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, July 31, 2014

The "Is This The Way Of The World?" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City For 7/27/14

Henry Mancini - Dreamsville (The Music From Peter Gunn)

The Serpent Power - Endless Tunnel (S/T)

The Clee-Shays - The Spy (The Dynamic Guitar Sound Of...)

Aguaturbia - Erotica (Psychedelic Drugstore)

Vinegar - Der Kaiser auf der Erbse (S/T)

Axe - Here To There / Ahinam Take II (Axe Music)

Friedhof - Orgasmus (S/T)

Achim Reichel - Cosmic Vibrations (Die Grune Reise)

Cybotron - El Salvador (Clear)

Zoviet France - Fugitive (Collusion) - REQUEST

Jean Ludrut - Adagio Slow (The Trial soundtrack)

Nelson Riddle - Drive-In (We Love Nelson Riddle!)

The Harry Roche Constellation - The Mancini Generation (Sometimes)

Arkansaw Man - The Ballroom (S/T)

Richard Brautigan - Revenge Of the Lawn (Listening To Richard Brautigan)

Robert Cobert - Terror Up The Stairs (Burnt Offerings)

Electric Sandwich - Devil's Dream (S/T)

Might Baby - House Without Window (S/T)

Antoni Maiovvi - This Is The Beast (The Thorns Of Love)

Chris and Cosey - excerpt from Allotropy

Gal Costa - The Empty Boat (Gal)

Speed, Glue & Shinki - Stoned Out Of My Mind (Eve)

The Buddy Collette Septet - The Polynesian Suite (Polynesia)

The Polyphonics - Out Of Nowhere (Zounds! What Sounds)

Moon Birds ‎– Astro 9 (Energy-MC1 / Astro "9")

Leonard Nimoy - Alien (Mr. Spock's Music From Outer Space)

Stephen Drury - In a Landscape (John Cage - In a Landscape)

Dexter Wansel - Rings Of Saturn (Life On Mars)

Magical Ring - Dreams In The Wind (Light Flight...More And More)

Rogier Van Otterloo - Alfie's Lullaby (On The Move)

Tom Scott - The Honeysuckle Breeze (The Honeysuckle Breeze)

Gabor Szabo - Spaces (Sketch For Summer)

Sunday, July 27, 2014

The "Quaking In Your Boots" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City For 7/20/14

Henry Mancini - Dreamsville (The Music From Peter Gunn)

Archie Shepp (w/Jeanne Lee) - Blase (Blase)

Krzysztof Penderecki - Recordare Jesu Pie (A Polish Requiem)

PGR - Horizontal (A Hole of Unknown Depth)

Jimmy McGriff - The Bird Wave (Electric Funk)

The In Group - Man With the Golden Gun (V.A. - Shaken Not Stirred)

The Oscar Moore Trio - Come In Out Of The Rain (V.A. - In A Cocktail Mood)

Gallon Drunk - Miserlou (Tonite...The Singles Bar)

Futurians - Vampires Never Die (Faktory!)

Lurlean Hunter (w/ Manny Albam And His Orchestra) - Sunday (Night Life)

The Mothman - Afghani Dub (V.A. - In Dub Daze: An On-U Sound Compilation)

Revolutionary Dub Warriors - Industrial (2nd Version) (V.A. - Adrian Sherwood Presents The Master Recordings - Volume 2)

Nitwood - Kick-In (S/T)

Simon Turner - Esperanza (A Tribute To James Mason) (The Many Moods of Simon Turner)

Artery - Afterwards (Original 7-inch version) (Into The Garden: An Artery Collection)

Jessamine - Elsewards (Don't Stay Long)

Psychic TV - Thee Wolf Tracks (Those Who Do Not)

CarterTutti - Woven Clouds (Feral Vapours Of the Silver Ether)

Die Kreuzen - Red To Green (October File)

Jimmy Castor Bunch - Psyche (It's Just Begun)

Stack Waddy - Mystic Eyes (S/T)

The Shadows of Knight - Gospel Zone (Back Door Men)

Food - Fountains Of My Mind (Forever Is A Dream)

Quincy Jones - Blues In the Night (Plays Music For Pussy Cats)

Fantastic String Orchestra - Shadow of Your Smile (Shadow Of Your Smile)

Bert Kaempfert - Excerpts From the soundtrack to A Man Could Get Killed

Yuji Ohno - Living Satellite 10 of Jupiter (Cosmos)

Duke Pearson - The Phantom (The Phantom)

Kinky Friedman - Sold American (Sold American)

Nancy Sinatra - Lonely Again (Country, My Way)

Alberto Baldan Bembo ‎– Night Samba (The Smart Set)

Jack Marshall - Walking Around (Soundsville)

The Gist - Public Girls (Embrace The Herd)

Jimmy Smith And Wes Montgomery - 13 (Death March) (Jimmy & Wes: The Dynamic Duo)

Nancy Sinatra & Frank Sinatra - Life Is A Trippy Thing (Nancy In London)

Gary McFarland - Winter Samba (Sketch For Summer)

Robert Wyatt - Soup Song (Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard)

Monday, July 14, 2014

The "Over The Underground and Through The Show" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City For 7/6/14

Henry Mancini - Dreamsville (The Music From Peter Gunn)

Henry Mancini - Night Flower (Mr. Lucky soundtrack)

Bourbonese Qualk - Mapiyal (On Uncertainty)

Jerry Fielding - Excerpts From The Mechanic (Soundtrack)

Alien Sex Fiend - Do You Sleep? (Maximum Security)

Robert Corbert Orchestra - Opening Themes: Dark Shadows / Collinwood (The Original Music From Dark Shadows)

Mel Torme - Moonlight Cocktail (Swingin' On The Moon)

David Bowie - A New Career In Town (Low)

Brian Eno - Sky Saw (Another Green World)

The Cruel Sea - The Charmer (Over Easy)

Wendy & Bonnie - The Paisley Window Pane (Genesis)

Ferrente & Teicher - Midnight Cowboy (Instrumental Favorites)

Morton Gould - Blues In The Night (Blues In The Night)

Julee Cruise - Into The Night (Floating Into The Night)

Al Stewart - Zero She Flies (Zero She Flies)

Andre Previn & His Trio - Like Blue (V.A. - Bachelor In Paradise)

The Fuzztones - Ghost Clinic (Braindrops)

Tuxedomoon - The Stranger (Pinheads On The Move)

Charles Hayward - Sweetheart (excerpt) (Switch On War)

Brainticket - Black Sand (S/T)

Jacks - Track One (Vacant World)

Caedmon - Sea Song (Live 1977-78)

Tomorrow's Gift - Didden fur Dunden (Goodbye Future)

Little Beaver - Funkadelic Sound (V.A. - Miami Sound: Rare Funk & Soul From Miami, Florida 1967 - 1974)

Acme Rocket Quartet - Will Monster Zero Ever Die? (UHF)

Link Protrudi & The Jaymen - The Stroll (Drive It Home)

Ivor Slaney - The Studio Comes Alive (Terror soundtrack)

Dzyan - For Earthly Thinking (Electric Silence)

Irene Kral - Lazy Afternoon (V.A. - Mid Century Minx)

Sallie Blair - Better Luck Next Time (V.A. - Mid Century Minx)

The New Johnny Smith Quartet - Pawn Ticket (Al Viola - Johnny Smith: Contemporaries Of The Jazz Guitar)

Fraction - This Bird (Sky High) (Moon Blood)

Dug Dug's - It's Over (V.A. - Love, Peace & Poetry: Latin American Psychedelic Music)

John Ellison - Lost The Will To Live (V.A. - Philadelphia Roots...)

John Rydgren - Dark Side Of The Flower (Silhouette Segments)

Pete Rugolo - Excerpts from Richard Diamond Soundtrack

Jerry Fielding - Excerpts from The Gauntlet Soundtrack

Dave Grusin - Theme From The Friends of Eddie Coyle Soundtrack

Les Baxter - Quiet Village (The Exotic Moods Of Les Baxter)