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
Martha And The Muffins	Cheesies and Gum	Metro Music	03:09
Compilation	Rent Boys Inc. - Fetish (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	05:45
Trespassing Bean Rays	Heer Comes the Future	ST (EP) (picture sleeve)	04:50
Roland Blinn	Peg-in-Hole	Peg-in-Hole b/w Tense (and The fishermen)	03:55
Glamorcult	Cry	Shadows From The Past	03:35
DeMars	Moonshadow	Stories from between the Walls	06:28
Darkroom	Don't Talk	San Paku	03:32
Mettle	Five-Four	ST	04:39
Andrew Matheson	True Romance	Monterey Shoes	03:42
3rd Man In	What to Believe	New Fast b/w What to Believe (picture sleeve)	03:43
Compilation	Dale Hancocks - Carribea	Music Industry Arts 1983	01:53
Scenics	O Charlotte	New Part In Town	03:44
Entrance System	Imperfect Image	Imperfect Image	03:38
Philip Rambow	Bike Boys	Jungle Law	04:26
Rob Bryanton	Livin' On the Edge of the World	Alcohol And Other Drugs	05:10
Minutes From Downtown	Heaven Street	ST	04:35
Cottage Industry	The Crucial Moment	The Winter's Tale	03:49
Government	Get You Sleepin'	33 ⅓ RPM E.P.	04:17
Streetcar Named Desire	Someday Your Ship Will Come (Dance Mix)	Life Begins	04:17
Instructions	Don't Say Love	ST	03:46
Secret Act	Northern Spy	My Neighbourhood	03:31
Glamorcult	Follow the Shadow	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:24
Scissors	Don't Call Me Chick	ST	02:17
Start	Evil Hearted You	Hey You	02:31
Timothy Chipman	Night Patrol	Strange Days b/w Night Patrol	02:22
Insex	Play or Die	One (EP)	02:14
Palace at 4 a.m.	The Age of Reason(able Pleasure)	White Guilt	04:42
Handful of Snowdrops	The Ghost of a Song	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	03:44
Moev	Remembrance Day	Zimmerkampf	05:23
James Harcourt	Emotional Blackmail	Emotional Blackmail	02:21
Government	On The Prowl (Reprise)	Electric Eye	02:36
Numbers	Sunday Afternoon	Add Up	03:39
Modernes Pickles	Bonjour de Bob	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:01
Modernes Pickles	Colors	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:09
Government	Paranoid Downtown Funk Pt. 2	How Many Fingers?	02:32
Handful of Snowdrops	Remedy (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	04:34
Mannequin Depressives	Erase It	Girls Are Evil	04:58
Boys Brigade	Saigon	Mannequin Demo	05:02
Images In Vogue	Victimize	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:19
Philip Rambow	Jessica	Jungle Law	04:00
Vital Sines	Erik the Generik	Subway Suicide E.P.	02:45
Spoons	Landing Lights	New Day New World	04:29
A Neon Rome	Bsus5	A Neon Rome	08:25
Fictions	Do it With the Lights On	ST	03:07
B-Sides	Invasion of the Money Snatchers	Invasion Of The Money Snatchers b/w Much Too Serious	03:19
Kaméléon	Omnibus Cactus	ST	02:48
Diodes	Mercenary Flight (1978 Alternate Version) (CD only)	Rarities	03:21
Scenics	Tokyo	New Part In Town	04:07
Lawn	Don`t Ask	Peace in the Valley	03:43
Modern Minds	Punk Violence	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:16
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Upcoming Storm	Space and Time	03:38
Lou Champagne System	Propaganda Frustration	No Visible Means	06:49
Glamorcult	A Dream Girl To Me	Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude	03:23
45's	Real Confused	On the Beach	02:15
Blue Oil	Twenty Years	ST	03:41
Strange Advance	Kiss in the Dark	Worlds Away	03:56
Klō	Fun	Fun b/w Weirdo	04:53
Low Fun	Words We Left Behind	The New Dictator b/w Words We Left Behind	03:41
Modernes Pickles	We are the Modern Pickles	We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White	02:44
Benjamin Russell	Take Me As You Find Me	Madman	02:25
Moev	M.T. M.T. N.M.E.	Zimmerkampf	05:15
Corsage	Royal Couple	ST	02:55
Klō	Mrs. Fong	Mrs. Fong b/w Break the Floor	02:32
DeMars	Les cosmétiques cosmiques	Les Télé-Têtes	03:48
Drama	Electronic Pink Panther	Loneliness	02:23
Tim Ray	D-Scratch (April, 1981)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:04
Bunny & the Lakers	Shrieks From the Peeks	Numbers	03:10
Kaméléon	Insomnuit (1981)	Groupe électro-pop	04:35
Popular Front (1)	September Reign	This is the Rubicon	03:12
The Keys	Lied To!	Whatever Happened to Boy Meets Girl b/w Lied To! (picture sleeve)	02:18
Odd Man Out	Whatever Happened to Us	Whatever Happened to Us b/w World of My Own (picture sleeve)	04:02
Hot Tip	Hard to be Me	Stop All Motion	03:50
Zipper	Another Boyfriend	Another Boyfriend b/w Bad Girls	02:52
Glamorcult	Manhattan Sunrise	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:24
Awake The Echoes	Someone	Normal Life	04:07
Johnny Zhivago	Echo	Microalbum	04:03
Strange Advance	Sister Radio	Worlds Away	05:20
Fictions	Don't Look Down	ST	02:31
Secret Act	My Neighbourhood	My Neighbourhood	05:51
Drama	Space Age Punks	Loneliness	02:37
Kultur	Here it Comes	Kultur	03:11
Palace at 4 a.m.	Palace at 4 A.M.	Untamed World	01:25
Living End (1)	Time is Unkind	ST	03:11
Images In Vogue	Call it Love	In The House	03:51
Broken Tables	Image of You	ST	04:24
Bitter Reality	Tellin' Me Goodbye	Tellin' Me Goodbye b/w A White Man (In Babylon)	03:38
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News II	Midnite News	03:30
The Front	Someday	Gina's at a Party	03:34
Modernes Pickles	Blue Baby Baby White	We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White	01:50
Martha And The Muffins	Boy Without Filters	This Is The Ice Age	04:58
Broken Silence	Nightstalking	Nightstalking b/w Through the Glass (picture sleeve)	03:47
The Gas	Evacuate	Evacuate Mississauga (picture sleeve)	02:38
The End	Just Another Dream	Just Another Dream b/w My Paradise (picture sleeve)	04:04
Generra	Girls in the Hearts	Don’t Cut Me b/w Girls in the Hearts	04:19
Tim Ray	Once or Twice (January, 1982)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:17
Glamorcult	Would it be Over	Would it be Over (picture sleeve)	03:29
Glamorcult	Hope For Change To Come	Shadows From The Past	03:42
Spoons	Perfect Exception	New Day New World	03:58
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Eight Seconds	Listen	Almacantar	05:17

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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