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
The Cure, “Cold” (Pornography)
Revolting Cocks, “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy” (Linger Ficken’ Good)
Colin Newman, “Alone” (A-Z)
Ministry, “I’m Falling” (Twelve Inch Singles)
Fad Gadget, “Luxury” (The Best of Fad Gadget)
The Teardrop Explodes, “Like Leila Khaled Said” (Wilder)
Sad Lovers and Giants, “Colourless Dream” (Epic Garden Music)
Modern English, “Carry Me Down” (After the Snow)
The Sisters of Mercy, “Some Kind of Stranger” (First and Last and Always)
New Order, “Everything’s Gone Green” (Substance)
Cocteau Twins, “Musette and Drums” (Head Over Heels)
Gene Loves Jezebel, “Bruises” (Extended Single Version) (Promise)
The Smiths, “Girl Afraid” (Louder Than Bombs)
HOUR 2
45 Grave, “School’s Out” (Sleep in Safety)
Sex Beat, “Sex Beat” (Sex Beat)
Alien Sex Fiend, “New Christian Music” (Who’s Been Sleeping in My Brain)
The Lords of the New Church, “Dance With Me” (Killer Lords)
Concrete Blonde, “Everybody Knows” (Pump Up the Volume soundtrack)
Pavement, “The Killing Moon” (Major Leagues EP)
Mo-Dettes, “White Mice” (To the Outside of Everything: A Story of UK Post Punk 1977-1981)
The Church, “One Day” (Seance)
Echo & The Bunnymen, “Blue Blue Ocean” (Echo & The Bunnymen)
Front 242, “Headhunter V3.0” (Front By Front)
A Split-Second, “Firewalker” (Kiss of Fury)
MC 900 Ft. Jesus, “Too Bad” (Hell With the Lid Off)
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, “Dimentia 66 (The Ballad of Lucy Western)” (13 Above the Night)
HOUR 3
Bauhaus, “Double Dare” (In the Flat Field)
The Naked and the Dead, “The Gate” (The Naked and the Dead)
Weimar Gesang, “Chantal’s Secret” (Even Stone Pales)
Joy Division, “Day of the Lords” (Unknown Pleasures)
Death Cult, “Horse Nation” (Ghost Dance)
Siouxsie and the Banshees, “Melt” (A Kiss in the Dreamhouse)
Japan, “Life in Tokyo” (Assemblage)
Trisomie 21, “The Last Song” (Chapter IV and Wait and Dance Remixed)
Depeche Mode, “Halo” (Violator)
The Lucy Show, “Ephemeral (This Is No Heaven)” (…Undone)
Clan of Xymox, “Back Door” (The Best Of)
Nitzer Ebb, “Captivate” (Wiliam Orbit Mix) (Belief)
Sister Machine Gun, “Disease” (Burn)
The Chameleons, “Here Today” (John Peel Sessions)
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (6/1/25)
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (5/25/25)
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (5/18/25)
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (5/11/25)
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“Etheriel” by Lush for the (next after next) Sunday’s show
Hey Matt, Thank you for my New Order request! Great show as always.
Hi Matt, thanks for playing Trisomie 21. Great show tonight, I enjoyed the EBM tracks!
As a request, my favorite song from the Wild Mood Swings album:
The Cure – Want
Please play:
A Sullen Sky by Lowlife
Thanks!
Love that one!
Matt – loving the Joy Division covers lately! How about Therapy’s version of “Isolation”? Thanks!
Hey Matt! Could you play the Hussey-Regan version of “Naked and Savage”? Thanks!
RIP Brian James. Shadow of Love by The Damned for next week?
Lovely show as always. Could you play Metalhammer by And One or Rest in Peace by Voodoo Church? Thanks in advance.
Great show as always. Can you please play Swans covering Love will tear us apart?
Just heard this today on someone’s mix CD burner alternative/Punk that I thought would fit this program well….
“Baby’s Got a Problem” by My Dad is Dead off the ‘Let’s Skip The Details’ album.
Thanks in advance.
Matt,I can’t thank you enough playing my request,and one of my fav BAUHAUS songs to follow….it made my day,much appreciated.
FATHERS DAY is next and being a pops it would be nice to hear:
MR.44-The Electric Hellfire Club
I know I send in 3 but this is a special request for all the Dads out there makin it through.
Keep the Dark Stuff comin bcuz we just can’t get enough.All the best to you.
M.
Alien Sex Fiend – I Walk The Line
I second that!
That was indeed a perfectly icy way to start the show with ‘Cold.’ And this teacher loved the 45 Grave cover to kick off hour two. Loved hearing Pavement doing the Bunnymen. Gotta give hour 2 the slight nod for the win but all three hours were finely tuned.
The Colin Newman solo track got me thinking about my fave track off Chairs Missing. Could we hear ‘Mercy’ on a future communion?
Have a great week Matt, cheers!
Fellow teacher shout out, but over here in the east, have to wait another few weeks before our summer break begins.
Right on! Happy almost summer David, you’re in the homestretch.
Hey Matt!
Awesome show! – really enjoyed the MC900 Ft. Jesus and TKK songs that wrapped up hour 2!
New request, circa 1986:
Brigandage // Pretty Funny Thing
Cheers!
Seconded!
Thirded. What a great request.
Hi Matt:
Loved the show as always. Can you play anything from Talk Talk’s “Laughing Stock” album? It is a great album and unlike most all other music of its time. It seems to fit okay with the usual music on your show. Thanks.
Great show matt, could you play anything by the wedding present, I’ve really been digging you playing them lately. Maybe “Thanks” off bizarro or “Palisades” off el rey, those are just suggestions but I don’t care what song I like pretty much everything they have done. Or maybe you could play their cover of “ Box Elder” since you have been playing a number of covers in the last few shows. Some highlights of last nights show were the cure, rev co, the smiths, pavement and the chameleons to name a few. Thanks for the stellar programming.
Great covers as always! And good deep cuts.
Here are some requests as we get into summer –
Executive Slacks – Our Lady
Catherine Wheel – Crank
Thanks!
Can you play “Young Man’s Stride” by Mercury Rev for my wife Lindsey’s birthday this Sunday. If you could fit it in that would be great. Thank You!!!
Hey Matt!!! Another stellar program!!!! Thank you for playing my Dance With Me request….love that one! I know I’m getting here a bit late this time around….but if possible I’d love to hear:
New Order – Leave Me Alone
Psychedelic Furs – Dumb Waiters
Echo & The Bunnymen – Stormy Weather
Thanks again as always! ｡◕‿◕｡
Can you please play
“Talkin’ ‘Bout The Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues (Everyone Wants To Live Forever)” By The Flaming Lips , thank you.
-Bart
Happy Mondays – Tart Tart (1987) Apple Music + Qobuz + Bandcamp
Zounds – War (1980) Apple Music + Qobuz
This high school librarian was thrilled to hear “School’s Out” – perfect kick off to summer break! As always, thanks for serving us the best three hours of dark tunes. Hour two was my fave, and other highlights include New Order, The Smiths, Colin Newman…
A request for an upcoming show:
Fugazi “Blueprint”
You played them a few weeks ago and it prompted me to revisit their catalog. Those early releases are forever embedded in my memory!
Thank you!
Good call on the Fugazi!
Great show. I’ve got a couple of requests for ya
Kommunity FK – Something inside me has died
TRAITRS – Thin flesh
Actors – Face meets glass!!
Thanks!!!
Those are all great requests. I don’t think he’ll play Actors or TRAITRS since they’re more recent, but you have great taste in music.
Really solid show this past Sunday. I have to give it to Hour 1, but really loved the Mo-dettes, MC 900, and Trisomie 21. Good calls all.
On a future show, please play Iggy Pop “Five Foot One”.
Thanks for the great music. Have a good rest of your week.
Thanks for playing Musette And Drums! Great show!
Excellent show this week, Matt, and thank you for playing Pavement’s cover of the Killing Moon!! Some other highlights for me were the Ministry song (that I was criminally unfamiliar with), the Cocteau Twins into Gene Loves Jezebel, the very cool post-punk of the Mo-Dettes and the darkness of that The Naked And The Dead song. Have a great week!
Hi Matt. How about Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) cover by Magazine in honor of Sly Stone.
Thanks
Another great one. Loved the Revolting Cocks — that was the other encore song at the Ministry show and Chris came out to sing it with them. I did not know that was his voice on that song until his wife posted from backstage on Instagram. But I probably wouldn’t have even been there in first place if it weren’t for my weekly Dark Wave schooling. Meanwhile, my deep dive into Psychic TV has led to Coil. I know you’ve played their Tainted Love cover before, which is amazing. Any other favorites you want to throw out there?
Hey Matt! Happy Father’s Day. Listening to Dark Wave has woken me up to a lot of music I missed in the 1980’s when I was in High School and College in Baltimore.
Could you do Cabaret Voltaire “Nag, Nag, Nag” as a Father’s Day treat? I promise to dance like a fiend in response!
Hey Matt, maybe this is a little unkiltered to put on a playlist, but could you play The Wait? Not by Killing Joke, but by Metallica playing their cover of it.