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
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
The Edge	Go Away	Release the Circle	03:11
Drastic Measures	I Feel Bad	ST	02:04
Tim Ray	Scene a Fight (April, 1981)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:33
John Bell and the Strange	Melissa	Taking You Home in a Taxi b/w Melissa	06:50
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin' to Glide	Are Here	05:43
Drastic Measures	Jump Off the Lake	ST	02:37
Philip Rambow	Creature Comforts	Jungle Law	02:28
Melinite	A Daydream Dilemma	Push The Button And Run!	03:44
The Chemicals	Out of My Mind	Out of My Mind b/w Run and Hide	03:11
Numbers	Sideways Elevator	Sideways Elevator b/w Can't Take it	03:09
Vital Sines	Break the Chains	Big Dark Dreams	02:53
Handful of Snowdrops	From One Place to Another	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	05:10
Compilation	Arrows - Treat Her Right	Toronto Calling	02:52
Bumpers	I Watch You Go	Media Music/ I Watch You Go /Ian/ Log 1 (picture sleeve)	02:34
A Neon Rome	Society Rag	A Neon Rome	03:06
UJ3RK5	The Locator	ST (EP)	03:11
Modernes Pickles	I've Won a Million	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	03:02
Images In Vogue	Quiet Room	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:39
Erect	Waiting	Consequence of Life	04:01
Popular Front	Puppet Man	Doomsday Army 2026 Remasters by Ron Obvious	03:17
Family Plot	Tic Tac	Convictions	04:08
Cardboard Brains	And So I Hide	Live At The Edge	03:46
Joe Mavety & the Mule	Voices Like Thunder	Crusaders b/w Voices Like Thunder	04:00
Interpol	Ursula (At Warsaw International)	ST	06:35
Klō	Fun	Demo 1982	05:08
Vital Sines	Collage	Collage	04:25
Government	I Don't Really Care	Electric Eye	04:04
Rational Youth	Ring the Bells	Cold War Nightlife	05:13
Volts	No Time Like the First Time	Plugged In	02:52
Rational Youth	Heredity	Heredity	04:18
Living End (1)	Blow	ST	02:35
Spoons	Out of My Hands	Talkback	03:19
Spoons	No Promises	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	04:39
Diodes	Photographs Of Mars (Live At The Horseshoe June 7 1980)	Rarities	04:32
The Chemicals	Run and Hide	Out of My Mind b/w Run and Hide	02:49
Hypno-Gogo	In Your Eyes	In Your Eyes b/w Flashing	03:04
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	Direct	ST	03:43
Blueprints	Tribute to a Fool	Stare 01	03:50
Moev	Sweet Nothings	Dusk and Desire	04:33
Tim Ray	Bonus Track	History Lessons 1978-1984	01:17
True Confessions	He's a Liar	ST	03:16
Glamorcult	Tokyo Streets	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:12
Boys Brigade	Saigon	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	04:41
Glamorcult	Tokyo Streets	Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude	04:44
Diodes	Heat or the Beat	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	04:38
Boys Brigade	Mannequin	Mannequin Demo	04:13
Glamorcult	Yes, See Has the Afterglow	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:32
Nex'd	Surreal	Surreal (EP)	05:45
Censure	Foxy Lady	Foxy Lady b/w Amour	04:24
Andrew Matheson	St. Catherines Wheel	Monterey Shoes	05:37
Numbers	Mr. Dempster	Add Up	03:49
Inner Sanction	Standing in the Rain	Prophecy	03:21
Klō	Baby Wants a Baby	Demo 1981	04:18
Ceramic Hello	Conversation Between Units	The Absence of a Canary	00:30
Dada	If I'm Blind	That's Dada (picture sleeve)	02:46
Escalators	Double Talk	ST	05:17
A Kid	Come	An Introduction to Civil Engineering (EP) (picture sleeve)	04:35
Barking Boys	Ghost Story	The Yes Girls	04:09
S.Q	Alone at Night	Alone at Night b/w One Love (picture sleeve)	03:10
Martha And The Muffins	Several Styles of Blonde Girls Dancing	Danseparc	05:53
Modernes Pickles	Sex in America	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	03:43
Martha And The Muffins	Walking Into Walls	Danseparc	02:57
Rex Chainbelt	Cherry Beach	Foreign Movie	02:55
Diodes	Coma	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	02:50
Living End (1)	Time is Unkind	ST	03:11
Diodes	Curiousity Girl	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	02:52
Spoons	Star Maps	Static In Transmission	04:05
Dorian Gray	Perfect Killing Machine	Perfect Killing Machine b/w When Worship Hits the Fan	03:48
Spunker (aka Neotone)	I'm in the Stars For You	Spunker	04:36
Spoons	You Light Up	Static In Transmission	04:23
Ceramic Hello	The Disqued	The Absence of a Canary	03:54
Contradance	Black Preppies	Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)	02:28
Martha And The Muffins	Motorbikin'	Trance and Dance	02:58
B-Sides	Underground Radio Stars (33⅓ rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	02:40
Lawn	Reconsider Baby	Peace in the Valley	03:58
Modernes Pickles	Destination	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	03:04
DeMars	Out of Sight	Stories from between the Walls	05:25
Rob Bryanton	Everybody Feels Some Pain	Alcohol And Other Drugs	04:45
Preison's Shade	Don't Leave Me Alone	Race Me Home (EP)	05:11
Hot Tip	Bridge to Manhattan	Stop All Motion	03:05
Spoons	Shaking the Fear	Vertigo Tango	04:16
Spoons	In the Hands of Money	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	03:43
Conning Tower	Indian Dancing	Indian Dancing b/w Looking Up From Under	04:40
Tribal Earth	Who You Are (In the Movies)	Interaction b/w Reaction (EP)	02:46
39 Steps	Jump on the Death Train	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	04:02
Inner Sanction	Direction Perfection	Dancematic-Automatic	04:32
John Young Paul	Ermie has Feelers	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:25
Absolute 9	Fence	Love and Work b/w Fence	03:00
39 Steps	A Taste of Poison [alternate]	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:35
Images In Vogue	S&M	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:53
I Braineater	Songs for the Masses	I Here, Where You	03:43
Time Twins	Yuri Song	Yuri Song b/w Say Uncle (picture sleeve)	07:03
Diodes	Catwalker	Action-Reaction	03:29
B-Sides	She's a Raver	Red to Black	02:36
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Eight Seconds	Kiss You (When It's Dangerous)	Almacantar	04:07
Motive	Don’t You Know	Don’t You Know b/w It’s Too Late (picture sleeve)	03:21
Breeding Ground	Dirge	Wintergarden (EP)	06:25
Cottage Industry	The Urge to Merge	The Winter's Tale	04:33

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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