Galaxie 500 | Photo by Michael Lavine via Rough Trade
“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
Wire, “Ahead” (The Ideal Copy)
The Sisters of Mercy, “Good Things” (BBC Session) (BBC Sessions 1982-1984)
Ministry, “So What” (The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste)
Shriekback, “The Shining Path” (Big Night Music)
Killing Joke, “Chessboards” (Brighter Than a Thousand Suns)
Ashes and Diamonds, “On a Rocka” (Are Forever)
The Cult, “The Witch” (Pure Cult)
The Jesus and Mary Chain, “Teenage Lust” (Acoustic Version) (Honey’s Dead: Expanded Edition)
Siouxsie and the Banshees, “Bring Me the Head of the Preacher Man” (Hyaena)
Mission of Burma, “Academy Fight Song” (Signals, Calls, and Marches)
Galaxie 500, “Isn’t It a Pity” (On Fire)
David Sylvian, “Maria” (Secrets of the Beehive)
Mick Karn, “Sensitive” (Titles)
HOUR 2
Love and Rockets, “Life in Laralay” (Express)
The Cure, “The Blood” (The Head on the Door)
Throwing Muses, “Bright Yellow Gun” (University)
Urban Verbs, “The Good Life” (Urban Verbs)
Pop Will Eat Itself, “Def.Con.One” (This is the Day…)
Cabaret Voltaire, “Sex, Money, Freaks” (C.O.D.E.)
Clock DVA, “Sound Mirror” (Buried Dreams)
Schnitt Acht, “Rage” (Rage)
KMFDM, “Bargeld” (Money)
Martin L. Gore, “In a Manner of Speaking” (Counterfeit EP)
Visage, “The Anvil” (Fade to Grey: The Singles Collection)
The Veil, “Love in a Dying World” (Surrender)
Brian Eno, “Third Uncle” (Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy)
HOUR 3
Cocteau Twins, “Millimillenary” (The Pink Opaque)
Bauhaus, “The Sanity Assassin” (Bauhaus 1979–1983)
Sad Lovers and Giants, “On Another Day” (Feeding the Flame)
Echo & The Bunnymen, “Gone, Gone, Gone” (Reverberation)
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, “Waiting for Mommie” (Confessions of a Knife)
Lard, “Bozo Skeleton” (The Last Temptation of Reid)
A Split-Second, “Crimewave” (Kiss of Fury)
Front 242, “Terminal State” (Front By Front)
PTP, “Rubber Glove Seduction” (Side Trax)
X, “Johny Hit and Run Paulene” (Los Angeles)
Inca Babies, “Big Jugular” (Rumble)
Alien Sex Fiend, “Mad Daddy Drives a U.F.O.” (Curse)
Christian Death, “Face” (Ashes)
Joy Division, “Colony” (Closer)
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (8/24/25)
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (8/17/25)
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (8/17/25)
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (8/3/25)
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Tysm for playing the X request!
For future shows:
1. The Loop – Morrissey
2. A Passage In Time – Dead Can Dance
3. Don’t Fall – the Chameleons
4. Punish Me With Kisses – the Glove
5. Coffee Homeground – Kate Bush
6. Airwaves – Kraftwerk
7. Sick For Toys – the Sugarcubes
8. Kyoto Song – the Cure
9. City of Refuge – Nick Cave + the Bad Seeds
10. Love + Kisses – Altered Images
Hi Matt, great selection tonight, especially DJ Bueller’s lol. Thanks for playing Visage!
Front Line Assembly – Gun
Good week everyone!
Great episode tonight, like always!
Hey Matt!
Great way to wrap up the summer!! … Thanks for playing many faves, including TKK (anything from Confessions of a Knife is bomb! ) + Christian Death (Face is the very best song on Ashes!).
So, I caught the recent Pixies show at Greek Theater in Berkeley last week… was really, really good! They sound just like they did in the Surfer Rosa days… :-). They closed their awesome show with my next request – not a song I’ve heard a lot, I think perhaps it was a B-side or something?
The Pixies // Into the White
Cheers!
Wow a wonderfully crafted show last night hot damn!!! Thank you for my Cult / Witch request….love that one! Also big nods to PWEI, The Cure, Ministry, Throwing Muses & J&MC! Some possible suggestions for next time:
Rollins Band – Almost Real
Skinny Puppy – Pedafly
Front 242 – Moldavia
Thanks again as always!!!! ｡◕‿◕｡
Great summer DW once again!
I’ll request anything of your choice from Alison’s Halo, as they have new music and a new tour coming up.
Thanks!
Happy Labor Day Weekend! I have some interesting requests.
Bauhaus – “1. David Jay 2. Peter Murphy 3. Kevin Haskins 4. Daniel Ash”
The Jesus And Mary Chain – It’s So Hard
And Also The Trees – Misfortunes
Mars – 11,000 Volts
I second And Also The Trees!
Happy Labor Day! For a future show, can you play The Beloved – The Sun Rising? Or, Primal Scream – Higher than the Sun. You know, all of the sun things.
Thanks
I’ll second Primal Scream “Higher than the Sun”
Great show Matt, could you play
Sweet Loaf by The Butthole Surfers
Please !!! Thank You !!!!
Matt,bloody hell!You completely destroyed the end of Summer & Darkly ushered in the Fall!
Much thanx for the holiday set up & request plays!All the best to you & and my best requests to you as well,here goes:
JOY DIVISION-No love lost
NITZER EBB-Nobody knows
STUMP-Buffalo
M.
Thanks for playing Big Jugular by inca babies, Excellent!!
Great show this week! Thanks for including my Galaxie 500 request in the playlist even though Sirius played Strange instead, that’s a great one too. On Fire is a perfect album. Nice to finally hear some Ashes and Diamonds. When Gone, Gone, Gone came on I asked my 15yo son, ‘Hey, what band is this?’ and he said, ‘Sounds like Echo and The Bunnymen with some weird dude singing.’ Haha, don’t know if Noel Burke is ‘a weird dude’ but he’s certainly not Ian. That Reverberation album is still a guilty pleasure nevertheless. Thanks for playing PTP as well.
I’ve got a Cure b-side request if you could dig it up, a track I can’t recall ever having heard on the radio before: “The Big Hand”
Have a great week Matt, cheers!
Nathan, I love that you’re “schooling” your son on the classics!
My Bloody Valentine – No More Sorry
Hi Matt: Damn fine show as usual! Standouts for me were the block of industrial/dance tracks recommended by DJ Bueller, as well as Mission of Burma!
I am headed to see NIN this Saturday night, so requesting “She’s Gone.” Such a killer track and loved the performance they did on Twin Peaks Season 3, Episode 8!
Uh, correction, it is actually “She’s Gone Away” (embarrassed emoji!)
Seconded! I was really hoping NIN would play that one in Oakland, but alas, not to be. And that episode of Twin Peaks the Return is pure genius. Good call Randall!
Loved the tour, but definitely missed hearing the new stuff this time around. She’s Gone Away is great!
Great show as always! A few standouts for me include Ashes and Diamonds, X, DJ Bueller’s picks, Inca Babies, and Christian Death.
A request for a future dark communion:
Spiritualized “Run”
Can’t believe it’s September – wishing everyone a good week.
Easy second on Spiritualized, great call Nicole!
A lot of requests in these comments already!
Is it possible to play London After Midnight, perhaps “Kiss” or “Sacrifice” – in a way, to celebrate a recent announcement of an upcoming very rare NorthEast USA tour appearance finally (if you don’t count DC in 2008, or if you must, even Atlanta in ’97!)
Please and thank you! :)
Pale Saints – Sight of You
YES!
Chrome – New Age
Please play Alyans “Na Zare”. I never miss an episode of DarkWave and have it as one of my presets in my vehicle. Thanks!
Matt! Can’t tell you how good it was to hear “Rage” pounding out of my car stereo randomly (as opposed to me playing it, of course…) since probably around 96. I dig deep for that one – thanks for playing as always. Killer show once again!
Best,
Dave W.
Long Branch, NJ
EMF – Lies (1991) Apple Music + Qobuz
Sinéad O’Connor And Karen Finley – Jump In The River (1988) Vinyl & CD only
How about Peter Murphy- A strange kind of love. (Version 2)? Thanks
Hi Matt – a request for Psychic TV’s cover of “Eve of Destruction.”
Just popped into my head and I had to listen to it on YT, and thought it’d be a good fit for the show. Thanks!
Late to the party but how about ‘you’re driving me’ by the Cravats for a future show??
Thanks!