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, January 27, 2013

Are You Looking Away From Your Home, You Devil?!

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 1/27/13

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

Loop - Circle Grave (B-Side of the Black Sun single)

Russ Garcia - Red Sands of Mars (Fantastica)

Psychic TV - Lady Maybe (Trip Reset)

The Mind Expanders - Cul De Sac (What's Happening)

The 31st of February - Codeine (S/T)

Leonard Cohen - You Know Who I Am (Live Songs)

Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra - Some Velvet Morning (Movin' With Nancy)

Lee Hazlewood - After Six (Love and Other Crimes)

Kris Kristofferson - The Pilgrim - Chapter 33 (The Silver Tongued Devil and I)

Bobby Bare - Hard Time Hungrys (Hard Time Hungrys)

Time - A Song For You (Before There Was...Time)

Johnny Smith - The Shadow of Your Smile (S/T)

The Three Suns - Autumn Leaves (Movin' and Groovin')

Burl Ives - Bury The Bottle With Me (Sweet, Sad & Salty)

Tom T. Hall - I Hope It Rains At My Funeral (Storyteller, Poet, Philosopher)

Frank Sinatra - Cycles (Cycles)

Johnny Dowd - Thanksgiving (Wrong Side of Memphis)

Barbara and Ernie - Play With Fire (Prelude To...)

Blackbirds - No Destination (No Destination)

Sleepers - The Mind (The Less An Object)

Magazine - A Song From Under the Floorboards (The Correct Use of Soap)

Marc Almond - Orpheus in Red Velvet (Treasure Box)

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

The Creed Taylor Orchestra - Gloomy Sunday (Shock)

Samuel Prody - Hallucination (S/T)

Rain Parade - No Easy Way Down (Perfume River)

Father Pat Berkery - Confession (Prayers For A Noonday Church)

Johnny Paycheck - Apartment #9 (The Real Mr. Heartache: The Little Darlin' Years)

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Idiot's Prayer (The Boatman's Call)

Mummydogs - Fly Away (S/T)

Archie Shepp (W/ Jeanne Lee) - Blase (Blase)

Gallon Drunk - Dragging Along (Tonite...The Singles Bar)

Link Protrudi and The Jaymen - Slinky (Drive It Home)

Lesiman - Bagliori (The Future Sound of Lesiman)

Les Baxter - Flame Tree (African Blue)

Merle Haggard - Sing a Sad Song (Strangers)

The Go-Betweens - Streets of Your Town (16 Lovers Lane)

Slapp Happy - Strayed (Desperate Straights)

The World's Greatest Jazz Band - Wichita Lineman (Enoch Light Presents Patterns in Sound - Volume 9)

The Animated Egg - Dark (S/T)

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Zenlo Brightens a Cleveland Morning and Other Nifty Occurances...

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

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

Live Skull - Pusherman (live) (Don't Get Any On You)

Ice - .357 Is a Monster (Under the Skin)

The Fog Signals - Cantonese Subs / Fog at 5am / The Resonating Stairwell (The Ghosts of Bush)

Faust - Krautrock (Faust IV)

Art Van Damme - In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning (A Perfect Match)

Beachwood Sparks - By Your Side (Once We Were Trees)

Tim Hardin - If I Knew (Simple Songs of Freedom: The Tim Hardin Collection)

Lorna - He Dreams of Spaceships (Static Patterns and Souvenirs)

Zenlo Interview

More Zenlo to dig here and here!!!!

MC Trachiotomy - Meaning Of Words (Languid Sonic Dirigible)

Norrie Paramor - The Nearness of You (In London, In Love)

Lurlean Hunter - Night Life (Night Life)

Women of the SS - Iron Skirt (John Zewizz Presents His Infamous Women of the SS)

Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - Trust Us (Strictly Personal)

The Hair and Skin Trading Company - Take Control (Over Valence)

Sabu and His Percussion Ensemble - Sorcery (Sorcery)

Jack Costanzo - Tabu (Latin Fever: The Wild Rhythms of...)

Dexter Wansel - Theme From the Planets (Life on Mars)

Cesar Mariano & cia. - Metropole (Sao Paulo, Brasil)

Tom Scott - Mellow Yellow (Honeysuckle Breeze)

Moon Wiring Club - A New Face Of an Old Friend / Dusky Eavesdropper (Today Bread, Tomorrow Secrets)

Johnny Gunn - Night (Introspection IV)

Motorhead - Lost Johnny (On Parole)

Shaun Harris - Color of Your Eyes (S/T)

King Pleasure - Funk Junction (King Pleasure Sings)

Sven Libaek - Start Growing Up Now (Instrumental) (Inner Space: The Lost Film Music of Sven Libaek)

Bing Day - Mama's Place (V.A. - Swing For a Crime)

Herschel Burke Gilbert - Main title / Forward (Project Moonbase Sndtrk)

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

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Dig These Funky Dreams

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

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

Preteen Pornstar - Approaching Everywhere (An Opposite of Ecstasy (Live))

The Haxen Cloak - The Fall (S/T)

Blissed Out - Myrtle Wyckoff (Empire State)

Airto Moreira - Romance of Death (Fingers)

Chaino - An Occasional Man (African Percussion in Hi-Fi)

Don Cherry - Degi-Degi (Brown Rice)

Paik - Black Car (The Orson Fader)

Sydney Poitier - Immortality of the Soul (Poitier Meets Plato)

Ray Barretto - I Wanna Be a James Bond Girl (Senor 007)

George Harrison - In the Park (Wonderwall Sndtrk)

Los Dourados - Los Gitanos (Electrifying Latin Piano)

Jack Kerouac and Steve Allen - October in the Railroad Earth (V.A. - The Best of the Beat Generation)

BBC Radiophonic Workshop - 4th Dimension (4th Dimension)

Yoga - Flying Witch (Megafauna)

Food - Forever is a Dream (Forever is a Dream)

Vincent Gemignani - Ophis Le Serpentaine (Modern Pop Percussion)

Close Lobsters - Foxheads (Foxheads Stalk This Land)

The Gunga Din - Brave New World (Glitterati)

Dub Syndicate - King of Sound and Blues (Stoned Immaculate)

Michael Moorcock's Deep Fix - Brothel in Rosenstrasse (V.A. - Hawkwind: Friends and Relations - The Rarities)

Chocolate Watchband - Dark Side of the Mushroom (No Way Out)

Brian Eno - Fever (Dali's Car - Live Bootleg)

Kevin Ayers - Shouting in a Bucket Blues (Bananamour)

Jerry Goldsmith - Suite (Excerpt) (Escape From the Planet of the Apes Sndtrk)

Alex Fergusson - Curly (Perverse Ballads)

DMZ - Out of Our Tree (S/T)

Eleventh Dream Day - Makin' Like a Rug (El Moodio)

The Gun Club - Sorrow Knows (Divinity)

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

Died Pretty - True Fools Fall (Every Brilliant Eye)

Peter Green, Mick Green and the Enemy Within - Chinese White Boy (Two Greens Make Blues)

The Byrds - Space Odyssey (The Notorious Byrd Brothers)

The Electric Flag - Flash, Bam, Pow (The Trip Sndtrk)

John Barry - Sid Row (The EMI Years Volume Two)

The Ventures - The Bat ((The)Ventures In Space)

The Maledictus Sound - Monster Cocktail (S/T)

Wes Montgomery - Night Train (Talkin' Verve - Roots of Acid Jazz)

Saturday, January 12, 2013

Your Cigarettes are Funny...Man.

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 1/6/13 Photobucket

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

Manny Alban - I Had the Craziest Dream (I Had the Craziest Dream)

Julie London - The Party's Over (Around Midnight)

Terry Edwards - Harlem Nocturne (Birth of the Scapegoats)

Godz - Soon The Moon (2)

Marc Almond & Foetus - Love Amongst the Ruined (Slut)

The Gordian Knot - The Year of the Sun (S/T)

Marianne Faithfull - 20th Century Blues (20th Century Blues)

Alex North - Journey to Hawaii (South Seas Adventure Sndtrk)

Jane Birkin - Depressive (Ex-Fan Des Sixties: Baby Alone in Babylone)

Milt Buckner - Polka Dots and Moonbeams (Midnight Show)

KAK - Trieulogy (S/T)

Eddie Jefferson - Psychedelic Sally (Body and Soul)

Frank Sinatra - Wait For Me (Johnny Concho Theme) (Sinatra at the Movies)

Dick Contino - Pagan Love Song (Squeeze Me)

The Misunderstood - Golden Glass (Golden Glass)

Percy Faith - Viva Tirado (Black Magic Woman)

Mark Perry - The Whole World's Down On Me (single - Snappy Turns - extra track)

Coil - The Spoiler (Scatology)

Warren Kime - Mr. Lucky (Brass Impact)

Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound - Blue Wire (Manzanita)

Amanda Lear - I Am a Photograph (Super 20)

William Sheller - Introit/Ave Frater, Rosae Et Aurae (Lux Aeterna)

Gregory Corso - In the Fleeting Hand of Time (V.A. - Howls, Raps & Roars)

Tony Mottola - The Candy Man (Enoch Light Presents Tony & Strings)

Jack Palance - The Meanest Guy That Ever Lived (Palance)

Pete Jolly - Soft Winds (Pete Jolly and Friends 1962 to 1964)

Ash Ra Tempel - Downtown/Power Drive (Seven Up)

Abe Meyer and MUTEL Libraries - Eerie Night (The Music of Forgotten Horrors Scoring Cues from the Poverty Row Chillers Compiled and Annotated by Michael H. Price)

Les Baxter - Fantasis Impromptu (Moog Rock)

Mel Brown - Greasy Spoon (Chicken Fat)

Felix Slatkin - I Get a Kick Out of You (V.A. - Easy Rhythms For Your Cocktail Hour)

Bob Dorough & Bill Takas - I'm Hip (Beginning to See the Light)

Werner Muller and His Orchestra - Blue Moon (Percussion in the Sky)

Sun Ra - Twin Stars of Thence (Lanquidity)

Television Personalities - I Hope You Have a Nice Day (Closer To God)

Blackbird - Quicksand (S/T)

Willie Dixon - You Shook Me (I Am the Blues)

Mick Farren - Mona (The Whole Trip) (Mona: The Carnivorours Circus)

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Selected Prose and Poems...

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 12/30/12

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

2. Randy Greif - Dark Matter Technology (Check it out here)

3. Kain - Black Satin Amazon Fire Engine Cry Baby (The Blue Guerrilla)

4. Kenneth Rexroth - Thou Shalt Not Kill (In Memory of Dylan Thomas) (Poetry Readings in the Cellar)

5. The Tony Hatch Sound - Man Alive (V.A. - The Easy Project II - House of Loungecore)

6. Peggy Lee - Johnny Guitar (The Best of the Decca Years)

7. Samba Soul - Garato de Ipanema / Manha de Carnaval (S/T)

8. Gabor Szabo - Stormy (1969)

9. Grant Green - Ezz-Thetic (The Best of Grant Green - Vol. 1)

10. '68 Comeback - Richman, Richman (Mr. Downchild)

11. Bert Convy - The Gorilla (V.A. - Monster Bop)

12. Kenny Rogers and the First Edition - Girl Get a Hold of Yourself (the Classic Collection)

13. Merle Haggard - Lonliness is Eating Me Alive (Branded Man)

14. Boyd Rice and Fiends - Their Bad Blood (Wolf Pact)

15. Captain Beefheart - Crazy Little Thing (London 1974)

16. The Ansley Dunbar Retaliation - Memory of Pain (S/T)

17. Larry Page Orchestra - Music for Night People (Music For Night People)

18.Keith Mansfield - Life of Leisure (Time To Fly: KPM 1000 Series Compilation (1970- 1976))

19.Los Stop - Extiende Tus Brazos (!Chicas!: Spanish Female Singers 1962 - 1974)

20. The Flying Lizards - Flicker (The Secret Dub Life of The Flying Lizards)

21. Orchestra Carlo Cordara - Tipsy (V.A. - Mo Plen 2000)

22. Beasts of Bourbon - Cool Fire (Black Milk)

23. The Soul Chargers (Featuring James Fountain) - Soul Charge (Pts 1 and 2) (V.A. - Rare Funk Liberation Vol. 1)

24. Claud Denjean - Venus (V.A. - Dig It! The Sound of Phase 4 Stereo)

25. Beachwood Sparks - Forget the Song (The Tarnished Gold)

26. The Fireballs - Groovy Motions (V.A. - Get Ready To Fly: Pop Psych From the Norman Petty Vaults)

27. Low and Dirty Three - Down by the River (In The Fishtank)

28. Alberta Hunter - Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out (Amtrak Blues)

29. Chet Baker - Trav'lin' Light (Embraceable You)

30. Hugo Race and The True Spirit - Icy Roads (Second Revelator)

31. Canned Heat - Evil is Going On (S/T)

32. Slam Stewart and Major Holley - Misty (Shut Yo' Mouth)

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Let's Have a Beer and Unravel This Dream.

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 12/16/12

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

2. Brother Theodore - The Willow Landscape (Theodore in Stereo)

3. Embryo - Dreaming Girls (Steig Aus)

4. Bowery Electric - Sounds in Motion / Next to Nothing (S/T)

5. Core (A Conspiracy International Project) - Future Shock (featuring Monte Cazazza) (S/T)

6. Scorn - The End (Remix) (V.A. - Macro Dub Infection - Vol. 1)

7. Hunters & Collectors - World of Stone (S/T)

8. Future Pigeon - High Rolling (ft. Ranking Joe) (The Echodelic Sounds of...)

9. Kris Kristofferson - The Prisoner (Surreal Thing)

10. Giant Sand - Sandman (Long Stem Rant)

11. Tarnation - Halfway to Madness (Gentle Creatures)

12. Ace Cannon - Drunk (The Hi Records Years)

13. Lustmord - Words Of Voice (A Document of Early Acoustic & Tactical Experimentation...)

14. Section 25 - The Wheel (The Key of Dreams)

15. Skeletal Family - Trees (Extra Track on Burning Oil CD release)

16. Kommunity FK - Anti-Pop (The Vision and the Voice)

17. Marc Almond / The Willing Sinners - This House is Haunted (Stories of Johnny)

18. Of Cabbages and Kings - Easiest Room in Hell (Never Too Late)

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19. Area - This One (Radio Caroline)

20. Gallon Drunk - Every Second Of Time (Moog Instrumental Version) (Music Inspired by the Film "Black Milk")

21. The Prisoners - Come to the Mushroom (A Taste of Pink)

22. Nancy Sinatra - Coastin' (Sugar)

23. Elvis Presley - Let Yourself Go (Speedway sndtrk)

24. The Litter - She's Not There ($100 Fine)

25. Al Hirt - The Girl From Ipanema (Music to Watch Girl By)

26. Amon Duul II - Hawknose Harlequin (Carnival in Babylon)

27. Gandalf - Can You Travel in the Dark Alone (S/T)

28. The Golden Dawn - My Time (Power Plant)

29. Lalo Schifrin - Main Title / The Cop (Magnum Force Sndtrk)

30. Coil - Hellraiser (Unreleased Themes From Hellraiser)

31. John Patton - Memphis - (Memphis To New York Spirit)

32. Ruts DC Vs. Mad Professor - Rhythm Collision (Rhythm Collision)

33. Tangerine Dream - Fauni-Gena (Atem)