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, September 25, 2014

The "Slush Fund! More Like a LUSH fund!!" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City For 9/21/14

Frank Sinatra - Night (A Man Alone: The Words And Music of McKuen)

Roy Budd - Get Carter (Rebirth Of the Budd)

Henry Mancini - Main Title (Touch Of Evil soundtrack)

Judith Tripp - Li Sun (V.A. - I Am The Cosmos: Private Issue New Age Music, 1950-1990)

Coil - Blood From The Air (Horse Rotorvator)

Tom Dissevelt And Kid Baltan - Orbit Aurora / Twilight Ozone (Song Of the Second Moon)

Brother Theodore - Introduction And Berenice (Theodore In Stereo)

James Moody - Summertime (Hey! It's James Moody)

Don Morrow - Like Rumpelstiltskin (Grimm's Hip Fairy Tales)

The Latin All Stars - Rapture (Jazz Heat Bongo Beat)

Duane Eddy - Not The Lovin' Kind (Duane Plays Dylan)

Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Strangers Lovers, Friends (Nancy & Lee 3)

Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Non-Stop Erotic Dancing)

Frank Comstock - Galaxy / Out Of Space (Music From Outer Space)

The Unseen - Opening Theme (Eerie Meadow) (The Goatman Original Soundtrack)... Dig The Unseen HERE

Art Van Damme - Voodoo Doll (V.A. - Swing For A Crime)

Bob Mersey - Jazz Dramatique (V.A. - It's Like...Murder)

Roy Glenn - Big High Song For Somebody (Philip Whalen) (V.A. Jazz Canto: An Anthology Of Poetry And Jazz)

Russ Garcia And His Orchestra - Moon Rise (Fantastica)

International Studio Orchestra - Tuxedo (Assignment: London)

Reg Tinsley - Spooky Jazz (V.A. - Inside The Crime Story)

E. Werner - Crime Jazz Guitar (V.A. - Inside The Crime Story)

Leda Annest w/ The Phil Moore Orchestra - Part 2 (Portrait Of Leda)

Vladimir Cosma - Antocorps / Transmutation (Insolite And Co.)

The Fugs - Carpe Diem (Electromagnet Steamboat)

Mose Allison - If You're Going To The City (The Mose Allison Anthology)

Dudley Moore - Moon Time (Bedazzled soundtrack)

Jimmie Haskell And His Orchestra - Starlight (Countdown)

Hugo Montenegro - Yale's Pool Room (Lady In Cement soundtrack)

Frank Sinatra - Some Traveling Music ( (A Man Alone: The Words And Music of McKuen)

Irving Joseph - Crime Wave (Murder, Inc.)

Marty Manning And His Orchestra - Night On Bald Mountain (Twilight Zone)

Camille Sauvage - Ectoplasm (Fantasmagories)

Dick Hyman and Mary Mayo - Star Eyes (Moon Gas)

Shirley Horn - Blue City (V.A. - Mid Century Minx)

The Creed Taylor Orchestra (w/ Kenyon Hopkins) - Spellbound (Shock)

Del Close And John Brent - The Riff (How To Speak Hip)

The Musical Intimidators - Marijuana Version (V.A. - Trojan Dub Rarities Box Set)

The Creed Taylor Orchestra (w/ Kenyon Hopkins) - A Shot In The Dark (Panic, The Son Of Shock)

Boris Karloff - The Fortune Teller (Tales Of the Frightened - Vol. 1)

Friday, September 19, 2014

The "I Got Down With My Bad Self And That Ass Hit On My Wife" Show

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

Henry Mancini - Dreamsville (The Music From Peter Gunn)

Rhythm & Noise (with Ricky Williams) - Without Your Eyes (Chasm's Accord)

African Head Charge - Far Away Chant (My Life In the Hole in the Ground)

Between Interval - Entropy (Secret Observatory)

Mammal - Lower Depths (Lonesome Drifter)

Lustmord - Boneing Of Men (A Document of Early Acoustic & Tactical Experiments)

Lustmord - Protoplasmic Reversion (The Monstrous Soul)

The Walker Brothers - The Electrician (Nite Flights)

Material - Process/Motion (Temporary Music 1979-1981)

Luxuria - Redneck (Unanswerable Lust)

Luxuria - Stupid Blood (Beast Box)

Tom Waits - Closing Time (Closing Time)

KAK - Trieulogy (S/T)

The Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound - Occult Roots (Ekranoplan)

Helios Creed - Modular Green (Lactating Purple)

Steel Pole Bathtub - Black Eye Fixer (Unlistenable)

The Mark Of Cain - Summertime (Battlesick)

23 Skidoo - IV (Seven Songs)

Rudimentary Peni - Cosmic Hearse (Death Church)

The Marketts - Out Of Limits (Out Of Limits)

The Renderers - Forbidden Planet (That Dog's Head In the Gutter Gives Of Vibrations)

Nikki Sudden - Death Is Hanging Over Me (Texas)

The Mirrors - I've Been Down (Hands In My Pockets)

Le-Sun Ra & His Arkistra - Medicine For A Nightmare (The Singles)

Michael Rother - Fontana di Luna (Sterntaler)

Marilyn Maxwell - Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered (V.A. - Sex Kittens in Hi-Fi: The Blondes)

Tee & Cara - Nothing To You (As They Are)

Russ Garcia - Blue, Blue, Blue (Sounds In the Night)

Quarteto Em Cy - Vida Ruim (Aleluia 1964-66)

Babs Gonzales - You've Changed (Voila)

Kenyon Hopkins - Desire (Rooms)

Lola Albright - Sorta Blue (Dreamsville)

Martin Denny - Island Of Dreams (Exotica II)

Ahmad Jamal And His Orchestra - Sugar Loaf at Twilight (Macanudo)

Scott Walker - Plastic Palace People (Scott 2)

Sammy Davis, Jr. - Take My Hand (Lounge Legends)

The Mike Sammes Singers (W/ The Ted Taylor Organsound) - O Worship The King (Hymns A' Swinging)

Tuli Kupferberg - The Art Scene (No Deposit, No Return)

Sammy Davis, Jr. (W/ Dean Martin) - Ain't That A Kick In the Head (Sammy & Friends)

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

The "Zarathustra Just Yacks And Yacks" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City For 9/7/14

Henry Mancini - Dreamsville (The Music From Peter Gunn)

Embryo - Dirge (Rocksession)

Cabaret Voltaire - In The Shadows (The Crackdown)

Reptilicus - DDD From Nowhere (Temperature Of Blood)

LSD And The Search For God - Starting Over (S/T)

Sufi - Lover (Life Rising)

Kaleidoscope - Egyptian Gardens (Egyptian Candy: A Collection)

Things To Come - Darkness (I Want Out)

The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation - Memory Of Pain (S/T)

The Blackeyed Susans - This One Eats Souls (All Souls Alive)

Billy Strange - Stranger In Your Town (Strange Country)

David Whittaker Orchestra - Interception (V.A. - The Thriller Memorandum)

Terminal Cheesecake - Neu Seeland (Pearlesque Kings Of The Jewmost)

Alice Cooper - Return Of The Spiders (Easy Action)

Shockabilly - Purple Haze (The Ghost Of Shockabilly)

H.P. Lovecraft - At The Mountains Of Madness (II)

Penthouse - Nighthreat (Unt)

The Names - Nightshift (Swimming + Singles)

Big Black - Steelworker (Lungs EP)

The Residents - The Booker Tease (Duck Stab EP)

Tall Dwarfs - Nothings Going To Happen (Hello Cruel World)

Oliver Sain - Just A Lonely Man (St. Louis Breakdown: The Best Of...)

OP8 - Leather (Slush)

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Sad Waters (Your Funeral...My Trial)

The Wipers - The Chill Remains (Follow Blind)

Black Seas Of infinity - Vortex Of Awakening (Within Daathian Chasms)

The Creed Taylor Orchestra (w/Kenyon Hopkins) - Chamber Of Horrors (Nightmare!!)

Boris Karloff - Nightmare (Tales Of The Frightened Vol. 2)

Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers - You Don't Know What Love Is (Art Blakey!!!!! Jazz Messengers!!!!!)

Fred Katz - Pluck It (The Music Of...)

Tamba Trio - Rio (Avanco)

Paul Revere & The Raiders - Frankfort Side Street (Alia Pink Puzz)

Lee Hazlewood And Nancy Sinatra - Summer Wine (Lounge Legends)

Burt Bacharach - selections from the After The Fox soundtrack

Mr. Ho's Orchestronica - The Boulevard of Broken Dreams (The Unforgettable Sound Of...)

Ray Martin - International Golf: Red Carpet Ride (Favourite TV Themes Vol. 2)

The Moonflowers - Future Alien (Colours And Sounds)

Segue - Vapour Trails (Pacifica)