Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” — the Sunday night celebration of the “darker side of classic alternative” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured new music from Gary Numan and new live Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, plus cuts from Love and Rockets, Fad Gadget, Death in June, Lard, Alien Sex Fiend, The Chameleons, Swans, The Creatures and more.
“Dark Wave,” hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs founder/editor Matt Sebastian, airs every Sunday from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Eastern on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave (Channel 33). The most recent two episodes also are available as part of Sirius XM’s new On Demand service for online subscribers.
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Playlist: “Dark Wave,” hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Matt Sebastian — 11/24/13
Ministry, “The Land of Rape and Honey”
Killing Joke, “Let’s All Go (To The Fire Dances)”
Martin L. Gore, “In a Manner of Speaking”
Echo & The Bunnymen, “Paint It, Black” (Live)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, “Mercy Seat” (Live at KCRW)
Primal Scream, “Lucifer”
Cabaret Voltaire, “I Want You” (Original Extended 12-Inch)
Love and Rockets, “The Dog-End of a Day Gone By”
Front Line Assembly, “No Limit”
Joy Division, “Day of the Lords”
The Cult, “Big Neon Glitter”
Xymox, “Evelyn”
Cocteau Twins, “Grail Overfloweth”
David Bowie, “DJ”
Fad Gadget, “Ideal World”
Ian McCulloch, “Proud to Fall”
Gary Numan, “Everything Comes Down to This”
Depeche Mode, “The Love Thieves”
Lard, “Forkboy”
Siouxsie and the Banshees, “Land’s End” (Peel Session)
The Chameleons, “Dear Dead Days”
New Order, “I’ll Stay With You”
The Smiths, “That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore”
Death in June, “Doubt To Nothing”
Alien Sex Fiend, “E.S.T. (Trip to the Moon)”
The Mission, “Over the Hills and Far Away”
Nitzer Ebb, “Let Your Body Learn”
Public Image Ltd., “Swan Lake”
The Jesus and Mary Chain, “Darklands”
Colin Newman, “Can’t Help Being”
Controlled Bleeding, “Fodder Song”
Swans, “New Mind”
Bauhaus, “In the Night”
John Foxx, “Underpass”
The Creatures, “Killing Time”
The Cure, “Charlotte Sometimes”
The Sisters of Mercy, “Amphetamine Logic”
Japan, “Adolescent Sex”
Christian Death, “Figurative Theater”
Morrissey, “Boy Racer”
Would love to hear either of these tracks :)
The March Violets – Crow Baby
Chrome – Firebomb
How about Wire’s “Feed Me” for next week’s show.