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
Instructions	The Extra	ST	03:12
Glamorcult	Follow the Shadow	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:24
Red Herring	Feelings	Taste Tests	02:21
Blue Oil	Free Fleas On the Roof	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:32
Erect	Lay Down and Die	Consequence of Life	03:18
Modernettes	Won't Have To Worry	Gone..But Not Forgiven	02:22
Start	State of Her Shine	Hey You	03:12
Modernes Pickles	Colors	We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White	02:18
Volts	Loneliness in the Air Age	Plugged In	02:43
Compilation	Nobby Clegg & The Civilians - I Wanna Be In Commercials	Toronto Calling	02:38
100 Flowers	Pam	21st Guessing	03:33
Spoons	Be Alone Tonight	Bridges Over Borders	05:11
Boys Brigade	Saigon	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	04:41
Palace at 4 a.m.	Palace at 4 A.M.	Untamed World	01:25
B-Sides	Bedtime for Ronald	Red to Black	03:52
Pukka Orchestra	Weekend (Come Alive!)	The Palace Of Memeory	06:15
Compilation	Donald Breithaupt - Lindsay	Music Industry Arts 1983	04:11
Moral Support	Chasing Rainbows	Insanity	04:20
Boys Brigade	Melody	Interview with Boys Brigade and Producer Geddy Lee	04:06
The Edge	Release the Circle	Release the Circle	04:36
Diodes	Hot Sand (1981 Remixed Version 2017)	Rarities	03:18
Timothy Chipman	China Doll	Ghost Parade	02:31
Class Info	Out of Line	Inside	04:04
Iko	Subway 49	83	04:53
Doppler Bros.	The Wreck of the Eaton Centre	Totally Impractical	04:27
Kinetic Ideals	Together	A Personal View (EP)	05:54
Bündock	Forbidden Zone	Société Anonyme	03:44
Compilation	The Damned - Intro to "Smash It Up"	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	01:26
Salty Seamen	Neanderthal	In The Groove At Last	04:24
Drastic Measures	See My House	ST	02:46
Age of Mirrors	Talk of the Crowd	Mirage	04:13
Scenics	Walk in the Desert	Underneath the Door	01:32
Eight Seconds	Moving Day	Big Houses	03:45
Government	On the Prowl	Electric Eye	04:39
Inner Sanction	I Cherish	Dancematic-Automatic	03:10
Modern Minds	Slap in the Face	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:46
The Idles	Uptown/Downtown	The Idles Demo	03:23
Psyche	Wink of an Eye	Insomnia Theatre	05:37
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News Finale	Ohama aka The White Album	05:46
Annabelle's Room	Classical Rage	ST	03:30
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Flying Goodbye	Ohama aka The White Album	03:45
Red Herring	Love Machine	Taste Tests	03:32
FM109	Food On Nuclear Device	ST	06:38
Eight Seconds	Thorn in My Side	Big Houses	04:08
A Neon Rome	The Magical Summer Of ’85	A Neon Rome	03:17
Entrance System	No Relative	Imperfect Image	03:19
Instructions	The Factory	ST	03:41
Corsage	Monument	Big Night Out (EP)	01:25
Diodes	Burn Down Your Daddy's House	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	03:16
Deserters	No Time for Talking	ST	03:16
Diodes	Edge of Darkness	Action-Reaction	03:10
Benjamin Russell	Can You See Me?	Madman	01:27
Glamorcult	Carry the Water	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:47
Regulators	What's in the City	What's in the City b/w That´s Right Nothing's Left (picture sleeve)	03:42
One Hand Clapping	Angry Weather	Burlesque (picture sleeve)	04:23
Images In Vogue	Anxiety Reaction	Educated Man	04:05
Frigidaires	Three Cool Cats	Three Cool Cats (picture sleeve)	02:12
Boys Brigade	Saigon	ST	04:28
Handful of Snowdrops	Mort en direct (1989)	Mort en direct	03:38
Streetcar Named Desire	Illustrated Man	Life Begins	05:25
Martha And The Muffins	Three Hundred Years - Chemistry	This Is The Ice Age	07:09
Family Plot	Just One Slip	Convictions	04:04
Modernettes	The Rebel Kind	View From The Bottom (EP)	02:08
Nowhere	No More	No More b/w Living	04:56
Awake The Echoes	You're More Trouble Than You' re Worth	Normal Life	03:58
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News IV	I Fear What I Might Hear	07:58
Instructions	Suburban Dream	ST	04:15
Glamorcult	As I Breathe on The TTC	Shadows From The Past	03:58
Land of Giants	Security Squad	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	03:32
Moral Support	Closer to You	Insanity	03:19
Scissors	Wrecked My Car	ST	02:16
Vital Sines	Break the Chains	Big Dark Dreams	02:53
Austra	Lose It	Feel it Break	04:29
Nasty Habits	Cleopatra	Playing in the Danger Zone b/w Cleopatra (picture sleeve)	03:27
Melinite	Seasoning	Push The Button And Run!	01:23
Pale Blue	Therapy	Ruin b/w Therapy	03:53
Class Info	I Want	Inside	05:22
Spoons	Numb	Static In Transmission	03:50
Glamorcult	Interlude	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:31
Magic Dragon	(White Monkey) Under The Volcano	Emotional Landscape	07:16
Direktive 17	Between You & Me	ST (EP)	03:38
Decade of Dreams	Tra la la	Wild Colloquial	02:58
Hot Tip	My Shoes	Stop All Motion	03:52
Doppler Bros.	Leaving Home	Totally Impractical	02:21
Aircuts	Sheila	Radioactivity b/w Sheila	03:22
100 Flowers	He and She	21st Guessing	04:26
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Thin Lines	Midway b/w Thin Lines	05:53
Braineaters	Modern Man	Planet X	02:15
Modernes Pickles	Life in Ancient Greece	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:19
Kinetic Ideals	I Remember	Touch Me (Now)	05:10
Fictions	Do it With the Lights On	ST	03:07
Government	Following You	Electric Eye	02:07
Fictions	Won't Wash Away	ST	03:20
Fictions	I Let Go	ST	02:26
Moev	Cracked Mirror	Cracked Mirror (EP)	05:57
Oui	You Make Me High	Oui	04:41
Breeding Ground	Dirge	Wintergarden (EP)	06:25
DeMars	Try... You Can't	Les Télé-Têtes	03:56
Drastic Measures	Jump Off the Lake	ST	02:37
Glamatron	Continentals	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	04:44

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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Tim Ray - History Lessons 1978-1984

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Popular Front - Doomsday Army 2026 Remasters by Ron Obvious

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Popular Front - Doomsday Army b/w Puppet

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Klō - No Money b/w The Parking Lot Song

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Klō - Mrs. Fong b/w Break the Floor

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Klō - Fun b/w Weirdo

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Spoons - Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party

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Spoons - New Day New World

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Spoons - Static In Transmission

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Spoons - Vertigo Tango

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Spoons - Bridges Over Borders

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Spoons - Talkback

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Spoons - Nova Heart b/w Symmetry

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