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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
The Cramps, “Surfin’ Dead” (Smell of Female)
Depeche Mode, “Pleasure, Little Treasure” (Glitter Mix) (Never Let Me Down Again)
Nitzer Ebb, “Rope” (Showtime)
Ministry, “I Wanted To Tell Her” (With Sympathy)
Japan, “Talking Drum” (Tin Drum)
The Cure, “New Day” (Join the Dots)
Siouxsie and the Banshees, “Spellbound” (Juju)
The Jesus and Mary Chain, “Taste of Cindy” (Live) (Automatic: Expanded Edition)
End of Your Garden, “A Displaced House in the North” (Celebration/Er Det Tirsdag Må Være Belgien)
Fields of the Nephilim, “Slow Kill” (Dawnrazor)
The Stone Roses, “She Bangs the Drums” (The Stone Roses)
Primal Scream, “Kowalski” (Vanishing Point)
Modern English, “Mesh and Lace” (Life in the Gladhouse)
Echo & The Bunnymen, “The Game” (Echo & The Bunnymen)
HOUR 2
Love and Rockets, “Love Me” (Express)
Fatima Mansions, “Only Losers Take the Bus” (Against Nature)
Second Layer, “Fixation” (World Of Rubber)
Alien Sex Fiend, “I’m Not Mad” (Who’s Been Sleeping in My Brain)
The Belltower, “Grounded” (Popdropper)
Chapterhouse, “Treasure” (Whirlpool)
Lush, “Scarlet” (Gala)
Pale Saints, “You Tear the World in Two” (The Comforts of Madness)
Ride, “Chelsea Girl” (Smile)
Drop Nineteens, “Daymom” (1991)
Slowdive, “Sugar For the Pill” (Slowdive)
Seefeel, “More Like Space” (More Like Space)
Curve, “Hell Above Water” (Gift)
HOUR 3
Bauhaus, “Stigmata Martyr” (In the Flat Field)
The Damned, “Help” (Damned Damned Damned)
Strawberry Switchblade, “Trees and Flowers” (Extended Mix) (Strawberry Switchblade)
The Glove, “Sex-Eye-Make-Up” (Blue Sunshine)
Skinny Puppy, “Yes He Ran” (VIVI SECT VI)
En Esch, “Confidence” (Confidence)
The Clay People, “Pariah” (Plow Encroach Mix By Swamp Terrorists) (Cringe)
Revolting Cocks, “T.V. Mind” (Big Sexy Land)
Joy Division, “New Dawn Fades” (Heart and Soul)
Au Pairs, “It’s Obvious” (Stepping Out of Line)
The Smiths, “Back to the Old House” (Peel Session) (Hatful of Hollow)
The Sisters of Mercy, “Poison Door” (First and Last and Always)
45 Grave, “45 Grave” (Sleep in Safety)
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (11/23/25)
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (11/16/25)
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (11/9/25)
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Great show! Thanks Matt.
Hour III for the win Matt
Stellar show tonight. Thanks for playing the Strawberry Switchblade request.
I humbly request Galaxie 500’s cover of “Listen, the Snow is Falling” for the Christmas show.
Have a great week, everyone!
Thanks for getting to my request Matt! Always appreciate hearing some Swamp Terrorists (…or in this case something they more or less “chopped & screwed” for someone else).
Nice tribute to Mani too – he will be missed.
Best,
Dave W.
Long Branch, NJ
Matt can you please play
Sonic Youth – Cotton Crown
Joy Division – Heart and Soul
Kraftwerk – Computer world
All three are awesome but I gotta second the Sonic Youth.
Indeed! – I’ll gladly be a ‘third’ on Cotton Crown! :)
For future shows:
1. Coffee Homeground – Kate Bush
2. Airwaves – Kraftwerk
3. Kyoto Song – the Cure
4. City of Refuge – Nick Cave + the Bad Seeds
5. Love + Kisses – Altered Images
6. Sweetness + Light – Lush
7. A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours – Smiths
8. Driving Your Girlfriend Home – Morrissey
9. Funtime – Iggy Pop
I again second A Rush and Push.
Hey Matt, great show tonight. I loved the shoegaze set.
Here are some requests for the holiday season!
Frosty the Snowman – Cocteau Twins
Christmas Island – Depeche Mode
Snow in Summer – The Cure
Pink Frost – The Chills
Another great show, Matt! Keep ‘em coming. I’d love to hear something by The Drowning Craze. Preferably the song Heat. What a breeding ground for some great musicians. It’s too bad they didn’t make more music.
Great communion and a great way to end thanksgiving break! I’d love to hear “Billie Was A Vampire” by Selofan or “A Realness” by Boy Harsher! Thanks Matt
Keep the shoegaze rolling. Great set the last two weeks. For Christmas I’d love to hear Love and Rockets “Earth, Sun, Moon.” Don’t think I’ve ever heard that one pop up…and it has such a sweet, snowy sound about it.
Nice playlist. I had never heard Chapterhouse before–going through their catalog now.
All hail the shoegaze block! Thanks for playing The Belltower, great show Matt!
For the Christmas Show
All About Eve – December
One of my favorite sets of 2025, holy smokes. And not just due to the incredibly gorgeous extended shoegaze set. Thank you for playing my Drop Nineteens request. Also really nice to hear some Chapterhouse and Pale Saints. I’m pretty excited to see Chapterhouse next May in LA. Kudos to the requester of The Belltower, so good, will be checking out more of their stuff. How I had missed that Britta Phillips was in that band is shame on me. Lovely tribute to Mani, thank you for that too, he was indeed a true legend. And keep those b-side cuts rolling please.
Here’s a b-side request for a future communion, can’t recall every having heard this one on the radio ever: “The Subject” by Echo and The Bunnymen off the “Back of Love” single. Will Sergeant at his most psychedelic.
Have a great week Matt, cheers!
Wow — one of my favorites this year Matt!! Bravo!! An absolute banger of a show…the shoegaze selections — *blowing a kiss your way* Thank you for playing Curve, been too long since I’d heard that one. Funny story about Sugar For The Pill …. I must listen to this song 40 times a week! It’s so mellow but beautiful…helps me slog thru scheduling all day at work. Anywho….some possible suggestions for next time:
Dead Kennedys – I Fought The Law
Suicidal Tendencies – Institutionalized
The Misfits – Death Comes Ripping
Have a stellar week! Thanks again as always!! ｡◕‿◕｡
Good one! And looking forward to the holiday DW!
Here’s a request for the holiday season –
Love Spirals Downwards – Welcome Christmas
Thanks!
Interesting version of Primal Scream’s Kowalski you played there. Not the Vanishing Point version but the Dan the Automator remix.
For the covers there’s a couple of versions of
Primal Scream – Some Velvet Morning
Hey Matt!
Truly awesome set!! HUGE props for that Seefeel inclusion within an extended shoegaze block! Soooo ethereally great … ALSO, thanks for playing Yes, He Ran! Very nice that you followed that up with some En Esch – so allow me to follow up that particular SP request … with a request from FOOK!
Pigface // Ten Ground and Down
Cheers!
Matt,great end to the month and onward to December & Winter soon.Here’s to ushering in the Season & all the Darkness it brings!As always,all the best,till then…….
MINISTRY-Dream Song
KLUTE-Desert Storm
SPAHN RANCH-Succumber
M.
New Day is an amazing song. It’s crazy how many great tracks ended up as B-sides. Maybe after your ambitious covers-only show there can be a more ambitious B-sides (and other non-album cuts) show.
On Nov. 16th., I turned 57.
On Nov. 23., I went into the hospital with what turned out to be a ruptured appendix, 8 inches of necrotic colon, and an abdomen filled with vileness. When the surgeons got to me, I had an hour or two left to live.
On Nov. 30., I was wheeled out of the hospital feeling lucky to still be on this side of the veil.
During all of this, the song “Cold Blue” by Chickasaw Mudd Puppies kept rattling through my head. It may not be musically in line with the format of the show, but it certainly shares the sentiment and I was hoping you would give it a spin. A bit of the swampland gothic, if you will.
Loved this set from start to finish. Thank you for playing my Ride request – that extended shoegaze block was stellar. And perfect selections for the Mani tribute.
I’m still on a Stone Roses and Primal Scream kick since Mani’s passing…So that’s influencing my request for a future show:
The Stone Roses “Made of Stone”
Thank you.
Seconded. That song is perfect in every way.
I agree, one of my all time favorites.
Thank you!! Thank you!! Thank you!! Matt for the SHOEGAZE sets and blocks!! Awesome! Keep it coming please. Great shows lately!
Great show. Highlights were Love Me, the shoe gaze set and En Esch – I had never heard them. Loved it!