Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” — the Sunday night celebration of the “darker side of classic alternative” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured music from Love and Rockets, Visage, The Stranglers, Nitzer Ebb, Coil, Ghost dance, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Pailhead, Soft Cell, The Wolfgang Press, Tones on Tail, Swans, A Split-Second, Au Pairs, Japan and more.
“Dark Wave,” hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs founder/editor Matt Sebastian, airs every Sunday from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Eastern on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave (Channel 33). The most recent two episodes also are available as part of Sirius XM’s new On Demand service for online subscribers.
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Playlist: “Dark Wave,” hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Matt Sebastian — 2/15/15
Killing Joke, “Let’s All Go (To the Fire Dances)”
Coil, “Tainted Love”
The Damned, “The Shadow of Love” (10 Inches of Hell Mix)
Nitzer Ebb, “Family Man”
Joy Division, “Love Will Tear Us Apart” (Peel Session)
The Stranglers, “Always the Sun”
Play Dead, “Shine”
Visage, “Mind of a Toy”
The Cure, “The Same Deep Water As You”
The Gun Club, “Sex Beat”
Bauhaus, “The Passion of Lovers”
Ministry, “Breathe”
The Sisters of Mercy, “Temple of Love”
Front 242, “Until Death (Do Us Part)”
Swans, “Cop”
Au Pairs, “Love Song”
Siouxsie and the Banshees, “The Last Beat of My Heart”
The Smiths, “Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me”
Tones on Tail, “Movement of Fear”
A Split-Second, “Rigor Mortis”
Japan, “I Second That Emotion”
Echo & The Bunnymen, “Lovers on the Run”
The Wolfgang Press, “Chains”
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, “I Let Love In”
Dead Can Dance, “The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove”
The Cult, “Love”
Love and Rockets, “Love Me”
Depeche Mode, “Higher Lover”
Ghost Dance, “The Grip of Love”
Cocteau Twins, “My Love Paramour”
Wire, “So and Slow it Grows”
Soft Cell, “Bedsitter”
The Jesus and Mary Chain, “Nine Million Rainy Days”
Pailhead, “I Will Refuse” (12-Inch Version)
Dreadful Shadows, “Twist In My Sobriety”
Gary Numan, “We’re the Unforgiven”
The Mission, “Love”
Kate Bush, “Hounds of Love”
The Psychedelic Furs, “Dumb Waiters”
Morrissey, “Let Me Kiss You”
Peter Murphy, “Strange Kind of Love”
I’m hoping you can slip something from the new Church album into next week’s show without stepping on any toes.
It came out in ’94, so I don’t know if it’s too late to fit in this show’s format, but can you play “Cyclops” off Marilyn Manson’s first album? (Trent Reznor produced that LP, if that earns any Dark Wave points.)
Coil- Tainted love!!
Hey Matt, this is a bit of an unusual request but I was hoping this track could be squeezed into the next show somehow. I would really appreciate it if you could play Crockett’s Theme by Jan Hammer. The show has been off the air for 25 years, but the synths in that track are truly outstanding. Thanks