Revolting Cocks | Photo courtesy Wax Trax Records
“Dark Wave,” hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Matt Sebastian, airs 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Eastern every Sunday on Sirius XM satellite radio’s 1st Wave (Channel 33). The most recent two episodes are also available to subscribers to stream via the Sirius XM app.
HOUR 1
Revolting Cocks, “Get Down” (Trax! Box)
Sex Gang Children, “Shout and Scream” (Song and Legend)
The Glove, “Perfect Murder” (Blue Sunshine)
Daniel Ash, “Walk This Way” (Coming Down)
And Also the Trees, “Midnight Garden” (And Also the Trees)
Cocteau Twins, “Iceblink Luck” (Heaven Or Las Vegas)
Simple Minds, “The American” (Sons and Fascination)
Public Image Ltd., “Hawaii” (End of World)
Peter Hook, “Dancing Madly Backwards” (Dancing Madly Backwards)
Ministry, “Cold Life Dub” (Twelve Inch Singles)
Moev, “Wanting” (Yeah, Whatever)
Doubting Thomas, “F862” (The Infidel)
Foetus Interruptus, “Don’t Fight It Provide It” (Thaw)
HOUR 2
The Cure, “A Thousand Hours” (Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me)
Siouxsie and the Banshees, “Song From the Edge of the World” (Tinderbox)
Felt, “Primitive Painters” (Ignite the Seven Cannons)
The Specimen, “Stand Up Stand Out” (Azoic)
Depeche Mode, “Behind the Wheel” (Shep Pettibone Remix) (Behind the Wheel)
Chris & Cosey, “Sweet Surprise” (Sweet Surprise)
Fra Lippo Lippi, “Say Something” (Rarum 80-95)
Tubeway Army, “Listen to the Sirens” (Tubeway Army)
Wire, “Eardrum Buzz” (12-Inch Version) (It’s Beginning to And Back Again)
The Cramps, “Human Fly” (Off the Bone)
The Misfits, “Come Back” (Static Age)
Virgin Prunes, “Bau Dachong” (…If I Die, I Die)
Fields of the Nephilim, “Moonchild” (The Nephilim)
HOUR 3
Joy Division, “Wilderness” (Unknown Pleasures)
Dif Juz, “No Motion” (Soundpool)
David J, “I’ll Be Your Chauffeur” (Songs From Another Season)
Japan, “Life in Tokyo” (Assemblage)
Nitzer Ebb, “The Home” (Basic Pain Procedure)
Pigface, “Suck” (Gub)
Meat Beat Manifesto, “Helter Skelter” (Helter Skelter/Radio Babylon)
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, “Rivers of Blood, Years of Darkness” (Confessions of a Knife)
The Sisters of Mercy, “1959” (Floodland)
The Smiths, “The Boy With the Thorn In His Side” (Live) (Rank)
Bauhaus, “Hollow Hills” (Mask)
Anita Lane, “Jesus Almost Got Me” (Dirty Pearl)
The Jesus and Mary Chain, “All Things Pass” (Damage and Joy)
Echo & The Bunnymen, “Nothing Lasts Forever” (Evergreen)
Got a request? Requests will be considered for future episodes as long as they fit the show’s format and generally within the 1stWave era — and provided the host doesn’t harbor an intense dislike of the song.
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (8/11/24)
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (8/4/24)
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (7/28/24)
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (7/21/24)
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“Twilight of the Moral” by Killing Joke for (the next after next) Sunday’s show
Would love to hear “The Funeral Party” by The Cure somewhere down the line.
Pink Turns Blue – Identity House
Thank you!
Matt
Really good show with some favs like Peter Hook, Joy Division, Misfits, My life with Thrill Kill Kult and revolting cocks.
My request is for The Damned – In Dulce Decorum song
From album The Light at End of tunnel.
This was a song in 80s TV show Miami Vice Season 3 when Tubbs goes to jail and almost gets killed.
It is definitely a dark song!
Second this request!
For a future shoegaze block
Come in Alone by MBV please
David Bowie – Amsterdam
Ending the show with Echo & The Bunnymen’s “nothing lasts forever“?
That was quite a set list. Starting off with Revco really woke me up lol
A plethora of fantastic tracks and deep cuts this week, well done Matt. I’d never heard the Peter Hook cover, many thanks for that one. Excited to see him and his band The Light next month in SF. Felt, Chris & Cosey, Wire, and Dif Juz were especially inspired selections. Already have the show on repeat.
The Hooky track got me thinking about his old band Revenge. Maybe “7 Reasons” or “Slave” on a future show? Happy to defer to a dealer’s choice selection.
Have a great week Matt, cheers!
Wow, lots of gems in this show! That Bunnymen song was an inspired choice to end the show – just lovely. Other highlights include Daniel Ash, Peter Hook, Wire, JAMC, Felt, Anita Lane…
A request for an upcoming show:
The Smiths “last night I dreamt somebody loved me”
Thank you!
Yes to “last night I dreamt somebody loved me’!
Phantom Limb – Numbered Hills (1982)
Soulsavers – Revival (Mark Lanegan) (2007)
Hello Matt!!! I hope you are enjoying (what I assume) is time off! I will let the Pandora Ministry Radio gods pick my 3 songs for next time:
Ministry – World
Helmet – Just Another Victim
NIN – That’s What I Get
Thanks again as always!!! ｡◕‿◕｡
I always thought I was pretty versed on darkwave/industrial/goth. Matt’s playlists continue to prove me wrong and guide me to (new for me) bands/tunes.
Thanks for Frontline Assembly a couple of shows ago! Would love to hear:
Birthday Party – Mr. Clarinet
The Cure – Splintered in Her Head
Dead or Alive – Number Eleven (long before You Spin Me Round)
Thanks as always for a great show!
Wayne
Winnipeg, Canada
One of your best. Loved the RevCo open — another band I probably never would have truly discovered if it weren’t for you, Matt! Which is good because Chris Connelly’s wife is a colleague and I have met him a few times. (Every time you play his solo work I take a screen shot and send it to her.) I always assumed RevCo would be too heavy for my tastes, but I guess I am getting more rebellious and aggressive in my 50’s?
Great show, here a couple songs if they fit Tuxedomoon “In Matter of Speaking” and Fad Gadget “The Box”
Thanks, Adrian
Let’s expose the kids to:
Carcrash international “Crystal Night”
Lowlife ” A Sullen sky”
Martin Dupont “Inside out”
Swans “God Damn The Sun”
Treponem Pal “Embodiment of Frustration”. “Rest is a war” really, but that was released in 1991
Or their cover of “Radioactivity”
X marks the Pedwalk “Arbitrary execution”
Yello “Desire”
The young gods “Envoyeé”
What a Revolting start to the show.
Can you play Television “Marquee Moon” on a future show?
Could you play Baroque Bordello – Today ?
Thanks!