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“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
This Mortal Coil, “Not Me” (It’ll End in Tears)
Magazine, “A Song From Under the Floorboards” (The Correct Use of Soap)
Julian Cope, “Non-Alignment Pact” (St. Julian: Expanded Edition)
Love and Rockets, “Mirror People” (Slow Version) (Earth Sun Moon)
Simple Minds, “Premonition” (Reel to Real Cacophony)
The Smiths, “Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want” (Louder Than Bombs)
Electronic, “Get the Message” (Electronic)
Johnny Marr, “New Town Velocity” (The Messenger)
The The, “Dogs of Lust” (Dusk)
Neil Finn and Johnny Marr, “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out” (Live) (7 Worlds Collide)
Nine Inch Nails, “We’re In This Together” (The Fragile)
Skinny Puppy, “Worlock” (The Singles Collect)
Fad Gadget, “Love Parasite” (Under the Flag)
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, “After the Flesh” (The Crow: Original Soundtrack)
HOUR 2
Wire, “I Am the Fly” (Chairs Missing)
The Sisters of Mercy, “Fix” (Some Girls Wander By Mistake)
Bauhaus, “Severance” (Gotham)
Siouxsie and the Banshees, “The Staircase (Mystery)” (The Scream)
The Jesus and Mary Chain, “Sundown” (Honey’s Dead)
Head of David, “Shadow Hills of California” (LP)
Cop Shoot Cop, “$10 Bill” (Ask Questions Later)
Naked Raygun, “Gear” (Throb Throb)
Killing Joke, “Wardance” (Killing Joke)
The Blue Aeroplanes, “The Boy in the Bubble” (Beat Songs)
The Mission, “Stay With Me” (God’s Own Medicine)
Anita Lane, “I’m a Believer” (Dirty Pearl)
New Model Army, “Green and Grey” (Thunder and Consolation)
HOUR 3
Joy Division, “Interzone” (Unknown Pleasures)
The Cure, “Play For Today” (Live) (Paris)
Throwing Muses, “The River” (House Tornado)
Echo & The Bunnymen, “Friction” (Live) (Crystal Days 1979-1999)
Vicious Pink, “Cccan’t You See” (Vicious Pink)
Dominatrix, “The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight” (The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight)
HULA, “Ghost Rattle” (Murmur)
Click Click, “Yes” (Bent Missive)
Peter Murphy and Trent Reznor, “Nightclubbing” (Live in Boston)
Ministry, “Faith Collapsing” (The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste)
Laibach, “Alle Gegen Alle” (NATO)
Front Line Assembly, “Threshold” (Caustic Grip)
KMFDM, “Anarchy” (Symbols)
Depeche Mode, “One Caress” (Songs of Faith and Devotion)
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — The Halloween Spectacular (10/26/25)
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (10/19/25)
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (10/12/25)
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For future shows:
1. Don’t Fall – the Chameleons
2. Coffee Homeground – Kate Bush
3. Airwaves – Kraftwerk
4. Kyoto Song – the Cure
5. City of Refuge – Nick Cave + the Bad Seeds
6. Love + Kisses – Altered Images
7. Sweetness + Light – Lush
8. A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours – Smiths
9. Driving Your Girlfriend Home – Morrissey
10. Deep Water – Strawberry Switchblade
11. Aloysius – Cocteau Twins
12. Funtime – Iggy Pop
13. I Dream of Wires – Gary Numan
Hi Matt, great selection tonight, thanks for playing ‘Alle Gegen Alle’ and ‘Threshold’!
My request:
Skinny Puppy – First Aid
Good week everyone!
Great birthday block to Marr!
Here’s a cover request –
Catherine Wheel – Don’t Want to Know If You Are Lonely
Thanks!
Hey Matt! Some requests for future shows:
Ministry – smothered hope
Nine Inch Nails – terrible lie
Moev – head down
Nice lineup
Gang of Four – I Found That Essence Rare
Suggestions for covers!
Mephisto Walz’s cover of Paint It, Black (“Painted Black”), The Cure’s of “Hello, I Love You,” and Corpus Delicti’s cover of “Atmosphere.”
Hi Matt:
For the covers show, how about “Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family” done by The Wedding Present as part of The Hit Parade?
Thanks for considering.
Seconded! Nice call Randall.
Wowza what a program!! Thank you for playing After The Flesh. MLWTTTK did not disappoint live last night! It was a great show! You played some of my favorite tracks this week — The Smiths, Skinny Puppy, Fad Gadget, Killing Joke, The Mission & KMFDM!!! Per your request I have some possible cover songs for a future program:
Song To The Siren – This Mortal Coil
Some Velvet Morning – Slowdive
Running Up That Hill – Placebo
Galaxy 500 – Ceremony
Johnny Cash – Personal Jesus
Tori Amos – Smells Like Teen Spirit
Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah
Thanks again as always!!!! ｡◕‿◕｡
Hey Matt!
Thanks for the awesome show once again … great to hear Ghost Rattle // Hula during the first show post time-change (as we all watch as the Darkness descends!)
“On U Sound in the Area”… here’s a new request… :-)
Toes Tapping // Gary Clail & On U Sound System
Cheers!
As the Canadians would say Matt,”Beauty,that was a Beauty!”It sure was and a big thanx along with that.Great start to the DST,and I won’t be going BACK from dropping some bits here as well.All the best as always
THE BOYS NEXT DOOR-Shivers
TYPE O NEGATIVE-Summer Breeze
PENAL COLONY-Reconciled
M.
Great Johnny Marr set and happy birthday to the man!
For the next show
Front 242 – Headhunter
Great show as normal Matt. Thanks for Naked Raygun (Chicago’s finest), New Model Army and The Mission.
You mentioned doing a show of cover versions, or should I add good covers. Great idea. when done right covers can be great. My request:
Stabbing Westward – “Burn” (cover of the great The Cure song). Hard to find but on their Bandcamp site.
Cheers
Hey Matt’ how about Jesus Built My Hotrod? Great song, GREAT video
Thank you!!
Hey Matt, great you played the JBC two weeks ago!
How about for your covers show, Spooky by the Jazz Butcher?
Another great cover is Adam and the Ants version of Perry Como’s Catch a Falling Star…
Thanks!
Second the Jazz Butcher!
Awesome show! I LOVED the Johnny Marr block, happy birthday to a legend. He certainly co-wrote many songs that saved this life at one point or another. And thanks for playing my Naked Raygun request, much appreciated.
Like many above, I am totally down with a show of all covers. That super cool cover of Peter and Trent doing Iggy got me thinking of Grace Jones’s version of ‘Nightclubbing,’ That’s a banger. As is her version of ‘She’s Lost Control’ which I know you’ve played before. Her version of ‘Love is the Drug’ is also super good. I’ll throw any of those three into the hopper for a possible covers show.
Have a great week Matt, cheers!
Thanks for the Johnny Marr Birthday Block, that was really cool. And thanks for leading the show with my request, got me all psyched up for the show!
Thanks for the Click Click. Loved the tribute to Mr. Mar. Hour 1 for the win just for that.
Cover show, huh? I bet you could fill an hour with just Madonna covers. Have no idea why Darkwave bands do, but they seem to love them some Madonna. Here’s a few I found with just a quick search (also requests)
KMFDM “Material Girl”
BiGod 20 “Like A Prayer”
Drop Nineteens “Angel”
Sonic Youth “Get Into the Groove”
Gene Loves Jezebel “Frozen” (Razed in Black mix)
Will look forward to the covers. Thanks for the great music and have a good week.
Such a great show! Thanks for playing The Sisters request. Here are some ideas for covers:
The Sisters of Mercy — Jolene (Dolly Parton)
Skeletal Family — Black JuJu (Alice Cooper)
Fields Of The Nephilim – In Every Dream Home A Heartache (Roxy Music)
Bauhaus — Telegram Sam (T Rex) or Third Uncle (Eno)
Panic in Detroit by Christian Death
For your future “all covers” show:
Sisters of Mercy – Gimme Shelter, Jolene
Bauhaus – Telegram Sam
Sid Vicious – My Way
Nina Hagen (the “a” sounds like saying “ha”) – Zarah
Dead Kennedys – Viva Las Vegas
The Slits – I Heard it through the Grapevine
KMFDM – Material Girl
Revolting Cocks – Do Ya think I’m Sexy
Late to the comment party this week… great set! That Blue Aeroplanes cover, what a banger.
Speaking of covers, I’ll toss out Psychic TV’s version of Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun. It’s out there!
Thanks Matt!
World Domination Enterprises – I Can’t Live Without My Radio (7″ mix) (1988) [LL Cool J] https://worlddominationenterprises.bandcamp.com/album/lets-play-domination
The Jesus and Mary Chain – Little Red Rooster (1993) [Willie Dixon]
https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/album/stoned-and-dethroned-the-jesus-and-mary-chain/0825646642564
Thank you for another wonderful set of dark tunes. The Johnny Marr block was awesome. And hour two was full of many personal favorites including Wire, JAMC, Bauhaus…
And I would love a show of cover songs.
Here’s my request: Jane’s Addiction “Rock & Roll”
1985: The Game from Love and Rockets
2025: Alien Love from the new Ashes and Diamonds Are Forever album
Thanks!
I think we need to hear more OMD. They had a lot of dark songs in their early work. A few examples:
The Beginning and the End
The Lights are Going Out
The Romance of the Telescope
Of All the Things We’ve Made
The Messerschmitt Twins
A great block with Cop Shoot Cop, Naked Raygun and Killing Joke! Perfect transitions! Also thank you for the duet of Peter Murphy and Trent Reznor on the cover of Nightclubbing. Amazing!
Here are three cover songs that were favorites of mine back in the day:
The Dickies – Nights in White Satin
Severed Heads – Strange Brew
Clan of Xymox – Dancing Barefoot
Great show as always
My cover requests
“Ball of Confusion” – Love and Rockets
“Third Uncle” – Bauhaus
My general requests
“We Don’t Need (This Fascist Groove Thing)” – Heaven 17
Thank you!
Excellent show as always! Here’s some cover ideas:
Sisters of Mercy – Jolene
The Mission – Dancing Barefoot
Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy – California Uber Alles
Mr. Irish Bastard – Temple of Love
Bigod 20 – Like a Prayer
Vicious Pink AND Dominatrix?! Would you have any interest in debuting Dream of a Disco (e.g., Space Age Love Song) by Marsheaux or One Day At A Time by Client.
You’re my favorite DJ