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.

Saturday, August 10, 2013

The I Am Still Zonked Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 7/28/13

Walter Schumann - Shadow Waltz (Exploring the Voices of...)

Richard Formby - Superstudio (Vol.1)

Tom Dissevelt and Kid Baltan - Song of the Second Moon / Moon Maid (Song of the Second Moon)

Carlo Rustichelli - Unceasing (V.A. - Beat Vol. 2: Lounge at Cinevox)

A.R. Kane - Sperm Whale Trip Over (Americana)

Bailter Space - One More Reason (Tanker)

Flying Saucer Attack - Moon Set

Lustmord - Sibling (A Document Of Early Acoustic & Tactical Experimentation)

The Blue Hawaiians - Hot Rod To Honolulu (Savage Night)

Arthur Lyman - Swingin' Shepherd Blues (Isle of Enchantment)

Tennesse Ernie Ford - Hicktown (Vintage Collections)

Lee Hazlewood - In Our Time (Lounge Legends)

Action Plus+ - Perfume (Wanderlust)

John Carpenter - Ghosts of Mars (Ghosts of Mars Sndtrk)

Ryan Shore - Selections from the Soundtrack: Headspace

Carlo Rustichelli - Windsor Concerto (The Whip and the Body Sndtrk)

George Barnes - Spooky (V.A. - Monster Sounds and Boppin Tracks

Del Sorino and William Sanford - Pretty Boy Floyd Theme (Pretty Boy Floyd Sndtrk)

The Fall - The Hip Priest (live) (In a Hole)

The Flaming Stars - Mansion House Blues (Sunset & Void)

Colin Towns - Theme From Full Circle / The Park (The Haunting of Julia Sndtrk) ‎

Charles Bernstein - Selection from the Soundtrack: Mr. Majestyk

Nora Orlandi ‎- Infanzia - Childhood (Per 100.000 Dollari T'Ammazzo Sndtrk)

Karl-Ernst Sasse – Die Erde Grüßt Euch, Kosmonauten & Main Title (V.A.: Kosmos! Soundtracks of Eastern Germany's Adventures in Space)

Mark Perry - At War (Snappy Turns)

Claudio Simonetti - Phenomena (Phenomena Sndtrk)

Gil Melle - Selections from the Soundtrack: Frankenstein: The True Story

Jo Carlier Et Son Orchestre - Aquarella (V.A. - Another Crazy Cocktail Party)

All Night Radio - All Night Radio (Spirit Stereo Frequency)

John Carpenter - Selections From The Soundtrack: The Fog

Bernard Herrmann - All the Animals Come Out at Night (Taxi Driver Sndtrk)

Orson Welles / Dana Kaproff - Selections From the Soundtrack: The Late Great Planet Earth

The Gideon Leeches - Rising Of The Lights (V.A. - Malpractice - A Fflint Central Primer)

Michel Legrand - Pop Fashion (V.A. - Easy Paris by Elisabeth Butterfly)

Claude Bolling - Riffin' (V.A. - Easy Paris by Elisabeth Butterfly)

David Seville - Willow Weep For Me (The Music of David Seville)

Wolfman Jack - Hoodooin' of Miss Fanny De Berry / Evil Woman (S/T)

Grant Green - Blues in Maude's Flat (The Best of Grant Green - Vol. 1)

Krzysztof Komeda - Selections From the Soundtrack: Cul-De-Sac

Thursday, July 25, 2013

The Gosh Dang Show.

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 7/21/13

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Walter Schumann - Shadow Waltz (Exploring the Voices of...)

Monte Cazazza - To Mom on Mother's Day (The Worst of Monte Cazazza)

Crime and the City Solution - The Sun Before the Darkness (Paradise Discotheque)

Kraftwerk - Airwaves (Radio-Activity)

Eddy Arnold - What's He Doing in My World (The Essential Eddy Arnold)

Ray Price - Introduction and Theme / Night Life (Night Life)

Nikki Sudden and the French Revolution - Groove (Groove)

Brian Eno - Swanky (The Drop)

My Homunculus Has the Palsy - Feasting Your Eyes (Julie And Her Toilet Bowl of Tears)

Richard Pinhas - Duncan Idaho (Chronolyse)

The Animals - White Houses (Every One Of Us)

Ennio Morricone (featuring Franco De Gemini) - Man With a Harmonica (Once Upon A Time in the West (Sndtrk)

Apryl Fool - Another Time (S/T)

Heaven 17 - And That's No Lie (How Men Are)

Art Fleury - Black-Out (Last Album)

And Also The Trees - Gone...Like the Swallows (Virus Meadow)

Lee Hazlewood - The Night Before (Poet, Fool or Bum)

Jaime Alem & Nair Candia - Sob O Mar (Jaime & Nair)

Albergo Intergalattico Spaziale - Phasing (S/T)

No Trend - Teen Love (Live in Baltimore - 1983) (top-forty hit)

Bit 'a Sweet - A Second Time (Hypnotic)

Alternative TV - Sleep in Bed (Strange Kicks)

Blues Project - Two Trains Running (Projections) ‎

Knoxville Girls - Low Cut Apron / Sugar Fix (S/T)

Fuzztones - Ward 81 (Lysergic Emanations)

The Gil Evans Orchestra - La Nevada (Out of the Cool)

Dislocation Dance - Vendetta (Theme) (Music Music Music / Slip That Disc)

Sunday, July 7, 2013

The Ancient Songs Sung Blue Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 7/7/13

Walter Schumann - Shadow Waltz (Exploring the Voices of...)

Cabaret Voltaire - A Thousand Ways (Red Mecca)

Cluster - Zum Wohl (Sowiesoso)

Phil Moore and His Orchestra - Return to Paradise (V.A. - Paradise Found w/ Rare Exotic Sounds)

Chris and Cosey - Until (Trance)

Henry Mancini - The Whispering Sea (Stereo Version) (The Versatile Henry Mancini)

Henry Mancini - Baretta's Theme (The Cop Show Themes)

Buddy Morrow - San Francisco Blues (From the TV Series "The Line-Up") (Double Impact)

Gary McFarland - Catherine in Chateau at Night/Children on Parapet/Catherine and Odile on Parapet/Children on Steeple (Eye of the Devil Sndtrk)

Barry Adamson - Shadow of Death Hotel (Back to the Cat)

African Head Charge - Fever Pitch (Raw Cut) (In Pursuit of Shashamane Land)

Chet Baker - Almost Blue (Chet Baker Sings and Plays From the Film "Let's Get Lost")

The Crawdaddys - Rainin' in My Heart (Crawdaddy Express)

Mammal - Drifter in the City (Lonesome Drifter)

Scorn - Closedown (Greetings From Birmingham)

Will Sergeant - Scenes 1 and 2 (Themes for Grind)

The Neon Judgement - Awful Day (Red Box)

Quicksilver Messenger Service - What About Me (What About Me)

The Lemon Pipers - Dead End Street / Half Light (The Best of The Lemon Pipers: Green Tambourine)

Gaye Bykers On Acid - TV Cabbage (Drill Yer Own Hole)

Lesiman - Padmina (The Future Sound of Lesiman)

The Kaleidoscope - Egyptian Garden (Side Trips)

Creation Rebel - Rebel Rouser (Historic Moment Volume 1) ‎

Giant Sand - High Lonesome Curl (Purge & Slouch)

Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra - I'm Nuts About Screwy Music (V.A. - I'm Going Slightly Mad)

Ella Mae Morse - The House of Blue Lights (The Very Best of...)

Holger Czukay - Perfect World (Rome Remains Rome)

Out Of Focus - Black Cards (Four Letter Monday Afternoon)

Les Baxter His Chorus and Orchestra - Oasis of Dakhla (Tamboo!)

The Gist - Problem Attics (Embracing The Herd)

Johnny Rivers - Something Strange (Realization)

Von Bingen - Eyeglasses of Kentucky (S/T)

Martin Denny - Stone God (Exotica)

John Patton - Chittlins Con Carne (Understanding)

Sunday, June 30, 2013

The Haystack in the Needle Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 6/30/13

Walter Schumann - Shadow Waltz (Exploring the Voices of...)

The Dream Syndicate - When You Smile (Down There EP)

Section 25 - The Beast (The Key of Dreams)

Ed Bogas / Ray Shanklin - Scarborough Street Fair (Heavy Traffic Sndtrk)

Gil Melle - Shadow and Substance: Vintage Autumn/ Experiment Peril (Mindscape)

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The Gene Rains Group - Shadow of Love (Rains in the Tropics)

Johnny Dowd - Stumble & Fall (Temporary Shelter)

45 Grave - Insurance From God (Sleep in Safety)

Joe Byrd and The Field Hippies - The Sub-Sylvian Litanies: Kalyani / You Can't Ever Come Down / Moonsong: Pelog (The American Metaphysical Circus)

Swamp Children - Softly Saying Goodbye (Extra Track on the CD re-ish of So Hot)

Edwin Astley & His Orchestra - Drake and Ducks (The Secret Agent Sndtrk)

Booker T. & The MGs - You Keep Me Hanging On (Doin' Our Thing)

SPK - Retard (Information Overload Unit)

Throbbing Gristle - Excerpt From the Heathen Earth LP

101 Strings - Karma Sitar (The Exotic Sound of Love)

Acetone - Germs (S/T)

Los Banditos - Django (Modul 47)

Alfonso Santisteban - The Suitcase (Verano del 72)

Yvette Mimieux and Ali Akbar Khan - Lethe (Flowers of Evil)

Leroy Holmes - Lonely Place (Once Upon a Time in the West)

Henry Mancini - Make the World Go Away (Mancini Country) ‎

Frank Pourcel - Johnny Guitar (Johnny Guitar EP)

Luis Bacalov - Take a Chance (Instrumental Main Title) (Rebus Sndtrk)

Dick Schory - Take The "A" Train (Supercussion)

Kenneth Patchen - There is a Place / They Don't Let You in There (Kenneth Patchen Reads with Jazz in Canada)

Roy Budd - The Carey Treatment (Rebirth of the Budd)

Oscar Peterson - There's a Small Hotel (Pastel Moods)

Dandruff Deluxe - Flecidio (The Deal with the Devil)

Talk Talk - Desire (Spirit of Eden)

Björn Olsson ‎– Hällekindsvalsen (Instrumental Music ... To Submerge In ... Or Disappear Through)

Richard Brautigan - Revenge of the Lawn (Listening to Richard Brautigan)

Bevis Frond - High in a Flat (A Gathering of Fronds)

Burt Bacharach - Downhill and Shady (What's New Pussycat Sndtrk)

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

The Dharma Homeless Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 6/23/13

Walter Schumann - Shadow Waltz (Exploring the Voices of...)

Jerry Goldsmith - Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room (The Twilight Zone Sndtrk)

Nico - Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (Chelsea Girl)

The Godz - Black Cat Moan (Contact High With The Godz)

Vic Mizzy - Creepy Jeepers / The Haunted Organ (The Ghost and Mr Chicken Sndtrk)

Babs Gonzales - Lonely One (Viola)

John Barry - Seance On A Wet Afternoon (V.A. - Ultra Lounge: Vol. 16: Mondo Hollywood) - Request

Paul Revere And the Raiders - Frankfort Side Street (Alias Pink Puzz)

Quincy Jones - The Gentle Rain (Plays Music For Pussycats)

Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood - Summer Wine (Fairy Tales & Fantasies: The Best Of Nancy & Lee)

Ornette Coleman - Lonely Woman (The Shape of Jazz to Come)

Yma Sumac - Inca Waltz (The Ultimate Yma Sumac Collection)

Leonard Cohen - Dear Heather (Dear Heather)

Los Dourados - Jungle Fantasy (Electrifying Latin Piano)

Omar Khorsid & His Guitar - Raqsed El Fada (Rhythms From the Orient)

The Revolving Paint Dream - Fever Mountain (Flowers In The Sky: The Enigma Of The Revolving Paint Dream)

Devastations - What's A Place Like That Doing In A Girl Like You? (Coal)

Arizona Amp And Alternator - Where The Wind Turns the Skin to Leather (S/T)

Lyres - Every Man For Himself (A Promise is a Promise)

Chris Heazlewood - Euro Disco (Cash Guitar)

Mad River - The War Goes On (S/T) ‎

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

William S. Fischer - Electrix (Circles)

The Electric Prunes - General Confessional (Release of an Oath)

Animals That Swim - Faded Glamour (I Was the King. I Really Was the King)

Pop Corn - Song Sung Blue (The Discotheque Sound)

The Damned - Thanks For the Night (Damned But Not Forgotten)

Anthony Moore - Judy Get Down (Flying Doesn't Help)

Big Star - Kangaroo (Third/Sister Lovers)

Sauter - Finegan Orchestra - Dream Play (Directions in Music)

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Sun Ra - There Are Other Worlds (They Have Not Told You Of) (Laquidity)

Duke Ellington - Charlie Mingus - Max Roach - Switch Blade (Money Jungle)

Gordon Jenkins - Happiness Cocktail (Views From the Manhattan Tower)

John Wood - (Impressions Of) The Throb (Turn Of The Century & I'll Come Back)

Les Baxter - Topaz (African Blue)

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Summer In the Usual Decaying City

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 6/16/13

Walter Schumann - Shadow Waltz (Exploring the Voices of...)

Henry Jacobs - The Wide Weird World of Shorty Petterstein - The entire brilliant, surreal LP!

Jeff Greinke - Moving Through Fog (Cities in Fog)

Algebra Suicide – Mantic Sway (Swoon)

The Lemon Fog - Summer (V.A. - The Cicadelic 60's - Volume Two: Never Existed)

Shelley Manne - Daktari (Daktari)

Syd Barrett - Dominoes (Barrett)

Donnie Fritts - Prone To Lean (Prone To Lean)

Charlie Byrd - Time of the Season (Aquarius)

Salah Ragab and The Cairo Jazz Band - Egypt Strut (Egyptian Jazz)

The Cosmic Rays - Dreaming (Sun Ra: The Singles)

Konstruktivits - Aural Wallpaper (Psykho Genetika)

Harry Stoneham - Coming Home Baby (I Feel Good, I Feel Funky)

Amy Denio - Couch Sounds (No Bones)

Harlan Ellison - Demented SF Movie Harangue (On The Road with Ellison - Vol. 2)

Marty Gold & Donald Hulme - Soulful Strut (Sounds Impossible)

Bruno Cossano - Excerpts from Side 2 (Saffo's Pleasures)

Gary McFarland - Fried Bananas (The In Sound)

Mother Night - Take A Trip (S/T)

Euphoria - Suicide on the Hillside Sunday Morning After Tea/Sweet Fanny Adams (A Gift From Euphoria)

Sagittarius - Mass #586 - Featuring the late Peter Bergman (Present Tense) ‎

Mike Simpson - Elephant Drums / Crocodile River (Jungle Odyssey)

Watermelon - Trilogy (V.A. - Chicago Garage Band Greats: The Best of Rembrandt Records 1966 - 1968)

Abbey Lincoln - Tender As a Rose (That's Him)

Max Roach And His Chorus and Orchestra - Lonesome Lover (It's Time)

Denison Kimball Trio - Prelude (Plays The Music Of "Walls In The City")

Soul Children - What's Happening Baby (Friction)

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Johnny Richards - No Moon Up In the Sky (Experiments in Sound)

Spacemen 3 - Transparent Radiation (Flashback) (Translucent Flashbacks)

Leonard Cohen - The Gypsy Wife (Recent Songs)

Tim Hardin - Playing Cards / The Magician (Simple Songs Of Freedom - The Tim Hardin Collection)

Wes Montgomery - Sunny (Talkin' Verve: Roots of Acid Jazz)

Les Baxter - Pool of Love (The Exotic Moods of Les Baxter)

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Ode To a Grecian Formula

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 6/9/13

Walter Schumann - Shadow Waltz (Exploring the Voices of...)

Peter Laughner - Baudelaire (Take the Guitar Player For A Ride)

Harmonia 76 - By The Riverside (Tracks & Traces)

101 Strings - A Bad Trip Back to '69 (Astro Sounds From Beyond the Year 2000)

Mark Hollis - A Life (1895 - 1915) (S/T)

Lola Albright - Brief and Breezy (Dreamsville)

Frank Sinatra - Ill Wind (In the Wee Small Hours)

Lee Hazlewood - Dark in my Heart (Lounge Legends)

Thin White Rope - Man With the Golden Gun (Spoor)

Walter Scharf - Bermuda (My Favorite Places)

Ray Conniff - Theme From Swat (TV Themes)

Kai Winding - Night Side (Jazz For Playboys)

Berry Lipman - Star Maidens Theme (Star Maidens - Die Mädchen Aus Dem Weltraum - Sndtrk)

Gil Melle - Main Title (Starship Invasion Sndtrk)

23 Skidoo - Mary's Operation (Seven Songs)

Tuxedomoon - Up All Night (Unearthed)

Frank Bongusto - The World of the Blues - Main Title (Un Detective Sndtrk)

Rowland S. Howard - Autoluminescent (Teenage Snuff Film)

Nino Rota - Toby Dammit's Thoughts (LSD Roma)

Martin Denny - Jungle Madness (Hypnotique) ‎

Bruno Nicolai - Una Giornata Spesa Bene (Una Giornata Spesa Bene Sndtrk)

100 Flowers - Mop Dub (100 Years of Pulchritude)

The Route 66 Killers - The Devil's Martini (Murder on Beaver Street)

Bridget St. John - City Crazy (Songs For the Gentleman)

Caterina Valente & Edmundo Ros - La Rosita (Silk 'n' Latin)

Percy Faith - Stranger in Paradise (V.A. - Exotic Embers, Forgotten Moons)

Mickey Newbury - The Future's Not What it Used to Be ('Frisco Mabel Joy)

Kris Kristofferson - Why Me (Jesus Was a Capricorn)

Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra - The Hungry Years (Nancy & Lee 3)

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

John Coltrane Quartet - It's Easy to Remember (Ballads)

Charlie Rich - Don't Put No Headstone On My Grave (Feel Like Going Home: The Essential Charlie Rich)

The Gun Club - The Stranger in Our Town (Las Vegas Story)

These Immortal Souls - Insomnicide (I'm Never Gonna Die Again)

Rowland S. Howard - The Golden Age of Bloodshed (Pop Crimes)

Verdelle Smith - In My Room (The Complete Recordings)

Kenyon Hopkins - Alone (Rooms)

Crime & The City Solution - Streets of West Memphis (American Twilight)

Skip Heller - Alice Through the Twilight Zone Episode (Lua-O-Milo: The Exotic Sounds of Skip Heller

Ed Kuepper - King Of Vice (Legendary Bully)

Jerry Byrd - Tangi Tahiti (Byrd of Paradise)

Piero Piccioni - Magic of Tahiti (Bora Bora Sndtrk)