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
Men Without Hats	Where do Boys Go	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	03:56
Handful of Snowdrops	Hush (Bonus Track - 1991 unreleased remix)	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	06:27
Blue Oil	Free Fleas On the Roof	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:32
Figures At Dawn	Close My Eyes	ST	04:54
NEO A4	If it Was You	ST	04:41
Rex Chainbelt	Run Away	Foreign Movie	02:43
Bruce PM	Well, Yes	Makeshift	04:45
Spunker (aka Neotone)	I'm in the Stars For You	Spunker	04:36
Secret Act	Fred Flinstone, Where Are You	My Neighbourhood	03:52
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Sometimes	I Fear What I Might Hear	03:41
Erect	Waiting	Consequence of Life	04:01
Scenics	New Part in Town	New Part In Town	03:31
Glamorcult	Shadows From The Past (Part 2)	Shadows From The Past	03:19
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	The Drum	Ohama aka The White Album	02:44
Handful of Snowdrops	From One Place to Another	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	05:10
NEO A4	Standing	ST	03:50
Glamorcult	Time Will Pass On By	Shadows From The Past	04:38
39 Steps	A Taste of Poison [alternate]	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:35
I Braineater	Comeon	Artist, Poet, Thief	01:44
Oui	Fight Back	Oui	03:46
Start	Hey You	Hey You	04:03
Tim Ray	Run On (January, 1982)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:08
Regulators	That´s Right Nothing's Left	What's in the City b/w That´s Right Nothing's Left (picture sleeve)	02:53
Velveteens	Flies	Tall House (EP)	04:09
Cardboard Brains	Is That Why?	Live At The Edge	03:28
Mettle	The Invisibles	ST	03:14
Doppler Bros.	I Wanna Write for the Muzak Man	Totally Impractical	03:58
Pointed Sticks	Out of Luck	The Real Thing b/w Out of Luck	02:32
Golden Calgarians	Savage Love	Savage Love	04:16
Compilation	Steve Wood - Black and Whites	Music Industry Arts 1983	04:06
Land of Giants	Cannibal Dolls	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	03:32
Spoons	Blow Away	Arias & Symphonies	05:59
Drastic Measures	Prelude	ST	01:09
Scott Matthews	Navigation	Boats in Rivers	03:33
Hypno-Gogo	In Your Eyes	In Your Eyes b/w Flashing	03:04
Eight Seconds	We Set Him Free	Big Houses	05:04
The Idles	Uptown/Downtown	The Idles Demo	03:23
Psyche	Nocturnal Passenger	Mystery Hotel	06:07
Élan	Penticton Peaches	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:13
Age of Mirrors	Crazy After Dark	Screenplay	04:56
Ross Angeles	She Knows	Salute	03:12
Spoons	No Promises	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	04:39
Moev	Ophelia	Dusk and Desire	03:59
Streetcar Named Desire	Illustrated Man	Life Begins	05:25
Land of Giants	I Got You Babe	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	04:17
Benjamin Russell	Gentle Charms	Madman	01:48
Novels	I'm Being Followed	I'm Being Followed b/w Son of Sam (picture sleeve)	03:02
Rex Chainbelt	Disco	Foreign Movie	00:46
Extras	Never a Headache	The Road to Zambando	03:58
The Diodes	Roses and Thorns	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	03:22
Glamorcult	A Price to Paris	A Price To Paris	04:31
Moral Support	Chasing Rainbows	Insanity	04:20
Glamorcult	Live for Today	Would it be Over (picture sleeve)	03:34
Rarefaction	I Dreamt	Ordinary Man	04:18
The Gas	Evacuate	Evacuate Mississauga (picture sleeve)	02:38
The Front	Someday	Gina's at a Party	03:34
Shanghai Lil	Flower And a Bee	Flower And a Bee b/w Nirvana - Oh What a Night	04:28
The Diodes	City of the Dead	Action-Reaction	04:04
Compilation	Hygiene Club - Blitzkrieg Bop	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	02:40
Rave Revues	Rules Of Play	Long Time Coming b/w Rules Of Play (picture sleeve)	04:23
Modern Minds	Out of Luck (Pointed Sticks)	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:55
Thieves	Color	I See Red	04:09
Entrance System	Ahohoo	Imperfect Image	03:45
Spoons	Friends in the Media	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	03:31
Compilation	Hygiene Club - Interview	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	06:10
Ohm & the Secret Sources	I Hold the Key	Exit From a Dream	05:27
Kaméléon	Insomnuit	ST	04:26
Numbers	Mr. Dempster	Add Up	03:49
Images In Vogue	Travel	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	05:34
Modernes Pickles	Baby My Band is Back	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	03:22
Johnny Zhivago	Looking at You	Microalbum	04:28
Rarefaction	Night Crawler	Ordinary Man	05:02
Figures At Dawn	In from the Cold	ST	03:54
Spoons	End of Story	Static In Transmission	04:39
Bunny & the Lakers	Shrieks From the Peeks	Numbers	03:10
Rarefaction	You In Me	Ordinary Man	05:50
Channel Five	How Could We Know	ST (EP)	02:32
Moev	Sea-Missile Motel	Dusk and Desire	06:23
Awake The Echoes	Sherry	Normal Life	04:20
Martha And The Muffins	This is the Ice Age	This Is The Ice Age	07:34
Kaméléon	Caravane (1981)	Groupe électro-pop	03:32
The Plugs	Sending An S.O.S.	Sending An S.O.S. b/w I Saw Her Today	03:21
Spoons	World in Motion	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	04:18
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Open Window	Midnite News	03:33
Oui	On Our Way	Oui	03:36
Deserters	Present Life	ST	03:21
Modernes Pickles	Secret Life of Achmed	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:27
Handful of Snowdrops	Face to Face	Land of the Damned	06:09
A Neon Rome	Bsus5	A Neon Rome	08:25
Spunker (aka Neotone)	You Don't Wanna Hear This Song	Spunker	02:16
Instructions	Tell-a-Photo	D-6 b/w Tell-a-Photo (picture sleeve)	03:38
Oui	You Make Me High	Oui	04:41
Psyche	Misery's Return	The Influence	04:57
Psyche	Make No Mistake	Mystery Hotel	04:11
Mannequin Depressives	I Don't Get You	Girls Are Evil	04:31
Spoons	Ciao	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	01:35
Martha And The Muffins	Teddy the Dink	Trance and Dance	03:29
Living End (1)	Dislocation	ST	03:16
Bunny & the Lakers	Sandy	Numbers	02:09
Glamorcult	The Light We Will Hold	A Price To Paris	04:23

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Bleu Néon - Cité Promise

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Maurice & The Clichés - C'est la vie

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Maurice & The Clichés - ST

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Maurice & The Clichés - Veronika

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Maurice & The Clichés - Soft Core

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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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