The Cure | Photo by Metronome via Fiction Records
“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 Cure, “Primary” (Faith)
Gang of Four, “Call Me Up” (Songs of the Free)
Joy Division, “Walked in Line” (Still)
Modern English, “Black Houses” (Mesh & Lace)
Cocteau Twins, “Carolyn’s Fingers” (Blue Bell Knoll)
The Jesus and Mary Chain, “Teenage Lust” (Acoustic Version) (Honey’s Dead: Expanded Edition)
Morrissey, “November Spawned a Monster” (Live) (Beethoven Was Deaf)
Japan, “Gentlemen Take Polaroids” (Gentlemen Take Polaroids)
The The, “Lonely Planet” (Dusk)
Cabaret Voltaire, “Do Right” (Micro-Phonies)
Marc Almond featuring Siouxsie Sioux, “Threat of Love” (Open All Night)
Chris Connelly, “Candyman Collapse” (Shipwreck)
Depeche Mode, “I Want You Now” (Music For the Masses)
HOUR 2
Wire, “Three Girl Rhumba” (Pink Flag)
The Neon Judgement, “Awful Day” (Redbox)
Love and Rockets, “Rock and Roll Babylon” (Love and Rockets)
Killing Joke, “Seeing Red” (Killing Joke)
Revolting Cocks, “Something Wonderful” (Beers, Steers + Queers)
Children on Stun, “Cats or Devils Eyes” (Celibacy & Anadin)
Abecedarians, “Misery of Cities” (Eureka)
Front 242, “Don’t Crash” (Politics of Pressure)
Death in June, “Fall Apart” (The Wall of Sacrifice)
Coil, “Windowpaine” (Love’s Secret Domain)
Julee Cruise, “Falling” (Soundtrack From Twin Peaks)
Nitzer Ebb, “Lightning Man” (The Industry vs. The Ebb Mix) (Showtime)
HOUR 3
Bauhaus, “Hair of the Dog” (Mask)
The Sisters of Mercy, “Blood Money” (First and Last and Always)
The Teardrop Explodes, “Sleeping Gas” (Kilimanjaro)
Siouxsie and the Banshees, “Hall of Mirrors” (Through the Looking Glass)
The Nefilim, “Xodus” (Zoon)
Kristin Hersh, “Pennyroyal Tea” (Echo)
These Immortal Souls, “Black Milk” (I’m Never Gonna Die Again)
Concrete Blonde, “I Know the Ghost” (Rosalie)
Public Image Ltd., “Flowers of Romance” (Flowers of Romance)
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, “Souvenir” (Architecture and Morality)
Sad Lovers and Giants, “Seven Kinds of Sin” (The Mirror Test)
999, “Homicide” (Separates)
Gary Numan, “Down in the Park” (Live) (Living Ornaments ’79)
David Bowie, “Look Back in Anger” (Lodger)
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Matt Sebastian (8/30/26)
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Matt Sebastian (8/23/26)
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Matt Sebastian (8/16/26)
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Thank you so much for playing Julee Cruise.. I definitely felt I was watching Twin Peaks all over again!!!
I look at September 1st as the start of Spooky Season. I was wondering if its too early for The Damned “Plan 9 Channel 7”?
Thank you!!!
Agreed, Julee Cruise was unexpected and awesome. As was “Threat of Love”. Thanks, Matt.
Song request:
Rational by King Cobb Steelie
Thanks!
Excellent show again, highlights for me was the very dancey mix of Lightning Man, the Marc Almond/Siouxsie Sioux collab and weirdly enough the Nefilim track, which was way more metal than I remembered. And thanks for playing my These Immortal Souls request!
Some requests again for the future:
Coil – The Wheel
Son of Sam – Dumb
I, Ludicrous – Spock’s Brain
For future shows:
1. Dear Heart – Cocteau Twins
2. The Headmaster Ritual – the Smiths
3. My Love Life – Morrissey
4. I Remember Nothing – Joy Division
5. Dreamland – Rose of Avalanche
6. Grinding Halt – the Cure
7. Burning Bridge – Kate Bush
8. Sister Midnight – Iggy Pop
9. Sorry For Laughing – Propaganda
10. Blue Hotel – Lene Lovich
11. Visions In Blue – Ultravox
12. Showroom Dummies – Kraftwerk
13. See Those Eyes – Altered Images
14. When I Was Young – Danielle Dax
15. Smack Jack – Nina Hagen
16. Same Old Scene – Roxy Music
17. A Matter of Time – Berlin (with Terri Nunn off the “Best of Berlin” compilation)
18. Tora! Tora! Tora! – Depeche Mode
19. Gloria – Patti Smith
Best show on XM
Here is a list of suggestions, requests
Faith and the Muse – Sredni Vashtar
This Ascension – Columba Aspexit
Controlled Bleeding – Words of the Dying
Dessau – Isolation (Joy Division cover)
Die Form – Rain Of Blood ‹Download Version – cEvin Key remix
Severed Heads – Jet Lag 400 blows remix
And One – Deutschmaschine or Techno Man
VNV Nation – Legion or Genesis
Das Ich – Destillat – VNV Nation Remix
Suicide Commando – Hellraiser (VNV Nation remix)
No More – Suicide Commando
:Wumpscut: – Soylent Green
Wolfsheim – Once in a Lifetime or The Sparrows and the Nightingales
Apoptygma Berzerk – Kathy’s Song (VNV Nation Remix)
Covenant – Dead Stars or Like Tears in Rain
Velvet Acid Christ – Fun With Drugs or Lysergia or Decypher
Combichrist – This S*it Will Fcuk You Up
Project Pitchfork – Timekiller
Leæther Strip – Strap Me Down
The Klinik – Moving Hands
Portion Control – Amnesia or Rise
Fad Gadget – Love Parasite, Ricky’s Hand, Back to Nature, Lady Shave , collapsing new people.
Einstürzende Neubauten – Yü-Gung – Fütter Mein Ego Adrian Sherwood mix
Ministry – Over the Shoulder squirrely version
Revolting Cocks – Stainless Steel Providers
Skinny Puppy – Smothered Hope
Front Line Assembly – Mindphaser
ohGr – Water
Hilt – no crack in junk Street, or Superhoney
Tear Garden – you and me and Rainbows
Legendary pink dots – Casting the Ruins
Download – Glassblower remix
Vomito Negro – Fighting the Force
Yello – I Love You
Princess Tinymeat – Angels in Pain
Virgin Prunes – Pagan Love Song
Another great show Matt, thank you.
Cover request for an upcoming show please.
Suspicious Minds by Fine Young Cannibals.
Always an aural feast for my ears.
the 79 live version of Down in the Park is my favorite version and one of my all time favorites.
Homicide is great, ever play the live version or Titanic Reaction from “The biggest tour in Sport”?
How about “surrender” by Single Gun Theory?