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.

Artist	Track	Title	Length
Diodes	City of the Dead	Action-Reaction	04:04
Age of Mirrors	Somewhere in Arabia	Screenplay	03:37
Government	How Many Fingers?	How Many Fingers?	07:21
Scene, The (2)	Rise	Only in Paradise	05:12
Glamatron	Facial Saviour	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	05:02
Drastic Measures	Romanticon	ST	02:42
Corsage	Snakeskin (live at the Town Pump)	Big Night Out (EP)	05:22
Reactors	If I Only Had a Brain	If I Only Had a Brain b/w Alien Radio	02:35
Glamorcult	My Lady	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:02
Regulators	What's in the City	What's in the City b/w That´s Right Nothing's Left (picture sleeve)	03:42
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Rich Kids	Spunker	03:37
Melinite	When You Turn Again	Push The Button And Run!	03:12
Salty Seamen	Lime Green Blues	In The Groove At Last	02:29
Young, John Paul	The Monster in Ed	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:06
Living End (1)	Close Your Eyes	ST	04:53
Oui	You Make Me High	Oui	04:41
Spoons	Friends in the Media	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	03:31
Perfect World	Have a Good Look	Twist and Shove b/w Have a Good Look (picture sleeve)	05:10
Champagne, Lou System	Silent Walking	No Visible Means	06:56
Modern Minds	Wasted Lives	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	03:01
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Don't Be Afraid	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	04:30
Front, The	Who Your Friends Are	Gina's at a Party	03:45
Russell, Benjamin	Gonna be a Woman Soon	Madman	02:54
Psyche	Misery's Return	The Influence	04:57
Blue Peter	Cloak and Dagger	Test Patterns For Living	03:45
Deserters	Americans	ST	03:03
39 Steps	City of Vice [alternate]	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:25
Compilation	The Sturm Group - Upon a Nerve (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	05:34
Tau Ceti	San Francisco	So Far	04:04
Russell, Benjamin	Power of Love	Pop Modern(e)	03:37
Direktive 17	Between You & Me	ST (EP)	03:38
Doppler Bros.	Big Time Tragedy	Totally Impractical	03:36
Zipper	Slowtown Rats	Never Too Old (To Rock & Roll) b/w Slowtown Rats	02:51
Within Gothic Towers	Day Dreaming	Within Gothic Towers	03:14
Russell, Benjamin	Action and Reaction	Madman	02:14
Friendly Fire	Complete Control	Junior Senility EP	03:12
Bündock	Never Trust	Société Anonyme	04:59
Eight Seconds	Zoe	Almacantar	04:54
Compilation	Bongo Fury - Alaska Shuffle	Toronto Calling	04:01
Fictions	Don't Look Down	ST	02:31
Young, John Paul	Surrender to the Void	The Life of Ermie Scub	04:05
Scenics	Do the Wait	Underneath the Door	02:13
Moev	Czar	Dusk and Desire	04:19
Numbers	Bits & Pieces	Add Up	02:45
Class Info	That Aint No Lie	Inside	02:19
Corsage	Myself and You (demo)	Big Night Out (EP)	04:00
I, Braineater	Funtime	Artist, Poet, Thief	01:24
Martha And The Muffins	Boy Without Filters	This Is The Ice Age	04:58
Inner Sanction	Culture Dance	Shake Up - Fly Down	04:35
Awake The Echoes	Sherry	Normal Life	04:20
Spoons	Be Alone Tonight	Bridges Over Borders	05:11
Channel Five	How Could We Know	ST (EP)	02:32
100 Flowers	He and She	21st Guessing	04:26
Magic Dragon	Once Upon a Time	Emotional Landscape	04:25
Vis-A-Vis	Prison of Eyes	Heart and Soul	04:50
Psyche	Taking Chances	Unveiling The Secret	04:38
Palace at 4 a.m.	Sex - Death	Untamed World	03:16
Braineaters	Kid Stuff	Planet X	01:33
Mannequin Depressives	Dissolve	Girls Are Evil	01:45
Compilation	Tyranna - Back Off Baby	No Pedestrians	02:26
Harcourt, James	Emotional Blackmail	Emotional Blackmail	02:21
Psyche	The Brain Collapses (Original Concept)	Insomnia Theatre	04:07
Diodes	No Time to Cry (1981 Previously Unreleased) (CD only)	Rarities	03:43
B-Sides	She's a Raver (33⅓ rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	02:06
Paperboys (1)	Looking for Sharon	Looking for Sharon b/w Saturday 12 Midnight	02:57
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Sometimes I Fear	Ohama aka The White Album	04:25
Catherine	Operating System	Operating System b/w Operating System	03:03
Kaméléon	Rouge barbele	ST	04:54
Matheson, Andrew	It Only Hurts When I Cry	Monterey Shoes	03:25
Age of Mirrors	Still Life in Radio	Screenplay	04:09
Salty Seamen	One Chance Left	In The Groove At Last	02:33
Kinetic Ideals	Absurdity	Reason (EP)	05:23
Demars	Les zoos arborifères	Les Tele-Tetes	03:09
Red Herring	The Crab Song	Taste Tests	03:57
Glamorcult	She Touched My Soul	Early Glamour	04:50
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Timeless Thoughts (To the Stars)	Space and Time	04:54
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Modernettes	Femme Fatale	View From The Bottom (EP)	02:53
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Feelings Feel	Ohama aka The White Album	02:57
Instructions	Learn from Computers	ST	04:15
Russell, Benjamin	Video Freak	Pop Modern(e)	04:17
Naylor, Joe	I'm Canadian Beer	I'm Canadian Beer b/w I Hate Fluorescent Lights	02:23
Einstein	Mr. Science	Sex and Science	02:35
B-Sides	She's a Raver (45 rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	01:34
Popular Front (1)	This is the Rubicon	This is the Rubicon	04:59
Psyche	Children Carry Knives	Insomnia Theatre	04:46
Rational Youth	No More and No Less	Heredity	04:06
Class Info	Come for Me	Inside	02:23
Extras	I Never Told You, I Told You So	The Watcher (EP)	04:26
Tenants	Schoolgirl	ST	02:47
Compilation	True Confessions - Fourth Base	No Pedestrians	02:30
Age of Mirrors	Wave About Her	Mirage	04:33
Rin Tin Tin	Give Meech a Chance	Give Meech a Chance // Jackin' the House of Commons	03:11
Psyche	Eating Violins	Insomnia Theatre	02:45
Lawn	Over the Top	Peace in the Valley	03:00
Handful of Snowdrops	Still We Live (1st Lineup Studio Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	03:37
Oui	People Talk	Oui	03:50
Modern Minds	The End of a Dream	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	03:40
Rarefaction	Night Crawler	Ordinary Man	05:02
Zhivago, Johnny	Looking at You	Microalbum	04:28

New Wave Post Punk Wave

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Martha And The Muffins - Danseparc

Gas, The - Evacuate Mississauga (picture sleeve)

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Government - 33 ⅓ RPM E.P.

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Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) - I Fear What I Might Hear

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Zipper - Another Boyfriend b/w Bad Girls

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NEO A4 - ST

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Kinetic Ideals - Life In Shadow b/w Maze of Ways

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Breeding Ground - Wintergarden (EP)

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Second Thoughts - Integrity b/w Wound Up

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Billy Butt & The Brats - Surveillance b/w No I Can't Say No

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End, The - Just Another Dream b/w My Paradise (picture sleeve)

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Numbers - Add Up

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Golden Calgarians - New Desperados b/w Minutes to Heaven (picture sleeve)

Nevermen - The Monitor LP

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Tabby K - Summertime b/w Wind Or Water

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Diodes - Action-Reaction

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Strange Advance - Worlds Away

Tulpa - Apologize to Your Mother (picture sleeve)

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Golden Calgarians - Savage Love

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Rational Youth - Cold War Nightlife

Rikki & The Rokkits - New Wave b/w They Never See (picture sleeve)

Micks - ST (EP)

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Chown, Avril - American Boys b/w Losin’ Sight

Broken Tables - ST

Bobby and Synthia - thirty-six hours (EP)

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Cottage Industry - The Winter's Tale

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Zhivago, Johnny - Microalbum

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Lawn - Peace in the Valley

45's - On the Beach

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Numbers - Sideways Elevator b/w Can't Take it

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