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
B-Sides	No Can Do	Red to Black	03:00
Eight Seconds	Kiss You (When It's Dangerous)	Almacantar	04:07
Start	State of Her Shine	Hey You	03:12
Tenants	Winner	ST	03:21
Jon Mullane	One More Chance (for u)	Following Yesterday	04:29
Spoons	Tidal Wave	Bridges Over Borders	03:55
Rin Tin Tin	Give Meech a Chance	Give Meech a Chance // Jackin' the House of Commons	03:11
Images In Vogue	Victimize	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:19
Chemicals	Run and Hide	Out of My Mind b/w Run and Hide	02:49
Rational Youth	Close to Nature	Dancing on the Berlin Wall	04:43
Numbers	Leave it to Me	Add Up	03:56
Graphics	Sleepdancer	Sleepdancer b/w Our Planet Ocean	03:41
Drastic Measures	Prelude	ST	01:09
Martha And The Muffins	Women Around the World at Work	This Is The Ice Age	03:59
Salty Seamen	Lime Green Blues	In The Groove At Last	02:29
Tyro	Told You	A Little More Time (EP)	03:28
Zipper	Slowtown Rats	Never Too Old (To Rock & Roll) b/w Slowtown Rats	02:51
Popular Front (1)	September Reign	This is the Rubicon	03:12
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News Finale	Ohama aka The White Album	05:46
Bunny & the Lakers	t.b. Farm (Kiss Me Now)	Numbers	01:27
Cardboard Brains	And So I Hide	Live At The Edge	03:46
Diodes	When I Was Young	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	04:18
Strange Advance	Kiss in the Dark	Worlds Away	03:56
Odd Man Out	Whatever Happened to Us	Whatever Happened to Us b/w World of My Own (picture sleeve)	04:02
Rheostatics	My Generation	My Generation b/w Satellite Dancing	03:04
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Drugs	Ohama aka The White Album	04:36
Family Plot	Taxi Driver	Convictions	05:17
The Vox	Bored of the 80's	Mary-Go-Round b/w Bored of the 80's	02:37
Oui	You Make Me High	Oui	04:41
Glamorcult	This Is Our Story	The Stone Sessions	03:44
Compilation	Bongo Fury - Alaska Shuffle	Toronto Calling	04:01
Blue Peter	Out With the Boys	Test Patterns For Living	03:08
Erect	Cry of a Leo	Consequence of Life	02:48
Neon	Slaves	ST (EP)	03:00
Compilation	The Stranger - Don't Touch Me (Mr. X)	Strange Pleasures EP	04:54
Bündock	Stand Still	Société Anonyme	02:45
Blue Peter	Same Old Place	Test Patterns For Living	03:12
John Young Paul	The Monster in Ed	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:06
Paperboys (1)	Looking for Sharon	Looking for Sharon b/w Saturday 12 Midnight	02:57
Lou Champagne System	Don't Say I'm Here	No Visible Means	03:27
Handful of Snowdrops	Sometimes I	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	05:44
They Never Sleep	Bite the Bullet (Instrumental)	Bite the Bullet (Submission Mix)	09:18
B-Sides	B-Side Shuffle	Red to Black	02:25
Spoons	Trade Winds	Arias & Symphonies	02:15
A Kid	Dirty Bedding	An Introduction to Civil Engineering (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:35
Erect	Weekend	Consequence of Life	02:41
Cottage Industry	The Crucial Moment	The Winter's Tale	03:49
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Neighbours	Spunker	04:29
Salty Seamen	Goddess of the Hunt	In The Groove At Last	02:30
Johnny Zhivago	Echo	Microalbum	04:03
Leotards	Suicide Lover	Suicide Lover b/w Runaway Bridge	03:15
Benjamin Russell	Dance Man	Pop Modern(e)	04:12
Tame & Talking	Fallen Angel (Broken Wings)	ST	03:33
Glamorcult	The Light We Will Hold	A Price To Paris	04:23
Numbers	Mr. Dempster	Add Up	03:49
Corsage	City Sleeps	ST	04:17
Entrance System	Ahohoo	Imperfect Image	03:45
Johnny Faith	Standing On the Red Line	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	02:52
Shock Culture	Something to Dream	ST (EP)	04:03
Tau Ceti	And I Wonder	And I Wonder b/w San Francisco	04:12
Breeding Ground	Slaughter	Reunion // Slaughter	04:55
Graphics	Our Planet Ocean	Sleepdancer b/w Our Planet Ocean	03:17
Tau Ceti	San Francisco	So Far	04:04
39 Steps	Always Tomorrow	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	04:37
Barking Boys	Here She Comes	The Yes Girls	03:55
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Mr. Crystal	Space and Time	05:32
Scott Matthews	Navigation	Boats in Rivers	03:33
Images In Vogue	Fade Away	Educated Man	03:31
Moral Support	Whatever Turns You On	Insanity	04:10
Sex Church	Dull Light	Growing Over	03:42
Images In Vogue	Politics of Sound	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:30
Glamatron	Porcelain Doll	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	03:49
Class Info	Come for Me	Inside	02:23
Modernettes	Femme Fatale	View From The Bottom (EP)	02:53
Tulpa	Apologize to Your Mother	Apologize to Your Mother (picture sleeve)	04:29
Rin Tin Tin	Jackin' the House of Commons	Give Meech a Chance // Jackin' the House of Commons	08:26
Aircuts	Sheila	Radioactivity b/w Sheila	03:22
Compilation	Rent Boys Inc. - Fetish (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	05:45
Martha And The Muffins	One Day in Paris	This Is The Ice Age	04:20
Edsells	Don't Wanna Go to School	Don't Wanna Go to School b/w She Escaped	03:06
Bicycle Thieves	Anita	ST	03:31
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	The Drum	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	03:49
Martha And The Muffins	You Sold the Cottage	This Is The Ice Age	04:01
Moev	Common House	Zimmerkampf	03:27
Nex'd	Flexible	Surreal (EP)	06:21
Deserters	A.W.O.L.	ST	02:04
Glamorcult	All That Matters	Shadows From The Past	03:39
Cardboard Brains	The Monster in Ed	Live At The Edge	03:26
Images In Vogue	Anxiety Reaction	Educated Man	04:05
Hygiene Club	Pantechnicon - for Gary	Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary	01:15
Big Dog	Monkey See, Monkey Do	99 Change Hands	01:52
Barking Boys	Incident In St. Jamestown	The Yes Girls	04:58
This Fear	Haunting Me	Darkness Shapes Imagination	05:23
Bitter Reality	A White Man (In Babylon)	Tellin' Me Goodbye b/w A White Man (In Babylon)	03:40
Bunny & the Lakers	Inhalation - Ventilation	Numbers	02:07
Design	No Turning Back (remix)	No Turning Back	03:55
Direktive 17	Between You & Me	ST (EP)	03:38
Psyche	The Brain Collapses	Insomnia Theatre	04:09
Handful of Snowdrops	Immortals (1985)	Mort en direct	08:24
I Braineater	7Teen	Artist, Poet, Thief	02:38

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Beach Punks - She Got Body Talk

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Hush - Replay

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Contradance - Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)

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The Scene (2) - Only in Paradise

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DeMars - Stories from between the Walls

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DeMars - Les Télé-Têtes

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Compilation - Music Industry Arts 1983

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Jon Mullane - Following Yesterday

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Awake The Echoes - Normal Life

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No Comment - Wondering b/w Honesty

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Entrance System - Imperfect Image

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Shock Culture - ST (EP)

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Our Sir Francis to the Sea - ST

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Tame & Talking - ST

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Vital Sines - Big Dark Dreams

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Vital Sines - Subway Suicide E.P.

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Vital Sines - Collage

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Tim Ray - ST

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Volts - Plugged In

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This Fear - Darkness Shapes Imagination

Tenants - ST

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Compilation - The Circuit

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Moral Support - Insanity

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Scenics - Underneath the Door

Nex'd - Surreal (EP)

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Channel Five - ST (EP)

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Electric Mocean - Motion b/w Television Eyes (picture sleeve)

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Neon - ST (EP)

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The Plugs - Sending An S.O.S. b/w I Saw Her Today

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Bunny & the Lakers - Numbers

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