Gene Loves Jezebel | Photo by Paul Cox via Beggars Arkive
“Dark Wave,” hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Matt Sebastian, explores the darker side of classic ’80s alternative, including vintage goth, post-punk and industrial. The shows airs at 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.
Got a request? Requests will be considered for future episodes as long as they fit the show’s format and fall generally within the 1st Wave era — and provided the host doesn’t harbor an intense dislike of the song. If there’s something you’d like to hear, drop it in the comments below.
HOUR 1
Gene Loves Jezebel, “Twenty Killer Hurts” (The House of Dolls)
Wire, “Silk Skin Paws” (A Bell Is a Cup Until It Is Struck)
XTC, “Travels in Nihilon” (Black Sea)
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, “Happy To See Me” (Blow)
Girls Under Glass, “Wall of Sound” (Humus)
Throwing Muses, “Bright Yellow Gun” (University)
The Stranglers, “Dead Loss Angeles” (The Raven)
Pink Turns Blue, “Walking On Both Sides” (If Two Worlds Kiss)
Siousxie and the Banshees, “Sweetest Chill” (Tinderbox)
Kraftwerk, “Home Computer” (Computer World)
John Foxx, “Burning Car” (Metamatic)
Front 242, “Rerun Time” (Official Version)
KMFDM, “Don’t Blow Your Top” (Don’t Blow Your Top)
Depeche Mode, “Sea of Sin” (Tonal Mix) (Violator)
HOUR 2
The Jesus and Mary Chain, “My Girl” (Peel Session) (Automatic: Expanded Edition)
Gang of Four, “In the Ditch” (Solid Gold)
The Teardrop Explodes, “Ha Ha I’m Drowning” (Kilimanjaro)
Echo & The Bunnymen, “Friction” (Live) (Crystal Days 1979-1999)
The Cure, “Drone:Nodrone” (Songs of a Lost World)
Tricky, “The Love Cats” (Vulnerable)
The Verve, “This is Music” (A Northern Soul)
Lowlife, “From Side to Side” (Eternity Road)
Catherine Wheel, “Black Metallic” (Ferment)
Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd, “Sea, Swallow Me” (The Moon and the Melodies)
Tones on Tail, “Burning Skies” (Everything!)
The Armoury Show, “Castles in Spain” (Waiting for the Floods)
The Mission, “Severina” (God’s Own Medicine)
Killing Joke, “Europe” (Night Time)
HOUR 3
Ministry, “Reload” (Filth Pig)
Skinny Puppy, “Stairs and Flowers” (The Singles Collect)
Nine Inch Nails, “Zoo Station” (AHK-toong BAY-bi Covered)
Revolting Cocks, “Drums Along the Carbide” (Trax! Rarities)
Peter Murphy and Boy George, “Let the Flowers Grow” (Let the Flowers Grow)
Love and Rockets, “Yin and Yang (The Flowerpot Man)” (Express)
The Sisters of Mercy, “Kiss the Carpet” (Some Girls Wander By Mistake)
The March Violets, “Snake Dance” (Extended) (The Botanic Verses)
Big Black, “Bad Penny”(Songs About Fucking)
Sonic Youth, “The World Looks Red” (Confusion is Sex)
Joy Division, “Candidate” (Heart and Soul)
Modern Eon, “Watching the Dancers” (Fiction Tales)
Bauhaus, “Rosegarden Funeral of Sores” (Live) (Press Eject and Give Me the Tape)
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (12/1/24)
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (11/24/24)
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (11/17/24)
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (11/10/24)
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I enjoyed the Motown. Tricky was an unexpected treat. Just a spectacular show overall. So, ole man Wrapped said TKK is my favorite band of this year, so could we hear:
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult- Satan’s Powers
Thank you for doing the Lord’s work.
“December Will Be Magic Again” by Kate Bush for (the next after next) Sunday’s show
Thanks for the Girls Under Glass. Hour 1 killed it. Some of my favorite Lorry and Stranglers’ tracks. Pink Turns Blue. Throwing Muses. It just knocked it out of the park. End of Hour 3 gave it a run for the money though.
Thanks for the great show. Have a good week.
My birthday is 2 days after Xmas. For the show that week I’m requesting The Creatures – Killing Time, because, aren’t we all, after all?
Thanks Matt
Hi Matt!!!
Love the show!! I see your Facebook page mentioned Sinead’s birthday… but, you didn’t play a song from her on the show. I might be the only one thinking that might have been bizarre… :)
Many moons you ago, you played Nowhere Girl for me… by B-Movie (original version). I was wondering… could you please play Remembrance Day? Any of the 4 versions… your choice. Thank you in advance!!!
Happy Holidays
Please play XTC’s “COMPLICATED GAME”
Id be forever grateful and happy! I love this show so much!
I concur on all.
Altered Images – A Day’s Wait
Old Grey Whistle Test version
I’ll be streaming the show and looking forward to many personal favorites – JAMC, Verve, Kraftwerk, Love and Rockets…And excited for Tricky to be in the mix.
A request, if not too late for the Christmas show…
Low “Blue Christmas”
As always, thank you! Wishing all a good week.
Great show last night. Thanks for playing my Gang of Four request, super pumped to see them next May in SF. You and I are on the same page when it comes to Drone:Nodrone, that too is my fave track of the ones The Cure did not play live on the last tour. The Tricky cover right after was a nice touch.
Funny anecdote: my 11yo walks in right at the tail end of hour 2 during Killing Joke, asks me ‘who’s the most intense Darkwave band?’ I tell him that’s a tough one but I’d probably say coin flip between Ministry and Skinny Puppy. And then you play them back to back to kick off hour 3. He enjoyed the intensity right before bed, haha! This show rules.
Last week’s Daniel Ash spotlight combined with some great cuts this week has me in a Tones on Tail mood. How about “Lions” on a future show?
Have a great week Matt, cheers!
Second to Lions // Tones on Tail !!
Play Dead – Witnesses
Liliput – Ain’t You (1978) Qobuz Bandcamp
The Slits – Earthbeat (1981) Apple Qobuz
This was a killer show. I turned it up at “Travels in Nihilon” and never turned it down. Praise be to whoever (Christine?) requested “Home Computer.” And that Tricky cover. Here’s a request for the Christmas show since I am listening to PTV’s “Dreams Less Sweet” on repeat: “White Nights.” And I agree with Dane, you really are doing the Lord’s work.
Hour one was rocking!
Here’s a request for the upcoming holiday/end of the year –
The Smiths – Back to the Old House (album or perhaps the Peel session version)
Thanks!
Hello Matt really excellent program this week – I especially loved hour 2 – some really great songs in there! With the holidays creeping up on us I’m thinking some Dark Wave “cheer” is in order…..
Depeche Mode – Christmas Island
Alphaville – Love Will Find A Way
Book of Love – Candy Carol
Thanks again as always!!!! ｡◕‿◕｡
With the news of MBV playing a show in Ireland next year, I would love some MBV and maybe an ear-piercing shoegaze set to match…thank you as always!!
Modern English – Move in light
Please, thanks!
Hey Matt!
Season’s greetings! First off – apologies for extended absence when it comes to posting things here – had some “typing issues” develop after an unwelcome collision with a car whilst on my e-bike last summer. :o. All better now… so I’ll post anew! Trust that I was listening to your show *alot* during my recovery phase – ALWAYS a weekly highlight, even more so while slogging thru physical therapy etc.
Hour 2 is exactly why I love your show – That great new Cure track, followed by a Tricky cover of Love Cats – brilliant! Sprinkle lightly w/ some shoegaze (Lowlife, Catherine Wheel) and then top off w/ Tones on Tail, The Armoury Show (haven’t heard that one in years – sounds even better today!), and then some classic KJ. Truly brilliant mix !
Here’s my new request: 10X Faster than the Speed of Love // Meat Beat Manifesto
Cheers!
JR
loved this set – even though i nodded off right before Big Black… will need to listen again in fullness and also play the Songs About Fucking vinyl I picked up a couple weeks ago :) Disappointed it didn’t have their cover of He’s a Whore included, fwiw. I’ll make that a request for some future episode!
also wanted to shout out Lady Shave last last week. Man what a killer track.
Thanks for this show! Always a great listen!