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.

Thursday, February 27, 2014

The "Act Of Kibitzing" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 2/23/14

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

Charlie Haden - Art Deco (The Montreal Tapes - with Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell)

Barry Adamson & Pan Sonic - The Hymn of the 7th Ilusion (Motorlab #3)

Two Lone Swordsmen - Foreververb (Tiny Reminders)

Moby - New Dawn Fades (Heat Sndtrk)

Herbie Hancock - I Have a Dream (The Prisoner)

The San Sebastian Strings - Saturday Night People (Summer)

Ex-Cocaine - Sexy Music (Ex Cocaine / Yellow Swans Split EP)

Frigate - Lose Your Marbles (Dreams Of The Deep)

The Unknowns - Mack The Knife (Saturday Night...1969(?) release)

Charles The Bartender - Yellow Submarine (Charles At Harlow's)

Yama & The Karma Dusters - Kathleen (Up From The Sewers)

The Shangaans - Taboo (Jungle Drums)

Buddy Collette - Jungle Pipe (V.A. - Beat Jazz 2)

J.W. Farquhar - Mansions (The Formal Female)

Les Baxter - Celestial Nocturne (Music Out Of The Moon)

Les Baxter - Batumba (Tamboo!)

Kim Choo-Ja - ? (From a Homemade Comp From Krauty McKraut)

We The People - In the Past (V.A. - Psychedelic Microdots, Vol. 1: Orange, Sugar & Chocolate)

Asylum Party - Le Temps des  Serpents (The Grey Years - Vol. 2)

D.A.F - Untitled (Produkt Der Deutsch-Amerikanischen Freundschaft)

Gavin Friday - In the Shadow Of a Gun (The Boxer Sndtrk)

Rolling Stones - Jig - Saw Puzzle (Beggars Banquet) Request

Blues Magoos - Let Your Love Ride (V.A. - Turds On A Bum Ride Vol. 4)

Tim Hardin - Nobody Loves You (When You're Down And Out) (Hang On To A Dream: The Verve Recordings)

John Barry - Seance On a Wet Afternoon (V.A. - Mondo Hollywood)


Butterfield 8 - Harlem Nocturne (S/T)

William Burroughs - What Keeps Mankind Alive?  (V.A. - September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill)

Creation Rebel - Rising Star (Historic Moments Volume One)

Nick Cave - Mojo (Mojo Sndtrk)

Zombi - (Excerpt From) Through Time  (Spirit Animal)

Roland Kovac Trio - Count Down (V.A. - Pop Boutique 3)

Francesco De Masi - Selections From the Soundtrack to The Big Game

Serge Gainbourg - Selections From the Soundtrack to L'eau à la bouche

Ennio Morricone - Selections From the Soundtrack to The Bird With The Crystal Plumage

David Axelrod - Selections From Side One of Earth Rot



Sunday, February 16, 2014

The "Deep, Down and Dank" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 2/16/14

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

Cabaret Voltaire - Wait and Shuffle (2 X 45)

The Gil Evans Orchestra - Nevada (Out Of the Cool)

Barry Adamson - Sounds From the Big House (Moss Side Story)



John Foxx - Underpass (Metamatic)

Einsturzende Neubauten - Morning Dew (Fünf Auf der Nach Oben Offenen Richterskala)

American Blues - If I Were A Carpenter (V.A. - Reverberations IV)

The Seminal Rats - Red Planet (The Essential...)

John Cooper Clarke - Post War Glamour Girls (Disguise In Love)

Ed Lincoln - Cochise (V.A. - The Basic Principles of Sound)

Eden Ahbez - The Wanderer (Eden's Island)

The Wipers - Nothing Left To Lose (Land of the Lost)

Gallon Drunk - Every Second Of Time (Moog Instrumental Version) (Black Milk)

Seefeel - Minky Starshine (Polyfusia)

Suicide - Misery Train (American Supreme)

Jungle - Slave Ship (V.A. - Love, Peace & Poetry: American Psychedelic Music)

Dirty Filthy Mud - Forest of Black (V.A. - Reverberations I)

Gravedigger V - Spooky (All Black and Hairy)

Gun - Dreams and Screams (Gun Sight)

Isolation Ward - Lamina Christus (V.A. - B9 Bis: Belgian Cold Wave 1979 - 1983)

The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - In The Arena (Vol. 2)

The Godz - Permanent Green Light (2)

John Cooper Clarke - Beasley Street (Snap, Crackle (&) Bop)

Tim Buckley - Driftin' (Lorca)

Alice Coltrane - Blue Nile (Ptah, The El Daoud)

Ada Moore - Devil (V.A. - Beat Jazz: Pictures From A Gone World)

Krzystof Komeda - Selections From the Soundtrack Rosemary's Baby

Les Baxter - Moon Moods (Music Out Of The Moon)

Alice B. Toklas - Recipe For Hashish Fudge (V.A. - The Dawn of Psychedelia)

Edward Williams -  Selections From the Soundtrack: Life on Earth

Alvino Ray & His Orchestra - Blues In The Night (V.A. - Space Capades)

John Lee Hooker - Blues Before Sunrise (Giant of Blues)

Donovan -Everlasting Sea (Sutras)

Eden Ahbez - Full Moon (Eden's Island)









Sunday, February 9, 2014

The "Usual Decaying Show"....

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 2/9/14

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

Gerry Mulligan Quartet - Blues At the Roots (At Storyville)

Randy Greif / Dan Burke - Forensic Solutions to Beauty (Fragment 56)

Tangerine Dream - Circulation of Events (Atem)

Clock DVA - Dark Encounter (Advantage)

Charles Brown - Drifting Blues (Legend!)

Beequeen - Dream - a - Phone (The Bodyshop)

Kim Salmon - Obvious is Obvious (Hey Believer)

Medium Cool (Featuring James White) - Let's Get Lost (Imagination)

Ornette Coleman - Country Town Blues (Science Fiction)

Live Skull - Safe From Me (Positraction)

The Nectarine No. 9 - Tape Your Head On (Saint Jack)

Brute Force - Monster (S/T)

Sammy Davis Jr. (with Count Basie) - Girl From Ipanema (V.A - Talkin' Verve: With a Twist)

Marianne Faithfull - Go Away From My World  / Tomorrow's Calling (Greatest Hits)

Delmonas - Delmona. The Temptress of Love (Do The...Uncle Willy)

Artwoods - In the Deep (Art Gallery)

Nino Nardini - Bali Girl (V.A. - Orchestal Party Part 2)

MX-80 - Theme From Halloween (Das Love Boat)

Jazkamer & Smegma - Stone Eater (Endless Coast)

Amon Duul - Paramechanische Welt (Paradieswarts Duul)

Harry Roche Constellation - Spiral (V.A. - The Easy Project: 20 Loungecore Favourites)

Ennio Morricone (with Christy) - Deep Down (Danger: Diabolik Sndtrk)

Johnny Pate - Selections From the Soundtrack Shaft in Africa

Francesco De Masi - Waiting For the Killer (The New York Ripper Sndtrk)

Piero Piccioni - Helen Where Are You? (Una Tomba Aperta... Una Bara Vuota)

NIck Cave and the Bad Seeds - Long Black Veil (Kicking Against The Pricks)

Kris Kristofferson - Jesse Younger (Live at the Philharmonic)

Tangerine Dream - Caleb's Blues (Near Dark Sndtrk)

Gary McFarland - 80 Miles An Hour Through Beer-Can Country (America The Beautiful)

Lee Hazlewood - Back On the Street Again (Back On the Street Again)

Bonniwell Music Machine - Black Snow (Ignition)

Dark Star - Ninety-Six Days (Twenty Twenty Sound)

Ruts DC Vs. Mad Professor - Push Yourself - Make It Work (Rhythm Collision Vol. 1)

Burning Spear - Great Man's Dub (Chant Down Babylon: The Island Anthology)

Wes Montgomery - Willow Weep For Me (Talkin Verve: The Roots of Acid Jazz)