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, March 10, 2013

The Day For Night Show

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

Vangelis - The Dragon (The Dragon)

Cabaret Voltaire - In the Shadows (The Crackdown)

Calibro 35 - L'Uomo Dagli Occhi di Ghiaccio (Rare)

Barry Adamson - Cinematic Soul (The King of Nothing Hill)

Tuner - Car Advert (9 Loaves 5 Fishes)

Sounds Galactic - Summer (The First Time) (Nova-Sounds of the Stars)

Lee Hazlewood - I've Got to be Moving (Movin' On)

The Haunted - I'm Just Gonna Blow My Little Mind to Bits (S/T)

Art Van Damme - Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (So Nice)

Nancy Sinatra - Light My Fire (Sheet Music)

James Last - Sandy (Caribbean Nights)

Tor Lundvall - Grey Sunday (Ghost Years)

Thin White Rope - Astronomy (In the Spanish Cave)

Tony Mottola - Shadow of Your Smile (Guitar USA)

Chris D - History is Only Made at Night (Love Cannot Die)

David Vanian and the Phantom Chords - This House is Haunted (S/T)

Michael J. Sheehy - Mystery Train (Ill Gotten Gains)

Bailter Space - Argonaut (Capsul)

Julian Cope - The Subtle Energies Commission (Jehovahkill)

The Fibonaccis - TerrorVision (Repressed: The Best of...)

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

Migala - Our Time of Disaster (Arde)

Mae West - Criswell Predicts (The Fabulous Mae West and Other Wonderful Girls)

April Stevens - Don't Do It (The Fabulous Mae West and Other Wonderful Girls)

Track From the Film Fantasma Y Un Muchacho - The Witch Doctor (The Music of Forgotten Horrors Vol. 2)

Trevor Jones - Nightmare (Angel Heart Sndtrk)

Arthur Lyman - The (Jungle) Cat (Lyman '66)

The Ink Spots - That Cat is High (Instant Classics)

David Whitaker - Quiet Nights (Latin in the Night)

Pete Rugolo - Mixin' The Blues (Adventures in Rhythm)

Ray Anthony - Girl From Ipanema (Dream Dancing Today)

Rhonda Flemming - Cold Rain (Sings Just For You)

Walter Schumann - Love (Exploring the Voice of...)

Jeffrey Lee Pierce - From Temptation to You (Wildweed)

Isaac Hayes - I'll Never Fall in Love Again (Black Moses)

Skip Heller - Snowdrift (demo) (Lua-O-Milo: The Exotic Sounds of...)

Robert Mitchum - O-He-O-Hi-O-Ho (Soundtrack to Rachel and the Stranger)

Milt Buckner - Turquoise (Send Me Softly)

Umberto - Night Fantasy (Confrontation)

Monday, March 4, 2013

The Incongruity Of It All

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 3/3/13

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Spike Jones - I Search For Golden Adventure (In My Seven Leaky Boats) (Omnibust)

Tangerine Dream - Choronzon (Exit)

Faine Jaide - Cold Winter Sun (Symphony in D Major) (Introspection: A Faine Jade Recital)

Tarnation - The Well (Gentle Creatures)

Mutiny - Lump (Cruising Sndtrk)

Edd "Kookie" Byrnes - Kookie's Mad Pad (Kookie)

Wes Montgomery - Impressions (Willow Weep For Me)

Lew Davies and His Orchestra - In a Mist (Strange Interlude)

Henry Mancini - Charlie's Angels (Mancini's Angels)

Chris and Cosey - The Need (Collectiv One)

Lustmord - IXAXAAR (The Monstrous Soul)

Phillip Lambro - Introduction and Hannah's Atmosphere / The Long Darken Passageway (Crypt of the Living Dead Sndtrk)

Hideous in Strength - Shadow In the Valley (V.A. - Taste of Tongues)

Congo Norvell - Drift Away (Music to Remember Him By)

Elmer Bernstein - Poi and Juice (Johnny Staccato Sndtrk)

Billy May - Batman / Longstreet (Green Hornet Sndtrk)

Antoni Maiovvi - Horsehead Blue (The Thorns of Love)

Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra - Outside Atmosphere (Raumpatrouille Sndtrk)

Das Synthetische Mischgewebe - 3:40 (V.A. - Hare, Hunter, Field: The Secret Passion Of Rudolf Peterson - A compilation Of Sad Love Songs)

Francisco Semprum & Michel Christodoulides - Voutes (Metamorphoses)

Throbbing Gristle - Excerpt from In The Shadow of the Sun Soundtrack

Hot Butter - Day By Day (Popcorn with Hot Butter)

Kali Bahlu - Cosmic Remembrance (Cosmic Remembrance)

Creation Rebel - Chemical Specialist (Historic Moments Volume 2)

Barney Kessel - Laura (Blues For a Playboy)

Stefano Torossi - Walking In the Dark (Feelings)

Slow Choke - Caribbean Western (Lydia Lunch: Hysteria 1976 - 1986)

Oscar Brown Jr. - A Dime Away From A Hotdog (Movin' On)

Blossom Dearie - Meditation (For Cafe Apres-midi)

Perrey & Kingsley - Cosmic ballad (The In Sound from Way Out!)

Harry Bruer and his Quintet - Bumble Bee Bolero (Mallet Magic)

Robert Drassin - Enchantment (Voodoo!)

Al Viola - Nocturne (Contemporaries Of the Jazz guitar)

Mark Snow - X-Files Theme (V.A. - Songs in the Key of X)

Sunday, February 24, 2013

The Drinking Wine and Having a Good Time Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 2/24/13

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

Tindersticks - Falling Down a Mountain (Falling Down a Mountain)

Kevin Ayers - Lady Rachel (Singing the Bruise -The BBC Sessions 1970 - 1972)

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Soft Machine - Jet-Propelled Photograph (a.k.a. Shooting At The Moon) (Jet-Propelled Photograph)

Kevin Ayers - When Your Parents Go to Sleep (Bananamour)

Kevin Ayers - May I (Shooting at the Moon)

Kevin Ayers - Song From The Bottom of a Well (Whatevershebringwesing)

Kevin Ayers - Shouting in a Bucket Blues (Bananamour)

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Soft Machine - Why Are We Sleeping (Soft Machine 1)

Nico - We've Got the Gold (The End)

Kevin Ayers - The Confessions Of Doctor Dream (a) Irreversible Neural Damage (b) Invitation (c) The One Chance Dance (d) Doctor Dream Theme / Two Goes Into Four (The Confessions of Dr. Dream and Other Stories)

John Lurie - Stink (Get Shorty Sndtrk)

The Stomach Mouths - Something Weird (V.A. - Declaration of Fuzz)

The Long Ryders - And She Rides (V.A. - The Rebel Kind)

Klaus Lenz - Grashalme (V.A. - Amiga a Go-Go Vol. 1)

Maze - Twilight (V.A. - The Best of Capitol Rare: Funky Notes From the West Coast)

Munx - Our Dream (V.A. - Come to the Sunshine: Soft Pop Nuggets From the WEA Vaults)

New Order - Dreams Never End (Movement)

Nick Cave - There is a Light (Batman Forever Sndtrk)

Contact - Constant Beat (V.A. - 7" Up)

Phil Shoenfelt - Well of Souls ("god is the other face of the devil")

Sudden Afternoon - Acid Rain (V.A. - Nocturnal: The Best of Midnight Music)

She Brings the Rainbows - a title in Japanese (V.A. - Night Gallery - Vol. 3)

Les Baxter - Lunar Rhapsody (V.A. - Rhapsodesia: Ultra Lounge 6)

Dolores Gray - You're My Thrill (V.A. - Rhapsodesia: Ultra Lounge 6)

Tony Perkins - Hit the Road to Dreamland (S/T)

Oscar Peterson Trio + One: Clark Terry - Mumbles (S/T)

P. Roelens - Intimate Conversations - (V.A. Stroboscapia - Vol. 2)

Eartha Kitt - Love For Sale (V.A. - Spectrum)

The Three Suns - Blue Tango (Midnight For Two)

DNJ - Moonchild (V.A. - Night Gallery - Vol. 3)

Kevin Ayers - Song for Insane Times (Joy of A Toy)

Aswad - Warrior Charge (V.A. - Andrew Weatherall's Nine O' Clock Drop)

Big John Patton - Congo Chant (Understanding)

Monday, February 18, 2013

Robert Mitchum's Zombie Calypso BBQ

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

Dave Graney with the White Buffaloes - World Full of Daughters (My Life on the Plains)

Richard H. Kirk - Force of Habit (Time High Fiction)

The Congoes - Congo Man (V.A. - Lee "Scratch" Perry Arkology)

The Upsetters - Return of Django (V.A. - The Big Gundown)

Alternative TV - Communication Failure (Apollo)

Jerry Goldsmith - The Latest Victim (The Mephisto Waltz Sndtrk)

Ennio Morricone - Rampage (Rampage Sndtrk)

Tangerine Dream - Ossiach Lake (V.A. - Electric Monster Rock: Live German TV Performances 1969 - 1972)

Baxter Dury - Oscar Brown (Len Parrot's Memorial Lift)

Magic Muscle - Here and Now (The Pipe, The Roar, The GRID)

David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights - Left By Soft (Left By Soft)

Reg Tilsley - Tuxedo (V.A. - Inside the Crime Story)

Basil Kirchin - The Scene Around (V.A. - Inside the Crime Story)

Roy Webb - Out Of the Past (V.A. - Legendary Film Noir Movies)

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

Michael Small - The Tape / Rooftop Intruder (Klute Sndtrk)

Gary Numan - Remember I Was Vapour (Telekon)

The Mesmerizing Eye - Opus 71 (Psychedelia - A Musical Light Show)

Spike Drivers - Strange Mysterious Sounds (The Spike Drivers 1965-1968)

Bandolero - I Got it (S/T)

Rotary Connection - I Took a Ride (Caravan) (Aladdin)

Sapphire Thinkers - Melancholy Baby (From Within)

Scorpio Tube - Yellow Listen (V.A. - Psychedelic Disaster Whirlwind)

Tiny Young - Syracuse (L'Integrale)

Nazareth - Morning Dew (S/T)

Handgjort - ? (S/T)

Tee and Cara - A Hard Day's Night (As They Are)

Wolfgang Riechmann - Wunderbar (Wunderbar)

Michael Bundt - Whose Eye Is the Sun (Just Landed Cosmic Kid)

Hildegard Knef - Insel Meiner Angst (Knef)

The Shacklefords - First Street Blues (Extra Track on The Shacklefords Sing Re-ish CD)

Gilli Smyth - Time of the Goddess (Mother)

Buzzy Linhart - Willie Jean (Buzzy)

Robert Calvert - Fly on the Wall (Test Tube Conceived)

Tim Buckley - Chase the Blues (Blue Afternoon)

Excursions - Picture Woman (S/T)

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Lucifer Rising, Showering, Shaving, Brewing a Pot of Coffee and Sitting Down with a Copy of The Plain Dealer...

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 2/10/13

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

Amon Duul - Paramechanische Welt (Paradieswarts Duul)

Ennio Morricone - Lullaby in Blue (The Cat O' Nine Tails Sndtrk)

The Mumbles Club - The Noise Mark (Listen Here)

The Velvet Underground - All Tomorrow's Parties (The Velvet Underground & Nico) Request

Mystic - Gloomy Sunday (The Funeral sndtrk)

Paula Frazer - Deep Was the Night (Indoor Universe)

And Also The Trees - 6th Floor Elevator Blues (Angelfish)

Merle Haggard - Branded Man (Branded Man)

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

Skip Heller - Going Back to Cali (Career Suicide)

Tommy James and the Shondells - Cellophane Symphony (Cellophane Symphony)

Randy Greif - The Soothing Data Waves (excerpt) (War of the Worlds)

Barry Adamson - My Friend the Fly (Stranger On the Sofa)

Roy Budd - Mr. Easy (The Internecine Project Sndtrk)

Stone Harbour - Thanitos (Emerges)

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

Billy R. Couvson - Funk to Funk, New Dance (Bongo Sensational Soul)

Gallon Drunk - You Should Be Ashamed (From the Heart of a Town)

Jean-Luc Roudiere - Star Flipper (Overchoses)

Kris Kristofferson - Stairway to the Bottom (Spooky Lady's Sideshow)

Blues Addicts - Simple Expression (S/T)

Gutterball - When You Make Up Your Mind (S/T)

John Barry - Midnight Cowboy (Midnight Cowboy Sndtrk)

Bill Page - Nature Boy (Sound of the Sonic Sixties)

Sparks - Pulling Rabbits Out Of a Hat (Orchestral Version) (Plagiarism)

The Bevis Frond - Termination Station Grey (Inner Marshland)

Tarkus - El Pirata (S/T)

Ultravox - Mr. X (Vienna)

Died Pretty - Sweetheart (Doughboy Hollow)

Isaac Hayes - Pursuit of the Pimpmobile (Truck Turner Sndtrk)

Barney Kessell - Days of Wine and Roses (Contemporary Latin Rhythms)

Scott Walker - Plastic Palace People (Scott 2)

The Artwoods - A Taste of Honey (Singles A's and B's)

George Shearing - Sorry Wrong Rhumba (V.A. - The Cool Scene at Cafe Bizarre)

The Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra - Black and Tan Fantasy (Stomp It Off)

Donovan - Everlasting Sea (Sutras)

Osamu Kitajima - Taiyo (Benzaiten)

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)