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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
Lard, “Pineapple Face” (The Last Temptation of Reid)
The The, “Armageddon Days (Are Here Again)” (Mind Bomb)
The Sound, “Sense of Purpose” (From the Lion’s Mouth)
Concrete Blonde, “Scene of a Perfect Crime” (Free)
Echo & The Bunnymen, “Friction” (Live) (Crystal Days 1979-1999)
Pixies, “Wave of Mutilation” (UK Surf) (Complete ‘B’ Sides)
The Jesus and Mary Chain, “Sugar Ray” (Honey’s Dead)
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, “A Daisy Chain 4 Satan” (Confessions of a Knife)
The Cure, “Six Different Ways” (The Head on the Door)
Wire, “Strange” (Pink Flag)
James Chance and The Contortions, “Contort Yourself” (Buy Contortions)
Joy Division, “Heart and Soul” (Closer)
Flipper, “The Way of the World” (Generic)
HOUR 2
Front 242, “Serial Killers Don’t Kill Their Girlfriend” (05:22:09:12 Off)
Love and Rockets, “Ghost of the Multiple Feature” (Lift)
Depeche Mode, “Fly on the Windscreen” (Extended) (Singles Box)
The Tear Garden, “You and Me and Rainbows” (Tired Eyes Slowly Burning)
The Mission, “Wasteland” (Live) (The Mission at the BBC)
Attrition, “Fusillade 3” (Smiling, at the Hypogonder Club)
Diamanda Galás, “My World Is Empty Without You” (Malediction and Prayer)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, “Hard On For Love” (Your Funeral… My Trial)
Jeffrey Lee Pierce, “Love and Desperation” (Wildweed)
HOUR 3
Bauhaus, “Stigmata Martyr” (In the Flat Field)
Siouxsie and the Banshees, “Bring Me the Head of the Preacher Man” (Hyaena)
The Sisters of Mercy, “Afterhours” (Body and Soul)
Virgin Prunes, “Caucasian Walk” (…If I Die, I Die)
The Product, “Alive Again” (Alive Again)
The Arms of Someone New, “St. Catherine” (Susan Sleepwalking)
This Mortal Coil, “Not Me” (It’ll End in Tears)
Killing Joke, “Sun Goes Down” (Wilful Days)
Die Warzau, “All Good Girls” (Engine)
Revolting Cocks, “Crackin’ Up” (Linger Ficken’ Good)
Nitzer Ebb, “Smear Body” (That Total Age)
The Church, “The Maven” (Sometime Anywhere)
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Matt Sebastian (9/13/26)
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Matt Sebastian (9/6/26)
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Matt Sebastian (8/30/26)
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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
Hello Matt. Awesome episode! Here are some requests for October.
Lard – They’re Coming to Take Me Away
Réseau D’Ombres – Mirrors
Girls Against Boys – She’s Lost Control
Throbbing Gristle – Discipline
Revolting Cocks – You Often Forget
Swans – Coward
Curve – Horror Head
My Bloody Valentine – I Can See It (But I Can’t Feel It)
Yes Revolting Cocks – You Ofter Forget
Also Revolting Cocks – TV Mind Remix it’s in my brain now.
Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you! Six times, one for each part of You And Me And RAINBOWS oh god it made my week! The Tear Garden show was so amazing and I’m so glad you did finally bring it up, not to mention actually playing *ALL* of Rainbows!
And even more, you played my actual request, Attrition’s Fusillade, that’s always been probably my favorite song of theirs.
My week – my month – is complete! And I can barely think of any more songs to request! But I’d still love to hear:
The Force Dimension – Tension
Voyou – Houseman (Germany Calling Mix)
Camouflage – Kling Klang (they really wanted to be Kraftwerk early on!)
Honestly, my comment’s already too long, but this was one of the best shows in months, really excellent choices and so much great music, too many to comment on!
Yeah, that really was one of the best shows this year, well done! So many highlights; The Tear Garden classic (who were really great live, despite Edward’s laryngitis), Attrition, Nitzer Ebb’s really early song, plus the two songs/bands I didn’t know (The Product & The Arms of Someone New).
Some requests again for future shows:
The Royal Family and the Poor – Voices
Cindytalk – Circle of Shit
Dog Faced Hermans – Fortune
Cindytalk …. yes to anything and everything from G. Sharp :)
Dog Faced Herman is a great request! Never understood why that band wasn’t bigger. Captivating live band as well. I saw them play with Trenchmouth, whose drummer was Fred Armisen before SNL!
Hey Matt!
Holy Sh*t…. Ghosts of the Multiple Feature, followed by Fly on the Windscreen. What a combo! And THEN…. classic Teargarden: You and Me and Rainbows. Soooo on point – you’ve simply nailed it, as per usual!
Stellar spinning… THANKS!!
Cheers!
For your shout out requests just make up a name here are suggestions.
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
Princess Tinymeat – Angels in Pain
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
Thank you for playing this one :-) 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
Greater Than One – now is the time , I don’t need God
Front 242 – Animal (Break me) , Mixed by Fear (your empire is on fire)
Thank you for Having the best show on XM radio.
Lol, Technoman (And One) would totally make me laugh. Such a great silly song, but very catchy!
Good god. 30+ requests? Matt doesn’t need a programmer, he does just fine.
It’s not programming, it’s just suggestions , he asks for input, so please don’t be a gatekeeper.
Just grabbed the new Bunnymen record and I really like it !
Can you play Brussels is Haunted from the new album? I feel it has that classic 80’s Bunnymen sound …. If you can Matt
Thanks
Constantine
Please continue curating your own show. It is fantastic.
I agree with you on the long list format of making requests being excessive. However, many great songs that appear on the show have been the result of requests so I hope listeners do continue to make some inspired ones within reason.
Great to hear some Diamanda Galas on the show!
Killer show last night! I was spinning the Bunnymen’s self-titled album while making dinner before the show and I thought, ‘need to request one of those live covers off the Bedbugs and Ballyhoo 12″ single’ and lo and behold you play Friction. I swear you must be a wizard Matt. Thanks for playing my Bad Seeds request, love that one, my wife does not, haha. That first hour gets the slight nod but a L&R track from Lift followed by extended Fly on the Windscreen, my goodness. You made some folks very happy playing that long Tear Garden cut, great stuff.
Request for a future communion: “Burning Airlines Give You So Much More” by Brian Eno.
Have a great week Matt, cheers!
Nice Nick Cave/Bad Seeds request…that one had psyched while energized while driving in search of a coffee! BTW left you a comment or attempted to on last week’s playlist, about velocity girl and slide away etc. I’m trying to hit the board earlier than my usual end of the week straggle in.
Hey Dave! I just went back and looked at your comment from last week. Good to know about Velocity Girl. If they’d played any west coast dates on that small sort of a reunion tour I too would have seen them. Alas, never did see them back in the 90s. The newly remastered vinyl stuff that Archie in the band kinda spearheaded is really good. Finally got a worthy mix of Copacetic, thankfully.
Great calls on Kracked and Sludgfeast. Anything on you’re living all over me really would work I think, that album is a masterpiece. Pond Song or The Post off Bug might fit too. Even Bulbs of Passion off the first album. We shall see if Matt plays something, I’ll leave it to the maestro!
Yeah, Slide Away last year far exceeded my expectations. Every single band was on point including the ones early on the bill that I knew nothing about. I keep checking for an announcement on the 27 lineup but nothing yet…..
It is just almost exactly a year ago since news broke about last year’s lineup, isn’t it? Will keep eyes peeled for news! I also had a great time. WarMachine and She’s Green were great new bands. The Swirlies totally knocked my socks off and Chapterhouse was great to experience. tbh my interest (and energy) began to fade after that as Nothing and Hum played.
I wish She’s Green had played in LA but we got Ovlolv in that slot and they were really good too. I was super impressed by Terraplana from Brazil. And I did enjoy Nothing but really loved Hum. I was never all that into them back in the 90s but their ‘surprise’ album from 2020, Inlet, is fantastic. Fingers crossed we get an announcement in the next week or so!
And a good day to you Matt! I enjoyed the crap out of this week’s installment – especially the first two hours! Two solid thumbs up!!! Some possible suggestions for next time:
Concrete Blonde – Darkening Of The Light
Depeche Mode – Little 15
Gary Numan – When The World Comes Apart
Thank you for keeping us Dark Wave minions fed with great music every week. It’s appreciated. ｡◕‿◕｡
BTW thank you for playing my second favorite Depeche Mode song!!!
The Cramps – Aloha From Hell
Seconded!
Also long but good are the cure – carnage visors. Ministry – So What (live). Lard – I am your clock. Those 3 would make allots a whole hour of the show.
Thank you for playing a track by, in your own words, “the mighty Flipper!”
Daisy Chain 4 Satan – hot as hell!
Some night, please, Laughing Song by the Residents.
Hey Matt, great show last night. I liked that long track by Tear Garden.
Shout outs to Matt and Brian for the “Pump Up The Volume” soundtrack request
Definitely ….one of my favorites!!!!!
Matt,nice smooth eerie Darkness this week,definitely was feeling it & a thanx for the NitzEbb if you will. As such,I got some more to bring to the table,so away I go & like always ALL THE BEST to you.
MODERN ENGLISH-Drowning Man
FRONT 242-Moldavia
GHOUL-Immigrant Song
M.
Here’s something obscure: 1000 Knives – Yellow Magic Orchestra from the BGM album (actually anything on that album sounds crazy).
Song Request
Rational by King Cobb Steelie
Great playlist this week! Tear Garden, The Product and The Arms of Someone New were all new to me. Would love to hear more. Looked them up, seems The Arms of Someone New have another reissue of their Love Power & Justice album which seems pretty cool, less dark more rhythmic, or maybe less Joy Division more New Orrder might be another way to put it. One of them went on to be in Area too. Would also love to hear some Sad Lovers & Giants in a future show too. Thanks for putting this show together every week!
Slight stretch (not exactly First Wave) but 16 Horsepower is very goth. And they cover Joy Division.
I wouldn’t mind hearing some 16 Horsepower either, especially now that they’re active and touring again.
Enjoyed the deep cuts!
Here’s a request for a possible shoegaze block in the near future –
Swervedriver – Laze It Up
Thanks!
Luna – Bonnie and Clyde ( Bonnie Parker version)
An amazing track! shout out to the Irma Vet soundtrack where I first heard it. That soundtrack also featured Sonic Youth’s Tunic (Song For Karen) in case we are getting a theme going…. : }
If you can find it, I’d like to request “Sin of Parade” by Umbrella Brigade. I really liked this song/album, but it was a small independent release. Thanks Matt!
Hey Matt,
Loved this week’s show. It was full of surprises, always great when that happens. There was so much glorious chaotic noise including that Nick Cave selection and Diamanda Galas and Flipper. The James Chance and the Contortionist skronk totally knocked me out. Just loved it. Was also very much into the unearthing of The Product and The Arms of Someone New. And Jeffrey Lee Pierce, also someone I hadn’t heard before. It’s all got me somehow looking forward to hearing some stuff from the Dave Thomas/Pere Ubu/Dead Boys realm again.
Have a great week!
U Škripcu – Samuraj (1982) Apple + Qobuz
Fuck Cancer
I would like to hear Godflesh-“Feral Colony” from their new album Decay.
Thanks!
I would like to hear Feral Colony by Godflesh, from their new album Decay
Das Ich Destillat vnv nation remix
For Bruno … RIP