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
Big Dog	Cantina	99 Change Hands	05:19
Modernes Pickles	Teenage Dropout	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:20
Direktive 17	You’re Only Dreaming	ST (EP)	04:01
IQ	Burn Me	Burn Me b/w Sixth World	02:53
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
The Chemicals	Run and Hide	Out of My Mind b/w Run and Hide	02:49
John Young Paul	Is That Why?	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:07
Eight Seconds	Commissioner St.	Almacantar	04:40
Salty Seamen	Club Hot de Paris	In The Groove At Last	02:03
Handful of Snowdrops	Gabrielle	Land of the Damned	06:32
Braineaters	Modern Man Pt 2	Planet X	01:16
Eight Seconds	We Set Him Free	Big Houses	05:04
Spoons	All the Wrong Things (In the Right Places)	New Day New World	03:20
Compilation	The Sharks - Get Off the Radio	No Pedestrians	03:00
Klō	Mrs. Fong	Mrs. Fong b/w Break the Floor	02:32
Land of Giants	Security Squad	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	03:32
I Braineater	7Teen	Artist, Poet, Thief	02:38
A Neon Rome	Cums a Wolf	New Heroin	04:15
Compilation	Winston Hancock & The Changes - Love at First Sight	The Circuit	02:36
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Lonely Heart Dance	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	06:09
Motive	It’s Too Late	Don’t You Know b/w It’s Too Late (picture sleeve)	03:28
Psyche	Insatiable	Mystery Hotel	04:41
Null Set	Etude for Triggered Wah	New Job (EP)	05:02
Shock Culture	Brave New World	ST (EP)	03:14
I Braineater	Tax On Toys (plus tracks 4-6)	I Here, Where You	09:19
Pointed Sticks	Out of Luck	The Real Thing b/w Out of Luck	02:32
DeMars	Try... You Can't	Les Télé-Têtes	03:56
Martha And The Muffins	One Day in Paris	This Is The Ice Age	04:20
NEO A4	Only a Fool	ST	03:52
Family Plot	Wings of Fate	Convictions	04:02
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midway	Midway b/w Thin Lines	06:29
Modernes Pickles	Forest Fires	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:57
Salty Seamen	Mindless Sex	In The Groove At Last	02:27
Melinite	My Anna of Discretion	Push The Button And Run!	02:36
Rarefaction	All the Broken Seams	Ordinary Man	03:44
I Braineater	Future Now	I Here, Where You	03:08
NEO A4	Look to Your Heart	The Warmer Side of You	03:47
Rheostatics	My Generation	My Generation b/w Satellite Dancing	03:04
Modernes Pickles	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:45
B-Sides	B-Side Shuffle	Red to Black	02:25
Blue Oil	Far Too Much	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:51
Blue Oil	Celebration	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:41
Compilation	Vital Sines - Not My World (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	04:15
Moev	90 Minutes	Zimmerkampf	05:15
Awake The Echoes	The Best Thing	Normal Life	02:38
Tau Ceti	San Francisco	So Far	04:04
Psyche	Thundershowers	Unveiling The Secret	05:13
Age of Mirrors	Crazy After Dark	Screenplay	04:56
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Love in 3-D	Space and Time	03:36
Kaméléon	Smarties (1983)	Groupe électro-pop	04:54
BB Gabor	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry)	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry) b/w Hunger, Poverty and Misery (picture sleeve)	02:41
Kinetic Ideals	Me and the Sky	A Personal View (EP)	05:50
DeMars	Out of Sight	Stories from between the Walls	05:25
Moral Support	Heart of Gold	Insanity	03:40
Tribal Earth	Who You Are (In the Movies)	Interaction b/w Reaction (EP)	02:46
Within Gothic Towers	I've Got A Reason And You've Got A Prayer	Within Gothic Towers	04:41
Living End (1)	Blow	ST	02:35
Kinetic Ideals	Together	A Personal View (EP)	05:54
Bruce PM	From Sparks to Embers	Makeshift	06:15
Glamorcult	The Basis of Our Style	Early Glamour	04:00
Thieves	Kopper & Iron	I See Red	03:38
Rarefaction	Night Crawler	Ordinary Man	05:02
Government	Sponge	33 ⅓ RPM E.P.	02:22
Dada	I.D	That's Dada (picture sleeve)	02:29
FM109	Food On Nuclear Device	ST	06:38
Eight Seconds	Beyond the Shock	Big Houses	05:34
Glamorcult	Cocktail Conversations	A Price To Paris	04:32
Tim Ray	D-Scratch (April, 1981)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:04
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Lola	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	03:08
The Front	The Haunting (Jimmy Loves Mary-Ann)	Gina's at a Party	04:07
Robert Armes	Nearly Out of Control	Nearly Out of Control b/w Radio Active	03:35
Awake The Echoes	Sherry	Normal Life	04:20
The Scene (2)	Gardens of Babylon	Only in Paradise	04:56
S.Q	Alone at Night	Alone at Night b/w One Love (picture sleeve)	03:10
Psyche	Misery's Return	The Influence	04:57
Cannon Heath Down	Light Your Eyes	Heart-Throb Companion	03:06
Pukka Orchestra	Might as Well be on Mars	ST	05:05
Tim Ray	Once or Twice (January, 1982)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:17
Absolute 9	Fence	Love and Work b/w Fence	03:00
Martha And The Muffins	Indecision	Metro Music	04:23
Living End (1)	All Mine	ST	03:08
Modernes Pickles	Savage Heels	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:30
DeMars	Even for All Those Years	Stories from between the Walls	04:39
Contradance	She's Got an Eyepiece	Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)	04:19
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News III	Midnite News	04:25
Spoons	Old Emotions	Talkback	03:42
Kaméléon	Genocide genethliaque	ST	04:03
Erect	The Colony	We Are Police b/w The Colony	02:39
Within Gothic Towers	Fanfare To Flight	Within Gothic Towers	04:48
Barking Boys	High Life - Low Life	The Yes Girls	02:46
Spoons	Conventional Beliefs	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	03:57
Salt And the Choppers	Flounder	I And You b/w Flounder (picture sleeve)	03:01
Blue Oil	Somewhere Over the Rainbow	ST	02:31
Glamorcult	Pins & Needles	A Price To Paris	03:16
Modern Minds	The Fear Begins	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:48
A Fish in C	Touch	In Transit (picture sleeve)	03:49
Handful of Snowdrops	Sometimes I	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	05:44
Benjamin Russell	Dreaming Girl	Madman	02:24
Magic Dragon	(White Monkey) Under The Volcano	Emotional Landscape	07:16
Instructions	D-6	D-6 b/w Tell-a-Photo (picture sleeve)	03:32

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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