Andrew Eldritch of The Sisters of Mercy
“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 show airs at 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Eastern every Sunday on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave (Channel 33).
The most recent two episodes are available to subscribers to stream via the Sirius XM app.
Got a request? Requests will be considered for future episodes, but there’s no guarantee they’ll be played. They must fit the show’s format and fall generally within the 1st Wave era. And not be something the host really dislikes. If there’s something you’d like to hear, drop it in the comments below.
HOUR 1
The Sisters of Mercy, “Lucretia My Reflection” (Floodland)
The Cure, “A Strange Day” (Pornography)
Tones on Tail, “Movement of Fear” (Everything!)
1919, “Repulsion” (The Complete Collection)
Christian Death, “Deathwish” (Only Theatre of Pain)
New Order, “Chosen Time” (Movement)
Cabaret Voltaire, “Just Fascination” (7-Inch Version) (The Crackdown)
Minimal Compact, “Not Knowing” (Returning Wheel)
A Certain Ratio, “Knife Slits Water” (7-Inch Version) (I’d Like To See You Again)
Echo & The Bunnymen, “The Subject” (Crystal Days 1979-1999)
Siouxsie and the Banshees, “Monitor” (Juju)
The Fall, “I Am Damo Suzuki” (This Nation’s Saving Grace)
Asylum Party, “Play Alone” (Borderline)
HOUR 2
KMFDM, “No Meat-No Man” (Don’t Blow Your Top)
Ministry, “Just Like You” (Twitch)
Front 242, “Body to Body” (1988 Mix) (Dancing in Darkness)
Skinny Puppy, “Antagonism” (Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse)
The Damned, “Life Goes On” (Strawberries)
The Stranglers, “Outside Tokyo” (Black and White)
The Passage, “Dark Times” (For All and None)
Adam & The Ants, “Deutscher Girls” (Peel Session) (BBC Radio 1 Peel Sessions)
The Sound, “New Way of Life” (Shock of Daylight)
Bauhaus, “St. Vitus Dance” (In the Flat Field)
The Mission, “Love” (Carved in Sand: Expanded Edition)
45 Grave, “Playtime” (Sleep in Safety)
Pink Turns Blue, “Touch the Skies” (Extended Club Mix) (Touch the Skies)
James Ray and the Performance, “A New Kind of Assassin” (Merciful Releases 1986-1989)
HOUR 3
Helios Creed, “Blood Red” (X-Rated Fairy Tales)
Big Black, “Pavement Saw” (Pig Pile)
Wire, “Kidney Bingos” (A Bell is a Cup Until it is Struck)
Cocteau Twins, “Iceblink Luck” (Heaven or Las Vegas)
Nitzer Ebb, “All Over” (Showtime)
1,000 Homo DJs, “Apathy” (Side Trax)
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, “These Remains” (I See Good Spirits, I See Bad Spirits)
A Split-Second, “The Colosseum Crash” (…From the Inside)
Hula, “Poison” (Club Mix) (Best of Hula)
Joy Division, “Warsaw” (Substance)
The Smiths, “Wonderful Woman” (The Sound of The Smiths)
Love and Rockets, “Lazy” (Earth, Sun, Moon)
Roxy Music, “In Every Dream Home a Heartache” (For Your Pleasure)
Nine Inch Nails, “Physical (You’re So)” (Broken)
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Matt Sebastian (5/17/26)
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Matt Sebastian (5/10/26)
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Matt Sebastian (5/3/26)
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For future shows:
1. A Matter of Time – Berlin
2. Blue-Eyed Pop – the Sugarcubes
3. I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts – X
4. The Ordinary Boys – Morrissey
5. Growing In Green – March Violets
6. Tora! Tora! Tora! – Depeche Mode
7. Rules + Regulations – Public Image Ltd.
8. Love und Romance – the Slits
9. TVC15 – David Bowie
Great setlist tonight. Loved the Pink Turns Blue, The Damned, and Roxy Music cuts. Glad I could listen again to such a great show.
For a future episode, please consider The Dark “The Masque”. Been listeing to a lot of Goth Punk lately.
Thanks. And have a great week.
Thank you for a great setlist tonight. How about “Sea of Sin” from Depeche Mode?
Gavin Friday and the Man Seezer – He Got What He Wanted
Wowza great Memorial weekend set list! It was literally the only good thing this weekend as it was cold and raining boo! I loved hour 1 especially! Thank you for my Nitzer Ebb request…I listen to that album all of the time…so good!! For the June 14 program (which also happens to be my birthday!!) I would absolutely love any of the following songs:
Furniture – Brilliant Mind
The Stranglers – Golden Brown
The Chameleons – Swamp Thing
These songs are like treasures….my treasures…. and it would mean a great deal to me! (•‿•)
Thanks again as always for bringing dark joy into our lives!!! ｡◕‿◕｡
Revolting Cocks – Union Carbide (live)
Skinny Puppy – VX Gas Attack
Meat Beat Manifesto – Asbestos Lead Asbestos
Kraftwerk – Radioactivity
Wumpscut – Soylent Green
Consolidated – Butyric Acid
Front Line Assembly – Toxic
Do you see a theme here?
Instead of my usual semi-obscure industrial requests, how about some lesser known bands from the Australian gothic-country/blues punk (or whatever you wanna call it) scene, similar to the Birthday Party and Crime and The City Solution:
The Triffids – Lonely Stretch
Scientists – Set It on Fire
Hugo Race – Rue Morgue Blues
The Blackeyed Susans – A Curse on You
We drank green margaritas
Danced with sweet senoritas
And we all went home as winners of a kind
You said, “I guarantee we’ll have more fun
Drink till the moon becomes the sun
And in the taxi home I’ll sing you a Triffids song”
Hi Matt! My husband, Steve, and I just celebrated our 7th Wedding Anniversary on May 25th. Can you play our wedding song, “Halo” by The Cure?
Thank you again for always playing our song every year we have been married!
Amazing set especially hour 1
Would love to hear some Pain Teens on a future show
Hey Matt,way to kick off the Holiday and let Summer begin…on a Dark Wave!Great mixes & sets,always appreciated especially CabVol,thanx.Got some stuff for your consideration & you know,All The Best!
KNIFELADDER-You Are The Head Of The Serpent
FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY-The Chair
MANUFACTURE-Slugger
M.
Great show top to bottom, and thanks for playing the Helios Creed request! Love hearing the requests curated in among your selections.
Song request:
Rational by King Cobb Steelie
Always Love the Show !
you have turned me on to so many great bands !
here’s a few request of songs I haven’t heard on DW
1. Castles in Spain, Video LP Version
2. B.A.D. Medicine Show
3. File 13 – Taste So Good
4. Let’s Active – Waters Part
5. Passion Puppets – Like Dust
6. Pursuit of Happiness – I’m an Adult Now
7. Replacements – Left of the Dial
8. 45 Grave – Party Time (Zombie Version)
9. Screaming Tribesmen – Igloo
10. Shark Vegas – You Hurt Me
11. Wall of VooDoo – Far Side of Crazy
12. The Three O’Clock – Jet Fighter
I second Passion Puppets and Wall of Voodoo : – )
Great-looking tracklist – gonna have to listen to this in fullness tonight! Thanks as always for what you do, Matt!
Hi, outstanding consistent playlist. As always! Your creative selections keep me rolling, and my mind busy, as I drive my daily delivery route around Arizona!
Suggestion for next week’s playlist: Concrete Blonde- Tomorrow, Wendy.
Was in Montreal, Canada this weekend and had the experience of listening live on EST, late night! Props to the darkwavers back east who stay up late. That first hour takes the checkered flag, wow! Thanks for playing my Bunnymen request, and nope, they did not play that cut in San Francisco. I too was bummed to miss Cabaret Voltaire, they played the very same night as the Bunnymen. Is “Monitor” the best Banshees song? Contender for sure. The Fall, SP, Pink Turns Blue, and more Big Black and Wire were welcome highlights.
Here’s my almost summer request for a future communion: “UV Ray” by JAMC.
Hope the road trip was awesome Matt, have a great week. Cheers!
The Durutti Column – Never Known or Tomorrow
Rocking show!
Here’s a request — Wire – Two People in a Room.
Thanks!
Second this!
Hey Matt!
Hope you had an awesome Memorial Day! Many thanks for spinning that TKK track…
Feels like a great time for some violin to get the summer season rollin’ properly ? …. perhaps just a few memorable intro chords, anyway? e.g. this request:
Christian Death // Will O’ The Wisp
Cheers!
Shoc Corridor – Iceberg (1983) Apple Music + Qobuz + Bandcamp
Matt,
I know you like covers, but good luck finding a copy of this one…
Ethyl Meatplow cover the Carpenters’ ‘Close to You” on *Happy Days, Sweetheart*.
I have a FLAC copy of the CD that I found on an old hard drive. Hit me up if you could play this and can’t find it otherwise, sorry if that’s a stupid thing to say or an illegal one. I’m sure that this will satiate your taste for covers for another twenty mins. :-)
VIC from Tucson but currently in Columbia, Mo
Thank you Matt an amazing and awesome show!
Thank you for Monitor by Souxisie and Dark Times by the Passage.
Wonderful to hear those again and share with other listeners!
Love the Skinny Puppy and Frontline Assembly and Ministry. Long Live Industrial Music!
John from Tucson
Great show this past weekend, Matt! I would really appreciate it if you could play “Thank You America ” by Cabaret Voltaire. Thanks a lot!
Funny story about the show opener. I was in Petco doing some shopping early in the afternoon on Wednesday. You know how there’s always music playing low overhead in these stores? I couldn’t believe my ears when Lucretia came on!
Thanks for a great show Matt : – )
Funny love it!!!
Dream Home Heartache is such a great track. How about playing the cover Rozz Williams did of it? The version on the Dream Home Heartache EP he put out was good, but the version on the On The Altar/In The Heart (In The Heart track 1) was better.
Requests to think about, thank you for all the great music Matt, your show is the best thing on SiriusXM!
Flipper: Ha Ha Ha. Bay Area dark punk classic
Henry Badowski: My Face
Jah Wobble: Trench Warfare
Ignatius Jones: Like a Ghost (Australian dark synth) Written by Steve Kileby of The Church
This was a top tier show and epic set!!!!