The Cure | Photo by Paul Cox
“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
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, “Talk About the Weather” (Talk About the Weather)
The Sisters of Mercy, “Black Planet” (First and Last and Always)
Remnant Three, “The Gilded Infancy” (A Gentle Collapsing)
Peter Murphy, “Marlene Dietrich’s Favourite Poem” (Deep)
Killing Joke, “Adorations” (Brighter Than a Thousand Suns)
The Chameleons, “Singing Rule Britannia” (What Does Anything Mean? Basically)
Kate Bush, “Cloudbusting” (Hounds of Love)
Tones on Tail, “You, the Night and the Music” (Everything!)
The Lucy Show, “Ephemeral (This Is No Heaven)” (…Undone)
Depeche Mode, “To Have and To Hold” (Music For the Masses)
Cabaret Voltaire, “Yashar” (2×45)
Fast Set, “Junction One” (Junction One)
The Wolfgang Press, “Ghost” (Standing Up Straight)
HOUR 2
Pigface, “Ten Ground and Down” (Fook)
Nitzer Ebb, “Join in the Chant” (Metal Mix) (That Total Age)
Laibach, “I’ve Got a Feeling” (Let It Be)
Revolting Cocks, “We Shall Cleanse the World” (Big Sexy Land)
The Smiths, “Pretty Girls Make Graves” (Troy Tate Demo) (The Sound of The Smiths)
Siouxsie and the Banshees, “Fireworks” (Juju)
Tuxedomoon, “In a Manner of Speaking” (Solve Et Coagula)
Xmal Deutschland, “Augen-blick” (Tocisin)
The Cure, “Trust” (Wish)
The Psychotik Tanks, “Let’s Have a Party” (Presages)
Public Image Ltd., “Albatross” (Metal Box)
Joy Division, “Sister Ray” (Live) (Still)
HOUR 3
Bauhaus, “Third Uncle” (The Sky’s Gone Out)
Rema-Rema, “Lost My Way” (Found Recollections)
Mass, “You and I” (Labour of Love)
Wire, “I Am the Fly” (Chairs Missing)
Kraftwerk, “Airwaves” (Radio-Activity)
Bill Nelson, “Vertical Games” (Quit Dreaming And Get On the Beam)
Throbbing Gristle, “Hot On the Heels of Love” (Throbbing Gristle’s Greatest Hits)
CCCP, “American Soviets” (American Soviets)
Love and Rockets, “Shelf Life” (Sweet F.A.)
My Bloody Valentine, “New You” (m b v)
Velocity Girl, “I Don’t Care If You Go” (Velocity Girl)
The Mission, “Butterfly on a Wheel” (Carved in Sand)
Tubeway Army, “Down in the Park” (Replicas)
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (12/28/25)
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Christmas Spectacular (12/21/25)
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — Slicing Up Eyeballs’ All-Covers Edition (12/14/25)
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For future shows:
1. Coffee Homeground – Kate Bush
2. Kyoto Song – the Cure
3. City of Refuge – Nick Cave + the Bad Seeds
4. Love + Kisses – Altered Images
5. Sweetness + Light – Lush
6. Driving Your Girlfriend Home – Morrissey
7. Funtime – Iggy Pop
8. A Matter of Time – Berlin
9. Blue-Eyed Pop – the Sugarcubes
Interesting selection tonight, Matt. I didn’t expect a track from Radio-Activity, I love that album!
Have a good night, and a good year. :)
I love me some Kraftwerk!
I’d like to suggest another Red Lorry, Yellow Lorry song called Walking on your Hands
Great show, as per usual! Thanks for playing “Albatross”. Have a great week ahead, everyone!
Sill could use more old OMD
Great show, Matt! Join In The Chant was my gateway drug into industrial music, I was psyched to hear it.
For a future show, would you consider “In The Kingdom Of The Blind The One-Eyed Are Kings”, by Dead Can Dance? Thanks!
Seconded!
Great show Matt!
Would you play “I want to be a machine” by Ultravox on a future show please!
Thank you!
Gary Numan – Metal
MDMA- Green River waves
Hey Matt, that was an excellent first show for the new year last night!
Great show to start off 2026! For the next show:
Lowlife – Swing
Thank you!
Outstanding way to kick off the new year! Thanks for playing my Banshees request. Wolfgang Press, Rema-Rema, and Wire were also highlights. Back to back covers by legends to close out hour 2 and begin hour 3 was a nice touch. And boy do I just love that Velocity Girl track, so many good memories attached to that one.
Listening to first wave on Sunday morning Swedish Egil gave a shoutout to Mr. Bernard Sumner on his 70th birthday. May I request one of my fave New Order guitar riffs as a belated happy birthday? “Chosen Time” off of Movement.
Have a great week Matt, cheers!
Bowery Electric – Beat