The Mission
“Dark Wave,” hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Matt Sebastian, airs 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Eastern every Sunday on Sirius XM satellite radio’s 1st Wave (Channel 33). The most recent two episodes also are available via Sirius XM’s On Demand service for online subscribers.
HOUR 1
Dead Can Dance, “The Trial” (Dead Can Dance)
Bauhaus, “Dark Entries” (In the Flat Field)
The Cult, “Phoenix” (Love)
X, “Nausea” (Los Angeles)
Skeletal Family, “Far and Near” (Eternal)
1,000 Homo DJs, “Apathy” (Side Trax)
Pigface, “Tailor Made” (Gub)
Front 242, “Work 242” (Front By Front)
Ministry, “Filth Pig” (Filth Pig)
Joy Division, “Something Must Break” (Still)
Simple Minds, “Big Sleep” (New Gold Dream)
Dalis Car, “The Judgement is the Mirror” (The Waking Hour)
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, “Spinning Round” (The Very Best Of)
HOUR 2
The Cure, “A Night Like This” (The Head on the Door)
Love and Rockets, “It Could Be Sunshine” (Express)
Asylum Party, “Julia” (Picture One)
The Sisters of Mercy, “Long Train” (Floodland Collection)
The Chills, “Pink Frost” (Kaleidoscope World)
Throwing Muses, “Fish” (Lonely Is An Eyesore)
Ski Patrol, “Extinguish” (Mark Lusardi’s 2014 Resurrection Mix) (Versions of a Life)
The Jesus and Mary Chain, “Who Do You Love?” (Barbed Wire Kisses)
Skinny Puppy, “Inquisition” (Last Rights)
Einstürzende Neubauten, “Fleisch Blut Haut Knochen” (2×4)
Assemblage 23, “Damaged” (Meta)
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, “Shock of Point 6” (My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult)
Revolting Cocks, “Stainless Steel Providers” (Beers, Steers + Queers)
HOUR 3
Tones on Tail, “Movement of Fear” (Everything!)
For Against, “Daylight” (Echelons)
Gene Loves Jezebel, “Punk Drunk” (Promise)
Public Image Ltd., “Worry” (9)
The Mission, “Deliverance” (Carved in Sand)
Depeche Mode, “Get the Balance Right” (Construction Time Again)
Propaganda, “Duel” (A Secret Wish)
MC 900 Ft. Jesus, “The City Sleeps” (Welcome To My Dream)
Clan of Xymox, “Obsession” (Twist of Shadows)
John Foxx, “Europe After the Rain” (The Garden)
The Damned, “Melody Lee” (Machine Gun Etiquette)
The Pop Group, “She is Beyond Good and Evil” (Y)
Band of Susans, “Throne of Blood” (Hope Against Hope)
That Petrol Emotion, “It’s a Good Thing” (Manic Pop Thrill)
Siouxsie and the Banshees, “Israel” (Very Best Of)
Got a request? To be considered for next week’s show, drop it in the comments below by noon Tuesday. Requests will be considered as long as they fit the show’s format and generally within the 1stWave era — and provided the host doesn’t harbor an intense dislike of the song.
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- Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — The Halloween Edition (10/31/21)
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This was one of your special shows tonight, and that is something I am thankful for this year. Skeletal Family was a great choice and anything from the Wax Trax! discography is a guaranteed hit. I appreciated The Damned. Too many favorites and a few new ones to list.
In honor of a local after Thanksgiving goth show of yesteryear, Sisters of Turkey, could we hear:
Sisters of Mercy- Black Planet
Thanks to you and all the other’s, whos’ great requests you play each week.
Can you dig up “Up the Down Escalator” by the Chameleons for next week’s show? Thanx!
I loved tonight’s show as always! Goodnight!
Opening with The Trial by DCD, signing off on Spinning Round for a completely top shelf Hour One.
Always room in life for Construction Time Again.
Thank you Matt, Never Stop!
Throwing Muses. Great music
I have listened to your show for the past 6 years…I have not missed a Sunday evening. I turn 62 on Sunday December 5th and was wondering if you could play one of the following;
Sisters of Mercy “1959” ( the year I was born)
Death in Venice “Happy Birthday”
The Cure “Happy Birthday”
Doesn’t matter which one, I love your show!!!
Great show, as usual. I am hoping you can play:
Nine Inch Nails – The Great Below
Thanks much.
Playing Simple Minds and then following them up with Dalis Car put a huge smile on my face, so thank you. Thank you Matt Sebastian for always providing such stellar shows!
Requests:
The Damned – Alone Again Or
Japan – Gentlemen Take Polaroids
Simple Minds – Seeing Out the Angel (if you could play the instrumental version, that’d be amazing. if not, the original is just as brilliant.)
Thanks so much for The Chills loved that track by Asylum Party if you can fit Stigmata by Ministry in there somewhere next sunday it would be highly appreciated thanks
A truly brilliant and moving show Matt! The Dead can Dance was a great opening to your show! What an amazing set list top to bottom! Thankfully, your one of the bright lights Sunday nights
Phil
Wow … another awesome Sunday night mix!!! I appreciate you playing requests…it makes us all feel like we’re a part of your collective goth hive mind!
OMD — Electricity
Swans — Failure
Curve — On The Wheel
Great show as always, MS ! Still gonna request these chic vocal gems:
• Torch Song : Don’t look now
• Pink Industry: What I wouldn’t give
• Section 25: Don’t Crash
Thanks For The Sisters Of Mercy there were a few great sounding bands ive never heard of before like Asylum Party,The Pop Group and they were awesome so I’m requesting a band that probably alot of you haven’t Heard Of
Called The Goat That Went Om the song is called Pirate Ship I have only one album by them I saw them live in 1979 and I bought the album for 0.50 cents but that show had like 3 more people at it the song im request is on a comp and you can’t find anything else by them on line hope to hear this song really loved them !!!!!!!
Wow that track by” Asylum Party” blew me away can I maybe hear the cover of “Ticket To Ride” if so i would be delighted thanks
“Stuff The Turkey” – Alien Sex Fiend
Love what you do!
Requests:
Bolshoi “Sunday Morning”
New Model Army “51st State”
Thanks!
Thanks for getting my Joy Division request in. Have a good Thanksgiving weekend!
PIL : Don’t ask me because I don’t know
Jesus and mary chain (your choice)
hola!!!
would love to hear either or both:
Pleasures of the flesh-killing joke
Or
silent scream-tsol
muchas muchas gracias!!!
Can you play prefab sprout-cars and girls
Could you play Ever After by the Chameleons for the next show? Thank you! Great show tonight!!
Good show!
Balanced episode.
This week’s Darkness Award:
Depeche Mode, “Get the Balance Right”
“Don’t tend this way
Don’t tend that way
Straight down the middle until next Thursday”
Happy Thanksgiving!
Another great show! I hope everyone has a nice Thanksgiving. Next week I’d love to hear Fall by My Captains.
I have consistently enjoyed your show and love hearing “new” stuff I missed the first time around. Any chance you could play Nnnaaammm by Einsturzende Neubauten? Thanks for putting this show together….
Can I Hear Some Gun Club This Weekend please If So I would Like To Hear Any Of The Following By The Gun Club
Texas Serenade
Mother Of Earth
Watermelon Man
Pig Boys(Demo)
Vampires (Demo)
Thanks. Loved The Track By Asylum Party
Can i hear any of the following by the listed bands for my husbands b-day
We are all prostitutes – The Pop Group
You- Au Pairs
Sex Machine- Flying Lizards
Ex lion tamer-Wire
Definitive gaze-Magazine
Or
Happy Birthday- The Cure
Thanks
Can I Hear Lydia Lunch’s Cover of Frankie Teardrop” please
Lets Face The Music— Taco
Wildweed— Jeffrey Lee Pierce
Invitation—The Lucy Show
Celebration—Play Dead
Home—Modern English
Im Coming Home(Momma)—Wolfgang Press
Thanx
Can I hear “No Love Lost” by Joy Division
But The Warsaw version if you can get that version because thats the original version and isn’t shorted but the remastered version is still great if you cant get the Warsaw version
Thank you so much for “Extinguish” by Ski Patrol
Sorry for getting to you late i was out of town for Thanksgiving and just got back
That Asylum Party song was amazing.
As I’ve said in the past, the best 3 hours on Sirius XM radio! Can you play Rain, by Tones on Tail? Thank you for turning me on to that song!
Thank you for playing an Einsturzende Neubauten song. I really appreciate the more “obscure” bands sprinkled in. Please more Einsturzende.