[tweetmeme]Tonight’s edition of “Dark Wave” — the Sunday night celebration of the “darker side of classic alternative” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave — featured tracks off the brand-new Peter Murphy and Echo & The Bunnymen albums, plus a live cut off the new Morrissey reissue, and selections from Lowlife, The Bolshoi, Half Man Half Biscuit, Einstürzende Neubauten, Alan Vega, Love and Rockets, Assemblage 23 and more.
“Dark Wave,” hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs founder/editor Matt Sebastian, airs every Sunday from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Eastern on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave (Channel 33). The most recent two episodes also are available as part of Sirius XM’s new On Demand service for online subscribers.
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Playlist: “Dark Wave,” hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Matt Sebastian — 6/8/14
Ministry, “Just One Fix”
The Smiths, “Barbarism Begins at Home”
Love and Rockets, “Rock and Roll Babylon”
Alan Vega, “Saturn Drive”
Lowlife, “Sullen Sky”
The Cure, “From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea”
Half Man Half Biscuit, “Reasons to Be Miserable (Part 10)”
Peter Murphy, “I’m On Your Side”
Assemblage 23, “Sometimes I Wish I Was Dead (1988)”
Mission of Burma, “Academy Flight Song”
The Birthday Party, “Release the Bats”
Colin Newman, “Order for Order”
Christian Death, “Sex Dwarf”
Soft Cell, “The Girl with the Patent Leather Face”
Revolting Cocks, “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy”
Depeche Mode, “Now This is Fun”
Echo & The Bunnymen, “Constantinople”
Concrete Blonde, “Everybody Knows”
The Jesus and Mary Chain, “Tower of Song”
New Order, “The Perfect Kiss”
Einstürzende Neubauten, “Z.N.S.”
Abecedarians, “Smiling Monarchs”
1919, “The Scream”
Chris Connelly, “The Edge of Midnight”
Clan of Xymox, “Crucified”
Siouxsie and the Banshees, “Paradise Place”
Gary Numan, “The Prison Moon”
Bauhaus, “She’s in Parties”
Morrissey, “Now my Heart is Full” (Live)
The Chills, “Pink Frost”
The Bolshoi, “A Way”
KMFDM, “The Virus”
Joy Division, “Colony”
The Mission, “Into the Blue”
Front Line Assembly, “Digital Tension Dementia”
The Sisters of Mercy, “Kiss the Carpet”
Butthole Surfers, “Cherub”
PTP, “Rubber Glove Seduction”
The Wedding Present, “Hand in Glove”
