It’s once again time to check in with the playlist from “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave. And once again, the show is maddeningly bipolar, managing to be both completely repetitive — opening with Public Image Ltd.’s “Rise” for the third week in a row, playing The Sisters of Mercy’s “Lucretia, My Reflection,” The Mission UK’s “Wasteland” and Siouxise and the Banshees’ “Slowdive” seemingly every week — and yet still dig so much deeper than anything else on 1st Wave. Tonight’s highlights: The Swans’ cover of “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” a dash of German synthpop from Cetu Javu, The March Violets’ classic “Snake Dance” and a nice Bauhaus/David J/Love and Rockets run toward the end of the show.
See full ‘Dark Wave’ playlist after the jump…
Playlist: 1st Wave’s “Dark Wave,” 3/14/10
Public Image Ltd., “Rise”
Death Cult, “Christians”
Siouxsie and the Banshees, “Slowdive”
The Sisters of Mercy, “1969”
The The, “Infected”
The Sugarcubes, “Deus”
Skinny Puppy, “Addiction”
Ministry, “Revenge”
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, “The Weeping Song”
Peter Murphy, “Big and Tiny” (Live)
Killing Joke, “Eighties”
Cabaret Voltaire, “Sensoria”
The Cure, “Fight”
Joy Division, “Transmission”
The March Violets, “Snake Dance”
Depeche Mode, “Pleasure, Little Treasure”
Duran Duran, “The Chauffeur”
Misfits, “London Dungeon”
The Lords of the New Church, “Open Your Eyes”
Concrete Blonde, “God is a Bullet”
The Smiths, “Unhappy Birthday”
Echo & The Bunnymen, “Rescue”
Death Cult, “With Love”
The Mission UK, “Wasteland”
Nine Inch Nails, “Sanctified”
The The, “Love is Stronger Than Death”
Camouflage, “That Smiling Face”
Siouxsie and the Banshees, “This Wheel’s On Fire”
The Swans, “Love Will Tear Us Apart”
Cetu Javu, “Situations”
The Cure, “The Hanging Garden”
Modern English, “After the Snow”
The Sisters of Mercy, “Lucretia, My Reflection”
Bauhaus, “Endless Summer of the Damned”
David J, “Silver for Gold”
Love and Rockets, “Yin and Yang the Flowerpot Man” (Remix)
The Church, “Reptile”
Cocteau Twins, “The Gold Dust Rush”
Joy Division, “She’s Lost Control”
The Cult, “Love Trooper”
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