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
Modernes Pickles	Love Me	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:01
Lunasam	Redhead	Redhead	03:52
Scenics	Do the Wait	Underneath the Door	02:13
Tim Ray	Hate (September, 1980)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:22
Velveteens	Tall House	Tall House (EP)	03:05
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Don't Look Now	Spunker	03:44
Land of Giants	Seven Men	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	05:12
Philip Rambow	Bike Boys	Jungle Law	04:26
Family Plot	Dervish	Convictions	04:11
Moral Lepers	China Rag	Turn to Stone	04:26
Modern Minds	All Day & All of the Night	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:18
Extras	Aqua Velva Man	Bit Parts	02:49
Rin Tin Tin	Jackin' the House of Commons	Give Meech a Chance // Jackin' the House of Commons	08:26
Melinite	Trouble in Section 17	Push The Button And Run!	01:46
Klō	Fun	Fun b/w Weirdo	04:53
Graphics	Our Planet Ocean	Sleepdancer b/w Our Planet Ocean	03:17
FM109	Mirror Man	ST	03:17
Moev	Beautiful Beast	Dusk and Desire	03:55
Jon Mullane	One More Chance (for u)	Following Yesterday	04:29
Moral Support	Closer to You	Insanity	03:19
Leotards	Suicide Lover	Suicide Lover b/w Runaway Bridge	03:15
Age of Mirrors	Glass and Crystal Lives	Screenplay	04:16
Paperboys (1)	Looking for Sharon	Looking for Sharon b/w Saturday 12 Midnight	02:57
Jon Mullane	Somebody	Following Yesterday	03:15
Klō	The Parking Lot Song	No Money b/w The Parking Lot Song	02:08
Modernes Pickles	Savage Heels	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:30
Vis-A-Vis	Dance With Me	Heart and Soul	03:56
Salty Seamen	I'm Done	In The Groove At Last	03:50
Benjamin Russell	Want a World	Madman	02:13
Kinetic Ideals	Maze of Ways	Life In Shadow b/w Maze of Ways	04:09
Wrestlers	G.T.O.	ST	03:32
Images In Vogue	Educated Man	Educated Man	03:54
Martha And The Muffins	Sins of Children	Danseparc	05:37
Klō	Fun	Demo 1982	05:08
Neurons	Midnight Meetings	Midnight Meetings b/w New Location	04:27
Rex Chainbelt	Run Away	Foreign Movie	02:43
Handful of Snowdrops	Now, Then and Forever (Bonus Track)	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	06:06
Barking Boys	Ghost Story	The Yes Girls	04:09
Handful of Snowdrops	Astronauts (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	06:31
Null Set	Stripe	New Job (EP)	01:18
They Never Sleep	Bite the Bullet (Instrumental)	Bite the Bullet (Submission Mix)	09:18
Frigidaires	Three Cool Cats	Three Cool Cats (picture sleeve)	02:12
DeMars	Torn to Pieces	Stories from between the Walls	03:35
Blue Peter	Factory Living	Test Patterns For Living	02:50
Living End (1)	In Your Dreams	ST	02:48
Glamorcult	Hope For Change To Come	Shadows From The Past	03:42
Ceramic Hello	Geometry	The Absence of a Canary	07:25
Spoons	You Light Up	Static In Transmission	04:23
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Julie is a TV Set	Ohama aka The White Album	05:08
Psyche	Eternal	Mystery Hotel	04:15
Numbers	Leave it to Me	Add Up	03:56
Bangkok	Planet of My Own	Eve of Destruction b/w Planet of My Own	03:04
Minutes From Downtown	24 Karat Gold	ST	03:01
Ear Candy	Part of Me	Self Defence	04:34
Government	Gunshot Wound	Electric Eye	02:56
Mettle	Five-Four	ST	04:39
Start	State of Her Shine	Hey You	03:12
Moral Support	Living With Passion	Insanity	03:35
Compilation	Rent Boys Inc. - Fetish (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	05:45
This Fear	Lights of Capitals	Darkness Shapes Imagination	03:50
Glamorcult	Fusion (Instrumental)	Early Glamour	04:23
Minutes From Downtown	Pushing the Limits of Love	ST	03:14
Glamorcult	Pins & Needles	A Price To Paris	03:16
Secret Act	Poor Boy	My Neighbourhood	03:36
Tenants	Never Forget a Face	Visions of Our Future	04:07
Martha And The Muffins	Walking Into Walls	Danseparc	02:57
Beach Punks	She Got Body Talk	She Got Body Talk	04:52
Tim Ray	Silent Partner	ST	02:47
Hunger Project	Still Crossing	Demo 1982	07:46
James Harcourt	Like the Way It Feels	Emotional Blackmail	02:34
B-Sides	Red to Black	Red to Black	03:20
John Bell and the Strange	Melissa	Taking You Home in a Taxi b/w Melissa	06:50
Compilation	The Dave Howard Singers - They Come They Go	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	03:33
Cottage Industry	The Crucial Moment	The Winter's Tale	03:49
Villains	Long, Short, Skinny Or Fat	Go Crazy	02:56
Doppler Bros.	Leaving Home	Totally Impractical	02:21
Einstein	Mr. Science	Sex and Science	02:35
Kinetic Ideals	Together	A Personal View (EP)	05:54
BB Gabor	Hunger, Poverty and Misery	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry) b/w Hunger, Poverty and Misery (picture sleeve)	03:50
Compilation	Don Bregg - Hypnotized	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:27
Lou Champagne System	Selling So Sweet	No Visible Means	02:48
Magic Dragon	Egyptian Radio	Emotional Landscape	04:12
IQ	Burn Me	Burn Me b/w Sixth World	02:53
A Neon Rome	Cums a Wolf	New Heroin	04:15
Deserters	A.W.O.L.	ST	02:04
Rarefaction	Ordinary Man	Ordinary Man	04:17
Tenants	You Don't Know What I've Been Thru	ST	03:40
Bobby and Synthia	Dig That Space	thirty-six hours (EP)	02:33
Land of Giants	Cannibal Dolls	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	03:32
Boys Brigade	Cut Up	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	04:25
Degrees of Freedom	Risk	China	03:46
Kaméléon	Rouge barbele	ST	04:54
Glamorcult	S.O.S.	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:31
Modernes Pickles	Secret Life of Achmed	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:27
Men Without Hats	Modern Dancing	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	04:29
Images In Vogue	For Germans	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:39
Corsage	Troubles	ST	04:57
UJ3RK5	Hands of Orlac	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	04:36
Tim Ray	Once or Twice (January, 1982)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:17
Magic Dragon	Memories	Emotional Landscape	04:11

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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