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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 :)
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!