Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — The Halloween Spectacular (10/31/24)

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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 shows airs at 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Eastern every Sunday on Sirius XM satellite radio’s 1st Wave (Channel 33).

The most recent two episodes are also available to subscribers to stream via the Sirius XM app.

Got a request? Requests will be considered for future episodes as long as they fit the show’s format and fall generally within the 1st Wave era — and provided the host doesn’t harbor an intense dislike of the song. If there’s something you’d like to hear, drop it in the comments below.

Programming note: This Halloween edition of “Dark Wave” will replay at 10 p.m. Eastern on Sunday, Nov. 3.

HOUR 1
The Misfits, “Halloween” (Collection 2)
Bauhaus, “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” (Crackle)
Fields of the Nephilim, “Reanimator” (Dawnrazor)
The Cramps, “I Was a Teenage Werewolf” (Songs the Lord Taught Us)
Concrete Blonde, “Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)” (Bloodletting)
The Cure, “Subway Song” (Three Imagianary Boys)
Echo & The Bunnymen, “The Killing Moon” (Ocean Rain)
The Smiths, “Pretty Girls Make Graves” (The Smiths)
Siouxsie and the Banshees, “Halloween” (Peel Session) (At the BBC)
Ministry, “Everyday (Is Halloween)” (Twelve-Inch Singles)
Nine Inch Nails, “The Becoming” (The Downward Spiral)
Cocteau Twins, “Blood Bitch” (Garlands)
Joy Division, “Dead Souls” (Heart and Soul)

HOUR 2
Alien Sex Fiend, “Now I’m Feeling Zombified” (Curse)
The Birthday Party, “Release the Bats” (Hits)
Tones on Tail, “Movement of Fear” (Everything!)
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, “And This is What The Devil Does” (I See Good Spirits and I See Bad Spirits)
David Bowie, “Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)” (Scary Monsters and Super Creeps)
Death Cult, “Ghost Dance” (Ghost Dance)
The Sisters of Mercy, “Poison Door” (First and Last and Always)
Pixies, “Dead” (Doolittle)
Lydia Lunch and Rowland S. Howard, “I Fell In Love With a Ghost” (Hysterie)
The Mission, “Sacrilege” (God’s Own Medicine)
Christian Death, “Deathwish” (Ony Theatre of Pain)
Japan, “Halloween” (In Vogue)
The Creatures, “The Vamp/Witchcraft/Standing There” (Live) (Zulu)

HOUR 3
Dead Kennedys, “Halloween” (Milking the Sacred Cow)
13th Chime, “Coffin Maker” (The Singles 1981-1983)
The Gun Club, “Ghost on the Highway” (Fire of Love)
Killing Joke, “Love Like Blood” (Night Time)
Laibach, “Sympathy for the Devil” (Anthems)
Nitzer Ebb, “Murderous” (That That Total Age)
Cabaret Voltaire, “Ghost Talk” (#8385 Collected Works)
Suicide, “Frankie Teardrop” (Suicide)
Love and Rockets, “Haunted When the Minutes Drag” (USA Mix) (Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven)
Virgin Prunes, “Pagan Lovesong” (Heresie)
Switchblade Symphony, “Witches” (Bread and Jam for Frances)

PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS

• Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (10/27/24)
• Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (10/20/24)
• Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (10/13/24)
• Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (10/6/24)

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