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	Monkey See, Monkey Do	99 Change Hands	01:52
Glamorcult	A Dream Girl To Me	Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude	03:23
Bobby and Synthia	The Music Stopped	thirty-six hours (EP)	02:36
Minutes From Downtown	Emotion Under Pressure	Minutes From Downtown '82	04:14
Dada	If I'm Blind	That's Dada (picture sleeve)	02:46
Images In Vogue	Anxiety Reaction	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:00
Bündock	Cowboy	Société Anonyme	03:46
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	I Tie My Shoes	Ohama aka The White Album	05:58
One Hand Clapping	Bad Pianos	Burlesque (picture sleeve)	01:26
Family Plot	Old Refrain	Convictions	04:09
Salty Seamen	Mindless Sex	In The Groove At Last	02:27
Rave Revues	Self Inflicted Wounds	Voices	03:06
Glamorcult	Would It Be Over	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:28
Spoons	Beautiful Trap	New Day New World	04:45
Scenics	New Part in Town	New Part In Town	03:31
Compilation	Vera & The Poor Boys - Chameleon Girl	The Circuit	03:10
Scenics	Tokyo	New Part In Town	04:07
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Psyche	Prisoner to Desire	Unveiling The Secret	05:37
Voice	Lime	Anno Di Voce	02:58
Spoons	One in Ten Words	Arias & Symphonies	04:10
Spoons	A Girl in Two Pieces	Arias & Symphonies	04:27
Cottage Industry	Leader	The Winter's Tale	03:37
I Braineater	Waste	I Here, Where You	02:39
Spoons	B Movie	Static In Transmission	04:34
Modern Minds	The End of a Dream	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	03:40
Lawn	Don`t Ask	Peace in the Valley	03:43
Spoons	Annita	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:21
Cardboard Brains	Is That Why?	Live At The Edge	03:28
Eight Seconds	We Set Him Free	Big Houses	05:04
Streetcar Named Desire	A Month of Sundays	Life Begins	04:36
Rave Revues	Living in the Shadows	Voices	04:07
Blueprints	What You D-Serve	Stare 01	02:51
Rational Youth	In Your Eyes	Heredity	03:13
The Front	Treacherous	Underworld	04:42
Compilation	Pat Grehan - Fury Girl	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:13
I Braineater	Tax On Toys (plus tracks 4-6)	I Here, Where You	09:19
Family Plot	Tic Tac	Convictions	04:08
The Diodes	When I Was Young	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	04:18
Glamorcult	Lost Souls In Time	The Stone Sessions	03:40
Men Without Hats	Security (Everybody Feels Better With)	Folk of the 80's (EP)	03:57
Pale Blue	Ruin	Ruin b/w Therapy	03:25
Spoons	Nova Heart	Nova Heart b/w Symmetry	06:41
Maurice & The Clichés	Affection at High Speed	ST	04:20
Spoons	Love Recall	New Day New World	03:19
Spoons	Blow Away	Arias & Symphonies	05:59
A Kid	Wrong and Bite	An Introduction to Civil Engineering (EP) (picture sleeve)	06:21
Moral Support	Rising	Insanity	03:04
Reid My Lyps	Susie Don't Run	Susie Don't Run b/w Susie Don't Run	03:57
Pale Blue	Therapy	Ruin b/w Therapy	03:53
Modernes Pickles	We Are the Modernes Pickles	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:35
Bobby and Synthia	Chant #2	thirty-six hours (EP)	04:00
Handful of Snowdrops	A Short Story (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	06:24
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Sometimes I Fear	Ohama aka The White Album	04:25
Mobile Clones	Present Age	Abrasive Air (picture sleeve)	04:24
Aircuts	Radioactivity	Radioactivity b/w Sheila	02:57
Élan	Freedom Song	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:41
The Diodes	Time Damage (Sept. 1977 Toronto Sound Demo) (CD only)	Rarities	02:18
The Diodes	Time of Your Life (1978 Previously Unreleased)	Rarities	02:46
Handful of Snowdrops	A Short Story (1985)	Mort en direct	07:10
Broken Tables	The Ruins	ST	05:50
Awake The Echoes	Always Something Wrong	Normal Life	03:59
Images In Vogue	Welcome to Sorrow	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	04:07
Bündock	Stand Still	Société Anonyme	02:45
Tim Ray	Now What Was That! (July, 1982)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:59
Thieves	Police Squad	I See Red	03:27
Rational Youth	Le meilleur des mondes	Cité phosphoree b/w Le meilleur des mondes	02:59
Absolute 9	Love and Work	Love and Work b/w Fence	03:48
Handful of Snowdrops	Immortals (1985)	Mort en direct	08:24
Spoons	Sooner or Later	Vertigo Tango	03:44
The Voxx	Flower Boy DVB	Flower Boy b/w Flower Boy DVB	04:47
True Confessions	Yes it's True	ST	03:03
Salty Seamen	Sweet Yolanda	In The Groove At Last	03:30
Erect	The Colony	We Are Police b/w The Colony	02:39
Figures At Dawn	Falling	ST	03:24
Handful of Snowdrops	Over My Head (4 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	06:44
Einstein	Mr. Science	Sex and Science	02:35
Vital Sines	New Heroes	Big Dark Dreams	04:55
Land of Giants	Thing Called Love	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	06:57
Extras	Jealous Girl	Bit Parts	03:31
Braineaters	Kid Stuff	Planet X	01:33
David Raven & the Escorts	One Way Love	David Raven And The Escorts	02:36
Drastic Measures	Romanticon	ST	02:42
Teasers	Love Me Like You Did Last Night	Love Me Like You Did Last Night b/w I Love You	02:53
Instructions	OK	ST	03:53
B-Sides	Emotions	Red to Black	04:11
Handful of Snowdrops	White Dominoes (1st Lineup Studio Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	03:11
Compilation	Nobby Clegg & The Civilians - I Wanna Be In Commercials	Toronto Calling	02:38
45's	On the Beach	On the Beach	04:05
Drastic Measures	See My House	ST	02:46
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Your Face	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	03:16
Kreemers	Eve of Destruction	Eve of Destruction b/w At The El Mocambo	03:14
Drama	As I Breathe On The T.T.C.	Loneliness	04:04
Cannon Heath Down	Safe As Milk	Heart-Throb Companion	03:35
Rex Chainbelt	Goodbye Carol	Foreign Movie	03:24
Images In Vogue	Travel	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	04:20
Spoons	Game Above Your Head	Vertigo Tango	03:51
Tim Ray	Scene a Fight (April, 1981)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:33
Moral Support	Whatever Turns You On	Insanity	04:10
Eight Seconds	Thorn in My Side	Big Houses	04:08

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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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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