The Cure’s Robert Smith | Photo by Paul Cox
“Dark Wave,” hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Matt Sebastian, airs 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.
HOUR 1
Siouxsie and the Banshees, “The Passenger” (Loco-Motion Mix) (Through the Looking Glass)
DAF, “Brothers” (Future Wave)
Chris & Cosey, “Obsession” (Extended Mix) (Obsession)
A Split-Second, “Crash Course in Seduction” (Industrial Mix) (Kiss of Fury)
New Order, “Vanishing Point” (Technique)
Depeche Mode, “Strangelove” (Maxi Mix) (Music For the Masses)
Public Image Ltd., “The Body” (U.S. 12-Inch Mix) (Happy?)
Tones on Tail, “Go!” (Club Mix) (Everything!)
Clock DVA, “The Hacker” (Buried Dreams)
The Cassandra Complex, “One Millionth Happy Customer (EBM Mix) (Dancing in Darkness)
HOUR 2
The Cure, “A Japanese Dream” (12-Inch Remix) (Mixed Up: Deluxe Edition)
The Danse Society, “Wake Up” (12-Inch Mix) (Heaven Is Waiting)
Echo & The Bunnymen, “Bedbugs and Ballyhoo” (Club Remix) (Echo & The Bunnymen)
Revenge, “Pineapple Face” (One True Passion)
Grace Jones, “She’s Lost Control” (Long Version) (The Collection)
Bauhaus, “In Fear of Dub” (Mask: Omnibus Edition)
Jah Wobble, “Invaders of the Heart” (Mix One) (Shake the Foundations: Militant Funk & The Post-Punk Dancefloor 1978-1984)
Killing Joke, “Love Like Blood” (Your Heart is a Weapon Dub) (In Dub: Rewind Vol. 1)
My Bloody Valentine, “Soon” (Andy Weatherall Mix) (Loveless)
A Certain Ratio, “Houses in Motion” (acr:box)
The Slits, “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” (Cut: Deluxe Edition)
HOUR 3
Hula, “Poison” (Club Mix) (Best of Hula)
Revolting Cocks, “No Devotion” (Big Sexy Land)
Front Line Assembly, “Vexation” (Provo Mix) (Monument)
James Ray and the Performance, “Mexico Sundown Blues” (12-Inch Version) (Merciful Releases 1986-1989)
Morrissey, “November the Second” (Everyday is Like Sunday)
Peter Murphy, “Final Solution” (Club Mix 2) (The Last and Only Star)
Skinny Puppy, “Addiction” (Gunter Schulz of KMFDM Remix) (Remix Dys Temper)
Nitzer Ebb, “Captivate” (William Orbit Mix) (Belief)
Lords of Acid, “I Sit on Acid” (Private Parts)
Ministry, “What A Wonderful World” (Short Slow Version) (Cover Up)
Got a request? Requests will be considered for future episodes as long as they fit the show’s format and generally within the 1stWave era — and provided the host doesn’t harbor an intense dislike of the song.
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — The Christmas Spectacular (12/24/23)
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (12/17/23)
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (12/10/23)
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (12/3/23)
“Still Ill” by the Smiths/Morrissey for next Sunday’s show in honour of 40 years since the release of their self-titled debut album. Thanx!
The Cure – “Purple Haze”
Thanks for the Ministry and the great start to 2024. Have a Happy New Year and a good week.
The Figurehead by The Cure please Matt
I’ll second that!
Can you Dig
Joy Division – Autosuggestion
The Cure – A Forest
The The – Giant
Modern English- Carry Me Down
Wowza what a NYE selection of tuneage!!! Some really great choices loved I Sit On Acid, Go, Soon & Vanishing Point! Anyway I could gush all day but…..
Some possible suggestions for next time:
The Chameleons – Swamp Thing
Love and Rockets – Saudade
The Smiths – Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
^^^ on a personal note my last request is for a much better 2024 ….. 2023 was not a great one.
Thanks again as always!!! ｡◕‿◕｡
Agreed on 2023. Here’s to a better 2024!
Agreed on I Sit On Acid. That is always good for a giggle. Man, I haven’t heard that song in ages.
I second all these requests too!
All those sound good to me too!
Damned – Plan 9 Channel 7
Medium Medium – Hungry So Angry
Happy New Year Matt!
Wowza what a NYE selection of tuneage!!! Some really great choices loved I Sit On Acid, Go, Soon & Vanishing Point! Anyway I could gush all day but…..
Some possible suggestions for next time:
The Chameleons – Swamp Thing
Love and Rockets – Saudade
The Smiths – Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
^^^ on a personal note my last request is for a much better 2024 ….. 2023 was not a great one.
Thanks again as always!!! ｡◕‿◕｡
A BIG THANK YOU, MATT, for spinning us up another year of wonderfully dark music! Nice way to close out 2023 with extended mixes and clubby dub versions. Depeche is a fave, New Order’s always grand, and I especially loved hearing theee magnificent Miss Grace Jones!
Happy New Year!
Happy new year !
My request is Joy Division- interzone
Been awhile since I heard ghost dance how about their covers of heart full of soul or radar love? Thanks.
Great show! Happy New Year! could you play Tones on Tail – Burning Sky’s
Thank you!
Hi Matt,
From albums released in 1984, I’d like to request one of the following for an upcoming show:
Black Girls – Violent Femmes
My City Was Gone – The Pretenders
The Empty World – The Cure
Thanks and Cheers, Matt!
Happy New Year, Matt.
I wish to request The Stagnant Pool by Felt.
Thank you.
Happy new year Matt! Awesome set last night, loved the extended mixes. I had Grace Jones’s Nightclubbing on the turntable before the show and then you played her killer cover of She’s Lost Control, that was sweet. Great selection from Chris and Cosey as well. And I couldn’t agree with you more about Technique and Vanishing Point, NO at their very best indeed. We’ll be listening to the replay on the app all week for sure.
Are we back to requests yet? With David Bowie’s birthday coming up on Jan 8 I’d love to hear “I’m Deranged.”
Have a great week Matt, cheers!
Seconded to honor Bowie.
Yes to honoring Bowie!
Great way to finish ‘23!
Looking forward to the DW’s for ‘24!
Happy new year Matt! Thanks for all you do.
I just came across a couple of great shoegaze-adjacent tunes that others may enjoy as well.
Ginger by Lillys (A Brief History Of Amazing Letdowns – 1993)
I Wanna Be Adored by The Stone Roses (The Stone Roses – 1989)
I’ve noticed a lot of requests for another song by this band already, and it’s an unusual request for me, but it just keeps coming up around me and in my head!
The Smiths- “Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me”
Agreed on the Technique statement.
I can listen the grooves off my Republic lp as well
Matt, you outdid yourself this week! Great set. Happy New Year!
Both the Christmas and NYE shows have been on repeat for me. And the NYE playlist helped to ease my return to work and the daily commute… So much good stuff – Grace Jones, the Bunnymen, the Slits…
Wishing Matt and the DW listeners a happy and healthy 2024.
The Jesus and Mary Chain – Little Red Rooster
Longshot Request (Dax Riggs – I Hear Satan)
Hell yeah on the JAMC cover of Little Red Rooster, great call!