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
Reactors	If I Only Had a Brain	If I Only Had a Brain b/w Alien Radio	02:35
Blue Oil	Twenty Years	ST	03:41
Compilation	Charles Kurt - The Silence Upstairs	Music Industry Arts 1983	02:11
Figures At Dawn	Falling	ST	03:24
Salty Seamen	Star Train	In The Groove At Last	04:01
Glamorcult	I Have Nothing To Say To You	The Stone Sessions	04:01
Blue Oil	Producer	Blue Oil (1981-83)	03:19
ACTORS	Death from Above	Acts of Worship	03:32
Handful of Snowdrops	Sometimes I	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	05:44
Lou Champagne System	Invisible Prisions	No Visible Means	03:44
Pale Blue	Ruin	Ruin b/w Therapy	03:25
Braineaters	Kid Stuff	Planet X	01:33
BAMFF	Mini Crisis	The Uncanny b/w Mini Crisis	03:35
Scenics	Great Piles of Leaves	Underneath the Door	04:18
Blue Peter	Time and Money	Test Patterns For Living	02:07
This Fear	Soldier of This Fashion (Extended)	Darkness Shapes Imagination	05:14
Start	Evil Hearted You	Hey You	02:31
Extras	Teddy	Bit Parts	05:50
Spoons	The Opening Curtain	Vertigo Tango	04:21
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
ACTORS	Jacknife	Reanimated	04:24
Men Without Hats	I Got the Message	The Safety Dance	04:47
Bicycle Thieves	Instead of a Heart	ST	04:31
Todd Stevens	This Way!	This Way! (picture sleeve)	03:20
45's	Real Confused	On the Beach	02:15
Tenants	Connect the Dots	ST	04:04
Decade of Dreams	Stop This Car	Wild Colloquial	02:12
Eight Seconds	Listen	Almacantar	05:17
Kultur	Altar	Kultur	03:59
Regulators	That´s Right Nothing's Left	What's in the City b/w That´s Right Nothing's Left (picture sleeve)	02:53
Start	Gotta Have Love	Hey You	04:49
Extras	I’ll be Wanting You	The Road to Zambando	04:15
Vital Sines	Fear of the Cold	Big Dark Dreams	03:41
Glen Meadmore	Just a Girl	Chicken & Biscuits	05:57
Kinetic Ideals	Windchimes	Touch Me (Now)	13:46
Spoons	World in Motion	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	04:18
Martha And The Muffins	Trance and Dance	Trance and Dance	07:14
Interpol	When Rock 'n' Roll Was in the Hole	ST	02:26
Jon Mullane	With You	Following Yesterday	03:59
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Compilation	The Damned - Intro to "Smash It Up"	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	01:26
Spoons	No More Growing Up	Arias & Symphonies	03:25
Sebastian (Agnello)	Stop Picking On America	No Compromise b/w Stop Picking On America (picture sleeve)	03:23
Roland Blinn	Peg-in-Hole	Peg-in-Hole b/w Tense (and The fishermen)	03:55
Hot Tip	Father I Know	Stop All Motion	04:18
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Thin Lines	Midway b/w Thin Lines	05:53
Johnny Faith	Standing On the Red Line	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	02:52
A Day in Paris	The Hill	Prey	04:38
Oui	Circle of Love	Oui	04:20
Blue Oil	From the Heart	Blue Oil (1981-83)	01:48
Handful of Snowdrops	No More Lies (4 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	04:38
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Rich Kids	Spunker	03:37
Corsage	She's Become a Memory	ST	04:06
Psyche	You're the Only One	Mystery Hotel	03:28
NEO A4	Around the World	ST	04:00
Corsage	Shut-Ins	ST	03:11
Wrestlers	G.T.O.	ST	03:32
Golden Calgarians	Happy Man	Savage Love	02:10
Chris Evans & The Quarts	Metric Dictators (Measure Canadian Theme)	Metric Dictators (Measure Canadian Theme)	03:36
Modernes Pickles	Destination Martin	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	03:13
Secret Act	Our Little Secret	My Neighbourhood	04:36
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News II	Midnite News	03:30
Thieves	Kopper & Iron	I See Red	03:38
Philip Rambow	Don't Come (Cryin' To Me)	Jungle Law	03:37
Spoons	Love Recall	New Day New World	03:19
ACTORS	Post Traumatic Love (Humans Remix)	Reanimated	04:32
Extras	Circular Impression	Bit Parts	02:13
Billy Butt & The Brats	Surveillance	Surveillance b/w No I Can't Say No	03:21
Vis-A-Vis	I am the Night	Heart and Soul	03:40
Glamorcult	A Farewell to Arms	Would it be Over (picture sleeve)	02:35
Instructions	D-6	D-6 b/w Tell-a-Photo (picture sleeve)	03:32
Family Plot	Just One Slip	Convictions	04:04
100 Flowers	Nothing is Hard	21st Guessing	04:31
The Diodes	That Was The Way That It Was	Action-Reaction	03:46
Boys Brigade	The Cut Up (Breaking Glass)	Interview with Boys Brigade and Producer Geddy Lee	04:27
Hypno-Gogo	In Your Eyes	In Your Eyes b/w Flashing	03:04
Handful of Snowdrops	The Keep (Interim Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	04:31
Modernes Pickles	Secret Life of Achmed	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:27
Kaméléon	Les chats balerines (1981)	Groupe électro-pop	04:01
Kultur	Here it Comes	Kultur	03:11
Glamorcult	Tropical Romance	Would it be Over (picture sleeve)	04:21
Images In Vogue	Call it Love	In The House	03:51
Fictions	Dimestore Romance	ST	03:44
Entrance System	Minimal Spirits	Imperfect Image	03:24
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	T.V.	Julie is a T.V. Set b/w T.V.	04:33
Barking Boys	Cool It Down	The Yes Girls	04:11
Deserters	Take It Away	ST	03:26
NEO A4	Only a Fool	ST	03:52
Rob Bryanton	Livin' On the Edge of the World	Alcohol And Other Drugs	05:10
Tim Ray	Preamble - One Last Look (September, 1980)	History Lessons 1978-1984	06:21
Modernes Pickles	Baby My Band is Back	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	03:22
Bündock	Forbidden Zone	Société Anonyme	03:44
Breeding Ground	Wintergarden	Wintergarden (EP)	04:20
Faded Films	The Top	Faded Years	02:43
Tabby K	Wind Or Water	Summertime b/w Wind Or Water	03:17
John Young Paul	The Monster in Ed	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:06
Kaméléon	Rouge barbele	ST	04:54
Spoons	All the Wrong Things (In the Right Places)	New Day New World	03:20
Modernes Pickles	I've Won a Million	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	03:02
Broken Tables	Image of You	ST	04:24

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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ACTORS - Our Love Will Live Forever

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ACTORS - Part Time Punks Session EP

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ACTORS - Slaves (FM Attack RMX)

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ACTORS - Mining for Heart

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ACTORS - Acts of Worship

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ACTORS - One Hundred Years

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ACTORS - It Will Come to You

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ACTORS - Reanimated

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Bleu Néon - Cité Promise

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Maurice & The Clichés - C'est la vie

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Maurice & The Clichés - ST

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Maurice & The Clichés - Veronika

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Maurice & The Clichés - Soft Core

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Minutes From Downtown - Minutes From Downtown '82

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Minutes From Downtown - ST

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Compilation - SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural

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Joe Naylor - I'm Canadian Beer b/w I Hate Fluorescent Lights

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Modernes Pickles - Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985

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Modernes Pickles - We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White

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Lorne Ranger - I Want to be a Doorman

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Rob Bryanton - Alcohol And Other Drugs

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DeMars - Stories from between the Walls

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DeMars - Les Télé-Têtes

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The Keys - Whatever Happened to Boy Meets Girl b/w Lied To! (picture sleeve)

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Maja Bannerman - Songs by Maja Bannerman

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Blue Oil - Blue Oil (1981-83)

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Blue Oil - ST

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The Chemicals - Break Time

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The Chemicals - Out of My Mind b/w Run and Hide

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Vex - DNA

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