My Fire (V.A. - Blue Break Beats: Volume 3)

Lou Donaldson - It's Your Thing (V.A. - Blue Break Beats: Volume 3)

Edwin Astley & His Orchestra - Vulgar Olga (Music From the TV Series Secret Agent)

Bobby Darin & Johnny Mercer - Mississippi Mud (Two Of A Kind)

Bobby Troup - I See Your Bass Before Me (Swing Gently)

Piero Piccioni - Easy Dreamer (V.A. - Beat at Cinecitta) Pronounced Chee-nay-chee-TAH

Milt Jackson - Bags' Groove (Wizard of the Vibes)

Alan Arkin - The Lavender Cowboy (Once Over Lightly)

Baker Street Orchestra - The Witch (Yesterday's Dream)

Piero Umiliani - Various Tracks From the wonderful Mario Bava film, Five Dolls For An August Moon

Soul-Saints Orchestra - Bag of Soul (V.A. - This Is Acid Jazz: Original Raw Soul)

Bailter Space - Orbit (Robot World)

Nik Raicevic - Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (Head)

Gert Wilden & Orchesta - Green Spider Theme (I Told You Not To Cry)

Lou Donaldson - The Scorpion (The Scorpion: Live at the Cadillac Club)