Heavy on the usual suspects, tonight’s episode of “Dark Wave” — the weekly Sunday night show on Sirius XM’s classic-alternative station 1st Wave — still manged a few nice surprises. Among them: Not one but two of long-forgotten U.K. synthpop duo Vicious Pink’s 1985 singles (“Fetish,” “Cccan’t You See”), and a dash of avant-garde electronic artist Anne Clarke (“Our Darkness”). Plus, the show closed with one of The Cure’s weirder tracks, “If Only Tonight We Could Sleep.”
“Dark Wave” airs each Sunday from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Eastern/7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Pacific.
See full ‘Dark Wave’ playlist after the jump…
Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave,” 9/26/10
Concrete Blonde, “Darkening of the Light”
Stan Ridgway, “Drive She Said”
The Smiths, “That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore”
The Chameleons, “Less Than Human”
Tangerine Dream, “Love on a Real Train”
Vicious Pink, “Fetish (Dance Mix)”
Duran Duran, “My Own Way”
Stranglers, “Skin Deep”
The Sisters of Mercy, “Dominion/Mother Russia”
Anne Clark, “Our Darkness”
Yaz, “In My Room”
Peter Murphy, “The Sweetest Drop”
Echo & The Bunnymen, “Rescue”
T.S.O.L., “Flowers by the Door”
Depeche Mode, “If You Want”
New Order, “Temptation”
Cocteau Twins, “Blood Bitch”
Lords of the New Church, “Open Your Eyes”
Shriekback, “My Spine is the Bass Line”
The Cure, “Burn”
Killing Joke, “Love Like Blood”
The Jesus and Mary Chain, “Sidewalking”
Ministry, “Here We Go”
Nitzer Ebb, “Godhead”
Siouxsie and the Banshees, “Dear Prudence”
The Smiths, “Unhappy Birthday”
Damned, “Alone Again Or”
Giorgio Moroder, “Leopard Tree Dream”
The Sugarcubes, “Birthday”
Gene Loves Jezebel, “Break the Chain”
Joy Division, “Transmission”
Gary Numan, “I Die: You Die”
Front 242, “Headhunter V3.0”
Vicious Pink, “Cccan’t You See”
Depeche Mode, “Blasphemous Rumors”
Shriekback, “Nemesis” (The Arch Deviant Mix)
Bauhaus, “Telegram Sam”/”Ziggy Stardust” (Live)
The Cure, “If Only Tonight We Could Sleep”
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Seeing this list makes me wish I had Sirius XM.
Giorgio Moroder? He was a total disco producer, that’s a bit strange. And the Cure “if only tonight we could sleep” a “weirder” track? It’s brilliant and dark and lovely. I still don’t understand the Duran Duran songs on the playlist. I like them enough, but they were never really dark.