The playlist from tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” — the weekly “darker side of alternative” show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured Love and Rockets, The Human League, Death Cult and Kate Bush, plus rarely played cuts by The Cure (“One More Time”) and Depeche Mode (“Any Second Now”). “Dark Wave,” hosted by Swedish Egil, airs Sundays from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Eastern.
Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave,” 1/22/12
Concrete Blonde, “God is a Bullet”
Sinead O’Connor, “Jerusalem”
The Smiths, “Meat is Murder”
The Human League, “Seconds”
Depeche Mode, “Fly on the Windscreen”
Love and Rockets, “Sweet F.A.”
Joy Division, “Transmission”
Peter Murphy, “Cuts You Up”
The Mission, “Wasteland”
The Cure, “One More Time”
Ministry, “Work For Love”
Tourists, “Blind Among the Flowers”
Death Cult, “God’s Zoo (These Times)”
Echo & The Bunnymen, “Rescue”
The Sugarcubes, “Deus”
Kate Bush, “Hounds of Love”
The Motels, “Trust Me”
The Jesus and Mary Chain, “Sidewalking”
Shriekback, “Faded Flowers”
Swans, “Love Will Tear Us Apart”
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, “Bring It On”
Siouxsie and the Banshees, “Christine”
Lords of the New Church, “Dance With Me”
Visage, “Fade to Grey”
Depeche Mode, “Any Second Now (Voices)”
The Teardrop Explodes, “When I Dream”
Love and Rockets, “An American Dream”
The Smiths, “Reel Around the Fountain”
Cocteau Twins, “The Itchy Glowbo Blow”
Killing Joke, “Change”
Joy Division, “She’s Lost Control”
Death Cult, “With Love”
Cult Hero, “I Dig You”
Tangerine Dream, “Love On a Real Train”
Tubeway Army, “Are ‘Friends’ Electric?”
Yazoo, “Mr. Blue”
Japan, “Visions of China”
Stewart Copeland and Stan Ridgway, “Don’t Box Me In”
Peter Murphy, “All Night Long”
The Mission, “Wishing Well”
Siouxsie and the Banshees, “Dazzle”
This should be the kind of stuff they play on 1st Wave every night after 9p CT or so. And let’s have a hour-long show once a week of new material by these classic artists! There must be enough quality stuff to fill just one hour.