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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 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 Chameleons, “Tomorrow Never Knows” (Strange Times)
Section 25, “Dirty Disco” (Always Now)
The Creatures, “Pluto Drive” (Boomerang)
David Sylvian, “Pulling Punches” (Pulling Punches)
Skeletal Family, “Promised Land” (7-Inch Version) (The Singles Plus 1983-85)
The Mission, “Sometimes the Brightest Light Comes From the Darkest Place” (MG-T Mix) (The Brightest Light)
Fields of the Nephilim, “Deeper” (Deepest Dub) (Genesis & Revelation)
Love and Rockets, “No New Tale to Tell” (Live) (Assorted!)
The Glove, “Punish Me With Kisses” (Blue Sunshine)
Front 242, “Felines” (Front By Front)
Bigod 20, “Like a Prayer” (Like a Prayer)
Pigface, “Point Blank” (Gub)
HOUR 2
The Cramps, “Bikini Girls With Machine Guns” (Stay Sick)
45 Grave, “School’s Out” (Sleep in Safety)
Oedipus Scream, “Waiting on the Moon” (The Mental Purpose)
Christian Death, “Resurrection-Sixth Communion” (Only Theatre of Pain)
Wire, “In Vivo” (Club Mix) (In Vivo)
Cabaret Voltaire, “Bad Self Pt. 1” (12-Inch Version) (#8385 Collected Works 1983-1985)
Ministry, “Isle of Man” (Version II)” (Twitch)
The Jesus and Mary Chain, “Sidewalking” (Peel Session) (Automatic: Expanded Edition)
Public Image Ltd., “Seattle” (Happy?)
The Cure, “Disintegration” (Disintegration)
The Wolfgang Press, “Cut the Tree” (Lonely Is An Eyesore)
The Smiths, “The Boy With the Thorn In His Side” (Live) (Rank)
HOUR 3
Nine Inch Nails, “Kinda I Want To” (Pretty Hate Machine)
Manufacture, “Many Machines” (The Voice of World Control)
Skinny Puppy, “Worlock” (The Singles Collect)
Soft Cell, “Sex Dwarf” (Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret)
Joy Division, “The Eternal” (Closer)
The Sisters of Mercy, “Anaconda” (Some Girls Wander By Mistake)
Bauhaus, “Antonin Artaud” (Burning From the Inside)
Siouxsie and the Banshees, “Dazzle” (Glamour Mix) (Hyaena)
Xmal Deutschland, “Qual” (Fetisch)
Virgin Prunes, “Deadly Sins” (The Moon Looked Down and Laughed)
Current 93, “Crowleymass” (Crowleymass)
The Cassandra Complex, “Second Shot” (Theomania)
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Matt Sebastian (7/26/26)
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Matt Sebastian (7/19/26)
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Matt Sebastian (7/12/26)
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I live for Dark Wave Sunday night. Please play “Laughing Song” by the Residents.
For future shows:
1. Silent Hedges – Bauhaus
2. Dear Heart – Cocteau Twins
3. The Queen Is Dead – the Smiths
4. My Love Life – Morrissey
5. Paradise Place – Siouxsie + the Banshees
6. I Remember Nothing – Joy Division
7. Dreamland – Rose of Avalanche
8. No Time To Cry – the Sisters of Mercy
9. The Blue Hour – Christian Death
10. Burning Bridge – Kate Bush
11. Velouria – Pixies
12. Look Back in Anger – David Bowie
13. Bang Bang – Iggy Pop
14. Blue Hotel – Lene Lovich
15. Visions In Blue – Ultravox
16. Showroom Dummies – Kraftwerk
17. See Those Eyes – Altered Images
18. When I Was Young – Danielle Dax
19. Smack Jack – Nina Hagen
20. Over You – Roxy Music
21. A Matter of Time – Berlin (with Terri Nunn off the “Best of Berlin” compilation)
22. Tora! Tora! Tora! – Depeche Mode
How about the Meat Beat Manifesto remix of the Shamen – Hyperreal Selector?
Another great show Matt, hour 2 takes the cake for me.
Request for a future show please,
All that Money Wants – Psychedelic Furs
Lol, Crowleymass was my request, but I have to say I didn’t think you’d actually play it! Loved it, hope it delighted other people too! And a great show overall, I particularly liked Section 25 and Manufacture!
Maybe a few requests of artists you don’t play much:
1. Thomas Dolby – Airwaves (from “Golden Age of Wireless”)
2. Art of Noise – Close To The Edit (from “Who’s Afraid…”)
3. Barry Adamson – Checkpoint Charlie (from “Soul Murder”)
4. The Force Dimension – Tension (from “The Force Dimension”)
5. Laurie Anderson – From The Air (or anything from “Big Science”)
Excellent show tonight, Matt!
Thanks for playing my Ministry request! And yes, I enjoyed Crowleymass, as silly as it is. And as usual, I loved hearing the really obscure stuff, never even heard of Oedipus Scream but I liked their song.
New batch of requests for future shows:
Test Dept. – Fist
Hula – Cut Me Loose
Chrome – Danger Zone
Data-Bank-A – Two Steps Back
Desmond Simmons – Man the Lifeboat
Hi Matt –
Excellent show tonight. Would love to hear “Revenge” by Waiting For God on a future Dark Wave.
Thanks,
Dave W.
Long Branch, NJ