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
Maurice & The Clichés	Veronika	Veronika	03:40
ACTORS	Cold Eyes	Acts of Worship	03:24
Degrees of Freedom	In This Room	China	03:41
Bündock	Lover for Hire	Société Anonyme	03:25
Erect	Cry of a Leo	Consequence of Life	02:48
Spoons	Bridges Over Borders	Bridges Over Borders	05:02
Tim Ray	Horses Mouth (April, 1981)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:29
Boys Brigade	Mannequin	Mannequin Demo	04:13
Braineaters	Closet Case	Planet X	01:26
Scenics	I Have You	Underneath the Door	02:07
Annabelle's Room	Classical Rage	ST	03:30
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
Cannon Heath Down	Bone Of Contention	Heart-Throb Companion	03:34
Awake The Echoes	Always Something Wrong	Normal Life	03:59
Cardboard Brains	Caesar Drives a Fast Car	Live At The Edge	03:06
e	The Fall	The Levitation Syndrome	03:15
B-Sides	No Can Do	Red to Black	03:00
Handful of Snowdrops	Terroir II	Land of the Damned	01:01
Interpol	Ursula (At Warsaw International)	ST	06:35
Images In Vogue	Educated Man	Educated Man	03:54
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Where Do You Call Home?	I Fear What I Might Hear	04:46
Hunger Project	Assembly	The Same Inside b/w Assembly	07:06
Barking Boys	Incident In St. Jamestown	The Yes Girls	04:58
Blueprints	Down On My Sublife	Stare 01	04:06
Extras	Sporting Life	The Road to Zambando	03:50
Zipper	Never Too Old (To Rock & Roll)	Never Too Old (To Rock & Roll) b/w Slowtown Rats	02:59
Scenics	Jonathan Richman	New Part In Town	03:18
Compilation	Winston Hancock - Girls, Girls	No Pedestrians	03:15
Psyche	Twilight	The Influence	04:31
Compilation	Direktive 17 - Mr. Jones	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	05:38
39 Steps	Just Amphetamine	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:51
Blue Oil	Stop Complaining	Blue Oil (1981-83)	04:22
45's	On the Beach	On the Beach	04:05
Moral Support	Chasing Rainbows	Insanity	04:20
Figures At Dawn	Distance Through Darkness	ST	03:10
Spoons	Bed of Nails	Vertigo Tango	04:38
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Dischordant Concensus	Midnite News	03:45
Kinetic Ideals	Touch Me (Now)	Touch Me (Now)	07:27
Golden Calgarians	Thousand Chains	Savage Love	03:51
Boys Brigade	Voices	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	04:27
Images In Vogue	Anxiety Reaction	Educated Man	04:05
Modern Minds	Punk Violence	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:16
The Vox	Mary-Go-Round	Mary-Go-Round b/w Bored of the 80's	03:29
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	The Drum	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	03:49
Drama	As I Breathe On The T.T.C.	Loneliness	04:04
Psyche	Maggots	Insomnia Theatre	04:27
Modernes Pickles	Sex in America	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	03:43
Minutes From Downtown	Pushing the Limits of Love	ST	03:14
John Young Paul	Summertime!	The Life of Ermie Scub	02:29
Handful of Snowdrops	Messengers (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	04:18
NEO A4	Home	The Warmer Side of You	02:53
Compilation	Mike Peters - Trucker's Paradise	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:56
Age of Mirrors	Juliet's Dancing	Mirage	04:49
Handful of Snowdrops	The Keep (Interim Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	04:31
Vital Sines	Collage	Collage	04:25
Pukka Orchestra	Miss Right	ST	03:32
Shanghai Lil	Nirvana - Oh What a Night	Flower And a Bee b/w Nirvana - Oh What a Night	04:57
Preison's Shade	Tearing Down the Walls	Race Me Home (EP)	04:52
Corsage	Myself and You (demo)	Big Night Out (EP)	04:00
Strange Advance	Prisoner	Worlds Away	04:15
Hygiene Club	Pantechnicon - for Gary	Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary	01:15
ACTORS	In Real Life	Our Love Will Live Forever	03:15
Vital Sines	Sex & Babies	Subway Suicide E.P.	02:40
Broken Tables	Image of You	ST	04:24
Spoons	Smiling in Winter	Arias & Symphonies	04:05
ACTORS	Face Meets Glass: Part Time Punks Session	Part Time Punks Session EP	03:42
Iko	Model Type A	83	05:08
Glamorcult	Images of Monlight	Early Glamour	04:19
Rave Revues	Long Time Coming	Long Time Coming b/w Rules Of Play (picture sleeve)	04:11
A Neon Rome	The Magical Summer Of ’85	A Neon Rome	03:17
Martha And The Muffins	Teddy the Dink	Trance and Dance	03:29
True Confessions	4th Base	ST	02:46
Zipper	Another Boyfriend	Another Boyfriend b/w Bad Girls	02:52
Future Yanx	Suite For A Nation	Suite For A Nation (picture sleeve)	03:12
Kaméléon	Omnibus Cactus	ST	02:48
Compilation	Arrows - Treat Her Right	Toronto Calling	02:52
100 Flowers	Darkness	21st Guessing	05:39
Hunger Project	Imitation of Life	Demo 1982	06:24
Jon Mullane	One Turns Love Around	Following Yesterday	03:57
Blue Oil	Free Fleas On the Roof	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:32
Streetcar Named Desire	Someday Your Ship Will Come (Dance Mix)	Life Begins	04:17
The Front	The Moon Is a Stranger	Underworld	03:12
Living End	Death at an Early Age	Death at an Early Age b/w Magic Carpet Ride	03:12
Modernes Pickles	Bonjour de Bob	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:01
Martha And The Muffins	Hide and Seek	Metro Music	03:58
Thieves	Screams	I See Red	04:40
Scenics	Garthuson	New Part In Town	02:16
Martha And The Muffins	Be Blase	Trance and Dance	02:42
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	I Tie My Shoes	Midnite News	05:25
Glamorcult	Keep On Dreaming	Atlantis Under the Sea	04:31
Boys Brigade	Saigon	Mannequin Demo	05:02
ACTORS	Like Suicide	Acts of Worship	03:44
Popular Front	Doomsday Army	Doomsday Army b/w Puppet	03:53
Men Without Hats	I Got the Message	The Safety Dance	04:47
Hunger Project	The Same Inside	Demo 1982	07:07
The Presence	Mechanoid	Blown Away b/w Mechanoid (picture sleeve)	03:55
Tim Ray	Once or Twice (January, 1982)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:17
Palace at 4 a.m.	Sex - Death	Untamed World	03:16
Fictions	Better	ST	02:31
Bruce PM	Electronic Security	Makeshift	03:59

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Drama - Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)

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Drama - Loneliness

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Glamorcult - Atlantis Under the Sea

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Glamorcult - A Price To Paris

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Glamorcult - Shadows From The Past

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Glamorcult - Early Glamour

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Glamorcult - Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994

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Glamorcult - The Stone Sessions

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Glamorcult - Tropical Romance (picture sleeve)

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Glamorcult - Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude

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Glamorcult - Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)

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CosmaNat - Little Things b/w Camping Song (picture sleeve)

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Channel 5 - ST (EP)

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ACTORS - Our Love Will Live Forever

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ACTORS - Part Time Punks Session EP

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ACTORS - Slaves (FM Attack RMX)

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ACTORS - Mining for Heart

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ACTORS - Acts of Worship

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ACTORS - One Hundred Years

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ACTORS - It Will Come to You

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ACTORS - Reanimated

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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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