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
Rex Chainbelt	Run Away	Foreign Movie	02:43
Modernes Pickles	I've Won a Million	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	03:02
Handful of Snowdrops	Voices in the Night	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	06:41
Land of Giants	Just Yet	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	03:30
Thieves	I See Red	I See Red	04:27
Handful of Snowdrops	A Miracle	Land of the Damned	04:54
The Front	The Truth Hurts	Gina's at a Party	03:13
Rarefaction	You In Me	Ordinary Man	05:50
B-Sides	Invasion of the Money Snatchers	Invasion Of The Money Snatchers b/w Much Too Serious	03:19
Salty Seamen	I'm Done	In The Groove At Last	03:50
Thieves	Police Squad	I See Red	03:27
Salty Seamen	Rings Around Uranus	In The Groove At Last	02:18
45's	Real Confused	On the Beach	02:15
Instructions	Learn from Computers	ST	04:15
39 Steps	Something New	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:03
A Neon Rome	You Should Fear Us	New Heroin	05:44
Neon	Til Midnight	ST (EP)	03:23
Eight Seconds	Moving Day	Big Houses	03:45
Red Herring	If You Work for Me	Taste Tests	03:38
Modernes Pickles	Teenage Dropout	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:20
Figures At Dawn	Distance Through Darkness	ST	03:10
I Braineater	Frosted Lips	I Here, Where You	03:28
Eight Seconds	Where's Bula	Almacantar	04:38
Extras	Cult Kids	Bit Parts	03:07
Martha And The Muffins	Saigon	Metro Music	04:23
Glamorcult	Distant Memories	The Stone Sessions	04:07
Blue Peter	Living in the Eighties	Test Patterns For Living	02:26
Trespassing Bean Rays	Heart of the Mind	ST (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:27
Mannequin Depressives	I Don't Get You	Girls Are Evil	04:31
DeMars	Les enfants dans la lune	Les Télé-Têtes	02:54
Popular Front	Puppet	Doomsday Army b/w Puppet	03:17
100 Flowers	Coming Up For Air	21st Guessing	04:06
True Confessions	Modern Girl	ST	03:03
Nex'd	Surreal	Surreal (EP)	05:45
Nowhere	No More	No More b/w Living	04:56
Extras	Stay Up All Night	Bit Parts	02:54
Hot Tip	Stop All Motion	Stop All Motion	04:34
Erect	Lay Down and Die	Consequence of Life	03:18
Psyche	Caught in the Act	Unveiling The Secret	05:42
Degrees of Freedom	Risk	China	03:46
Glamorcult	You Are in Love	A Price To Paris	04:07
Cottage Industry	The Point on a Hill	The Winter's Tale	03:59
100 Flowers	Pam	21st Guessing	03:33
Hot Tip	Hard to be Me	Stop All Motion	03:50
Martha And The Muffins	Teddy the Dink	Trance and Dance	03:29
Rave Revues	Voices	Voices	04:00
Entrance System	Imperfect Image	Imperfect Image	03:38
Scenics	Bubbles	Underneath the Door	02:26
Blue Oil	Far Too Much	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:52
Lou Champagne System	Selling So Sweet	No Visible Means	02:48
Austra	The Future	Feel it Break	04:02
Tim Ray	Love-Fusion	ST	03:50
ACTORS	Killing Time (Is Over)	Acts of Worship	03:16
Glen Meadmore	Do Me Baby	Chicken & Biscuits	05:01
Start	State of Her Shine	Hey You	03:12
Spoons	Ice Age	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:08
Martha And The Muffins	This is the Ice Age	This Is The Ice Age	07:34
Rational Youth	Close to Nature	Dancing on the Berlin Wall	04:43
Popular Front (1)	Living On the Line	World Weary b/w Living On the Line	03:48
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Rich Kids	Spunker	03:37
Handful of Snowdrops	Face to Face	Land of the Damned	06:09
Maurice & The Clichés	Top Forty	ST	03:37
Salty Seamen	One Chance Left	In The Groove At Last	02:33
DeMars	Out of Sight	Stories from between the Walls	05:25
Men Without Hats	Mothers	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	12:07
Cardboard Brains	Have You Seen The Boy In The Gutter With The Broken Mind?	Live At The Edge	02:05
The Scene (2)	I Am	Only in Paradise	04:14
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Furniture Dancing	Spunker	03:15
Bobby and Synthia	Chant #2	thirty-six hours (EP)	04:00
Martha And The Muffins	Obedience	Danseparc	03:30
Psyche	Eating Violins	Insomnia Theatre	02:45
Einstein	Body & Mind	Sex and Science	03:49
Oui	On Our Way	Oui	03:36
Blueprints	Tribute to a Fool	Stare 01	03:50
Tenants	Never Forget a Face	Visions of Our Future	04:07
Glamatron	Continentals	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	04:44
Glamorcult	Thing Of Beauty	The Stone Sessions	03:57
Spoons	You Light Up	Static In Transmission	04:23
Modernes Pickles	Colors	We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White	02:18
Tim Ray	Preamble - One Last Look (September, 1980)	History Lessons 1978-1984	06:21
Family Plot	Dervish	Convictions	04:11
Eight Seconds	Tell Diane	Big Houses	04:45
Volts	Dirty Money	Plugged In	02:59
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	Promise	ST	04:31
James Harcourt	It's a Matter of Time	Emotional Blackmail	02:24
Bleu Néon	Exorcisme	Cité Promise	04:33
Age of Mirrors	Raiders of the Heart	Screenplay	03:39
Maurice & The Clichés	Every Corner	Veronika	03:45
Redlife	Hope for Tomorrow	Hope for Tomorrow b/w Round	03:44
IQ	Burn Me	Burn Me b/w Sixth World	02:53
Dada	I.D	That's Dada (picture sleeve)	02:29
CosmaNat	Camping Song	Little Things b/w Camping Song (picture sleeve)	02:17
Moev	Cracked Mirror	Cracked Mirror (EP)	05:57
Blue Oil	Superficiel (ami d'esprit superficiel)	ST	03:41
Buddy King & the Motion!	Schoolgirl Alibis	Schoolgirl Alibis b/w I Didn't Know Her	02:09
Mama Quilla II	KKK	ST (EP)	05:40
Palace at 4 a.m.	White Guilt	White Guilt	04:34
ACTORS	L'appel du vide: Part Time Punks Session	Part Time Punks Session EP	03:34
Kultur	Crusader	Kultur	03:02
39 Steps	A Taste of Poison [alternate]	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:35

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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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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