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, September 15, 2013

The "Where Can A Fella Find A Good Seance These Days?" Show.

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 9/15/13

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

Tangerine Dream - Origin of Supernatural Probabilities (Zeit)

Brother Theodore - The Curse of the Toad (Theodore In Stereo)

Thug - Bulb (Everything Is Beautiful in Its Own Way)

Alpha Stone - Slow Motion Mind (Soulweed)

Marianne Faithful - Desperanto (Before the Poison)

Bonnie Dobson - Winter is Going (S/T)

Roy Budd - Quiet Nights (Blue Budd)

Lydia Lunch (w/ Lucy Hamilton) - A Quiet Night of Murder in Greenwich, CT (The Drowning of Lucy Hamilton)

The Swell Maps - The Graveyard Shift (Train Out of It)

John Cacavas - The Party's Over (Velvet is My Beat)

Possession - Performance Parts 1-3 (V.A. - Life At the Top)

Angelo Badalamenti - Main Title/Night Streets/Sandy and Jeffrey (Blue Velvet Sndtrk)

Dakota Staton - The Late, Late Show (The Late, Late Show)

Vernon Wray - Facing All the Same Tomorrows (Wasted)

David Hemmings - War's Mystery (Happens)

Arkansaw Man - The Ballroom (S/T)

John Cage - Imaginary Landscape (V.A. - Forbidden Planets: Music From the Pioneers of Electronic Sound)

Ken Nordine - Reaching Into In (You're Getting Better: The Word Jazz Dot Masters)

The Caretaker - Long Term (Remote) (Persistent Repetition of Phrases) ‎

The Mills Brothers - I Can't Give You Anything But Love (V.A. - This Is Art Deco)

Epic Soundtracks - Cry a Tear (Good Things)

Clock DVA - Pool of Shades (Sign)

Tindersticks - City Sickness (Donkeys 92-97)

Nico - These Days (Chelsea Girl)

Lollipop Shoppe - Underground Railroad (Just Colour)

Calibro 35 - Death Comes At Midnight (Ritornano Quelli Di... Calibro 35) Request

Lonnie Liston Smith - Footprints (Cosmic Funk)

Tomasz Stanko - The Lark in the Dark (From the Green Hill)

Shel Silverstein - Have Another Expresso (V.A. -Beat Jazz: Pictures From A Gone World)

John Patton - Milk and Honey (Boogaloo)

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

The "Ohhh OOOhhhh Nooooooooo" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 9/8/13

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

Kingdom Come - Time Captives (Journey)

Faust - Jennifer (Faust IV)

Popol Vuh - Dream 4 / Dream 5 (Affenstunde)

Nick Cave And the Bad Seeds - Slowly Goes the Night (Tender Prey)

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

Howe Gelb - Bible Black, Book II (Dreaded Brown Recluse)

The Black-Eyed Susans - The End Of The World (Dedicated To The Ones We Love)

Ann Magnuson - Sex With the Devil (The Luv Show)

Percy Mayfield - Lost Mind (Poet of the Blues)

The Propositions - Groovin' For the Groove (Africana)

Barry Adamson - Officer Bentley's Fairly Serious Dilemma (Stranger On the Sofa)

Lydia Lunch - Lady Scarface (Queen of Siam)

Chrome Cranks - Dead Cool (Dead Cool)

The 31 Flavors - Distortions of Darkness (Hair)

Lincoln Street Exit - Sunny Sunday Dream (EP)

Mistress Mary - And i Didn't Want You (Housewife)

John Thome - Nightmares 73 (John Does His Thing)

Ant Trip Ceremony - Four in the Morning (24 Hour)

Agincourt - Though I May be Dreaming (Fly Away) ‎

Bongwater - Porpoise Song (Double Bummer)

Roger Rubin & Rotfree Anderson (Album Atlanta Undergound) - Redneck Woman (Freek Music)

Current 93 - The Long Shadow Falls / All the Pretty Little Horsies (All the Pretty Little Horsies)

Hawkwind - The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear in Smoke) (Hall of the Mountain Grill)

Donald Byrd - Estavanico (Electric Byrd)

Cal Tjader - Fuji (Talkin' Verve: The Roots of Acid)

Eno / Cale - The River (Wrong Way Up)

The Handsome Family - Drunk by Noon (Milk and Scissors)

John Cale - Rosegarden Funeral of Sores (Extra Track on Sabotage (live) CD Re-issue)

Jimmy Smith - The Sermon (The Sermon!)

Thursday, September 5, 2013

The "Let's Continue That Weird Old Dream...Remember?" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 9/1/13

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

Guru Guru - Atommolch (Best of Guru Guru Part 2)

Can - Tony Wanna Go (Peel Sessions - 1/29/74)

Swans - Blackout (Filth)

Bruce Haack- Party Machine (Farad)

Skintologists - Skintology (Dubble Trubble)

Brian Eno - Everything Merges with the Night (Another Green World)

Crispin Hellion Glover - Clowny Clown Clown (Big Problem Solution Let It Be)

Harpers Bizarre - Cotton Candy Sandman (4)

Alberta Hunter - I've Got a Mind to Ramble (Amtrak Blues)

The Grassroots - Feelings (Feelings)

Blueset - Let's Boogie (Rock Machine)

Daily Flash - Cantaloupe Island / Queen Jane Approximately (I Flash Daily 1966-67)

John Gilbert - Travellin' Free (Meade River)

Heldon - Baader-Meinhof Blues (Singles Collection - 1972 - 1980)

Igra Staklenih Perli - Tiha Eksplozija (Soft Explosion)

The Groupies - Hog (I'm a Hog For You, Baby) (V.A. - Ear Piercing Punk)

The Moffs - Horto (The Collection)

Bobby Fuller & The Fanatics - Our Favorite Martian (B-side of Those Memories Of You single)

Al Hirt - Nature Boy (Music to Watch Girls By) ‎

William Strickland - World War 3.5 (William Strickland, Is Only the Name)

Died Pretty - Mirror Blues (Free Dirt - extra track)

Horton - Rages of Emptiness (Dance Hall for Midgets)

Feather Da Gamba ‎– Gregory Lane (Like It Or Get Bent)

Jimmy Troy - The Brain (V.A. - Land Of 1000 Dunces: Best Of The Bug-Outs)

The Scamps - Goodnight Wherever You Are (V.A. - More Mellow Cats 'N' Kittens)

Waring's Pennsylvanians - I Scream, You Scream(V.A. -Flashbacks, Vol. 2 - Novelty Songs 1914-1946: Crazy & Obscure)

James Barnes - Blue Grumble / Piquette Bounce (V.A. - Detroit After Hours - Vol. 1)

The Wooden Glass (featuring Billy Wooten) - Monkey Hips and Rice (Recorded Live)

There Ain't No Such Swing if you Ain't Got that Thing Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 8/25/13

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

Bernard Herrmann - Themes From Fahrenheit 451 (The Fantasy World of Bernard Herrmann)

Tom Dissevelt & Kid Baltan - Orbit Aurora / Twilight Ozone (Song Of The Second Moon: The Sonic Vibrations Of Tom Dissevelt & Kid Baltan)

Jaime Delgado Aparicio - Sexy Surf (El Embajador Y Yo Sndtrk)

Sandie Shaw - Hurting You (V.A. - Mondo Girls)

Neil Hefti - Oh, What a Night For Love (Pardon My Doo-Wah)

Bernard Herrmann - excerpts from the soundtrack to White Witch Doctor performed by The National Philharmonic Orchestra

Nino Nardini & Roger Roger - Jungle Mistery (Jungle Obsession)

Russ Garcia and his Orchestra - Birth of a Planet (Fantastica - mono version)

Illusion of Safety - Confusion / Flowering Blossom To The Full Moon (excerpt) (Ecstatic Crisis)

Cabaret Voltaire - Baader Meinhoff (Listen Up with Cabaret Voltaire)

Hartmann - Message 1 (Music While You Work - split cassette with Bourbonese Qualk)

Mad Professor - Ragga Roll (V.A. - Macro Dub Infection - Volume One)

Timi Yuro - Teardrops 'til Dawn (V.A. - Hard Workin' Man - The Jack Nitzsche Story Vol. 2)

Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood - The Rain Is Making Mirrors (Enter The Cult Until The Dust To Represent The World Discovers The Hallucinogens And Bent Us To Their Use )

Psychic TV - Southern Comfort (Allegory and Self)

Siglo XX ‎– After the Dream (Answer EP)

Achwghâ Ney Wodei - Les Kolkhoziens (Triptyque)

Ultravox - Dangerous Rhythm (Slow Motion)

Les Baxter - Excerpts from the Soundtrack: Black Sunday ‎

Alessandro Alessandroni - Demon Arise (Devil's Nightmare)

Rod Mckuen - Listen to the Warm (Listen to the Warm)

Waldo de los Ríos and his Orchestra - Everybody's Talkin' from Midnight Cowboy (EL SONIDO MÁGICO DE WALDO DE LOS RÍOS VOL. 2)

Bernard Herrmann - Nocturne/ The Flashlight / The Robot / Space Control (The Day The Earth Stood Still Sndtrk)

Quincy Jones - End Titles (Hot Rock Sndtrk)

Percy Faith - Cheesecake (Love Goddess Sndtrk)

John Carpenter - Opening Titles (Assault on Precinct 13)

Ray Martin - Big Spender (The New Rocking Sound)

John Dankworth - Opening Titles (Fathom Sndtrk)

Honey LTD - Come Down (The Complete LHI Recordings)

Jerry Murad's Harmonicats - Charade (Great Themes)

Michel Polnareff - The Rapist (Lipstick Sndtrk)

Buddy Morrow and his Orchestra - Annabel Lee (Poe For Moderns)

Kenyon Hopkins - Penthouse Serenade (Cocktail Party) (The Sound of New York - A Music Sound Portrait)

Ernie Kovacs - Hotcakes and Sausage (The Ernie Kovacs Record Collection)

Fred Katz and his Jammers - Feeling the Blues (S/T)

Roy Budd - Diamonds (featuring Three Degrees) / Diamond Fortress (Diamonds Sndtrk)

Fred Lane - French Toast Man (Radio Car Jerome)

Stan Getz - Once Upon a Time / Mickey's Theme (Plays Music from the Soundtrack of Mickey One)

Thursday, August 22, 2013

The Fun Times and Bad Dreams Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 8/18/13

Walter Schumann - La Danza (Exploring the Voices of...)

Barry Adamson - Act One: The Ring's the Thing...On The Wrong Side Of Relaxation/ Under Wraps / Central Control / Round Up The Usual Suspects (Moss Side Story)

Fred Katz - Main Title (The Little Shop of Horrors Sndtrk)

Little Axe - Another Sinful Day (The Wolf That House Built)

Bernard Herrmann - The Dream (Vertigo Sndtrk)

Boris Karloff - The Man in the Raincoat (Tales of the Frightened Vol. 1)

Lucia Pamela - Walking on the Moon (Into Outer Space with Lucia Pamela)

Mel Blanc - I'm Just Wild About Animal Crackers (Party Panic!)

John Rydgren - Dark Side of the Flower (Silhouette Segments)

Ivor Slaney - The Studio Comes Alive (Terror Sndtrk)

P16. D4 - Pix / Ereignisse (V.A. - Schau Hör Main Herz Ist Rhein)

The Persuasions - O Heavenly Salvation (V.A. - September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill)

Spherical Objects - The Kill (V.A. - Auteur Labels: Object Music)

Les Baxter - Penthouse / End Title (Extended) ("X" The Man With X-Ray Eyes Sndtrk)

Tuxedomoon - Shelved Dreams (V.A. - Heures Sans Soleil)

Bourbonese Qualk - Pillar in the Desert (V.A. - Night Lands)

John Avery - The Marilyn Walk (V.A. - Night Lands)

Pete Rugolo - Girl With A Secret (Thriller Sndtrk)

The Soul Brothers (of Chula Vista) - I Buried Paul (V.A. - October Country) ‎

Bob Thompson - Midnight Sailing (The Sound of Speed)

William S. Burroughs & Martin Olson – The Five Steps (The Myths Collection Part One)

Randy Greif - No Ordinary Storm (excerpt from) (V.A. - To Step Outside and Keep Walking)

Frank De Vol - Groovy Delivery Boy (Guess Who's Coming To Dinner Sndtrk)

Kenyon Hopkins - The Red-Eyed Rats (Nightmare!!)

Clyde Borley and His 5 Percussions - Taboo (Music in 5 Dimensions)

Cranioclast -...And Even When They Are Shadowing The Skies... (V.A. - Neue Deutsche Post Avantgarde)

Aroma Di Amore - Zonder Omzien (Zonder Omzien)

Ronnie Aldrich - Soulful Strut (V.A. - Listen: DIG IT! The Sound of Phase 4 Stereo)

Trudy Richards - A Fool (V.A. - The Fabulous Mae West And Other Wonderful Girls)

Luie Luie - Tastee Touchy (Touchy)

"Greg's Groove Thing" From the Compilation Inside Deep Note: Music Of 1970's Adult Cinema

John Cameron (Frog) - Selections from the soundtrack to Psychomania

Jerry Goldsmith - A Chance Encounter (Coma Sndtrk)

Marty Manning and His Orchestra - Night on Bald Mountain (The Twilight Zone)

Peggy Lee & George Shearing - Always True To You In My Fashion (V.A. - Ultra Lounge: Cocktails With Cole Porter)

Sid Bass - Out of Nowhere (From Another World)

Babs Gonzales - Get Out of That Bed (A Proper Introduction to Babs Gonzales)

Chico Hamilton Quintet (featuring Fred Katz) - Reflections (Classical Katz)

Kenneth Patchen - Glory Glory (Kenneth Patchen Reads With Jazz in Canada)

Don Gere - Main Theme (Werewolves on Wheels Sndtrk)

Sunday, August 18, 2013

I Zoomed About The Boulevard Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 8/11/13

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

Funkadelic - What is Soul (S/T)

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

Cabaret Voltaire - The Set Up (The Living Legends...Cabaret Voltaire)

Homer and Jethro - Mister Sandman (America's Song Butchers: The Weird World of Homer and Jethro)

The Cruel Sea - Everybody's Talking (Rock 'N Roll Duds: Best of the B-Sides)

Ry Cooder (with Harry Dean Stanton and Nastassja Kinski) - I Knew These People (Paris, Texas Sndtrk)

Freddie Hubbard - I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) (The Body & The Soul)

Nina Simone - Plain Gold Ring (Little Girl Lost: Jazz as Played in an Exclusive Side Street Club)

The Poets - Love is Fading Away (Scotland's No. 1 Group)

Hunters and Collectors - Carry Me (The Jaws of Life)

The Fall - Pat-Trip Dispenser (The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall)

Leda Annest (with The Phil Moore Orchestra) - Part 2 (Portrait of Leda)

Hunting Lodge - Wolf Hour (Necropolis)

Ken Nordine - The Conqueror Worm (Closed on Account of Rabies: Poems And Tales Of Edgar Allan Poe)

DJ Spooky - Soon Forward (V.A. - Incursions in Illbient)

Ronnie Foster - Mystic Brew (The Mighty Mellow Vol. 1)

Keith Hudson - Satan Side (Keith Hudson & Friends: Studio Kinda Cloudy)

Roger Rodier - My Spirit's Calling (Upon Velveatur)

Lee Hazlewood - Rosacoke Street (13) ‎

Jimmie Haskell and his Orchestra - Weightless Blues (Countdown)

Butthole Surfers - Helicopter (Widowermaker! EP)

Ananda Shankar - Night in the Jungle (Sa-Re-Ga Macha'n)

The Legendary Pink Dots - The End of the World As We Know It (V.A. Cadavres Exquis)

Ralph Towner - Un Altra Vita (V.A. - Cinecitta: Jazz in the Movies)

Can - I'm So Green (Ege Bamyasi)

Ed Sanders - Beer Cans on the Moon (Beer Cans on the Moon)

Ed Sanders - They're Cutting My Coffin at the Sawmill (Sanders' Truckstop)

True West - Hollywood Holiday (Hollywood Holiday)

Five or Six - Portrait (V.A. - Pillows & Prayers)

Davis Matthews - Sandworms (V.A. - The Mighty Mellow Vol. 2)

Charles Lloyd - Sorcery (V.A. - Psychedelic Jazz & Soul From The Atlantic & Warner Vaults)

Great Scots - Someone That I Can't See (Instrumental) (The Great Lost Great Scots Album)

The Strangers - Caterpillar Crawl (V.A. - Rare West Coast Surf Instrumentals)

Z-66 - Trying to Get to You (V.A. - Sensacional Soul)

Johnny Vick and the Victors - Take a Trip (V.A. - Buttshakers Vol. 4)

Gene Harris and the Three Sounds - I'm Still Sad (Live at the 'It Club)

Saturday, August 10, 2013

Ode to Mick Farren Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 8/4/13

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

Pink Fairies - I Went Up, I Went Down (S/T)

Sleepyard - My Lush Friend (Easy Tensions)

HTRK - Hate Rock Trio / Look What's Been Done (Nostalgia)

Norrie Paramor, His Strings and Orchestra - The Touch of Your Lips (In London, In Love)

Scott Walker - Duchess (Scott 4)

The Electric Prunes - I (Underground)

The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - Shifting Sands (Part 1)

Nitwood - Caught Between Formats (S/T)

Tusco Terror ‎– Smashed Psyche (Mapping A Burial)

Cabaret Voltaire - Wait and Shuffle (Pressure Co. - Live In Sheffield 19 Jan 82)

Visage - Damned Don't Cry (Fade to Grey: The Best of Visage)

Wolfhounds - Rite of Passage / Tropic of Cancer (Blown Away)

Mick Wills - Sleepless Nights (Fern Hill)

MICK FARREN - MONA THE CARNIVOROUS CIRCUS...The Whole LP. Played in honor of MICK FARREN (September 3, 1943 - July 27, 2013)

Mick Farren - Drunk in the Morning (Vampires Stole My Lunch Money)

The Deviants - Billy the Monster (The Deviants 3)

The Deviants - Garbage (Ptoof!)

The Friends of Dean Martinez - Wichita Lineman (On the Shore)

Hugo Montenegro - Secret Agent Man (All-Time Greatest Movie Themes & Schemes)

The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - A Child Of A Few Hours Is Burning To Death (Vol. III) ‎

The Snake Corps - Colder Than the Kiss (Spice: 1984-1993 The Very Best Of...)

Tangerine Dream - The Keep, Main Title (The Keep Sndtrk)

Tangerine Dream - Alien Voices/Main Title/Desert Drive (Wavelength Sndtrk)

Manfred Hübler & Siegfried Schwab ‎– Various Tracks from the Soundtrack: Vampyros Lesbos (3 Films By Jess Franco)

Boyd Rice and Friends - Joe Liked to Go (To the Cemetary) (Wolf Pact)

Jackie Gleason - A Garden in the Rain (Lonesome Echo)

Bo Hansson - Leaving Shire (Lord of the Rings)

Lonnie Smith - Move Your Hand (Move Your Hand)

Lalo Schifrin - Boysie's Bossa (The Liquidator Sndtrk)

Tom Waits - Closing Time (Closing Time)

Tony Joe White - Five Summers For Jimmy (S/T)

Sun Ra - Music From the World of Tomorrow (Angels & Demons at Play)

Johnny Guitar Watson Trio - Ain't Misbehavin' (The Johnny Guitar Watson Trio Plays Fats Waller)

Acetone - Barefoot On Sunday (Cindy)

François De Roubaix - Le Samouraï/Valérie/Martey's (Le Samourai Sndtrk)

Tony Hatch - Out Of this World (V.A. - The Easy Project II: House of Loungecore)

James Clarke - Soft Memories (V.A. Time To Fly - KPM 1000 Series Compilation (1970-76))

Leonard Cohen - Last Year's Man (Songs of Love and Hate)

Mick Wills - Walt/Spacewalk (Fern Hill)

Pell Mell - Nothing Lies Still For Long (Interstate)

Wojciech Kilar - Opening Titles/Corso (The Ninth Gate Sndtrk)

Marc Almond with Michael Cashmore - Lunatic Lover (Gabriel & The Lunatic Lover)

Franco Pisano - Basta Guardale (V.A. - Sexy Voices)

June Christy - Lonely House (V.A. - American Songbook Series: Kurt Weill)

Joyce - Taxi Driver (V.A. - Café Après-Midi: Olive)

Henry Mancini - Hanging Out (99 And 44/100% Dead Sndtrk)

Sorry Bamba - Porry(V.A. - World Psychedelic Classics, Vol. 3: Love's a Real Thing)