Cocteau Twins
“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
A Split-Second, “Into the Burning Hole” (Kiss of Fury)
Flesh For Lulu, “Roman Candle” (The Polydor Years)
Gang of Four, “Natural’s Not In It” (Entertainment!)
Altered Images, “Love & Kisses” (I Could Be Happy)
Cocteau Twins, “Cherry-Coloured Funk” (Heaven or Las Vegas)
Peter Murphy, “Swoon” (Silver Shade)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, “Do You Love Me?” (Let Love In)
Japan, “All Tomorrow’s Parties” (Assemblage)
Siouxsie and the Banshees, “Sweetest Chill” (Tinderbox)
The Jazz Butcher, “Roadrunner” (12-Inch Version) (Dr Cholmondley Repents: A-Sides, B-Sides and Seasides)
The The, “The Beat(en) Generation” (Mind Bomb)
New Order, “In a Lonely Place” (12-Inch Version) (Movement)
Rubella Ballet, “Twister” (At Last It’s Playtime)
HOUR 2
Chrome, “Meet You in the Subway” (Anthology 1979-1983)
Red Temple Spirits, “Electric Flowers” (Red Temple Spirits)
Felt, “Primitive Painters” (Ignite the Seven Cannons)
Joy Division, “Love Will Tear Us Apart” (Peel Session) (Heart and Soul)
Ministry, “Work for Love” (With Sympathy)
Die Krupps, “Goldfinger” (Volle Kraft Voraus)
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, “Burning Dirt” (Confessions of a Knife)
Nitzer Ebb, “Family Man” (Jaz Coleman Mix) (Ebbhead)
The Chameleons, “A Person Isn’t Safe Anywhere These Days” (Script of the Bridge)
Lowlife, “From Side to Side” (Eternity Road)
The Smiths, “Rubber Ring/What She Said/Rubber Ring” (Live in Boston)
Marianne Faithful, “Why’d Ya Do It?” (Broken English)
HOUR 3
Alien Sex Fiend, “Ignore the Machine” (Who’s Been Sleeping in My Brain)
Bauhaus, “Crowds” (In the Flat Field)
The Neon Judgement, “Chinese Black” (General Pain & Major Disease)
Death Among Friends, “Roman Holiday” (Resürrection)
KMFDM, “Positiv” (What Do You Know, Deutschland?)
Murder Inc., “Murder Inc.” (Can You See It Yet?)
Cabaret Voltaire, “Yashar” (2×45)
The Cassandra Complex, “The Crown Lies Heavy on the King” (The Plague)
Moev, “No Flash in the Sky” (Head Down)
The Sisters of Mercy, “Floorshow” (Some Girls Wander By Mistake)
Wire, “The 15th” (154)
Switchblade Symphony, “Gutter Glitter” (Serpentine Gallery)
The Cure, “A Night Like This” (The Head on the Door)
The Jesus and Mary Chain, “Psychocandy” (Upside Down: The Best Of)
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (3/9/25)
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (2/23/25)
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (2/16/25)
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (2/9/25)
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Stellar set tonight! And thanks for playing that Gang of Four track. I’d like to request Flash and the Pan’s “Down Among the Dead Men” for a future show. Hope everyone reading this has a great week!
Hi Matt! A fun little cover by NIN:
NIN – Memorabilia
Thanks.
Thank you for playing my request “Work for Love” I can’t wait for Ministry to tour this summer playing their first two albums!
Wow! Thanks for that update. I almost thought it was too good to be true that they would revist With Sympathy.
Thank you for playing my favorite Flesh For Lulu song
Excellent March DW!
I would like to request anything from The Damned and/or Lords of the New Church in honor of Brian James.
Thanks!
I’ll second the request for a Brian James block.
Hello, Matt. I’d like to hear “Body electric” by the Sisters of Mercy, please. Thanks for the weekly communions!
Holy smokes great program…hours 2&3 we’re especially awesome….some of my favorite songs in there…too many to list. Bravo! We really are lucky to have these 3 collective hours every week. Some possible suggestions for next time:
Concrete Blonde – Darkening Of The Light
Depeche Mode – Breathing In Fumes
The Cure – The Loudest Sound
Thanks again as always!!! ｡◕‿◕｡
I hear ya Matt & I’m always listening !
Thanx for KMFDM and all the rest, so freakin good!
Here are some tid bits to mull about,lol All the best!
CABARET VOLTAIRE-Nag Nag Nag
NIK TURNER-Walking In the Sky
PSYCHIC TV-United
Man, what a set last night. Thanks for the shoutout and for playing Jazz Butcher. It really is a great cover. Loved hearing the new Peter Murphy and some very old Sisters as well. Stellar choice on the Marianne Faithful track too. That song reminds me of Nick Cave in a really good way.
With Easter around the corner how about a little “Walkin’ with Jesus” by Spacemen 3 on a future communion?
Matt, one of these days I hope to have the opportunity to say thank you in person. I’m buying the drink too. Have a great week everyone, cheers!
I’ll second the Spacemen 3 request.
Excellent show last night, Matt!
This was another top notch show! Thank you for playing my Nick Cave request. The Jazz Butcher’s cover of “Roadrunner” was hands down my favorite track (kudos to Nathan!). A few other highlights include The The, JAMC, The Smiths and Marianne Faithful…
A request for an upcoming show:
David Bowie “Little Wonder”
Thank you!
Thanks Nicole! And hells yes to the Bowie request, that’s a great one. Totally bonkers video too. Bowie in the eyepatch!
And it blows my mind that Bowie was 50 years old when “Earthling” was released. A true artist through and through…He continues to inspire me.
You are so right! Outside and Earthling were quite the double whammy. As were The Next Day and then Blackstar. Bowie is a true iconoclast.
The Chameleons-Nostalgia
Hey Matt, great show. I really liked hearing The Red Temple Spirits, I haven’t listened to them in a while.
I would love to hear in the next episode the song
“ Everyone Wants To Live Forever” by The Flaming Lips. If you could that would be great.
Thank you. Also, great Joy Division track.
Thanks very much for the Split Second. Love that track and think it was a great opening number.
Still listening to the show, so can’t pick a favorite hour yet. But Hour 3 is looking pretty tempting.
Thanks for the great music. Have a good week.
Pulp – Mark Of The Devil (1986) Apple Music + Qobuz
Kissing The Pink – Each Day In Nine (1984) Apple Music + Qobuz
Now this was a great episode! Love me some Die Krupps and Moev, and we can never have too much Nick Cave.
For a future episode, I’d like to hear Die Haut’s “Breaking in Your Daydream”.
Another Moev fan? Awesome! I requested the track for this show.
Thanks for playing my Moev request! It’s cool it was placed right next to the Sisters of Mercy.
Thanks for the Chrome track! I remember that one from Ralph’s Subterranean Modern collection.
Sorry for the late request. Great show last Sunday. I would really love to hear Gang Of Four’s Live version of – What We All Want. One of my favs. Off of the Another Day/ Another Dollar E.P.
Thank You.
Please play Cocteau twins road, river and rail
Matt,
Really Good show liked Murder Inc., Low Life, A Split Second and Gang a four to name a few.
I have a request for Flock of Seagulls- Nightmares. I know what your are thinking maybe it does not belong to Darkwave but it is a Dark song and I think it fits, give it a whirl.
Other suggestions would be Sisters of Mercy – 1969 or Primitives – Crash
How is it that I’ve been listening to your show for years upon years, yet you always seem to reach into that bottomless dark wave bag of yours and pull out something I’ve never heard before?! Rubella Ballet – Twister? Great song. You are just as much a treasure as the songs you play. Thanks Matt.