Echo & The Bunnymen | Photo by Anton Corbijn via Sire Records
“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
Ministry, “The Light Pours Out of Me” (Animositisomina)
Tones on Tail, “Happiness” (Everything!)
Swell Maps, “Let’s Build a Car” (International Rescue)
Siouxise and the Banshees, “Swimming Horses” (Hyaena)
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, “Walking On Your Hands” (Paint Your Wagon)
Kendra Smith, “Heart and Soul” (A Means to an End: The Music of Joy Division)
Cabaret Voltaire, “Ghost Talk” (Drinking Gasoline)
Soft Cell, “It’s a Mugs Game” (The Art of Falling Apart)
The Jesus and Mary Chain, “Tower of Song” (The Power of Negative Thinking)
Echo & The Bunnymen, “Show of Strength” (Heaven Up Here)
And Also the Trees, “The House of the Heart” (The Millpond Years)
Magazine, “Permafrost” (Secondhand Daylight)
The Lucy Show, “The White Space” (…Undone)
HOUR 2
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, “The Days of Swine and Roses” (Confessions of a Knife)
Machines of Loving Grace, “Butterfly Wings” (Concentration)
Chemlab, “Filament” (Suture)
KMFDM, “Ultra” (Nihil)
The Cure, “Endsong” (Songs of a Lost World)
This Mortal Coil, “Dreams Made Flesh” (It’ll End in Tears)
The Creatures, “Mad Eyed Summer” (Wild Things)
Virgin Prunes, “Baby Turns Blue” (…If I Die, I Die)
Depeche Mode, “Somebody” (Some Great Reward)
Nine Inch Nails, “Down In It” (Pretty Hate Machine)
Love and Rockets, “This Heaven” (Hot Trip to Heaven)
The House of Love, “I Don’t Know Why I Love You” (The House of Love)
HOUR 3
Southern Death Cult, “False Faces” (The Southern Death Cult)
Bauhaus, “Spirit in the Sky” (Singles)
The Psychedelic Furs, “India” (The Psychedelic Furs)
The Gun Club, “A Devil in the Woods” (Miami)
The Sisters of Mercy, “Kiss the Carpet” (Some Girls Wander By Mistake)
Killing Joke, “Unspeakable” (What’s THIS For…!)
Suicide, “Diamonds, Fur Coat, Champagne” (The Second Album)
Wire, “Kidney Bingos” (A Bell Is A Cup Until It is Struck)
Nitzer Ebb, “Nobody Knows” (Showtime)
Pigface, “Tapeworm” (Gub)
Meat Beat Manifesto, “Psyche-Out” (99%)
Severed Heads, “Greater Reward” (Rotund for Success)
The Chameleons, “Perfume Garden” (What Does It Mean? Basically)
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (8/31/25)
- 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)
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Hey Matt! Great show as always!
Goodnight.
I think I’m in the mood for “Severina” by The Mission
Great show tonight! Digger the Ministry cover of “The Light Pours Out of Me”.
Here’s my requests for future episodes:
The Walker Brothers – “The Electrician” (from Nite Flights)
David Bowie – “Nite Flights” (from Black Tie White Noise)
Concrete Blonde – “Scene of a Perfect Crime” (from Free)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – “Lament” (from The Good Son)
Thanks for playing my request, Matt. The industrial sets lately have been awesome and love mixing in some punk now and then. Keep up the good work!
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
Great show as usual! Here are my requests:
The Clash – Straight to Hell
Or cover by Lily Allen
Martha Wainwright – Bloody Mother F*!?er
Love – Live and Let Live
Thank you for RLYL, can’t wait to work my way down to Kidney Bingos, a song I haven’t heard in years!
Always sounds better off your show.
Although I don’t say it every week, and I speak for so many, we are truly grateful for your show Matt
Ride – In A Different Place
I’ll second this request.
Thirded
Play “Container Love” or “Morlocks from England” by Philip Boa and the Voodooclub
Hey Matt
What about Bruises by Gene Loves Jezebel
just discovered this on a Beggars Banquest sampler I just purchased – great song !
Thanks as always,
Constantine
Splendid show last night! Highlights included the double dose of Magazine (one via that blistering Ministry cover version), Swell Maps, Gun Club, Suicide, and Wire. Lovely anniversary shoutout to Tina and her hubby, that was sweet.
I’d forgotten about that Bauhaus cover of ‘Sprit in the Sky’. It reminded me of how amazing it was to see them live on the last tour before it imploded and how the encore was a block of their best covers. But one I would have loved to hear, they did not play. Request for a future communion: could you dig up the live version of ‘Waiting for the Man’ off the Press the Eject album, the one with Nico on vocals?
Have a great week Matt, cheers!
Wow Matt thank you so much – very kind of you take the time to play our anniversary requests. Shaun laughed when you mentioned what a regular requester I was – he probably thinks I drive you nuts!!!! I certainly hope I do not!! (◠‿◕)
A really awesome program this week I especially loved hours 1&2!!! I think I’ll spare ya my possible suggestions this week and simply convey my eternal thanks for you and your program.
GO BILLS!
Always an excellent show. My request would be “Spiderwebs” by low Sunday.
Great one this week!
With the passing of Bruce Loose, I’d like to suggest a Flipper song he had lead vocals on, such as “The Light, the Sound, the Rhythm, the Noise” or whichever of your choosing.
And perhaps even a cover of theirs, such as Lords of Acid’s take on “Sex Bomb”.
Such a great band with great influence on many of the DW artists played here each Sunday evening.
Thanks!
kicked it off with a banger and had great flow throughout – those last 3 tracks especially. Thanks for another fantastically dark show!
Hey Matt,
In honor of the Deftones’ new album, can you play their cover of the Cure’s “If Only Tonight We Could Sleep”? Thanks & Cheers!
Just saw them & System of a Down this past Friday night in Toronto..an awesome show!!! Second this request!
Great show Matt, thanks!
Amazing line up tonight! I’d love to hear “Yr Body Is Nothing” by Boy Harsher on one of these communions. I think it’d spice them up with a newer artist every once in a while!
Another stellar show! Thank you for including my request for Suicide. Other standouts include JAMC, Wire, the Bunnymen, Cabaret Voltaire, double shot of Magazine, NIN, and The House of Love.
Request for an upcoming episode: I’m in a punk mood…Yes, I know not really Dark Wave… but I’m taking a shot…
Social Distortion “Mommy’s Little Monster”
Have a wonderful week!
Hey Matt – another great show. The selections have been so on point and oddly I find myself hearing tracks that I don’t remember from back in the day. Amazing content.
Have an usual “out of obscurity” request for you if you feel like chucking it in one night – The Clay People – “Pariah” (but specifically the “Plow Encroach Remix by Swamp Terrorists”)…a classic example of the best of both worlds.
Thanks!
Dave W.
Long Branch, NJ
Maaaaaat,you never cease to amaze!Where there is light there is Dark & where there is Dark there is Dark Wave(&Matt Sebastian)You pulled out alk the stops and most of my favs,and requests too,much obliged.Here are more to take in and consider,again,all the best!Till Sunday night…
JOY DIVISION-No love lost
WARSAW/JOY DIVISION-Leaders of men
STUMP-Buffalo
M.
Okay I like any version of this song but this specific version just blows me away every time I hear it. And I just want other people to hear its greatness.
The song is “ Downs of a feminine balloon” (Peel session version) by Mercury Rev
If you can play this it would be wonderfully awesome Thanks Matt.
Oooh second this! “Downs Are Feminine Balloons” would prob fit nicely into a Shoegaze block… and we all love our cherished Shoegaze blocks here on DarkWave SXM on Sunday nights!! :-)
Just got back from several weeks of travel and looking forward to catching up on the shows I missed. Set list this week looks amazing.
Can you play “Yes” from Click Click’s Bent Massive LP on a future episode?
Thanks. Have a good week Sir.
Hi Matt, Please I’d like to request for my son James Damrons 18th B-Day either …Drive Blind—Ride or Summertime Rolls-Janes Addiction .Thank You
Greetings Matt! Like Burney above, had a long summer away but have mostly been keeping up, lagging behind a show or so til recently. Thanks for yet another amazing one. Besides the usual heavy hitters, I greatly enjoyed hearing Swell Maps, Kendra Smith’s take on ‘Heart and Soul’… and I can’t not mention those quality Pig Face, Killing Joke, and Wire songs that sliced up hour 3.
After seeing Unwound play their 1995 album The Future of What in Brooklyn, I would like to request their song Natural Disasters off of the same album. They may be new to the Dark Wave archives, would love to hear how you add them into the mix.
’til the next transmission!
Hey Matt!
Awesome show! … MBM followed by Severed Heads to wrap things up… this is precisely why I cannot miss this show EVER! @_@
Many thanks for the Kendra Smith spin!…. I do love her ‘dreamy’ take on “Heart and Soul”; there’s def a few other cool tracks on that ’95 ‘Means to an End’ comp. as well (we all know and love that Moby cover of New Dawn Fades, of course!) :-)
Here’s a relatively ‘deep-cut’ KJ request from ’90 : Inside the “Termite Mound” // from Extremities, Dirt, and Various Repressed Emotions. RIP Geordie, gone far too soon — but your legendary riffs will reverberate FOREVER.
Cheers,
I’m hoping this meets the criteria since she’s a Pigface alum
Nutopia by Meg Lee Chin
Thank you either way
Hi Matt, thank you for your great show, if possible i would like to hear a belgian band call Poesie Noire, the song Radioactive Flood, thank you !
Hi Matt
Can I request for your Shoegaze spot from the new Steve Queralt (Ride) album either of these songs he did with Emma Anderson (Lush). Lonely Town or Swiss Air. Thank you !!
Do you happen to have a copy of Happy Days, Sweetheart by Ethyl Meatplow? I can’t find anything except “Queenie” in the digital world but I’d really like to hear “Ripened Peach” or “Devil’s Johnson” … good old creepy, speedy 90s post-x music. I’m not just requesting cos it would work well in your show, but because someone stole my CD long ago.
Keep the awesome shows coming. You are the highlight of our week at home. Every Sunday we listen to the oldest show then the new one. It takes us back to different times. I think you for your excellent show.
Vic and Lisa from Tucson, living in Columbia, Mo
Hey, one more thing… you say you will play things that fit the format that you don’t harbor an intense dislike for… have you ever considered a “songs for which Matt harbors an intense dislike” show?
What a fantastic setlist this week! Love how it blends deep cuts with classics — that transition from Echo & The Bunnymen into And Also the Trees in Hour 1 was perfect. Hour 2’s mix of industrial energy with softer moments like This Mortal Coil and Depeche Mode was beautifully balanced. And Hour 3 closing with The Chameleons? Chef’s kiss. Easily one of the strongest “Dark Wave” episodes yet.
Hey Matt I got a request. I like to request a Jane’s Addiction song off that first live album ‘Trip Away.’ Hearing that song you played last Sunday and in light of recent events in music the man is still a visionary. From booking Siouxsue and the Banshees in 1991 to booking my favorite K-pop group TWICE and tying it in with the currently trending K-pop demon hunters film, hate him or love him the man is still a visionary. Despite the problems with his group the man still knows how to curate a festival and influence everybody else from Coachella to ACL. So yes please consider my request but we need more Jane’s Addiction on Dark Wave.