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, June 30, 2013

The Haystack in the Needle Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 6/30/13

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

The Dream Syndicate - When You Smile (Down There EP)

Section 25 - The Beast (The Key of Dreams)

Ed Bogas / Ray Shanklin - Scarborough Street Fair (Heavy Traffic Sndtrk)

Gil Melle - Shadow and Substance: Vintage Autumn/ Experiment Peril (Mindscape)

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The Gene Rains Group - Shadow of Love (Rains in the Tropics)

Johnny Dowd - Stumble & Fall (Temporary Shelter)

45 Grave - Insurance From God (Sleep in Safety)

Joe Byrd and The Field Hippies - The Sub-Sylvian Litanies: Kalyani / You Can't Ever Come Down / Moonsong: Pelog (The American Metaphysical Circus)

Swamp Children - Softly Saying Goodbye (Extra Track on the CD re-ish of So Hot)

Edwin Astley & His Orchestra - Drake and Ducks (The Secret Agent Sndtrk)

Booker T. & The MGs - You Keep Me Hanging On (Doin' Our Thing)

SPK - Retard (Information Overload Unit)

Throbbing Gristle - Excerpt From the Heathen Earth LP

101 Strings - Karma Sitar (The Exotic Sound of Love)

Acetone - Germs (S/T)

Los Banditos - Django (Modul 47)

Alfonso Santisteban - The Suitcase (Verano del 72)

Yvette Mimieux and Ali Akbar Khan - Lethe (Flowers of Evil)

Leroy Holmes - Lonely Place (Once Upon a Time in the West)

Henry Mancini - Make the World Go Away (Mancini Country) ‎

Frank Pourcel - Johnny Guitar (Johnny Guitar EP)

Luis Bacalov - Take a Chance (Instrumental Main Title) (Rebus Sndtrk)

Dick Schory - Take The "A" Train (Supercussion)

Kenneth Patchen - There is a Place / They Don't Let You in There (Kenneth Patchen Reads with Jazz in Canada)

Roy Budd - The Carey Treatment (Rebirth of the Budd)

Oscar Peterson - There's a Small Hotel (Pastel Moods)

Dandruff Deluxe - Flecidio (The Deal with the Devil)

Talk Talk - Desire (Spirit of Eden)

Björn Olsson ‎– Hällekindsvalsen (Instrumental Music ... To Submerge In ... Or Disappear Through)

Richard Brautigan - Revenge of the Lawn (Listening to Richard Brautigan)

Bevis Frond - High in a Flat (A Gathering of Fronds)

Burt Bacharach - Downhill and Shady (What's New Pussycat Sndtrk)

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

The Dharma Homeless Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 6/23/13

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

Jerry Goldsmith - Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room (The Twilight Zone Sndtrk)

Nico - Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (Chelsea Girl)

The Godz - Black Cat Moan (Contact High With The Godz)

Vic Mizzy - Creepy Jeepers / The Haunted Organ (The Ghost and Mr Chicken Sndtrk)

Babs Gonzales - Lonely One (Viola)

John Barry - Seance On A Wet Afternoon (V.A. - Ultra Lounge: Vol. 16: Mondo Hollywood) - Request

Paul Revere And the Raiders - Frankfort Side Street (Alias Pink Puzz)

Quincy Jones - The Gentle Rain (Plays Music For Pussycats)

Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood - Summer Wine (Fairy Tales & Fantasies: The Best Of Nancy & Lee)

Ornette Coleman - Lonely Woman (The Shape of Jazz to Come)

Yma Sumac - Inca Waltz (The Ultimate Yma Sumac Collection)

Leonard Cohen - Dear Heather (Dear Heather)

Los Dourados - Jungle Fantasy (Electrifying Latin Piano)

Omar Khorsid & His Guitar - Raqsed El Fada (Rhythms From the Orient)

The Revolving Paint Dream - Fever Mountain (Flowers In The Sky: The Enigma Of The Revolving Paint Dream)

Devastations - What's A Place Like That Doing In A Girl Like You? (Coal)

Arizona Amp And Alternator - Where The Wind Turns the Skin to Leather (S/T)

Lyres - Every Man For Himself (A Promise is a Promise)

Chris Heazlewood - Euro Disco (Cash Guitar)

Mad River - The War Goes On (S/T) ‎

Fantastic String Orchestra - Shadow of Your Smile (Shadow of Your Smile)

William S. Fischer - Electrix (Circles)

The Electric Prunes - General Confessional (Release of an Oath)

Animals That Swim - Faded Glamour (I Was the King. I Really Was the King)

Pop Corn - Song Sung Blue (The Discotheque Sound)

The Damned - Thanks For the Night (Damned But Not Forgotten)

Anthony Moore - Judy Get Down (Flying Doesn't Help)

Big Star - Kangaroo (Third/Sister Lovers)

Sauter - Finegan Orchestra - Dream Play (Directions in Music)

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Sun Ra - There Are Other Worlds (They Have Not Told You Of) (Laquidity)

Duke Ellington - Charlie Mingus - Max Roach - Switch Blade (Money Jungle)

Gordon Jenkins - Happiness Cocktail (Views From the Manhattan Tower)

John Wood - (Impressions Of) The Throb (Turn Of The Century & I'll Come Back)

Les Baxter - Topaz (African Blue)

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Summer In the Usual Decaying City

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 6/16/13

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

Henry Jacobs - The Wide Weird World of Shorty Petterstein - The entire brilliant, surreal LP!

Jeff Greinke - Moving Through Fog (Cities in Fog)

Algebra Suicide – Mantic Sway (Swoon)

The Lemon Fog - Summer (V.A. - The Cicadelic 60's - Volume Two: Never Existed)

Shelley Manne - Daktari (Daktari)

Syd Barrett - Dominoes (Barrett)

Donnie Fritts - Prone To Lean (Prone To Lean)

Charlie Byrd - Time of the Season (Aquarius)

Salah Ragab and The Cairo Jazz Band - Egypt Strut (Egyptian Jazz)

The Cosmic Rays - Dreaming (Sun Ra: The Singles)

Konstruktivits - Aural Wallpaper (Psykho Genetika)

Harry Stoneham - Coming Home Baby (I Feel Good, I Feel Funky)

Amy Denio - Couch Sounds (No Bones)

Harlan Ellison - Demented SF Movie Harangue (On The Road with Ellison - Vol. 2)

Marty Gold & Donald Hulme - Soulful Strut (Sounds Impossible)

Bruno Cossano - Excerpts from Side 2 (Saffo's Pleasures)

Gary McFarland - Fried Bananas (The In Sound)

Mother Night - Take A Trip (S/T)

Euphoria - Suicide on the Hillside Sunday Morning After Tea/Sweet Fanny Adams (A Gift From Euphoria)

Sagittarius - Mass #586 - Featuring the late Peter Bergman (Present Tense) ‎

Mike Simpson - Elephant Drums / Crocodile River (Jungle Odyssey)

Watermelon - Trilogy (V.A. - Chicago Garage Band Greats: The Best of Rembrandt Records 1966 - 1968)

Abbey Lincoln - Tender As a Rose (That's Him)

Max Roach And His Chorus and Orchestra - Lonesome Lover (It's Time)

Denison Kimball Trio - Prelude (Plays The Music Of "Walls In The City")

Soul Children - What's Happening Baby (Friction)

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Johnny Richards - No Moon Up In the Sky (Experiments in Sound)

Spacemen 3 - Transparent Radiation (Flashback) (Translucent Flashbacks)

Leonard Cohen - The Gypsy Wife (Recent Songs)

Tim Hardin - Playing Cards / The Magician (Simple Songs Of Freedom - The Tim Hardin Collection)

Wes Montgomery - Sunny (Talkin' Verve: Roots of Acid Jazz)

Les Baxter - Pool of Love (The Exotic Moods of Les Baxter)

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Ode To a Grecian Formula

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 6/9/13

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

Peter Laughner - Baudelaire (Take the Guitar Player For A Ride)

Harmonia 76 - By The Riverside (Tracks & Traces)

101 Strings - A Bad Trip Back to '69 (Astro Sounds From Beyond the Year 2000)

Mark Hollis - A Life (1895 - 1915) (S/T)

Lola Albright - Brief and Breezy (Dreamsville)

Frank Sinatra - Ill Wind (In the Wee Small Hours)

Lee Hazlewood - Dark in my Heart (Lounge Legends)

Thin White Rope - Man With the Golden Gun (Spoor)

Walter Scharf - Bermuda (My Favorite Places)

Ray Conniff - Theme From Swat (TV Themes)

Kai Winding - Night Side (Jazz For Playboys)

Berry Lipman - Star Maidens Theme (Star Maidens - Die Mädchen Aus Dem Weltraum - Sndtrk)

Gil Melle - Main Title (Starship Invasion Sndtrk)

23 Skidoo - Mary's Operation (Seven Songs)

Tuxedomoon - Up All Night (Unearthed)

Frank Bongusto - The World of the Blues - Main Title (Un Detective Sndtrk)

Rowland S. Howard - Autoluminescent (Teenage Snuff Film)

Nino Rota - Toby Dammit's Thoughts (LSD Roma)

Martin Denny - Jungle Madness (Hypnotique) ‎

Bruno Nicolai - Una Giornata Spesa Bene (Una Giornata Spesa Bene Sndtrk)

100 Flowers - Mop Dub (100 Years of Pulchritude)

The Route 66 Killers - The Devil's Martini (Murder on Beaver Street)

Bridget St. John - City Crazy (Songs For the Gentleman)

Caterina Valente & Edmundo Ros - La Rosita (Silk 'n' Latin)

Percy Faith - Stranger in Paradise (V.A. - Exotic Embers, Forgotten Moons)

Mickey Newbury - The Future's Not What it Used to Be ('Frisco Mabel Joy)

Kris Kristofferson - Why Me (Jesus Was a Capricorn)

Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra - The Hungry Years (Nancy & Lee 3)

John Cage - In a Landscape (performed by Stephen Drury) (In a Landscape)

John Coltrane Quartet - It's Easy to Remember (Ballads)

Charlie Rich - Don't Put No Headstone On My Grave (Feel Like Going Home: The Essential Charlie Rich)

The Gun Club - The Stranger in Our Town (Las Vegas Story)

These Immortal Souls - Insomnicide (I'm Never Gonna Die Again)

Rowland S. Howard - The Golden Age of Bloodshed (Pop Crimes)

Verdelle Smith - In My Room (The Complete Recordings)

Kenyon Hopkins - Alone (Rooms)

Crime & The City Solution - Streets of West Memphis (American Twilight)

Skip Heller - Alice Through the Twilight Zone Episode (Lua-O-Milo: The Exotic Sounds of Skip Heller

Ed Kuepper - King Of Vice (Legendary Bully)

Jerry Byrd - Tangi Tahiti (Byrd of Paradise)

Piero Piccioni - Magic of Tahiti (Bora Bora Sndtrk)

Friday, May 24, 2013

Through Summer Rooms and Winter Closets.

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 5/11/13

Walter Schumann - Dancing in the Dark (Exploring the Voices of...)

Leonard Cohen - Avalanche (Songs of Love and Hate)

Tindersticks - Another Night In (Curtains)

African Head Charge - Primal One Drop (My Life in the Hole in the Ground)

Piero Umiliani - New Experience (Musica Elettronica Vol. 1)

Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - The Thousandth and Tenth Day of the Human Totem Pole (Ice Cream For Crow)

John Foxx - Through Summer Rooms (Cathedral Oceans)

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

Romano Rizzatti - Shake n5 (Suono Libero - A Trip Through Obscure 70's Jazz Funk Tracks From Italian Music Library)

Bowery Electric - Fear of Flying (Beat)

Brian Gascoigne - Excerpts From the Soundtrack to Phase IV

Amon Duul II - Apocalyptic Bore (Vive La Trance)

John Carpenter - Back To The Pod/The Crazies Come Out (Escape From New York Sndtrk)

Plas Johnson with Dick Jacobs and His Orchestra - Virgo: Blue Lady (V.A. - Safe Sax)

Googie Rene - Serenade in the Night (Romesville)

Marcello Giombini - Excerpts from the Erotic Nights of the Living Dead Soundtrack

A Certain Ratio - Choir (The Graveyard and the Ballroom)

Sonny Rollins - Transition Theme For Minor Blues Or Little Malcolm Loves His Dad (Alfie)

Marianne Faithful - Sister Morphine (Greatest Hits) ‎

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

The Damned - 13 Floor Vendetta (The Black Album)

Killing Joke - Turn to Red (Laugh? I Nearly Bought One!)

Canterbury Fair - Acid (S/T)

The Boys Next Door - After a Fashion (Door Door)

Larry Williams - Heeby Jeebies (V.A. - Great Googa Mooga)

Lee Hazlewood - Dirtnap Stories (For Every Solution There is a Problem)

And Also The Trees - Where The Souls Meet (Silver Soul)

The Gories - Telepathic (Outta Here)

The Sadies - FLASH / The Creepy Butler (Tremendous Efforts)

The Flaming Stars - Ten Feet Tall (Ginmill Perfume - The Story So Far 1995 - 2000)

The Deviants - Let's Loot the Supermarket (Disposable)

Gallon Drunk - Jake on the Make (From the Heart of the Town)

Richard Davies - Sign Up Maybe For Being (There's Never Been a Crowd Like This)

Lambert, Hendricks and Ross - Fiesta in Blue (Improvisations For the Human Voice)

Henry Mancini - Slow Hot Wind (Lujon) (Symphonic Soul)

Miles Davis (Remixed by Bill Laswell) - Black Satin / What If / Agharta Prelude Dub (Panthalassa: The Music of Miles Davis 1969–1974)

Jimmy Smith - What's New (Cool Blues)

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Ode to Allan Arbus

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 4/28/13

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

Gandalf - Nature Boy (S/T)

The Godz - Permanent Green Light (2)

Kenny and the Kasuals - Stings of Time (Nothing Better To Do)

Kraftwerk - Metropolis (The Man Machine)

The Fall - Elf Prefix/L.A. (Seminal Live)

Johnny Dowd - Butcher's Son (Pictures From Life's Other Side)

Ronnie Price with Arthur Greenslade - Church Windows (V.A. - Love Organs)

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

Nikki Sudden - Opium Pit (Extra Track on the Waiting on Egypt CD release)

The Flesh Eaters - Dragstrip Riot (Dragstrip Riot)

Stelvio Cipriani - Adventure Flight / Concorde Theme (Concorde Affair Sndtrk)

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Frank Sinatra - (Love is) A Tender Trap (Sinatra at the Movies)

Francesco De Masi & Alessandro Alessandroni - Qualsiasi Cosa (Lesbo Sndtrk)

Nick Garrie - The Nightmare of J.B. Stanislas (The Nightmare of J.B. Stanislas)

Cyclobe - Tarot (Sulphur, Tarot, Garden)

Zoogz Rift - Ah Peeked In Duh Devil's Secret Hell Files (Water II: At Safe Distance) ‎

Green on Red - Aspirin (S/T)

The Damned - Shadow of Love (Phantasmagoria)

The Screws - Story 16 (Shake Your Monkey)

Van Der Graaf Generator - Killer ('69-'71)

Hound Dog Taylor - Take Five (Natural Boogie)

Walter Christian Rothe - On the Beach (Solitude)

Berkowitz Lake & Dahmer - Fluids For Dark Pleasures (V.A: Malpractice - A Fflint Central Primer)

Stack Waddy - With One Leap Dan Was By Her Side, 'Muriel' He Breathed (S/T)

Van Morrison - Madame George (Bang Masters)

Stack Waddy - Meat Pies 'Ave Come But Band's Not Here Yet (Bugger Off!)

Glaxo Babies - Avoiding the Issue (Dreams Interrupted)

'68 Comeback - Shake Your Hips (Golden Rogues Collection)

Forever Amber - Better Things Are Bound To Come / On a Night In Winter (The Love Cycle)

Stu Phillips - Slim's Return / Shadows (performed by The Electric Prunes (The Name of the Game is Kill Sndtrk)

Sonny Bono and Cher - Chastity's Song (Band of Thieves) / Chastity's Overture (Chastity Sndtrk)

Russ Garcia - Ill Wind (Sounds in the Night)

Willie Nelson - September Song (Stardust)

The Inkspots - Java Jive (Instant Classics)

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

The Sweet Sound of Decadence

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 4/21/13

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

Alex Chilton - I Can Dig It (1970)

Roxy Music - The Bogus Man (For Your Pleasure)

Red Beat - Red Beat (V.A. Wild Dub: Dread Meets Punk Rocker Downtown)

Stanley Myers - Harry (End Titles) (Sitting Target Sndtrk)

Mario Nascimbene - Main Title Theme (Dick Smart 2.007 Sndtrk)

Johnny Mandel - Harper (Main Title)/Quietly There (w/ Ruth Price) (Harper Sndtrk)

André Hossein - The Rope And The Colt - Générique (w/ Scott Walker) / Concerto Pour Guitare (Scéne D'Amour) (Cemetary Without Crosses Sndtrk)

Larry Schaffer Orchestra - Two Guitars (Mission Impossible)

Jim Helms - Cain's Theme (Kung Fu Sndtrk)

Elmer Bernstein - Black Straight Jacket (The Caretakers Sndtrk)

David Axelrod - Ken Russell (Seriously Deep)

Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats (20 Jazz Funk Greats)

Cabaret Voltaire - Slammer (Microphonies)

Nancy Sinatra - The Last of the Secret Agents (The Last of the Secret Agents Sndtrk)

Stan Getz - Once (Voices)

Julie London - Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night In The Week) (For the Night People) ‎

Quincy Jones - The "in" Crowd (Talkin' Verve)

Neal Hefti - Zankie (Synanon Sndtrk)

Kim Salmon - Disconnected (Record)

The Fall - Sing! Harpy (Extricate)

Moloch - Maverick Woman Blues (Moloch)

Janko Nilovic - Love on the Moon (Psyc Impressions)

Mandingo - Witchdoctor (Mandingo III: Story of Survival)

Gallon Drunk - Two Wing Mambo (You, the Night...and the Music)

Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man Blues (The Complete Okeh Recordings)

Mallet Men - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (V.A. - Ultra-Lounge / Rhapsodesia Volume Six)

Ruts DC vs. Mad Professor - Love & Fire (Rhythm Collision Vol.1)

The Cruel Sea ‎– Reckless Eyeballin' / How Low (Down Below)

The Three Suns - I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You (Midnight For Two)

Lee Mason and his Orchestra - Deadly Nightshade (V.A. - On the Brink: Return of the Instro-hipsters)

David Bedford - Sad And Lonely Faces (Nurses Song With Elephants)

The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation - Don't Take The Power Away (To Mum, From Aynsley and The Boys)

Paul Phillips and His Band - Tenderly (The Sound of Midnight: Naked City)

John Barry - The Challenge (Stringbeat)

Leonard Rosenman - Opening Statement (Cornelius) / Main Title (Beneath The Planet of the Apes Sndtrk)

Eddie Warner - Checkpoint Charlie (Cops, Crooks and Spies)

Quincy Jones - The Last Man (Main Title (The Last Man Sndtrk)

Elmer Bernstein - Tung-Tze (The Silencers Sndtrk)

Shelley Manne - The Cyanide Touch (Checkmate)