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, February 27, 2014

The "Act Of Kibitzing" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 2/23/14

Max Gregor - Night Train (Gregor's Groove Party)

Charlie Haden - Art Deco (The Montreal Tapes - with Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell)

Barry Adamson & Pan Sonic - The Hymn of the 7th Ilusion (Motorlab #3)

Two Lone Swordsmen - Foreververb (Tiny Reminders)

Moby - New Dawn Fades (Heat Sndtrk)

Herbie Hancock - I Have a Dream (The Prisoner)

The San Sebastian Strings - Saturday Night People (Summer)

Ex-Cocaine - Sexy Music (Ex Cocaine / Yellow Swans Split EP)

Frigate - Lose Your Marbles (Dreams Of The Deep)

The Unknowns - Mack The Knife (Saturday Night...1969(?) release)

Charles The Bartender - Yellow Submarine (Charles At Harlow's)

Yama & The Karma Dusters - Kathleen (Up From The Sewers)

The Shangaans - Taboo (Jungle Drums)

Buddy Collette - Jungle Pipe (V.A. - Beat Jazz 2)

J.W. Farquhar - Mansions (The Formal Female)

Les Baxter - Celestial Nocturne (Music Out Of The Moon)

Les Baxter - Batumba (Tamboo!)

Kim Choo-Ja - ? (From a Homemade Comp From Krauty McKraut)

We The People - In the Past (V.A. - Psychedelic Microdots, Vol. 1: Orange, Sugar & Chocolate)

Asylum Party - Le Temps des  Serpents (The Grey Years - Vol. 2)

D.A.F - Untitled (Produkt Der Deutsch-Amerikanischen Freundschaft)

Gavin Friday - In the Shadow Of a Gun (The Boxer Sndtrk)

Rolling Stones - Jig - Saw Puzzle (Beggars Banquet) Request

Blues Magoos - Let Your Love Ride (V.A. - Turds On A Bum Ride Vol. 4)

Tim Hardin - Nobody Loves You (When You're Down And Out) (Hang On To A Dream: The Verve Recordings)

John Barry - Seance On a Wet Afternoon (V.A. - Mondo Hollywood)


Butterfield 8 - Harlem Nocturne (S/T)

William Burroughs - What Keeps Mankind Alive?  (V.A. - September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill)

Creation Rebel - Rising Star (Historic Moments Volume One)

Nick Cave - Mojo (Mojo Sndtrk)

Zombi - (Excerpt From) Through Time  (Spirit Animal)

Roland Kovac Trio - Count Down (V.A. - Pop Boutique 3)

Francesco De Masi - Selections From the Soundtrack to The Big Game

Serge Gainbourg - Selections From the Soundtrack to L'eau à la bouche

Ennio Morricone - Selections From the Soundtrack to The Bird With The Crystal Plumage

David Axelrod - Selections From Side One of Earth Rot



Sunday, February 16, 2014

The "Deep, Down and Dank" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 2/16/14

Max Gregor - Night Train (Gregor's Groove Party)

Cabaret Voltaire - Wait and Shuffle (2 X 45)

The Gil Evans Orchestra - Nevada (Out Of the Cool)

Barry Adamson - Sounds From the Big House (Moss Side Story)



John Foxx - Underpass (Metamatic)

Einsturzende Neubauten - Morning Dew (Fünf Auf der Nach Oben Offenen Richterskala)

American Blues - If I Were A Carpenter (V.A. - Reverberations IV)

The Seminal Rats - Red Planet (The Essential...)

John Cooper Clarke - Post War Glamour Girls (Disguise In Love)

Ed Lincoln - Cochise (V.A. - The Basic Principles of Sound)

Eden Ahbez - The Wanderer (Eden's Island)

The Wipers - Nothing Left To Lose (Land of the Lost)

Gallon Drunk - Every Second Of Time (Moog Instrumental Version) (Black Milk)

Seefeel - Minky Starshine (Polyfusia)

Suicide - Misery Train (American Supreme)

Jungle - Slave Ship (V.A. - Love, Peace & Poetry: American Psychedelic Music)

Dirty Filthy Mud - Forest of Black (V.A. - Reverberations I)

Gravedigger V - Spooky (All Black and Hairy)

Gun - Dreams and Screams (Gun Sight)

Isolation Ward - Lamina Christus (V.A. - B9 Bis: Belgian Cold Wave 1979 - 1983)

The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - In The Arena (Vol. 2)

The Godz - Permanent Green Light (2)

John Cooper Clarke - Beasley Street (Snap, Crackle (&) Bop)

Tim Buckley - Driftin' (Lorca)

Alice Coltrane - Blue Nile (Ptah, The El Daoud)

Ada Moore - Devil (V.A. - Beat Jazz: Pictures From A Gone World)

Krzystof Komeda - Selections From the Soundtrack Rosemary's Baby

Les Baxter - Moon Moods (Music Out Of The Moon)

Alice B. Toklas - Recipe For Hashish Fudge (V.A. - The Dawn of Psychedelia)

Edward Williams -  Selections From the Soundtrack: Life on Earth

Alvino Ray & His Orchestra - Blues In The Night (V.A. - Space Capades)

John Lee Hooker - Blues Before Sunrise (Giant of Blues)

Donovan -Everlasting Sea (Sutras)

Eden Ahbez - Full Moon (Eden's Island)









Sunday, February 9, 2014

The "Usual Decaying Show"....

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 2/9/14

Max Gregor - Night Train (Gregor's Groove Party)

Gerry Mulligan Quartet - Blues At the Roots (At Storyville)

Randy Greif / Dan Burke - Forensic Solutions to Beauty (Fragment 56)

Tangerine Dream - Circulation of Events (Atem)

Clock DVA - Dark Encounter (Advantage)

Charles Brown - Drifting Blues (Legend!)

Beequeen - Dream - a - Phone (The Bodyshop)

Kim Salmon - Obvious is Obvious (Hey Believer)

Medium Cool (Featuring James White) - Let's Get Lost (Imagination)

Ornette Coleman - Country Town Blues (Science Fiction)

Live Skull - Safe From Me (Positraction)

The Nectarine No. 9 - Tape Your Head On (Saint Jack)

Brute Force - Monster (S/T)

Sammy Davis Jr. (with Count Basie) - Girl From Ipanema (V.A - Talkin' Verve: With a Twist)

Marianne Faithfull - Go Away From My World  / Tomorrow's Calling (Greatest Hits)

Delmonas - Delmona. The Temptress of Love (Do The...Uncle Willy)

Artwoods - In the Deep (Art Gallery)

Nino Nardini - Bali Girl (V.A. - Orchestal Party Part 2)

MX-80 - Theme From Halloween (Das Love Boat)

Jazkamer & Smegma - Stone Eater (Endless Coast)

Amon Duul - Paramechanische Welt (Paradieswarts Duul)

Harry Roche Constellation - Spiral (V.A. - The Easy Project: 20 Loungecore Favourites)

Ennio Morricone (with Christy) - Deep Down (Danger: Diabolik Sndtrk)

Johnny Pate - Selections From the Soundtrack Shaft in Africa

Francesco De Masi - Waiting For the Killer (The New York Ripper Sndtrk)

Piero Piccioni - Helen Where Are You? (Una Tomba Aperta... Una Bara Vuota)

NIck Cave and the Bad Seeds - Long Black Veil (Kicking Against The Pricks)

Kris Kristofferson - Jesse Younger (Live at the Philharmonic)

Tangerine Dream - Caleb's Blues (Near Dark Sndtrk)

Gary McFarland - 80 Miles An Hour Through Beer-Can Country (America The Beautiful)

Lee Hazlewood - Back On the Street Again (Back On the Street Again)

Bonniwell Music Machine - Black Snow (Ignition)

Dark Star - Ninety-Six Days (Twenty Twenty Sound)

Ruts DC Vs. Mad Professor - Push Yourself - Make It Work (Rhythm Collision Vol. 1)

Burning Spear - Great Man's Dub (Chant Down Babylon: The Island Anthology)

Wes Montgomery - Willow Weep For Me (Talkin Verve: The Roots of Acid Jazz)


Sunday, January 26, 2014

The "Morning Becomes Hectic" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 1/26/14

Max Gregor - Night Train (Gregor's Groove Party)

Cabaret Voltaire - Diskono (Hai!)

Hunting Lodge - Nomad Souls (Necropolis)

Vladimir Cosma - Transmutation (Insolite & Co.)

Harmonia '76 - Almost (Tracks and Traces)

Peter Perrett In The One - Shivers (Woke Up Sticky)

The Electric Prunes - Big City (Underground)

Fred Neil - Please Send Me Someone To Love (Extra Track on CD re-issue of Neil's S/T lp)

Mississippi John Hurt - Hop Joint (The Immortal Mississippi John Hurt)

Neal Hefti - Two For the Blues  (Pardon My Doo-Wah)

Nocturnal Emmissions - Boo (Autonomia)

Brian Eno - Hazard (The Drop)

Ed Kuepper - Spook Strain (Starstruck)

Ed Kuepper - I Am Right And You Are Wrong (The Blue House)

Dub Syndicate - Dubbing Psycho Thriller (Echomania)

Taboo - Vampire Tango (Extra Track on the CD re-issue of 126's Curtain Falling lp)

Nico Fidenco - Excerpts from the Soundtrack to Emanuelle In America

Martin Rev - Whisper (V.A. - A Mind Expansion Compilation 2)

Henry Fielding - Night Dig (Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia Sndtrk)

The Asphalt Ribbons - Over Again (The Orchard ep)

Serge Gainsbourg - Discophoteque (Madame Claude Sndtrk)

Michel Colombier - Excerpts from the film L'Heritier

Nightmare Lodge - Tentacled (Tentacled: A NIghtmare Lodge Anthology)

Mike Vickers - Excerpts From the film Dracula A.D. 1972

Don Morrow - All That Jazz / A Little Night Music (Grimm's Hip Fairy Tales)

Pete Rugolo - Conversation (Adventures in Rhythm)

International Studio Orchestra - Tuxedo (Assignment London)

David Raksin - Force of Evil (Bottom of the World)  (V.A. - Murder Is My Beat)

Irving Joseph - Bad Day in Brooklyn (Murder, Inc)

Ray Price - A Girl In The Night (Night Life)

Johnny Hartman & Oliver Nelson - Sunday (I Love Everybody)

Peggy Lee - We Laughed At Love (V.A. - Sex Kittens in Hi-Fi: The Blondes)

Slim & Slam - Groove Juice Special (The Groove Juice Special)

Little Axe - Hear My Cry (The Wolf That House Built)

Tony Hatch - Latin Velvet (Hatchback)

Al Hirt - Taboo (Latin In The Horn)

Babs Gonzales - Cool Cookin' (Voila)

Peter Reno - Silver Thrust (V.A. - Music Dewolfe)

Harry Roche Constellation - The Pad of the Mountain King (Casino Royale And Other Hit Sounds)

Berry Lipman - Night Fever (The Unique Sound of...)

Jerry Byrd - Theme From "Adventures In Paradise" (Byrd of Paradise)

Donald Byrd - Xibaba (Electric Byrd)






Sunday, January 19, 2014

The "You Never Know How Long This Is Going To Go On" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 1/19/14

Max Gregor - Night Train (Gregor's Groove Party)

C.A. Quintet - Trip Thru Hell (Part 1) (Trip Thru Hell)

Binary - Groovy (V.A. Untitled (ten))

Danielle Dax - Brimstone In a Barren Land (Dark Adapted Eye)

Tindersticks - This Fire of Autumn (The Something Rain)

The Cruel Sea - High Plains Drifter (This Is Not The Way Home)

Hula - Junshi (The Best Of...)

And Also The Trees - Under The Stars (Listen For The Rag and Bone Man)

Marlene Dietrich - Honeysuckle Rose (In London)

The Three Sounds - The Look of Love (V.A. - Blue Bacharach)

Hawkwind - Be Yourself (S/T)

100 Flowers - Reject Yourself  (V.A. - Hell Comes To Your House)

The Fall - Leave The Capitol  (In Palace of Swords Reversed)

Keith Hudson - Playing It Cool (Playing It Cool & Playing It Right)

Ligeti Tobia Hazan - Chaotic Scales After Ligeti's Luntano (Chaos In Expansion)

Les Baxter - Black Mass (The Dunwich Horror Sndtrk)

Felt - Primitive Painters (Ignite The Seven Cannons)

Kay Starr - Wheel Of Fortune (LA. Confidential Sndtrk)

Recordings By The Future And The Human League - Dada Duchamp Vortex (The Golden Hour Of The Future)

The Shamen - Omega Amigo (En-Tact)

William Burroughs - "Thank You" at The Nova Convention Re-Visited 11/26/96

Garden Odyssey Enterprise - Sad & Lonely (V.A. - Neurotic Reactions)

Robert Delgado - Return of Django (Lounge Legends)

Zane Cronie & Charles Segal - The Hustler (Glenda: Snake Dancer Sndtrk)

Gil Evans - Spoonful (Verve Masters)

The Corporation - India (S/T)

Webley Edwards - Fire Goddess (Fire Goddess)

Joe Berluck - Don't Cry Little Girl (The Erotic Voice Of...)

A Child's Garden of Grass...Psychological Effects...

Miles Davis - Go Ahead John (Big Fun)






Sunday, January 12, 2014

The "There Is A Flat Tire That Simply Can't Be Fixed" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 1/12/14

Max Gregor - Night Train (Gregor's Groove Party)

Einsturzende Neubauten - Die Genaue Zeit (Drawings of Patient O.T.)

Sun Ra - On Jupiter (On Jupiter)

Grant Green - The Final Comedown (V.A. - Blue Break Beats)

Jerry Van Rooyen - Sundown (At 250 Miles Per Hour)

Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Monkey's On Juice (The Singles 1982 - 1987)

Siouxsie And The Banshees - Mirage (The Scream)

The Mustangs - Jack The Ripper (V.A. - Strummin' Mental Vol. 1)

Pere Ubu - Non-Alignment Pact (The Modern Dance)

Hawkwind - Valium Ten (Mighty Hawkwind Classics 1980-1985)

Mugwump Establishment - Mondo Hollywood Freakout (Buzz Buzz Buzzzzzz - Vol. 1)

Royal Guardsmen - Om (Buzz Buzz Buzzzzzz - Vol. 1)

Inner Light - All The Way In (Buzz Buzz Buzzzzzz - Vol. 1)

Peter Pan & The Good Fairies- Balloon (Buzz Buzz Buzzzzzz - Vol. 1)

John Zacherle - Scary Tales (from Mother Goose)  / A-Tisket, A-Casket / Hansel and Gretel / Clementine

The Electric Prunes - Shadows and...more than a few excerpts from the Soundtrack to the film The Name of the Game is...Kill composed by Stu Phillips

The Electric Prunes - Benedictus (Mass in F Minor)

Sonny Rollins - Alfie's Theme / He's Younger Than You (Alfie)

Les Baxter - Selections from the Soundtrack to Sadismo

Christopher Gunning - Selections From the Soundtrack to Goodbye Gemini

The Mar-Keys - About Noon (V.A. - 4000 Volts of Stax & Satellite)

Frankie Lane - Man Without Star (Man Without A Star Sndtrk)

The Raven - Ghoul Friend (V.A. - Highly Strung - Volume 1)

Warren Barker - Hawaiian Eye (Hawaiian Eye Sndtrk)

Ultravox - Stranger Within (Rage In Eden)

Nina Simone - Ooh Child (Here Comes The Sun)

Lowland Studio Band - Trash One (V.A. - Local Customs: Lone Star Lowlands)

Franco Micalizzi - Dark Suspense (Geneva A Mano Armata Sndtrk)

Monte Cazazza - First / Last (The Worst of Monte Cazazza)

Gene Harris - Hugga Boom (V.A. - Blue Break Beats - Volume 2)

Gil Melle - Main Title (The Organization Sndtrk)

Piero Umiliani - Selections From the Soundtrack to La Morte Bussa Due Volte

Brian Bennett - Pendulum Force (Voyage)

Grant Green - Ain't It Funky Now (V.A. - Blue Break Beats - Volume 2)




Sunday, January 5, 2014

The "I Know Why The Caged Gorilla Thinks About a Singing Bird" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 1/05/14

Max Gregor - Night Train (Max Gregor Groove Party)

Bixio-Frizzi-Tempera  - Operazione K-Sparate A Vista: Nucleo Antirapin (V.A. - Beretta 70)

Monte Cazazza - A Gringo Like Me (The Cynic)

Space Box - Introfunction (Kick Up)

Spectrum - Quicksilver Glide Drive (Soul Kiss (Glide Divine))

Astrud Giberto - Funny World (The Silver Collection)

Piero Umiliani - Open Space / Green Valley (To-day's Sound)

John Berry - Midnight Cowboy  (Midnight Cowboy Sndtrk)

The Sandpipers - Beyond the Valley (Beyond The Valley of the Dolls Sndtrk)

Sonny Lester & His Orchestra - Big Millie From Philly (V.A. - Take It Off!  The Strip Tease Classics)

Opal Butterfly - Groupie Girl (Groupie Girl Sndtrk)

Eddie Palmieri & Cal Tjader - Mi Montuno (V.A. - Fabuloso Groovin')

The Cyrkle - The Party / Nicole (The Minx Sndtrk)

Alex North - The Misfit's Theme (Cocktail Mix Vol. 4: Soundtracks With a Twist)

Billy Strange - Rockford Files (Secret Agent Files)

John Barry - Blues For Rubber (The Chase Sndtrk)

Annie Ross - Invitation To The Blues (A Gasser!)

Gibson Bros. - Coming up (Memphis Sol Today)

Roy Ayers - Green and Gold (Baadasssss! Sndtrk)

The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Black Star (Extended Revelations)

Shirley Bassey - Light My Fire (V.A. - Blue Break Beats: Volume 3)

Lou Donaldson - It's Your Thing (V.A. - Blue Break Beats: Volume 3)

Edwin Astley & His Orchestra - Vulgar Olga (Music From the TV Series Secret Agent)

Bobby Darin & Johnny Mercer - Mississippi Mud (Two Of A Kind)

Bobby Troup - I See Your Bass Before Me (Swing Gently)

Piero Piccioni - Easy Dreamer (V.A. - Beat at Cinecitta) Pronounced Chee-nay-chee-TAH

Milt Jackson - Bags' Groove (Wizard of the Vibes)

Alan Arkin - The Lavender Cowboy (Once Over Lightly)

Baker Street Orchestra - The Witch (Yesterday's Dream)

Piero Umiliani - Various Tracks From the wonderful Mario Bava film, Five Dolls For An August Moon

Soul-Saints Orchestra - Bag of Soul (V.A. - This Is Acid Jazz: Original Raw Soul)

Bailter Space - Orbit (Robot World)

Nik Raicevic - Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (Head)

Gert Wilden & Orchesta - Green Spider Theme (I Told You Not To Cry)

Lou Donaldson - The Scorpion (The Scorpion: Live at the Cadillac Club)