The playlist from tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” — the weekly “darker side of alternative” show on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured Killing Joke, Japan, The Human League, Shriekback, The Chameleons, New Order, Passions and much more. “Dark Wave,” hosted by Swedish Egil, airs Sundays from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Eastern.
Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave,” 5/27/12
Killing Joke, “Eighties”
Modern English, “Life in the Gladhouse”
New Order, “Thieves Like Us”
Peter Murphy, “Marlene Dietrich’s Favourite Poem”
The Cure, “Charlotte Sometimes”
Cocteau Twins, “In Our Angelhood”
Japan, “Gentlemen Take Polaroids”
The Smiths, “The Queen is Dead”
Depeche Mode, “Fly on the Windscreen”
Duran Duran, “Friends of Mine”
Death Cult, “Too Young”
Public Image Ltd., “Home”
Bauhaus, “Bela Lugosi’s Dead”
The Psychedelic Furs, “Dumb Waiters”
The Jesus and Mary Chain, “Head On”
Lords of the New Church, “New Church”
Joy Division, “Transmission”
The Sisters of Mercy, “Driven Like the Snow”
Ministry, “Everyday is Halloween”
The Human League, “Louise”
Concrete Blonde, “Everybody Knows”
Echo & The Bunnymen, “Never Stop”
Anne Clark, “Sleeper in Metropolis”
Passions, “I’m In Love With a German Film Star”
Siouxsie and the Banshees, “Cities in Dust” (Extended Version)
The Cure, “Disintegration”
Killing Joke, “Sanity”
The Smiths, “Hand in Glove”
The Teardrop Explodes, “Sleeping Gas”
Depeche Mode, “I Feel You” (Throb Mix)
The Chameleons, “Don’t Fall”
Shriekback, “Nemesis” (The Arch Deviant Mix)
Joy Division, “She’s Lost Control”
The Sugarcubes, “Coldsweat”
The Sisters of Mercy, “Alice”
The Mission, “Wasteland” (Anniversary Mix)
These dark-wave playlists is what Sirius 1st wave should be playing more of. Most of the stuff they play repetitive or crap.
Dark Wave should get darker, some of these songs/bands are not “dark” at all.