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, 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)

Sunday, June 29, 2014

The "So, This Druggist Walks Into Bar..." Show

Playlist For The Usual Decaying City 6/29/14

Henry Mancini - Dreamsville (The Music From Peter Gunn)

Patrick Cowley - Night Crawler (School Daze)

Zombi - Sequence 5 (The Zombi Anthology)

David Crosby - Cowboy Movie (If I Could Only Remember my Name)

Nico - Janitor Of Lunacy (Desertshore)

Conway Savage - Too Dark To See (S/T EP)

Tindersticks - Rented Rooms (Curtains)

The Flying Burrito Brothers - Dark End Of The Street (The Gilded Palace Of Sin)

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Right Now I'm A-Roaming (B-Side of Into My Arms CD single)

Barry Adamson - Suspicion (Soul Murder)

Yello - Pumping Velvet (You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess)

Bar-Kays - In The Hole (Black Rock)

The Surfmen - Taboo (Paradise Found - Vol. 1 - Rare Exotic Sounds)

Martin Denny - Quiet Village (Exotic Moog)

King Tubby - Morpheus Special (V.A. - X-Ray Music: A Blood And Fire Dub Directory)

A R Kane - Super Vixens (Americana)

Giant Sand - Anti-Shadow (Ramp)

Dennis Bovell - Zombie Zones (Decibel)

Nick Cave - Animal Static (And The Ass Saw The Angel - Readings and Music)

Cousteau - Mesmer (S/T)

D'Agostino / Foxx / Jansen - A Secret Life Pt. 6 (A Secret Life)

Count Five - Revelation In Slow Motion (Psychotic Reaction: The Complete Count Five)

The Revelations - Soul - III (V.A. - Up!!!!! The Second)

Tindersticks - Sexual Funk ("B-Side" of Don't Even Go There CD Single)

Walter Wanderly (with ASTRUD GILBERTO) - A Certain Sadness (Samba Swing!)

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Come Into My Sleep ("B-Side" of Are You The One That I've Been Waiting For? Single)

Tindersticks - Shadows ("B-Side" of Bathtime CD single)

Acetone - All For The Love Of A Girl (I Guess I Would)

Dick Hyman - Caravan (V.A. - Bongoland)

Shorty Rogers - Manteca (Manteca / Afro-Cuban Influence)

Chico Hamilton Quintet - My Funny Valentine (S/T)

Vic Mizzy - Excerpts from The Busy Body soundtrack

Quincy Jones - Rack 'Em Up (The Pawnbroker Soundtrack)

Yatha Sidha - Part 1 (A Meditation Mass)

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Sail Away ("B-Side" of the Do You Love Me CD Single)

John Foxx - If Only...(Cathedral Oceans)

The "Easy Not Unlike Sunday Morning" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City 6/22/14

Henry Mancini - Dreamsville (The Music From Peter Gunn)

Talk Talk - I Believe In You (Spirit Of Eden)

Ed Kuepper - Everything I've Got Belongs To You (Honey Steel's Gold)

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

The Cruel Sea - You Are Gone (This Is Not The Way Home)

Cosmic Jokers - Kinder Des Alls (Pts A & B) (Galactic Supermarket)

Kenneth Patchen - Do The Dead Know What Time It Is? (Kenneth Patchen Reads His Poetry With Jazz)

John Lurie - Tuesday Night In Memphis - Suite (Mystery Train - Soundtrack)

The Sadies - Eastwind (Pure Diamond Gold)

Lenny Bruce - Psychopathia Sexualis (V.A. - The Best Of The Beat Generation)

Russell Garcia And His Orchestra - Smoggy Day (Los Angeles River)

Lara Saint Paul - So (V.A. - Easy Temp Vol. 4)

Slim Gaillard & Slam Stewart - Dopey Joe (The Groove Juice Special)

Pete Rugolo - You Are Too Beautiful (Adventures In Rhythm)

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

The San Sabastian Strings - Summer (Summer)

Al "Jazzbo" Collins - The Discovery Of America (Fairy Tales For Hip Kids)

Jimmy Smith - Confirmation (The Sermon)

John Schroeder Orchestra - Sunny (Space Age Soul)

Martial Solal - A Train Is Better Than Two (Locomotion)

Vic Damone - Strange Enchantment (Strange Enchantment)

Cordara Orchestra - Search (Best Of...)

Les Baxter - Flame 3 (African Blue)

Dorothy Ashby - Action Life (Afro Harping)

Michael Rother - Morning Sun (Radio)

The Viscounts - Harlem Nocturne (V.A. - Swing For A Crime)

Perez Prado (with Shorty Rogers) - Voodoo Suite (Voodoo Suite)

Henry Mancini - Butterfly (Symphonic Soul)

Sternenmädchen - Excerpts From Mr. Energy (Gilles Zeitschiff)

Kris Kristofferson - Stairway To The Bottom (Spooky Lady's Sideshow)

Kris Kristofferson - Just The Other Side of Nowhere (Please Don't Tell Me How The Story Ends: The Publishing Demos (1968 - 1972))

Skip Heller - In A Sentimental Mood (Couch, Los Angeles)

Bill Conti - Red Label (V.A. - Easy Tempo Vol. 9)

Luis Bacalov - La Bambolona (V.A. - Easy Tempo Vol. 7)

Gianni Ferro - La Morte Accarezza a Mezzanotte (V.A. - Easy Tempo Vol.1)

Sunday, June 15, 2014

The "The Slow Sadness of Time" Show

Playlist For the Usual Decaying City 6/15/14

Henry Mancini - Dreamsville (The Music From Peter Gunn)

Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centauri (Alpha Centauri)

John Cage And Kenneth Patchen - The City Wears A Slouch Hat (The City Wears A Slouch Hat - Original Radio Broadcast (1942))

Bennie Green - Lullaby Of The Doomed (Soul Stirrin')

Simon Finn - Jerusalem (Pass The Distance)

Fever Tree - Death Is The Dancer (Another Time Another Place)

Flour - Grey (S/T)

Frightwig - Crazy World (Faster, Frightwig, Kill! Kill!)

Maximum Joy - Silent Street (Unlimited (1979 - 1983))

Velvet Underground - Ocean (VU)

Bill Frisell - Nature's Symphony (Gone, Just Like A Train)

Beachwood Sparks - Juggler's Revenge / The Good Night Whistle (Once We Were Trees)

Robby Poitevin - Excerpts from the Soundtrack for the Film Assassination

Sauter - Finegan Orchestra - Time To Dream (Inside The Sound)

Phil Ochs - Doesn't Lenny Live Here Anymore (Rehearsals For Retirement)

The Art Van Damme Quartet - Dark Eyes (Cocktail Capers)

Howdy Moon - I'm Alone (S/T)

Michael Chapman - Rainmaker (Rainmaker)

George Siravo & His Orchestra - Symphony Rock (Swingin' In Hi-Fi)

John Cacavas - Excerpts From the Soundtrack for The Satanic Rites Of Dracula

Sonny Clark Memorial Quartet - Voodoo (Voodoo)

Sun Ra - Atlantis (Atlantis)

Sunday, June 8, 2014

The "I Take My Skeletons Out Of The Closet and Dance With Them" Show

Playlist For The Usual Decaying City For 6/8/14

Henry Mancini - Dreamsville (The Music From Peter Gunn)

Brightblack Morning Light - Another Reclaimation (Motion To Rejoin)

Tangerine Dream - Journey Through A Burning Brain (Electronic Meditation)

Pestrepeller - The Smell of Wet Fur in the Rain (Isle Of Dark Magick)

Ghost - Blood Red River (Temple Stone)

The Mike Gunn - Operating Thetan, Part 1 (Almaron)

The Pretty Things - Balloon Burning (S.F. Sorrow)

Curtis Mayfield - (Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All Gonna Go (Curtis)

Bob Frank - Return To Skid Row Joe (S/T)

Billy Vaughn and His Orchestra (with KEN NORDINE) - The Shifting Whispering Sands (V.A. - Instrumental Gems Of The Fifties)

Messer Chups - Moriarty Boogie (Church Of Reverb)

Psychedelic Furs - Highwire Days (Mirror Moves)

Meat Beat Manifesto - Now (99%)

Rowland S. Howard - White Wedding (Teenage Snuff Film)

Night Beats - Love Ain't Strange (Everything Else Is) (Sonic Bloom)

Robert Pregadio & Romano Mussolini - Excerpts From the Soundtrack to Satanik

Thin White Rope - They're Hanging Me Tonight (Spoor)

Thin White Rope - Some Velvet Morning (When Worlds Collide)

Thin White Rope - Americana / The Ghost (Sack Full of Silver)

Thin White Rope - Disney Girl (Exploring The Axis)

Thin White Rope - Valley Of the Bones (Bottom Feeders EP)

Thin White Rope - Midwest Flower (The Ruby Sea)

Thin White Rope - Caravan (Squatter's Rights EP)

Thin White Rope - Not Your Fault (Moonhead)

Ananda Shankar - Light My Fire (S/T)

The Shower Scene From Psycho - White Rabbit (Exploding Hits)

Lenny Bruce - You'll Be On The Air Soon (Warning: Lenny Bruce Is Out Again)

Helen Carr - My Kind Of Trouble Is You (V.A. - Sex Kittens In Hi-Fi: The Blondes)

Eric Matthews - Forging Plastic Pain (It's Heavy In Here)

Wes Montgomery - Impressions (Talkin' Verve: Roots Of Acid Jazz)

Rod McKuen - Co-Existence Bagel Shop Blues (Beatsville)

Momus - In a Sanatorium (Forbidden Software Timemachine: Best of the Creation Years 1987 - 1993)

Ananda Shankar - Playful Squirrels (Sa-Re-Ga Macha'n)

Ghost - Rakshu (S/T)

Vic Mizzy - Excerpts From the soundtrack to film The Night Walker

Fred Katz - Foggy Foggy Dew (Folk Songs For Far Out Folk)

Sunday, June 1, 2014

The "Shopping Mall of Mortal Fears" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 6/1/14

Henry Mancini - Dreamsville (The Music From Peter Gunn)

Spectre - Bloodsuckers (Featuring Mr. Dead) (The Second Coming)

Miklos Rozsa - Spellbound (Prelude) (Spellbound Soundtrack)

Louis & Bebe Barron - Battle With The Invisible Monster (Forbidden Planet Soundtrack)

Rod Mckuen - Midsummer (Listen To The Warm - Extra Track on the Real Gone Music CD reissue)

Heldon I - Northerland Lady (Electronique Guerilla)

And Also The Trees - He Walked Through The Dew (Further From the Truth)

The Omni Trio - The Half Cut (V.A. - Macro Dub Infection - Volume One)

Gideon Leeches - Burra Folly II (V.A. - Malpractice - A Fflint Central Primer)

Tuner - Sitkos (9 Loaves 5 Fishes)

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Mermaids (Live From KCRW)

Phil Ochs - The Party (Pleasures Of The Harbor)

Arthur Lyman - Aphrodisia (Aphrodisia)

Martin Denny - Angelito (Latin Village)

Teddy Randazzo - The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. (V.A. - Sex And The '60s)

The Poppy Family - Where Evil Grows (A Good Thing Lost: 1968-1973)

Michael Chapman - Wrecked Again (Wrecked Again)

Bette Davis - Loneliness (Miss Bette Davis)

Jackson C. Frank - Blues Run The Game ((S/T)

Johnny Smith - Land Of The Velvet Hills (S/T)

Cabaret Voltaire - Kirlian Photograph (Mix-Up)

In Camera - Fragments of Fear (13 (Lucky For Some))

Henry Mancini - Background to Murder (Touch Of Evil Soundtrack)

Diana Dors - Crazy He Calls Me (V.A. - I'm Going Slightly Mad: Music From The Darkside of The Mind)

Eartha Kitt - Lilac Wine (Dance Me A Song) (That Bad Eartha)

Skip Heller - Bad Hotel Room (Couch, Los Angeles)

Peter Thomas - Aha! (V.A. - The Best of Edgar Wallace)

Peter Walker - Southwind (Second Poem To Karmela or Gypsies Are Important)

Morton Gould - Big City Blues (Manhattan Moods)

Jimmy Smith - Trust In Me (Rockin' The Boat)

Paul Desmond - From The Hot Afternoon (From The Hot Afternoon)

Sergio Perez - Venus - Vallet Hippie (V.A. - Easy Melodies)

Horst Jankowski - Days of Wine And Roses (On The Rocks)

Conjunto Estiff - Tom Jazz (V.A. - Iberico Jazz)

Nina Simone - Westwind (Black Gold)

Ann Richards - Evil Gal Blues (V.A. - Music For The Bachelorette's Den)

Melvin Price - Voodoo Love Dance (V.A. - The Atomic Cafe)

Fred Katz - Montuna (The Music Of Fred Katz)