Miranda Sex Garden | Photo by Stefan De Batselier
“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
Morrissey, “You’re Gonna Need Someone On Your Side” (Your Arsenal)
Killing Joke, “Let’s All Go (To The Fire Dances)” (Fire Dances)
Dessau, “Unshakeable” (The Truth Hurts)
Coil, “Things Happen” (Love’s Secret Domain)
Bauhaus, “Dancing” (Mask)
Johnson Engineering Co., “Mr. Fiasco” (Unleash)
CCCP, “American Soviets” (Original Mix) (American Soviets)
Cabaret Voltaire, “Spies in the Wires” (Micro-Phonies)
Dominatrix, “The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight” (The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight)
Chris & Cosey, “Deep Velvet” (Trust)
Siouxsie and the Banshees, “Metal Postcard (Mittageisen)” (The Scream)
Gary Numan, “M.E.” (The Pleasure Principle)
The Names, “Nightshift” (Swimming)
The Bolshoi, “Looking for a Life to Lose” (Friends)
HOUR 2
45 Grave, “45 Grave” (Sleep in Safety)
The Misfits, “We Are 138” (Collection 2)
Inca Babies, “Big Jugular” (Rumble)
Sex Gang Children, “Dieche” (Dieche)
Christian Death, “Skeleton Kiss” (The Iron Mask)
Revolting Cocks, “Crackin’ Up” (Linger Ficken Good)
Front 242, “Take One” (Backcatalogue)
Nitzer Ebb, “I Give To You” (Ebbhead)
Skinny Puppy, “Hexonxonx” (Rabies)
The Cure, “A Short Term Effect” (Pornography)
Public Image Ltd., “Death Disco” (Metal Box)
The Rose of Avalanche, “Always There” (L.A. Rain)
Miranda Sex Garden, “Peep Show” (Fairytales of Slavery)
The Mission, “Over the Hills and Far Away” (The First Chapter)
HOUR 3
Peter Murphy, “I’ll Fall With Your Knife” (Cascade)
Pixies, “Motorway to Roswell” (Trompe le Monde)
Low, “Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me” (A Lifetime of Temporary Relief)
Depeche Mode, “Nothing” (Music For the Masses)
The Sisters of Mercy, “Flood I” (Flooland)
Love and Rockets, “Sweet Lover Hangover” (Sweet F.A.)
Swans, “God Damn the Sun” (Various Failures)
Joy Division, “Warsaw” (Substance)
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, “A Daisy Chain 4 Satan” (Acid & Flowers Mix) (Confessions of a Knife)
Pigface, “Ten Ground and Down” (Fook)
Meat Beat Manifesto, “Re-Animator Pt. 1” (Storm the Studio)
Pailhead, “No Bunny” (Side Trax)
Al Jourgensen, “It’s Always Christmas Time” (Alien Christmas)
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.
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