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, April 27, 2014

The "Burnt Toast and Weird Eggs" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 4/27/14

Henry Mancini - Dreamsville (The Music From Peter Gunn)

John Cage - 2nd Interlude (Sonatas And Interludes For Prepared Piano 1946-48 - Boris Berman)

Fuse - Slac (Dimension Intrusion)

Lars Danielsson - Orange Market (Liberetto)

T.S. Bonniwell - Black Snow (Close)

Spectre - Mayday / Nightstalker (V.A. - Best of Wordsound Dub)

Techno Animal - Cyborg Dread Invokes The Phantom Priest (V.A. - Electric Ladyland)

Inner Space - Coitus, Ergo Sum (V.A. - Obscured By Krauts)

John Foxx And the Belbury Circle - Empty Avenues And Dark Corners (Pye Corner Audio Mix) (Empty Avenues)

Pye Corner Audio - Door In The Dry Ice (Sleep Games)

Limbus - Kundalini (V.A. - Kraut! Demons! Kraut! German Psychedelic Underground 1968-1974)

Caetano Veloso - Onde O Rio E Mais Balano (Livro)

Harlem River Drive - Idle Hands (V.A. - Nu Yorica! Culture Clash In New York City Experiments In Latin Music 1970-77)

The Fabulous Imperials - Moon Beat (V.A. - Rocket Ship)

Terry Teen - The Hearse (V.A. - Mostly Ghostly More Horror For Halloween)

Zufalligen Einbildungskraft - Dissonant Doodlings (The Love That Remains EP)

The D.J. Bonebrake / Skip Heller Quartet - Francis Farmer (One More Midnight)

Henry Mancini - Main Title (Touch Of Evil soundtrack)

Leonard Cohen - Lady Midnight / They Locked Up A Man (poem)/A Person Who Eats Meat/Intro / One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong (Live At The Isle Of Wight 1970)

Gary McFarland - Excerpts From the Soundtrack: Eye Of The Devil

Gallon Drunk - The Soul Of the Hour (The Soul Of the Hour)

The Skip Heller Trio - Mambo Inn (Live In Philly)

Michele Lacerenza - excerpts From the Soundtrack: L'Ira Di Dio

Jerry Goldsmith - The House Is Gone (The Illustrated Man soundtrack)

Dean Martin - Introduction and Medley: Drink to Me Only/Bourbon From Heaven/It's All: Drink To Me Only / Bourbon From Heaven / It's All Right With Me / Monologue (Live At The Sands)

Brother Jack McDuff - Moon Rappin' (Moon Rappin')

Rusty Bryant - Mister S (Fire Eater)

Baroque Jazz Trio - Latin Baroque (S/T)

Jeremy Steig - Hot Head (Leg Work)

The Bigroup - Gentle Swell (Big Hammer)

Joe Pass - Time For Us (Guitar Interludes)

Grant Green - Let The Music Take Your Mind (Alive!)

Sunday, April 20, 2014

The "Take It Easter, Take It Slow" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 4/20/14

Milt Buckner - The Late, Late Show (V.A. - Organs In Orbit)

Harmonia - Sehr Kosmisch (S/T)

Clock DVA - Poem (Advantage)

The Bad Trips - Miracle Of Marsh Chapel (S/T)

Universal Indians - Meancing (Monster Approach)

G. Iacoucci - Psycopathologie (Symbolisme Psychedelique)

Lincoln Street Exit - Whatever Happened to Baby Jesus (Psych-Out 7" EP)

Mystic Siva - Black Sheep (Under The Influence)

Zipper - Let It Freeze (S/T)

Baby Grandmothers - Somebody Keeps Calling My Name (S/T)

Minette - Minette's 69th Trip (Come To Me At Tea Time)

Alex Chilton - My Baby Just Cares For Me (Cliches)

P.S. Surrealism - Zeeta 7 (S/T)

The Heads - Spliffriff (The Time Is Now)

Tunnel Canary - Beauty Secrets (excerpt) (Jihad)

Excerpts From Track One on the LYSERGIC ODYSSEY PART 1 CD-R compilation

Brother Fox And the Tar Baby - Steel Dog Man (V.A. - White Lace & Strange: Heavy Psych and Power Fuzz From The USA 68-72)

Hunters & Collectors - Throw Your Arms Around Me (LIVE) (The Way To Go Out)

John Loudermilk - To Hell With Love (The Open Mind of John D. Loudermilk)

Orchestra Pete Thomas - Malaparte Sinus (Orion 2000)

Henry Mancini - Dreamsville (Peter Gunn)

O.B. Jackson - Amazing Grace

Rod Mckuen - Where Are We Now? (Listen To The Warm)

Milt Jackson - On The Scene (Wizard Of The Vibes)

Kitty, Daisy & Lewis - Smoking In Heaven (Smoking In Heaven)

Ann Richards - Be Easy, Be Tender (The Many Moods...)

William DeVaughn - Be Thankful For What You Got (Be Thankful For What You Got)

Cal Tjader Quartet ‎– Summertime (Saturday Night/Sunday Night At The Blackhawk, San Francisco)

Lonnie Smith - Good Morning (Afrodesia)

Baden Powell with Herbie Mann - Consolacao (V.A. - The Brazilian Scene)

Elmer Bernstein - Tropical Island Mood / The Smear (Sweet Smell of Success Soundtrack)

Sunday, April 13, 2014

The "Social Graces and Heavy Genuflections" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 4/13/14

Milt Buckner - The Late, Late Show (V.A. - Organs In Orbit)

Chico Hamilton Quintet - Lonesome Child (Passin' Thru)

Nina Simone - Little Girl Blue (Little Girl Blue)

David Sylvian - Ghost (Everything And Nothing)

Michael Small - Selections from the Soundtrack to Klute

The Braen's Machine - Imphormal (Underground)

John Coltrane - Love (Meditations)

Arbete Och Fritid - Petrokemi Det Kan Man Inte Bada (S/T)

Thin White Rope - Crawl Piss Freeze (Moonhead)

Ravjunk - Hey Little Girl (Uppsala Stadshotell Brinner)

Benediction - Although I've Come To This Human Form (S/T)

Art Zoyd - Sangria (From 1971 Single)

Prats - TV Set (Now That's What I Call Prats Music)

Mammut - Mammut Opera (Mouse Trick Track Music)

Deaf - Run You Off The Hill (Alpha)

Dave Pike Set - Noisy Silence Gentle Noise (Noisy Silence Gentle Noise)

Emil Richards - Moonstone (June) (New Sound Element: Stones)

Madrigal - Fallen Tree (S/T)

Eternal Tapestry - New Dawn (New Dawn)

Intersystems ‎– Part 9 (Free Psychedelic Poster Inside)

Pye Corner Audio - Deep End (Sleep Games)

Crash Coffin - The Swing (S/T)

Isolation Ward - Babies and Sucklings (A Lullaby) (Point Final)

Gam - Gam Jam 3 (Gam 1976)

The Love Machine ‎– Mindblower (Electronic Music To Blow Your Mind By!!!)

Crystalauger - Cosmic Journey (Terranaut)

Yesterday's Obsession - The Psyche (V.A. - Psychedelic Minds Vol. 1 1967 - 1971)

Dick Curless - Foggy, Foggy Dew (The Long Lonesome Road)

Ethel Aazama - Lazy Afternoon (Exotic Dreams)

Del Jones Positive Vibe - Times Are Hard Friends Are Few (Court Is Closed)

The New Creation - Where Are You Going? (Troubled)

Guru Guru - Spaceship (Radio Bremen 9/21/71)

Sunday, April 6, 2014

The "Fiddle The Knobs And Hope For The Best" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 4/6/14

Milt Buckner - The Late, Late Show (V.A. - Organs In Orbit)

Charlie & Esdor - Idgar Sticker Jag Bort (1969 - 1970)

The Search Party - So Many Things Have Got Me Down (Montgomery Chapel)

The Tea Party - Flowers (Come And Have Some Tea With The Tea Company)

Lyd - Crash Pad (S/T)

Ugly Custard - Scarborough Fair (S/T)

Pinnacle - Astral Traveller (Cyborg Assassin)

The Memerizing Eye - Rain Of Terror (Psychedelia: A Musical Light Show)

Smokin' Willie - Evil Ways (S/T)

Wailing Wall - Flying (S/T)

Nazareth - Morning Dew (S/T)

Strange Fate - Hold Me Baby (V.A. - Psychedelic Disaster Whirlwind)

Les Monstres - Le Thème Du Cimetière! (V.A. - Sont Fous Ces Gaulois : Volume 3)

Certain General - Voodoo Taxi (Invisible New York)

Einsturzende Neubauten - Feurio! (Haus Der Luege)

Mike Lewis & Conny Plank - Voodoo Woman (V.A. - Kraut-Bloody-Rageous)

Woorden - ? (V.A. - Waterpipes And Dykes: Dutch Psychedelia Underground)

Excerpts From LSD: A Documentary Report...a Capital Records Release...

Hawkwind - Fall of Earth City (Church Of Hawkwind)

Magic Muscle - I Can Travel Anywhere / Fly Brothers (The Pipe, The Roar, The Grid)

Azitis - Judgement Day (Help)

Last Days - Plate Glass Window (S/T)

Mose Allison - Back Country Suite: Blues / Lost Mind (The Mose Allison Anthology)

Lola Albright - Slow And Easy (Dreamsville)

Don Gibson - Blues in My Heart (Oh, Lonesome Me)

Lonsome Sundowm - Lonesome, Lonely Blues (I'm A Mojo Man: The Excello Singles)

Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound - The Chocolate Maiden's Misty Summer Morning (Ekranoplan)

The Animated Egg - That's How It Is (Guitar Freakout)

Sammy Davis Jr. - We'll Make It This Time (Theme From Kojak)(Lounge Legends)

Sammy Davis Jr. - Johnny Cool (Johnny Cool Soundtrack)

Sammy Davis Jr. - Be-Bop The Beguine (The Capital Collector's Series)

Group 1850 - Mother No-Head (extra track on CD re-issue of Agemo's Trip To Mother Earth)

Chaino - The Breather (AKA Gone Ape) (New Sounds in Rock And Roll: Jungle Rock)

Quarteto Em Cy - Canto de Ossanha (Aleluia 1964 - 1966)

The ORIGINAL Chico Hamilton Quartet - Caravan (Live At "The Strollers)

Lee Hazlewood - Just Bluesin' (The N.S.V.I.P.'s)

The Three Sounds - Love For Sale (Moods)