New Wave Post Punk Wave

A sonic crash where style meets substance, and attitude meets atmosphere. This collection dives deep into Canada’s wave-driven underground—where angular guitars, icy synths, and restless energy redefined punk and reshaped pop. From the art-school edges of New Wave to the introspective shadows of Post-Wave and the raw pulse of Punk Wave, these tracks capture a scene in flux, bursting with invention and edge. Cool, quirky, and unapologetically bold—this is the sound of the future, past and present.

Tracks

Artist	Track	Title	Length
Spoons	Waterline	Vertigo Tango	05:02
Modernes Pickles	March of the Fingertips	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:57
ACTORS	Flesh & Bone	Reanimated	03:10
Corsage	Big Night Out (Single Mix)	Big Night Out (EP)	05:11
The Idles	Again and Again	The Idles Demo	02:54
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	The Swimmer	ST	02:30
Spoons	Conventional Beliefs	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	03:57
Mettle	Five-Four	ST	04:39
Boys Brigade	Shadows	Mannequin Demo	03:32
Micks	I Want to be With You	ST (EP)	03:40
Glamorcult	Start The Revolution	The Stone Sessions	04:03
Age of Mirrors	Everything Looks The Same	Mirage	03:38
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midway	Midway b/w Thin Lines	06:29
Numbers	Mr. Dempster	Add Up	03:49
Benjamin Russell	Dreaming Girl	Madman	02:24
Timothy Chipman	Old Shoes, New Dreams	Ghost Parade	01:33
Martha And The Muffins	Luna Park	Trance and Dance	03:12
Spunker (aka Neotone)	You Don't Wanna Hear This Song	Spunker	02:16
Spoons	Paint by Number Day	New Day New World	04:34
Lou Champagne System	Don't Say I'm Here	No Visible Means	03:27
Spoons	Blow Away	Arias & Symphonies	05:59
I Braineater	Funtime	Artist, Poet, Thief	01:24
Glamorcult	Where is the Love	Atlantis Under the Sea	03:53
Compilation	Moist & Tender - Alienation	Toronto Calling	03:22
Compilation	Tulpä - Apologize to Your Mother	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	05:06
The Modern Minds	Slap in the Face	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:46
Images In Vogue	Politics of Sound	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	03:56
Vis-A-Vis	Prison of Eyes	Heart and Soul	04:50
Glamorcult	Tokyo Streets (Bonus Track)	A Price To Paris	04:15
Drama	A Kiss Without Lust	Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)	03:12
Roland Blinn	Peg-in-Hole	Peg-in-Hole b/w Tense (and The fishermen)	03:55
DeMars	Out of Sight	Stories from between the Walls	05:25
Theo Vandenhoff	Eight Of Swords	Heartache Is An Empty Room	03:02
Rex Chainbelt	Allies	Foreign Movie	03:47
Chocolate Bunnies From Hell	Pumpin' For Jill	Pumpin' For Jill b/w Simple Man (picture sleeve)	04:02
Spoons	Only for Athletes	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	05:29
Kings	Run Shoes Running	Are Here	02:34
Handful of Snowdrops	S.G.B.P. (2nd Lineup Rehearsal Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	02:53
Moral Support	Strange Day for Dancing	Insanity	03:21
The Government	Paranoid Downtown Funk Pt. 2	How Many Fingers?	02:32
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Rock 'N' Roll	Ohama aka The White Album	04:26
Einstein	Mr. Science	Sex and Science	02:35
NEO A4	Home	The Warmer Side of You	02:53
Blue Oil	Innocent Boys	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:45
Johnny Faith	Standing On the Red Line	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	02:52
Direktive 17	Run With Me	ST (EP)	04:35
Compilation	The Sharks - Get Off the Radio	No Pedestrians	03:00
DeMars	La nouvelle epoque	Les Télé-Têtes	04:01
Channel 5	Record Go Round	ST (EP)	02:40
Tenants	Let 'Em Go	Visions of Our Future	04:28
Popular Front	Doomsday Army	Doomsday Army 2026 Remasters by Ron Obvious	03:50
Decade of Dreams	I've Never Felt Like This	Wild Colloquial	02:47
Breeding Ground	Reflections (In a Coffee Cup)	Tales of Adventure (EP)	05:21
Palace at 4 a.m.	The Man Who Never Sleeps	Untamed World	04:10
Modernes Pickles	Are You a Martian	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	04:03
B-Sides	Bedtime for Ronald	Red to Black	03:52
Bündock	Cowboy	Société Anonyme	03:46
Minutes From Downtown	Heaven Street	ST	04:35
Handful of Snowdrops	Gabrielle	Land of the Damned	06:32
Tim Ray	Stranded Walk	ST	03:24
Pukka Orchestra	Miss Right	ST	03:32
Instructions	Wicked Heart	ST	04:02
Oui	You Make Me High	Oui	04:41
Glamorcult	Live for Today	Tropical Romance (picture sleeve)	03:37
Austra	The Choke	Feel it Break	04:12
Kinetic Ideals	Life in Shadow	Life In Shadow b/w Maze of Ways	02:57
Secret Act	Helpless	My Neighbourhood	04:14
Spoons	One in Ten Words	Arias & Symphonies	04:10
Fictions	Don't Look Down	ST	02:31
100 Flowers	He and She	21st Guessing	04:26
Tabby K	Summertime	Summertime b/w Wind Or Water	03:42
Theo Vandenhoff	The Factory	Collected EPs	05:36
Vital Sines	Fear of the Cold	Big Dark Dreams	03:41
Jon Mullane	Somebody	Following Yesterday	03:15
The Front	Can't Get Started	Gina's at a Party	04:18
Men Without Hats	Security (Everybody Feels Better With)	Folk of the 80's (EP)	03:57
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Sometimes	I Fear What I Might Hear	03:41
Theo Vandenhoff	Saviour On The Spilled Blood	Saviour on the Spilled Blood	04:28
Decade of Dreams	One Night in Bohemia	Wild Colloquial	03:50
Darkroom	Leave it to Heaven	San Paku	03:45
Glamorcult	All That Matters	Shadows From The Past	03:39
Rivals	I'll Just Let You Go	I'll Just Let You Go b/w I Don't Believe in Ghoulies	03:32
Frigidaires	Three Cool Cats	Three Cool Cats (picture sleeve)	02:12
Térapi	Espèce de stress	Primale	02:33
100 Flowers	Coming Up For Air	21st Guessing	04:06
Blue Oil	Far Too Much	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:52
B-Sides	Bedtime for Ronald (33⅓ rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	04:27
Corsage	Jackson	ST	03:41
Kaméléon	Genocide genethliaque	ST	04:03
The Diodes	Action Re-action	Action-Reaction	03:18
Channel 5	So Good to Me	ST (EP)	03:19
Handful of Snowdrops	Now, Then and Forever (Bonus Track)	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	06:06
Hot Tip	Hard to be Me	Stop All Motion	03:50
Images In Vogue	Flashing Black	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:30
Vis-A-Vis	Dance With Me	Heart and Soul	03:56
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Sometimes I Fear	Ohama aka The White Album	04:25
NEO A4	Around the World	ST	04:00
CosmaNat	Little Things	Little Things b/w Camping Song (picture sleeve)	03:45
The Diodes	Coma	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	02:50
Decade of Dreams	Tra la la	Wild Colloquial	02:58

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Glass Apple Bonzai - Love & Hatred in MegaWave City

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Eight Seconds - Big Houses

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Eight Seconds - Almacantar

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Theo Vandenhoff - Saviour on the Spilled Blood

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Theo Vandenhoff - In The Throes Of Love

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Theo Vandenhoff - Heartache Is An Empty Room

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Theo Vandenhoff - Alles Ist Besser

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Theo Vandenhoff - Collected EPs

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Theo Vandenhoff - Tenement

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Sound FX - Sound FX

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Sandro Durante - Don't Go (Breaking My Heart) b/w All That Magic

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Hypno-Gogo - In Your Eyes b/w Flashing

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Mad Shadows - Music in the Night

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The Modern Minds - Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97

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Bruce PM - Makeshift

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Space Invaders - ST (EP)

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Dis Band - Gone Dead Out

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Compilation - Saskatoon Rocks

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The Government - How Many Fingers?

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The Government - Electric Eye

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The Government - 33 ⅓ RPM E.P.

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Bumpers - EP

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Contradance - Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)

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Ross Angeles - Salute

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Steve Blimkie (and the Reason) - You Can´t Hold Me Anymore b/w Freaks On the Tube

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Steve Blimkie (and the Reason) - Blimkie

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Drama - Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)

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Drama - Loneliness

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Glamorcult - Atlantis Under the Sea

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Glamorcult - A Price To Paris

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