Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” — the Sunday night celebration of the “darker side of classic alternative” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured music from The Cure, Meat Beat Manifesto, Play Dead, The Birthday Party, The Lords of the New Church, Alan Vega, Cabaret Voltaire, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Die Krupps 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 — 12/7/14
The Cure, “The Hanging Garden”
The Lords of the New Church, “Black Girl White Girl”
Cabaret Voltaire, “Sensoria” (12-Inch Version)
Daniel Ash, “Get Out of Control”
The Sisters of Mercy, “More”
The Birthday Party, “Sonny’s Burning”
Scratch Acid, “Mary Had a Little Drug Problem”
Die Krupps with Nitzer Ebb, “The Machineries of Joy”
Naked Raygun, “Vanilla Blue”
Killing Joke, “Eighties” (Live)
Play Dead, “Shine”
The Jesus and Mary Chain, “You Trip Me Up”
Ride, “Vapour Trail”
Public Image Ltd., “Ease”
Cocteau Twins, “In the Gold Dust Rush”
Revolting Cocks, “Stainless Steel Providers”
Theatre of Pain, “Original Sin”
Bauhaus, “She’s in Parties”
Flux of Pink Indians, “Tube Disaster”
Ministry, “Same Old Madness”
Southern Death Cult, “All Glory”
The Smiths, “The Hand That Rocks the Cradle”
The Teardrop Explodes, “Poppies”
Alan Vega, “Saturn Drive”
New Order, “Confusion”
Meat Beat Manifesto, “Give Your Body Its Freedom”
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, “After the Flesh”
The Church, “Metropolis”
Siouxsie and the Banshees, “Pointing Bone”
David Bowie, “DJ”
Depeche Mode, “Wrong”
KMFDM, “Godlike” (12-Inch Mix Edit)
Love and Rockets, “Yin and Yang (The Flowerpot Men)”
Echo & The Bunnymen, “Stars Are Stars”
Spliff, “Deja Vu”
The Mission, “Sacrilege”
Joy Division, “Colony”
Concrete Blonde, “Everybody Knows”
Gary Numan, “Dead Heaven”
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, “Chance”
Wire, “Kidney Bingo”
“Vapour Trail” by Ride is a perfect song.
Hello Matt, how about the song “In the House” by Canadian New Wave band “Images In Vogue” from the album “In the House”. I think that Images In Vogue was influenced a bit by The Cure. Also, cEvin Key of Skinny Puppy was one the original band members.