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 30, 2014

The "Keeping You Guessing Through The Murk" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 3/30/14

Milt Buckner - The Late, Late Show (V.A. - Organs In Orbit)

The Human League - Morale...You've Lost That Loving Feeling (Reproduction)

The Chocolate Watchband - The Inner Mystique (The Inner Mystique)

Dale Hawkins - Everglades (Daredevil)

Big Star - Holocaust (Third / Sister Lover)

The Shacklefords - First Street Blues (The Shacklefords Sing)

Current 93 - Imperium I (Imperium)

Cosmic Jokers - Im Reich der Magier (Sci-fi Party)

Les Baxter - Goin' Out Of My Head (Colors of Brazil)

Roy Budd - Black Is Beautiful - from the film Stone Killer (Vigilante! Roy Budd Cult Film Soundtracks 1971 - 1977)

Steroid Maximus - L'espion Qui A Pleur (Ectopia)

Jowe Head - Shytown (Unhinged)

Alice Cooper - Grim Facts (Flush The Fashion)

Flatmates - My Empty Head (Love And Death: The Flatmates 86-89)

Faust - ...In The Spirit (So Far)

Prostitutes - Heart (S/T)

The Stonemans - According To The Plan (In All Honesty)

Mark Fry - The Witch (Dreaming With Alice)

Frank Sinatra - Baby, Won't You Please Come Home (Where Are You?)

Julian Cope - Las Vegas Basement (Peggy Suicide)

Dumptruck - Friends (For The Country)

Gallon Drunk - Traitor's Gate (Bear Me Away)

Dial - Passing Trucks (Distance Runner)

Clock DVA - Resistance (Advantage)

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

Ennio Morricone - Excerpts From the Soundtrack to the film...L'Attentato

Kevin Coyne - Nasty (Marjory Razerblade)

Bobby Bare - Singer Of Sad Songs (The Real Thing)

Animals That Swim - King Beer (Workshy)

Lee Hazlewood - This Town (Something Special)

Green On Red - Fading Away (Gas Food Loodging)

Annette Peacock - I'm The One (I'm The One)

Dub Syndicate - Time (Version) (Acres Of Space)

Arizone Amp & Alternator - The Leaving You (S/T)

The Go-Betweens - Cattle And Cain (Before Hollywood)

The Blackeyed Susans - Let's Live (Mouth To Mouth)

Katie Lee - Repressed Hostility Blues (Sings Songs Of Couch And Consultation)

Hawkwind - Infinity (P.X.R.S.)

Mel Henke - The Lively Ones / Walkin' My Baby Back Home (La Dolce Henke)

Sunday, March 23, 2014

The "Sad Grentified Community" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 3/23/14

Milt Buckner - The Late, Late Show (V.A. - Organs In Orbit)

Red Crayola - Hurricane Fighter Pilot (Parable of Arable Land)

War - Four Cornered Room (The World Is A Ghetto)

Nick Cave And the Bad Seeds - Slowly Goes the Night (Tender Prey)

Renderers - Transparent Black (A Dream Of The Sea)

Ultravox - Mr. X (Vienna)

Visage - Night Train (The Best Of...)

Lowlife - A Sullen Sky (Diminnuendo)

Bailter Space - Trekka (Solar 3)

Stretchheads - Space Ape (Pish In Your Sleazebag)

Gravitar - Evil Monkey Boy (Chinga su Corazon)

Lee Perry & The Upsetter - Kojak (Revolution Dub)

Sub Oslo - Washes Of Dub (Dubs In the Key Of Life)

The Mystic Tide - The Mystery Ship (Sold Ground / Solid Sound)

The Fall - Hip Priest (Hex Enduction Hour)

Haunted George - Shadow Witches (Sounds From A Haunted Radio)

Kain - Constipated Monkey (Blue Guerrilla)

Andy Fairley - Audio Visual Attack (System Vertigo)

The Sting-Rays - Behind The Beyond (From The Kitchen Sink)

Beasts of Bourbon - Crawfish (From The Belly Of The Beasts)

Glyn Styler - Love At Your Fingertips (Live At the Mermaid Lounge)

The Modern Art - Mind Train (All Aboard The Mind Train)

Alice Cooper - The Black Widow (Welcome To My Nightmare)

th' faith healers - S.O.S. (Peel Sessions)

The Gun Club - The Breaking Hands (Mother Juno)

Daevid Allen's Gong - Cos' You Got Green Hair (Magick Brother)

The Stranglers - Laughing (Aural Sculpture)

The Gordian Knot - The Year Of The Sun (S/T)

Gandalf - Nature Boy (S/T)

Lee Hazlewood - My Autum's Done Come (Lounge Legends)

Scott Walker - Rhymes of Goodbye (Scott 4)

Martin Denny - Island Of Dreams (Exotica II)

Gallon Drunk - The Big Breakdown (The Road Gets Darker From Here)

John Patton - Rakin' And Scrapin' (Accent On the Blues)

Saturday, March 22, 2014

The "David Brenner Is Filling In For Johnny Somewhere In the Ether" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 3/16/14

Milt Buckner - The Late, Late Show (V.A. - Organs In Orbit)

Freddie Hubbard - Chocolate Shake (The Body & Soul)

Tomasz Stanko Septet - Litania (Litania: The Music of Krzysztof Komeda)

Grant Green - Willow Weep For Me (His Majesty King Funk)

Julie London - Midnight Sun (Julie)

Roy Budd - Selections From the Soundtrack to film The Black Windmill

Schloss Tegal - Excerpt from Track 2 (Black Static Transmission)

Heldon IV - Perspective II (Baader-Meinhof Blues) (Agneta Nilson)

Booker T. & The MG's - Let's Get Stoned (Doin' Our Thing)

The Flaming Stars - Don't Need The Sun (Sell Your Soul To The Flaming Stars)

Pharoah Saunders - Love (Thembi)

Shaun Harris - Highest Dreams (S/T)

Butthole Surfers - Backass (Hairway To Steven)

Augustus Pablo - House of Dub (Rockers Meets King Tubbys In A Fire House)

John Foxx - Shadow Man (Shifting City)

The Flesh Eaters - Five Dolls For An August Moon (Sex Diary Of Mr. Vampire)

The Interstellar Villains - The Interstellar Vision (Revlover)

The Terminals - The Thing Upstairs Is Not My Mother (Touch)

Sagittarious - Musty Dusty (Present Tense)

Blackbird - Quicksand (S/T)

Charlie Rich - Nice 'N' Easy (Feel Like Going Home: The Essential Charlie Rich)

Kris Kristofferson - Duvalier's Dream (Kristofferson)

Acetone - Nothing At All (If You Only Knew)

Koko Taylor - Insane Asylum (S/T)

Quentin Crisp - Stop The Music For a Minute (V.A. - Pillows & Prayers)

Joe Carroll - Wha Wha Blues (Man With A Happy Sound)

A.C.R. - Rub Down (Sextet)

Keith Hudson - Depth Charge (Pick A Dub)

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

Jon Hendricks - You And I (V.A. - Modernism & Bossa Nova)

Ennio Morricone - Excerpts From the Soundtrack to Four Flies On Grey Velvet

Ìxtahuele - Lotus Eaters (Pagan Rites)

Bob Elger & His Orchestra - Birds And the Bees (V.A. Pop Boutique 3)

Chico Hamilton Quintet & Fred Katz - Chanel No. 5 (Classical Katz)

Sunday, March 9, 2014

The "Imagine A World Without Snow" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 3/9/14



Milt Buckner - The Late, Late Show (V.A. - Organs in Orbit)

Gil Evans - Moon Taj (Into The Hot)

Tim Hardin - Question Of Birth (Suite For Susan Moore and Damion - We Are One All in One) 

Frank Sinatra - Here's That Rainy Day (No One Cares)

Dirty Three - Authentic Celestial Music (Ocean Songs)

Mrs. Miller - Moon River (Ultra Lounge Compilation)

Throbbing Gristle - Pt. 3 (Heathen Earth)

John Foxx - Through Summer Rooms (Cathedral Oceans)

Conway Savage - Tonight (Nothing Broken)

Lee Hazlewood - Performer (Poet, Fool or Bum)

Nikki Sudden & Rowland S. Howard - Wedding Hotel  (Kiss You Kidnapped Charabanc)

Acetone - Good Life (S/T)

Kris Kristofferson - Getting By, High, And Strange (Please Don't Tell Me How The Story Ends: The Publishing Demos 1968-72)

Kim Salmon & The Surrealists - Turn, Turn (Grand Unifying Theory)

Harmonia - Hausmusik (S/T)

Faust - The Sad Skinhead (Faust IV)

Current 93 - St. Peter's Keys All Bloody/Dogs Blood Rising (Dogs Blood Rising)

Sun Dial - Slow Motion (Reflector)

Section 25 - Hold Me (The Key Of Dreams)

The Homosexuals - Hearts In Exile (The Homosexuals' CD)

O.M.D. - Stanlow (Organisation)

Devastations - Terrified (Coal)

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Loom Of the Land (Henry's Dream)

Acme Rocket Quartet - Al Monday (S/T)

John Cooper Clarke - Nothing (Ou Est La Maison De Fromage?)

Chantal Goya - Dans La Nuit (les annees 60)

Brian Eno - Sky Saw (Another Green World)

H.P. Lovecraft - At The Mountains of Madness (2nd LP)

Gravenhurst - I Turn My Face To the Forest Floor (Flashlight Seasons)

Scenic - Down Black Canyon Road (Sage EP)

Glyn Styler / Lydia Lunch - A Casket Made For Two (The Desperate Ones EP)

James Moody - Richard's Blues (Hey!  It's James Moody)

Rhonda Fleming - Baby, Baby All The Time (Sings Just For You)

Blue Orchids - Sleepy Town (A Darker Bloom: The Blue Orchids Collection)

Frank Sinatra - Cycles (Cycles)

Lonnie Smith - Sunshine Superman (Move Your Hand)




The "Sadness of Tomorrow...Today" Show

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 3/2/14

Milt Buckner - The Late, Late Show (V.A. - Organs in Orbit)

Donald Byrd - Blind Man. Blind Man (Up With Donald Byrd)

Ralph Materie - Caravan (V.A. - Instrumental Gems Of the Fifties)

Cabaret Voltaire - A Thousand Ways (Red Mecca)

Lalo Schifrin - The Ghost (The Amityville Horror Sndtrk)

The Cruel Sea - The Man With The Horn (Where There's Smoke)

Alternative TV - Nasty Little Lonely (Live 1978)

The Flaming Lips - Scratchin' The Door (S/T ep)

Southwest F.O.B - Green Skies (Psychede;lic Microdots Vol. 2 - Texas Twisted)

Bobby Bare - Sunday Morning Coming Down (The Real Thing)

Beachwood Sparks - Midsummer Daydream (Desert Skies)

Cher - I Walk On Gilded Splinters (3614 Jackson Highway)

Tindersticks - What Are You Fighting For (Across Six Year Leap)

Zoot Money's Big Roll Band - The Mound Moves (Singles As and Bs)

The Wrists - Bomb The Dance Floor (S/T)

A.R. & Machines - The Echo of the Past (The Glue Gank and Gone Mix) (V.A. - Muggles Makes a Mix)

Bob Thompson & Doug Snyder - Hit and Run (Daily Dance)

Puke Spit & Guts - Spider Pasture Now (Eat Hot Lead)

Spike Jones and the City Slicker -The Sound Effects Man (The Music of Spike Jones)

Rod Mckuen - Get The Hell Out of My Mind (Beat Generation)

Pete Rugolo - You Stepped Out of a Dream (Introducing...)

Johnny Dowd - Poverty House (Cruel Words)

The Flaming Stars - Who's Out There?  (Ginmill Perfume: The Story So Far (1995 - 2000))

Arzachel - Leg (S/T)

David Chudnow - The Ghost Walks (The Music of Forgotten Horrors: Scoring Cues from the Poverty Row Chillers compiled by Michael H. Price)

Jerry Goldsmith - Main Titles (The Mephisto Waltz Sndtrk)

Pierre Ralph - Selections From the Soundtrack to Jean Rollin's Requiem For A Vampire

Carl Oglesby - Suburbs of Eden (S/T)

Leona Anderson - Fish (V.A. - The Ernie Kovacs Record Collection)

Giant Sand - Sucker In a Cage (Long Stem Rant)

Shadowbug 4 - The Other Life (We Are Beginning Our Descent)

Annexus Quam - Osmose 3 (Osmose)

Richard Brautigan - Love Poem (Listening To...)

The Churchill's - Song From The Sea (S/T)

Phantom - Spiders Will Dance (On Your Face While You Sleep) (Phantom's Divine Comedy)

The Stillroven - Sunny Day (V.A. - Psychedelic Microdots Vol. 3 (My Rainbow Life))

Les Baxter - The Clown on the Eiffel Tower - (V.A. - A Bachelor in Paris)

Edgard Varese - Intergrales (V.A. - The Dawn of Psychedelia)

Peacepipe - Lazy River Blues (S/T)












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)