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
Spoons	Don't Shoot the Messenger	Talkback	03:19
Andrew Matheson	True Romance	Monterey Shoes	03:42
A Day in Paris	Under	Prey	04:21
Eight Seconds	Zoe	Almacantar	04:54
Extras	Seeing You Again	The Road to Zambando	03:40
Velveteens	Love as a Rule	Tall House (EP)	03:03
Barking Boys	High Life - Low Life	The Yes Girls	02:46
Moral Support	Heart of Gold	Insanity	03:40
Strange Advance	One Chance in a Million	Worlds Away	04:12
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:50
Rational Youth	Sorry	Heredity	04:47
Psyche	Eternal	Mystery Hotel	04:15
BB Gabor	Moscow Drug Club	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry) b/w Moscow Drug Club (picture sleeve)	04:26
Paperboys (1)	Saturday 12 Midnight	Looking for Sharon b/w Saturday 12 Midnight	03:33
DeMars	Even for All Those Years	Stories from between the Walls	04:39
Sex Church	Waking Up	Growing Over	05:26
Numbers	Out to You	Add Up	02:27
Within Gothic Towers	Will I Hope To Love	Within Gothic Towers	05:44
Ohm & the Secret Sources	No Feelings	Space and Time	03:34
Tyro	City Life	A Little More Time (EP)	03:02
CosmaNat	Little Things	Little Things b/w Camping Song (picture sleeve)	03:45
Rational Youth	Bang On	Heredity	04:11
Boys Brigade	Melody	ST	04:04
Government	Following You (Reprise)	Electric Eye	02:15
Johnny Faith	Standing On the Red Line	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	02:52
B-Sides	Bedtime for Ronald (33⅓ rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	04:27
Handful of Snowdrops	Somewhere Higher (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	05:25
Handful of Snowdrops	Hush	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	07:12
Glamorcult	After the Battle	Early Glamour	03:12
Moev	Cracked Mirror	Cracked Mirror (EP)	05:57
Absolute 9	She Believes	ST	02:52
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Feelings Feel	Ohama aka The White Album	02:57
Frigidaires	Three Cool Cats	Three Cool Cats (picture sleeve)	02:12
Spoons	Love Can be a Stranger	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	03:32
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
Spoons	When Time Turns Around	Vertigo Tango	03:40
Thieves	Color	I See Red	04:09
Martha And The Muffins	Whatever Happened to Radio Valve Road?	Danseparc	03:00
Spoons	Shaking the Fear	Vertigo Tango	04:16
Neon	Til Midnight	ST (EP)	03:23
Deserters	Raining Over France	ST	02:38
Spoons	2,000 Years	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	04:18
100 Flowers	Darkness	21st Guessing	05:39
S.Q	One Love	Alone at Night b/w One Love (picture sleeve)	03:34
Secret Act	Talk Talk!	My Neighbourhood	02:55
The Chemicals	Run and Hide	Out of My Mind b/w Run and Hide	02:49
Images In Vogue	Politics of Sound	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	03:56
B-Sides	State of Emergency	Red to Black	04:22
Benjamin Russell	Boffo	Madman	02:12
Images In Vogue	Politics of Sound	Pre-release	03:30
I Braineater	Frosted Lips	I Here, Where You	03:28
Drama	Jungle Chant	Loneliness	03:28
FM109	Help	ST	02:11
Psyche	The Brain Collapses	Insomnia Theatre	04:09
James Harcourt	Eye of the Needle	Emotional Blackmail	02:54
A Neon Rome	You Should Fear Us	New Heroin	05:44
Images In Vogue	So Careful (Extended Mix)	So Careful (Extended Mix)	07:17
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	The Call	Midnite News	07:14
Glamorcult	Time Will Pass On By	Shadows From The Past	04:38
D.A.R.Y.L.	Time 2 Start Again	Time 2 Start Again b/w Time 2 Start Again (Garage Mix)	04:35
DeMars	Les enfants dans la lune	Les Télé-Têtes	02:54
Drama	Space Age Punks	Loneliness	02:37
Scenics	Jonathan Richman	New Part In Town	03:18
Handful of Snowdrops	Terroir I	Land of the Damned	02:41
NEO A4	Sex (For Love)	The Warmer Side of You	02:39
Benjamin Russell	Rock It	Pop Modern(e)	04:06
Corsage	West Coast Highway (demo)	Big Night Out (EP)	04:57
Modernes Pickles	Burning Airwaves	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	03:30
Glamorcult	A Farewell to Arms	Would it be Over (picture sleeve)	02:35
Avril Chown	Losin’ Sight	American Boys b/w Losin’ Sight	03:53
Age of Mirrors	Somewhere in Arabia	Screenplay	03:37
e	Kunst Kopf	Prime Cuts	01:55
Spoons	One in Ten Words	Arias & Symphonies	04:10
Compilation	Arrows - Come On Up	Toronto Calling	02:57
Government	Plaza del Pimps	How Many Fingers?	03:13
Extras	The Watcher	The Watcher (EP)	05:18
Tim Ray	Hate (September, 1980)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:22
Entrance System	Tower Talk	Imperfect Image	05:53
Popular Front (1)	We One	This is the Rubicon	04:59
Images In Vogue	Save It	In The House	03:38
Government	On The Prowl (Reprise)	Electric Eye	02:36
Nasty Habits	Cleopatra	Playing in the Danger Zone b/w Cleopatra (picture sleeve)	03:27
Pointed Sticks	The Real Thing	The Real Thing b/w Out of Luck	02:31
45's	Real Confused	On the Beach	02:15
39 Steps	Hit It Up	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:14
DeMars	Out of Sight	Stories from between the Walls	05:25
Spoons	Conventional Beliefs	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	03:57
Scenics	New Part in Town	New Part In Town	03:31
Emport	Heartaches	Heartaches b/w Picture Frame Love Affair	03:58
Minutes From Downtown	Wrapped in Velvet	ST	03:16
Land of Giants	Just Yet	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	03:30
Palace at 4 a.m.	Sex - Death	Untamed World	03:16
Compilation	The Sharks - Get Off the Radio	No Pedestrians	03:00
Tim Ray	Now What Was That! (July, 1982)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:59
Johnny Faith	Pure Energy	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	02:55
Rex Chainbelt	Disco	Foreign Movie	00:46
Instructions	OK	ST	03:53
Benjamin Russell	Where Do We Belong?	Madman	02:07
Age of Mirrors	Wave About Her	Mirage	04:33
Glamorcult	You Are in Love	A Price To Paris	04:07

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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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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