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, August 31, 2014

The "Mr. Pennywhistle Dreamed A Sad Dream" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City For 8/31/14

Henry Mancini - Dreamsville (The Music From Peter Gunn)

Chris & Cosey (with Robert Wyatt) - Unmasked (Core: A Conspiracy International Project)

Chris & Cosey - Night Shift (Collectiv 4)

Psychic TV - In The Nursery (Dreams Less Sweet)

Pram - Serpentine (Sargasso Sea)

The Soft Machine - Memories (S/T (Demos))

Epic Soundtracks - Black Hole / Roll The Stone (Good Things)

Clock DVA - Pool Of Shades (Sign)

Peter Green, Mick Green And The Enemy Within - Chinese White Boy Blues (Two Greens Make A Blues)

Tangerine Dream - Main Titles (Sorcerer soundtrack)

Hawkwind - Reefer Madness (Live 1976) (Welcome To The Future)

The Satyrswitch - Angel of Wolves (The High Lonesome Sound Of...)

Banana Moon - All I Want Is Out Of Here (V.A. - The BYG Deal)

Night Sounds - Allergic To Heat (Allergic Yo Heat)

Melvin Jackson - Funky Doo (Funky Skull)

Love - Signed D.C. (Out There)

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Lament (The Good Son)

Franck Pourcel - Make It Easy On Yourself (Dancing In The Sun)

Kid Congo Powers - La Historia De Un Amour (Solo Cholo)

Don Tracy - Jungle Flute (Voodoo)

Los Straightjackets - Dreamland (Supersonic Guitars in 3-D)

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

Tony Mottola - Peligro Bossa Nova (Danger)(Sounds Mexico)

Ernestine Anderson with Dick Marx Quintet - Limehouse Blues (V.A. - Percussion For Playboys)

Ace Cannon - Sunday Blues (The Hi Years)

Laurie Johnson - Pagan Love Song (...You're Needed!)

Felt - Rain Of Crystal Spires (Bubblegum Perfume)

John Buzon Trio - Blues In My Heart (Inferno!)

Henry Mancini - The Blues (The Blues And the Beat)

The Deadly Ones - Moonlight Surfer (It's Monster Surfing Time)

Ixtahuele - Rarohengan Dance (Pagan Rites)

The Moontrekkers - Night Of The Vampires (V.A. - Mostly Ghostly: More For Halloween)

Arson Gedik & Christian Bonneau - Ritual Cult (Dreams & Nightmares)

Lalo Schifrin - Miss Smith's Apartment (Source 1) (Pretty Maids All In a Row soundtrack)

Elmer Bernstein - Telephone Man Blues (Rat Race soundtrack)

Fred Myrow And Malcolm Seagrave - Intro & Main Titles (Phantasm soundtrack)

Jonathon Winters - excerpts from the LP Movies Are Better Than Ever

Gene Rains - Harbor Lights (Far Away Lands: The Exotic Music of Gene Rains)

Permisfans - Canoa (Quinta Dimensione - ESP Music)

Al Anthony - Ebb Tide (Swingin' In Hi Fi)

Sunday, August 24, 2014

The "Awfulness Of The Darkness and A Runny Nose" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City For 8/24/14

Henry Mancini - Dreamsville (The Music From Peter Gunn)

Iggy Pop - Mass Production (The Idiot)

Phlegm - Children Of The Ovulation (Mr. Hoo-Ha Visits The Non-Stop Pissing Circus)

Chris And Cosey - Until (Trance)

The Door And The Window - We Do Scare Each Other (Detailed Twang)

The Fall - Hip Priest (Hex Enduction Hour)

Dumptruck - Back Where I Belong (Positively Dumptruck)

Marc Almond & Foetus - Love Amongst The Ruined (Slut)

Gary Numan - Subway Called 'You' (Dance)

Soft Cell - Down In The Subway (The Last Night In Sodom)

Richard H. Kirk - Nocturnal Children (Time High Fiction)

Stephen Mallinder - In Smoke (Pow Wow)

Iggy Pop - Endless Sea (New Values)

Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band - Sugar Bowl (Unconditionally Guaranteed)

The Jesus And Mary Chain - The Hardest Walk (Psychocandy)

The Only Ones - Miles From Nowhere (Every Serpents Shine)

Oil Tasters - Lonely Night (S/T)

Master's Apprentices - Catty (Choice Cuts)

Negative Space - The Living Dead (The Living Dead Years)

Bent Wind - Riverside (Sussex)

Caetano Veloso - It's A Long Way (Transa)

Claudio Gabis - Blues Del Terror Azul (y La Pesada)

And Also The Trees - Midnight Garden (S/T)

Ultravox - Your Name (Has Slipped My Mind Again) (Rage In Eden)

Up-Tight - Le Bleu du ciel (V.A. - Invisible Pyramid: Elegy Box)

Gandalf - Nature Boy (S/T)

Tony Perkins - This Time The Dream's On Me (S/T)

Duke Ellington (with Louis Armstrong) - Mood Indigo (Paris Blues soundtrack)

Les Blue Stars - Stardust (Pardon My English)

Burt Bacharach - Downhill And Shady (What's New Pussy Cat? soundtrack)

Cecil Leuter - Track One (Pop Electronique)

Giuliano Sorgini - Excerpts From... The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue soundtrack)

L'Infonia - Desafinado (S/T)

Erkin Koray - Sir (Elektronik Turkuler)

Phil Ochs - Flower Lady (Pleasures Of The Harbor)

Gene Rains - Lonely Winter (Far Away Lands: The Exotic Music of Gene Rains)

Charles Gerhardt National Philharmonic Orchestra plays Bernard Herrmann's score for On Dangerous Ground

Sunday, August 17, 2014

The "Moon and The Stars And The What Have You" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City For 8/17/14

Henry Mancini - Dreamsville (The Music From Peter Gunn)

Tangerine Dream - Choronzon (Exit)

Harmonia - Gollum (De Luxe)

Harmonia - Ohrwurm (S/T)

Gnaw Their Tongues - they gathered themselves together and became (Constructing Enochian Temples - split with Sick To The Back Teeth)

Einsturzenda Neubauten (W/ Lydia Lunch) - Thirsty Animal (Early Recordings)

Jac Berrocal (W/ Vince Taylor) - Rock 'n' Roll Station (Paralleles)

The Telescopes - Celestial (As Approved By The Committee)

Disco Inferno - Starbound: All Burnt Out & Nowhere To Go (D.I. Go Pop)

101 Strings - Astral Freakout (Astro Sounds From Beyond The Year 2000)

The Pin Group - Long Night (S/T)

Shadowbug 4 - No, I Swear...Look At My Tongue (Tiny Voices Of Love And Fear)

Tiffany Anders & Boyd Rice - Absence Make The Heart Grow Fonder (Grace Of My Heart soundtrack)

Soft Cell - Numbers (The Art Of Falling Apart)

The Godz - Permanent Green Light (2)

Hawkwind - Seeing It As You Really Are (S/T)

Plan 9 - B-3-11 (Dealing With The Dead)

Lee Hazlewood - Think I'm Coming Down (Poet, Fool Or Bum)

The Residents - You yesyesyes (Fingerprince)

Alternative TV - Let's Sleep Now (Peep Show)

Gallon Drunk - Theme From Black Milk (Black Milk)

Cal Tjader And His Sextet - Misty (In A Latin Bag)

Akira Tana - Charade (Secret Agent Men)

Bernard Herrmann - All The Animals Come Out At Night (Taxi Driver soundtrack)

Tex Perkins - All You Need Is Sleep (Dark Horses)

The Residents - Creeping Dread / The Census Taker (The Census Taker soundtrack)

John Patton - Shoutin' But No Poutin' (Boogaloo)

Gene Rains - Lotus Land (Far Away Lands: The Exotic Music of Gene Rains)

Mort Garson - Black Mass / Incubus (Black Mass)

One St. Stephen - Old Man (S/T)

Dave Bixby - Waiting For The Rains (Ode To Quetzacoatl)

Sand - Old Loggerhead (Golem)

The "Two Terribles and The Three Thrillings" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City For 8/10/14

Henry Mancini - Dreamsville (The Music From Peter Gunn)

Bill Ryder-Jones - Some Absolute End (The End) (If...)

Loop - Mother Sky (Dual)

Paik - Black Car (The Orson Fader)

Mad River - Revolution's In My Pockets (Paradise Bar And Grill)

The Psychedelic Furs - Wedding Song (S/T)

Gary Clail & The On-U Sound System - Peace Perfect Peace (End Of The Century Party)

Modern Jazz - Room Boom Baby (Love and Other Dreams 1980 - 1984)

Country Teasers - Mosquito (S/T)

Einsturzende Neubauten - Sabrina (Silence Is Sexy)

Alternative Television - Nasty Little Lonely (The Radio Sessions - Peel Session July 1978)

The Fall - Tempo House (Perverted By The Language)

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

Bowery Electric - Beat (Beat)

David Vanian And The Phantom Chords - Johnny Guitar (S/T)

The Damned - 13th Floor Vendetta (The Black Album)

Died Pretty - Desperate Hours (Next To Nothing EP)

The Saints - Nights In Venice (I'm Stranded)

Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound - Blue Wire (Manzanita)

Shock Headed Peters - The First Game Ever Played (And Cheated At) (Tendercide)

The Electric Banana (The Pretty Things) - Alexander (Blows Your Mind)

Hunters & Collectors - Talking To A Stranger (S/T)

The Prisoners - Explosions On Uranus (The Last Fourfathers)

The Gun Club - Temptation And I (Pastoral Hide And Seek)

Ed Kuepper - Sounds Like a Mysterious Wind (Serene Machine)

The Beasts Of Bourbon - Ride On (The Low Road)

The Beasts Of Bourbon - Psycho (The Axeman's Jazz)

Lee Hazlewood - She's Funny That Way (Love And Other Crimes)

Alternative Television - Life After Dub (The Image Has Cracked)

Takeshi Terauchi - Summer Boogaloo (Nippon Guitars)

David Axelrod - Ken Russell (Seriously Deep)

Bernard Herrmann - Excerpts from It's Alive (soundtrack)

Quincy Jones - Excerpts From The Split (soundtrack)

Albert Glasser - Nightmare (from the Tormented soundtrack)

Kevin Ayers - All This Crazy Gift Of Time (Joy Of A Toy)

Sunday, August 10, 2014

The "Heebies, But Not The Jeebies" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City For 8/3/14

Henry Mancini - Dreamsville (The Music From Peter Gunn)

Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear (Stratosfear)

Main - Remain (Hydra-Calm)

The Nephilim (Fields Of the Nephilim) - Last Exit For The Lost (S/T)

Cabaret Voltaire - Seconds Too Late (The Living Legends...)

Tuxedomoon - KM / Seeding The Clouds (Half Mute)

The Mermen - Miki's Lush Beehive (The Amazing California Health And Happiness Show)

Pink Fairies - Never Never Land (Never Never Land)

Buffy Sainte-Marie - The Vampire (Illuminations)

T.S. Bonniwell - Black Snow (Close)

Randy Greif - Part 2: Meeting - 2X2L (War Of The Worlds)

Hunting Lodge - By The Blood Of The Others (Exhumed)

Bourbonese Qualk - Post Crash High (Unpop)

D.R. Hooker - Forge Your Own Chains (The Truth)

The Ames Brothers - Sentimental Me (V.A. - Love Organs)

African Head Charge - Snakeskin Tracksuit (Environmental Studies)

The Enchanters - Cafe Bohemia (V.A. - Jungle Exotica)

Caesar Romero - Blood Pearl (Matamoros)

Cruel Sea - I'll Take Care Of You (Down Below)

The Flesh Eaters - Satan Stomp (A Minute To Pray A Second To Die)

Acetone - One Drop (York Blvd.)

Los Cincos - Galaxie Ambience (Experimental Procedures In Hi-Fidelity)

Mad River (featuring Richard Brautigan) - Love Is Not The Way To Treat A Friend (Paradise Bar And Grill)

Emtidi - Touch The Sun (Saat)

Tarnation - Listen To The Wind (Gentle Creatures)

Barney Kessel - Moon River (Breakfast At Tiffany's)

Werner Muller - Moonlight Becomes You (Percussion In The Sky)

Lars Danielsson - Driven To Daylight (Liberetto)

The Lounge Lizards - Harlem Nocturne (S/T)

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

Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Down From Dover (Fairytales And Fantasies: The Best Of Nancy And Lee)

Vivian Stanshall - Red Eye (Men Opening Umbrellas Ahead)