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 The Cure, 1919, Minimal Compact, The March Violets, Alien Sex Fiend, Pailhead, Christian Death, Naked Raygun, Death Cult, Throwing Muses, The Teardrop Explodes 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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Finally, if you’ve got requests for future shows, drop ’em in the comments below.
Playlist: “Dark Wave,” hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Matt Sebastian — 3/8/15
The Jesus and Mary Chain, “Upside Down”
The Sisters of Mercy, “Vision Thing”
Pailhead, “Ballad”
The Church, “Ripple”
1919, “Tear Down These Walls”
Nitzer Ebb, “Join in the Chant”
The March Violets, “Snake Dance”
The Glove, “Sex-Eye-Make-Up”
Soft Cell, “The Girl With the Patent Leather Face”
Ministry, “So What”
Bauhaus, “Third Uncle”
Lowlife, “Again and Again”
Chris Connelly, “This Edge of Midnight”
Depeche Mode, “Love In Itself”
Christian Death, “Venus in Furs”
For Against, “Paperwhite”
Joy Division, “She’s Lost Control”
Alien Sex Fiend, “I’m Doing Time in a Maximum Security Twilght Home”
The Cure, “Shiver and Shake”
Tones on Tail, “Copper”
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, “Higgs Boson Blues”
The Teardrop Explodes, “Poppies”
The Mission, “Beyond the Pale”
Abecedarians, “Smiling Monarchs”
Clan of Xymox, “Medusa”
Peter Murphy, “The Scarlet Thing In You”
Gary Numan, “The Skin Game”
Mission of Burma, “Academy Fight Song”
Siouxsie and the Banshees, “Got to Get Up”
Garvey, “Goodbye Horses” (Featuring Q Lazzarus)
The Smiths, “The Hand That Rocks the Cradle”
New Order, “Ruined in a Day”
Echo & The Bunnymen, “Heaven Up Here”
Death Cult, “Horse Nation”
Throwing Muses, “Hate My Way”
The Wolfgang Press, “Kansas”
KMFDM, “Don’t Blow Your Top”
Lead Into Gold, “Don’t Blow Your Top”
Minimal Compact, “This World”
Naked Raygun, “Vanilla Blue”
Killing Joke, “Exit”
My top ten suggestions for next week:
1. And Also The Trees-“Midnight Garden”
2. Rosetta Stone-“If Only and Sometimes”
3. Fields of the Nephilim-“Moonchild”
4. Alien Sex Fiend-“She’s a Killer”
5. Chrome-“Anti-Fade”
6. Sexbeat-“Sexbeat”
7. The Birthday Party-“Release the Bats”
8. Tubeway Army-“Down in the Park”
9. Death in June-“Nothing Changes”
10. Days of Sorrow-“Wild World”
Hey Matt, can you play the Al Jourgensen version of Supernaut on the next show?
PIL- Dissapointed