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
Bonus Boys	Wasting Our Time	Every Time I See A Car Like Yours Go By b/w Wasting Our Time	03:16
Low Fun	Words We Left Behind	The New Dictator b/w Words We Left Behind	03:41
Compilation	Winston Hancock & The Changes - Stood Up	The Circuit	02:42
Compilation	Youth Youth Youth - Wanderlust	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	01:58
Handful of Snowdrops	The Scariest Notion (1st Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	05:08
Bündock	El Salvador (The Beat of)	Société Anonyme	04:30
Nex'd	Flexible	Surreal (EP)	06:21
FM109	Hold On	ST	03:37
Spoons	Repeatable	New Day New World	03:54
Red Herring	If You Work for Me	Taste Tests	03:38
Tim Ray	Hiding Out (January, 1982)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:03
Secret Act	Poor Boy	My Neighbourhood	03:36
Ross Angeles	Hip Hip	Salute	02:21
Drastic Measures	I Feel Bad	ST	02:04
Tribal Earth	Got to Move	Interaction b/w Reaction (EP)	04:09
Start	State of Her Shine	Hey You	03:12
The Idles	Foreign Son	The Idles Demo	03:53
Robert Armes	Nearly Out of Control	Nearly Out of Control b/w Radio Active	03:35
Zipper	Another Boyfriend	Another Boyfriend b/w Bad Girls	02:52
Family Plot	My Mad Friend	Convictions	05:06
The Play	Whispers in the Air	Line of Fire b/w Whispers in the Air	03:50
Diodes	Terminal Rock (1978 Alternate Version) (CD only)	Rarities	03:21
Lorne Ranger	I Want to be a Doorman	I Want to be a Doorman	04:02
Hot Tip	Eyes Are Blue	Stop All Motion	03:19
Graphics	Sleepdancer	Sleepdancer b/w Our Planet Ocean	03:41
FM109	Help	ST	02:11
Spoons	You Light Up	Static In Transmission	04:23
Compilation	Jennifer Cauley - In Every Dream	Music Industry Arts 1983	02:45
Tim Ray	1/4 to Eight (October, 1978)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:40
Faded Films	Faded Years	Faded Years	04:11
Spoons	Camera Shy	Talkback	04:07
B-Sides	Run and Hide	Red to Black	03:40
Kaméléon	Microcosme	ST	03:40
Blueprints	I Fell Down	Stare 01	03:35
Hot Tip	My Shoes	Stop All Motion	03:52
Fictions	Better	ST	02:31
Tim Ray	D-Scratch (April, 1981)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:04
Ohm & the Secret Sources	You Know I Love You	Space and Time	04:26
Golden Calgarians	Happy Man	Savage Love	02:10
Inner Sanction	Standing in the Rain	Prophecy	03:21
Erect	We Are Police	We Are Police b/w The Colony	02:19
Tim Ray	Scene a Fight (April, 1981)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:33
Lawn	Catwalk Slip	Peace in the Valley	03:24
Rex Chainbelt	Rock a Rolla	Foreign Movie	01:40
Kinetic Ideals	No Exit	Reason (EP)	05:39
Johnny Zhivago	New Things	Microalbum	03:19
Kreemers	Eve of Destruction	Eve of Destruction b/w At The El Mocambo	03:14
Martha And The Muffins	Obedience	Danseparc	03:30
Instructions	The Factory	ST	03:41
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Baby, Baby	Space and Time	03:35
Compilation	L'Etranger - Light in the Morning (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	04:44
Philip Rambow	The Manison on the Hill	Jungle Law	04:25
Lou Champagne System	Silent Walking	No Visible Means	06:56
Glamorcult	Tokyo Streets	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:12
Andrew Matheson	Eyes of Harlem	Monterey Shoes	07:44
Extras	One Last Time	Bit Parts	03:45
DeMars	Les zoos arborifères	Les Télé-Têtes	03:09
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Don't Look Now	Spunker	03:44
Preison's Shade	She Wants Me	Race Me Home (EP)	05:54
The Scene (2)	Meet the Man	Only in Paradise	03:54
Compilation	The Stranger - Don't Touch Me (Mr. X)	Strange Pleasures EP	04:54
Iko	Approach on Tokyo	83	05:15
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	On the Line	ST	04:09
Escalators	Double Talk	ST	05:17
Tim Ray	Now What Was That! (July, 1982)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:59
A Neon Rome	Society Rag	New Heroin	03:00
Modernes Pickles	People Get Killed and Get Up and Kill	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	03:25
Entrance System	No Relative	Imperfect Image	03:19
Villains	I Don't Care	Go Crazy	03:09
Absolute 9	Love and Work	Love and Work b/w Fence	03:48
Sue Hansen	Sucking Up to You	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:24
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Feelings Feel	Ohama aka The White Album	02:57
Extras	Never a Headache	The Road to Zambando	03:58
Spoons	Blow Away	Arias & Symphonies	05:59
The Patterns	Always Sixteen	Afraid to Touch b/w Always Sixteen	02:44
Modernes Pickles	I Left my Heart in Charlesbourg	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	05:20
Cottage Industry	The Point on a Hill	The Winter's Tale	03:59
Degrees of Freedom	August is an Angel	China	04:27
Bündock	Stand Still	Société Anonyme	02:45
Palace at 4 a.m.	Palace at 4 A.M.	Untamed World	01:25
Extras	Aqua Velva Man	Bit Parts	02:49
Pukka Orchestra	Weekend (Come Alive!)	The Palace Of Memeory	06:15
Minutes From Downtown	Pushing the Limits of Love	ST	03:14
Tame & Talking	Fashion Fit	ST	04:08
Moev	Cocoon	Zimmerkampf	04:45
Rational Youth	Dancing On The Berlin Wall (Remix)	Dancing on the Berlin Wall	04:34
The Front	Simple Dreams	Gina's at a Party	03:39
Glen Meadmore	Do Me Baby	Chicken & Biscuits	05:01
Kaméléon	Anachronisme (1981)	Groupe électro-pop	04:24
Compilation	Steve Wood - It's Not That Easy	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:45
Compilation	Tyranna - Back Off Baby	No Pedestrians	02:26
Breeding Ground	Cerememony of Love	Obscurity And Flair	04:43
Inner Sanction	Hush	Shake Up - Fly Down	03:20
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News IV	I Fear What I Might Hear	07:58
Vital Sines	Collage	Collage	04:25
Ceramic Hello	Geometry	The Absence of a Canary	07:25
Johnny Faith	Beatown	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	03:24
3rd Man In	What to Believe	New Fast b/w What to Believe (picture sleeve)	03:43
Doppler Bros.	I Wanna Write for the Muzak Man	Totally Impractical	03:58
Spoons	World in Motion	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	04:18

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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