Fields of the Nephilim
“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
Strawberry Switchblade, “Jolene” (Strawberry Switchblade: Expanded Edition)
Love and Rockets, “It Could Be Sunshine” (Express)
Siouxsie and the Banshees, “Paradise Place” (Kaleidoscope)
Fields of the Nephilim, “Moonchild” (The Nephilim)
The Mission, “Tower of Strength” (Children)
Public Image Ltd., “Home” (Album)
Alien Sex Fiend, “Boneshaker Baby” (Acid Bath)
Danielle Dax, “Big Hollow Man” (Dark Adapted Eye)
Gene Loves Jezebel, “Cow” (Immigrant)
David Bowie and Pat Metheny Group, “This Is Not America” (Best of David Bowie 1980/1987)
The Passions, “I’m In Love With a German Film Star” (Thirty Thousand Feet Over China)
Dominatrix, “The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight” (The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight)
Depeche Mode, “Get the Balance Right” (Construction Time Again)
HOUR 2
Nitzer Ebb, “Captivate” (William Orbit Mix) (Belief)
Colourbox, “Tarantula” (7-Inch Version) (Colourbox)
Severed Heads, “Dead Eyes Opened” (Dead Eyes Opened)
Front 242, “Until Death (Do Us Part)” (Front By Front)
The Psychedelic Furs, “All That Money Wants” (All Of This and Nothing)
The The, “Slow Emotion Replayed” (Slow Emotion Replayed)
Duran Duran, “Night Boat” (Duran Duran)
The Cure, “Sinking” (The Head on the Door)
The Smiths, “Suffer Little Children” (The Smiths)
The Church, “Ripple” (Priest=Aura)
Daniel Ash, “Foolish Thing Desire” (Foolish Thing Desire)
Magazine, “Shot By Both Sides” (Real Life)
HOUR 3
Christian Death, “Electra Descending” (Catastrophe Ballet)
Xmal Deutschland, “Polarlicht” (Viva)
Dead Can Dance, “Threshold” (Dead Can Dance)
Executive Slacks, “Our Lady” (The Complete Recordings)
KMFDM, “Juke Joint Jezebel” (Single Mix) (Greatest Shit)
Skinny Puppy, “Addiction” (Gunter Schulz of KMFDM Remix) (Remix Dys Temper)
Fad Gadget, “Back to Nature” (Fad Gadget By Frank Tovey)
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, “First Cut” (My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult)
Clan of Xymox, “Kiss and Tell” (Masters of Mind, Body and Soul)
Pretty & Twisted, “Souvenir” (Pretty & Twisted)
Joy Division, “Insight” (Unknown Pleasures)
The Sisters of Mercy, “Possession” (First and Last and Always)
Bauhaus, “Dark Entries” (1979-1983, Vol. 1)
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- 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)
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Matt Sebastian (8/9/26)
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An ocassional reminder about requests: They are always appreciated and all are considered, but I make no guarantees they’ll be played. I don’t plan to weigh in on individual songs and why they do or don’t get played, but the most common reason requests don’t get played is when they don’t fit the format of the show, whether that means they’re from the wrong genre or (probably most often) the wrong era. The show celebrates the darker side of classic ’80s alternative (which I admidetdly stretch the boundaries of a little).
Also, please note that I have to submit playlists fairly early, so it’s rarely possible to request something for the next week’s show or even the show after that. So please know that there can be a several-week lag from when a request is made to when it’s played. So if there’s something you’d like to hear on a particular date or show, plan ahead!
Thank you.
Good show this week Matt.
I’d like to request
Die Warsaw
Something off of Engine
Great show tonight. Lots to love. Pretty & Twisted was a great cut. And not sure I’ve ever heard the Strawberry Switchblade cover of Jolene. Thanks for that.
Since you brought up David Bowie and “soundtrack” in the same thought, how about another one of his movie tunes? “Cat People” or “Always Crashing In The Same Car”. Yeah, “Always Crashing” wasn’t in The Man Who Fell To Earth. But Low was pretty much that movie’s soundtrack. Or should have been that movie’s soundtrack.
Thanks for the good music. Have a good week.
I am glad that strawberry switchblade is getting more play on 1st wave , I had expected to hear them more in 2025 because it was the 40th anniversary of their one and only debut album in 1985 .
It was a good show, but I’m sad. This makes several weeks in row without any of my requests being played (even accounting for the 3-week interval between posting here and live shows), and I do think they’re format-appropriate, imo!
But more importantly, there was no mention of the TEAR GARDEN TOUR that is starting in just two weeks. That tour is huge news for a band that formed in 1986 and has NEVER toured until now! I had really hoped that Tear Garden would at least get a mention for the tour, if not any actual songs. Cry.
Well. I’ll keep making requests anyway.
1. Attrition – Fusillade Part 3 (or) The Game Is Up
2. Einstürzende Neubauten – Die Befindlichkeit des Landes
3. Intermix – Voices
4. Girls Under Glass – Grey In Grey
5. Nurse With Wound – Space Funk With Springs
I’m looking forward to hearing tear gardens you and me and rainbows performed live.
And I would not mind hearing the full 16 minute version played on darkwave.
Always a pleasant surprise to hear “I’m in Love with a German Film Star”. I first heard that track in a video game of all places!
Faith and the Muse – Sredni Vashtar
This Ascension – Columba Aspexit
Controlled Bleeding – Words of the Dying
Dessau – Isolation (Joy Division cover)
Severed Heads – Jet Lag 400 blows mix
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
My girlfriend wants to hear Pop Will Eat It Self – Def Con One . But I think Sluggo plays it on his party show.
Very nice show again, especially liked the Günter Schulz remix of Addiction. Here’s some new requests for future shows, with a theme again; lesser known side projects of more famous bands/artists:
Princess Tinymeat – Angels in Pain (Virgin Prunes offshoot)
Flowering Blight – Holy Sugarwater (Paul Barker’s one-off solo project)
Black Line – Shut It Down (Basically Nitzer Ebb + friends)
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. Bang Bang – Iggy Pop
9. Look Back in Anger – David Bowie
10. Sorry For Laughing – Propaganda
11. Blue Hotel – Lene Lovich
12. Visions In Blue – Ultravox
13. Showroom Dummies – Kraftwerk
14. See Those Eyes – Altered Images
15. When I Was Young – Danielle Dax
16. Smack Jack – Nina Hagen
17. Same Old Scene – Roxy Music
18. A Matter of Time – Berlin (with Terri Nunn off the “Best of Berlin” compilation)
19. Tora! Tora! Tora! – Depeche Mode