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
Images In Vogue	One Way Heart	In The House	03:30
Living End (1)	In Your Dreams	ST	02:48
Secret Act	That Certain Feeling	My Neighbourhood	03:33
Bonus Boys	Wasting Our Time	Every Time I See A Car Like Yours Go By b/w Wasting Our Time	03:16
Tim Ray	Love-Fusion	ST	03:50
Rob Bryanton	Just a Shy Guy	Alcohol And Other Drugs	02:30
Oui	Pulling Me Closer	Oui	03:45
Extras	Stay Up All Night	Bit Parts	02:54
Benjamin Russell	Power of Love	Pop Modern(e)	03:37
Perfect World	Have a Good Look	Twist and Shove b/w Have a Good Look (picture sleeve)	05:10
Ceramic Hello	M - EX	The Absence of a Canary	00:23
Reactors	If I Only Had a Brain	If I Only Had a Brain b/w Alien Radio	02:35
Glen Meadmore	Do Me Baby	Chicken & Biscuits	05:01
Start	State of Her Shine	Hey You	03:12
Rivals	I'll Just Let You Go	I'll Just Let You Go b/w I Don't Believe in Ghoulies	03:32
UJ3RK5	Eisenhower & the Hippies	ST (EP)	02:29
Rational Youth	City of Night	Cold War Nightlife	04:02
Salty Seamen	Rings Around Uranus	In The Groove At Last	02:18
39 Steps	City of Vice [alternate]	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:25
Glamorcult	My Lady	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:02
Eight Seconds	Picture	Big Houses	06:13
Strange Advance	One Chance in a Million	Worlds Away	04:12
Norda	Snakes And Ladders	West Over Seas	02:51
e	The Fall	The Levitation Syndrome	03:15
Corsage	Jackson	ST	03:41
DeMars	Le zaratt express	Les Télé-Têtes	04:11
Compilation	The Sturm Group - Upon a Nerve (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	05:34
Diodes	Rocket Over & Under	Action-Reaction	04:21
Psyche	Misery's Return	The Influence	04:57
Diodes	Everything I Am	Action-Reaction	03:15
Kinetic Ideals	Maze of Ways	Life In Shadow b/w Maze of Ways	04:09
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
Lawn	Don`t Ask	Peace in the Valley	03:43
Redlife	Round	Hope for Tomorrow b/w Round	03:28
Two Men Laughing	Dancing in Moscow	Imprisoned Lorri b/w Dancing in Moscow (picture sleeve)	02:53
Secret Act	Fred Flinstone, Where Are You	My Neighbourhood	03:52
Men Without Hats	Mothers	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	12:07
B-Sides	No Can Do	Red to Black	03:00
Johnny Faith	Beatown	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	03:24
The Front	The Joke Was On Me	Gina's at a Party	04:03
Handful of Snowdrops	In the Eye of the Storm	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	07:25
The Front	News to You	Underworld	05:11
Within Gothic Towers	The Cavern Of Solitude	Within Gothic Towers	04:06
Extras	I’ll be Wanting You	The Road to Zambando	04:15
Drastic Measures	I Feel Bad	ST	02:04
Glen Meadmore	Gotta Thing	Chicken & Biscuits	05:04
Conning Tower	Indian Dancing	Indian Dancing b/w Looking Up From Under	04:40
Faded Films	Jack in the Box	Faded Years	05:06
Scenics	Garthuson	New Part In Town	02:16
Drama	Traffic	Loneliness	02:53
Glamorcult	Holding Onto Yesterday	Shadows From The Past	03:34
Spoons	A Girl in Two Pieces	Arias & Symphonies	04:27
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Where Do You Call Home?	I Fear What I Might Hear	04:46
Scissors	Summer Girls	ST	02:18
Compilation	Tyranna - Back Off Baby	No Pedestrians	02:26
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Shadow Love	Space and Time	04:38
Compilation	Steve Wood - It's Not That Easy	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:45
Sebastian (Agnello)	Stop Picking On America	No Compromise b/w Stop Picking On America (picture sleeve)	03:23
James Harcourt	Like the Way It Feels	Emotional Blackmail	02:34
Martha And The Muffins	Sinking Land	Metro Music	05:28
FM109	Hold On	ST	03:37
Einstein	Nasti Nastassja	Sex and Science	04:35
Within Gothic Towers	In The Darkness	Within Gothic Towers	04:38
Glamorcult	In Time (Only to be Free)	Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)	04:17
A Day in Paris	Child's Cry	Prey	03:45
Ceramic Hello	Climatic Nouveaux	The Absence of a Canary	03:57
Bunny & the Lakers	Yalps From the Alpa	Numbers	02:35
Glamatron	Factor 2-2-2	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	03:53
Martha And The Muffins	Primal Weekend	Trance and Dance	05:14
Direktive 17	Between the Lines	ST (EP)	03:42
Rex Chainbelt	Run Away	Foreign Movie	02:43
Cannon Heath Down	A Charming Sound	Heart-Throb Companion	04:25
Martha And The Muffins	About Insomnia	Trance and Dance	03:12
Pukka Orchestra	Flies (as Big as Your Fist)	ST	03:13
I Braineater	Davie Street	I Here, Where You	02:54
Living End (1)	Close Your Eyes	ST	04:53
Johnny Faith	Party time	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	01:42
Compilation	Charles Kurt - The Silence Upstairs	Music Industry Arts 1983	02:11
Martha And The Muffins	Walking Into Walls	Danseparc	02:57
No Comment	Honesty	Wondering b/w Honesty	03:46
Cannon Heath Down	Having Dreams	Heart-Throb Companion	02:14
Salty Seamen	Sweet Yolanda	In The Groove At Last	03:30
Corsage	Myself and You (demo)	Big Night Out (EP)	04:00
Cannon Heath Down	Fortunate	Heart-Throb Companion	01:22
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	A Giant Starfish	Ohama aka The White Album	04:11
Thieves	Color	I See Red	04:09
Design	Sayonara (remix)	No Turning Back	04:10
Escalators	Double Talk	ST	05:17
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Your Face	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	03:16
Handful of Snowdrops	White Dominoes (1st Lineup Studio Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	03:11
A Fish in C	Touch	In Transit (picture sleeve)	03:49
Salt And the Choppers	Flounder	I And You b/w Flounder (picture sleeve)	03:01
Spoons	Red Light	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:44
Golden Calgarians	It's OK	Savage Love	03:13
Psyche	Misery	The Influence	04:06
A Fish in C	In Transit	In Transit (picture sleeve)	03:49
Volts	Never Enough	Plugged In	03:03
Darkroom	Leave it to Heaven	San Paku	03:45
Bangkok	Eve of Destruction	Eve of Destruction b/w Planet of My Own	02:13
Handful of Snowdrops	Face to Face	Land of the Damned	06:09

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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DeMars - Les Télé-Têtes

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DeMars - Songs From Between The Walls

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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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A Day in Paris - Prey

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Hypno-Gogo - In Your Eyes b/w Flashing

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A Day in Paris - Rhymes On Vinyl

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David Raven & the Escorts - David Raven And The Escorts

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Compilation - Music Industry Arts 1983

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