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
Eight Seconds	Commissioner St.	Almacantar	04:40
Spice	Just a Little Bit	Beautiful You b/w Just a Little Bit	02:17
Drama	Electronic Pink Panther	Loneliness	02:23
Scenics	In the Summer	New Part In Town	04:22
Fictions	Won't Wash Away	ST	03:20
Volts	Never Enough	Plugged In	03:03
Erect	Lay Down and Die	Consequence of Life	03:18
John Young Paul	The Girl Spells Grief	The Life of Ermie Scub	01:38
Blue Peter	Cloak and Dagger	Test Patterns For Living	03:45
Degrees of Freedom	Risk	China	03:46
Vis-A-Vis	Prison of Eyes	Heart and Soul	04:50
Start	In Passion	Hey You	03:24
Images In Vogue	Awaken Me	In The House	03:47
Extras	Turning it Out	The Road to Zambando	04:24
Compilation	The Sharks - Get Off the Radio	No Pedestrians	03:00
Cardboard Brains	Caesar Drives a Fast Car	Live At The Edge	03:06
Benjamin Russell	One Love	Pop Modern(e)	03:55
Start	State of Her Shine	Hey You	03:12
Erect	Human Beings	Consequence of Life	04:09
Images In Vogue	Politics of Sound	Pre-release	03:30
Class Info	Out of Line	Come For Me b/w Out of Line	04:04
Start	Kids in the USA	Hey You	03:17
Broken Tables	Image of You	ST	04:24
B-Sides	Emotions	Red to Black	04:11
Moral Support	Heart of Gold	Insanity	03:40
Deserters	No Time for Talking	ST	03:16
Shanghai Lil	Nirvana - Oh What a Night	Flower And a Bee b/w Nirvana - Oh What a Night	04:57
Glamorcult	Would it be Over	Would it be Over (picture sleeve)	03:29
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Sometimes	I Fear What I Might Hear	03:41
Spoons	Arias & Symphonies	Arias & Symphonies	04:47
Bobby and Synthia	Queen Street	thirty-six hours (EP)	04:56
Pukka Orchestra	Flies (as Big as Your Fist)	ST	03:13
Braineaters	Modern Man Pt 2	Planet X	01:16
Men Without Hats	Antarctica	Folk of the 80's (EP)	03:25
Handful of Snowdrops	A Short Story (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	06:24
Salty Seamen	Too Late to Worry Now	In The Groove At Last	03:52
Moral Lepers	China Rag	Turn to Stone	04:26
Corsage	Down at the Rock	ST	03:26
Ohm & the Secret Sources	No Feelings	Space and Time	03:34
Numbers	She's Got Everything	Add Up	02:38
NEO A4	The Warmer Side Of You	The Warmer Side of You	04:13
Rave Revues	Nightmares	Voices	03:36
Modernettes	The Rebel Kind	View From The Bottom (EP)	02:08
The Play	Whatever it Takes	Running Out of Time b/w Whatever it Takes	03:25
UJ3RK5	Locator	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	04:04
Future Yanx	Suite For A Nation	Suite For A Nation (picture sleeve)	03:12
Inner Sanction	Culture Dance	Shake Up - Fly Down	04:35
Kaméléon	Microcosme (1981)	Groupe électro-pop	03:45
John Bell and the Strange	Taking You Home in a Taxi	Taking You Home in a Taxi b/w Melissa	03:24
Timothy Chipman	Joy to the World	Ghost Parade	01:32
Magic Dragon	Objet Du Desire	Emotional Landscape	05:34
Glamorcult	Forever Strangers	Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)	03:35
Rolf Kempf	Bye Bye Baby	One More Time b/w Bye Bye Baby (picture sleeve)	03:36
Pale Blue	Ruin	Ruin b/w Therapy	03:25
Villains	Laugh it Out	Go Crazy	03:54
Einstein	Fire of My Loins	Sex and Science	04:48
Doppler Bros.	Big Time Tragedy	Totally Impractical	03:36
Rational Youth	The Man in Grey	ST (mini album)	03:19
True Confessions	Smokey's Gonna Twist	ST	02:25
Martha And The Muffins	Halfway Through the Week	Trance and Dance	03:41
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	A Giant Starfish	Ohama aka The White Album	04:11
Cottage Industry	The Urge to Merge	The Winter's Tale	04:33
Breeding Ground	Underground	Wintergarden (EP)	04:31
Kings	Run Shoes Running	Are Here	02:34
Pukka Orchestra	Might as Well be on Mars	ST	05:05
UJ3RK5	The Anglican	ST (EP)	03:53
Eight Seconds	Tell Diane	Big Houses	04:45
Glamorcult	Carry the Water	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:47
Decade of Dreams	A Conversation With Myself	Wild Colloquial	03:32
James Harcourt	Eye of the Needle	Emotional Blackmail	02:54
Glen Meadmore	Do Me Baby	Chicken & Biscuits	05:01
Images In Vogue	S&M	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:53
Rob Bryanton	Just a Shy Guy	Alcohol And Other Drugs	02:30
Salty Seamen	Goddess of the Hunt	In The Groove At Last	02:30
They Never Sleep	Bite the Bullet (Instrumental)	Bite the Bullet (Submission Mix)	09:18
UJ3RK5	The Locator	ST (EP)	03:11
Streetcar Named Desire	Life Begins	Life Begins	04:40
Insex	Play or Die	One (EP)	02:14
Spoons	Talk Back	Talkback	04:37
Drastic Measures	I Feel Bad	ST	02:04
Odd Man Out	Whatever Happened to Us	Whatever Happened to Us b/w World of My Own (picture sleeve)	04:02
Glamorcult	Crestfallen	A Price To Paris	03:37
Start	Gotta Have Love	Hey You	04:49
Within Gothic Towers	Fanfare To Flight	Within Gothic Towers	04:48
Drama	This Time	Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)	04:13
Ceramic Hello	Climatic Nouveaux	The Absence of a Canary	03:57
Modern Minds	Holly	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	01:59
Bumpers	I Watch You Go	Media Music/ I Watch You Go /Ian/ Log 1 (picture sleeve)	02:34
Salty Seamen	In the Groove at Last	In The Groove At Last	02:35
Utopiate	Actions or Misguidance	You've Been Warned b/w Actions or Misguidance	03:06
Erect	The Colony	We Are Police b/w The Colony	02:39
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	And Without a Word	Midway b/w Thin Lines	04:07
Vital Sines	New Heroes	Big Dark Dreams	04:55
Golden Calgarians	Sex Under Missiles	Savage Love	03:34
Diodes	Mercenary Flight (1978 Alternate Version) (CD only)	Rarities	03:21
Rational Youth	Dancing On The Berlin Wall (Remix)	Dancing on the Berlin Wall	04:34
Cannon Heath Down	Julia Rainbow	Heart-Throb Companion	04:31
Aircuts	Radioactivity	Radioactivity b/w Sheila	02:57
Government	Sponge	33 ⅓ RPM E.P.	02:22
Iko	Radioactive Mist	83	05:24

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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Bonus Boys - Every Time I See A Car Like Yours Go By b/w Wasting Our Time

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Cry - ST

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