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
Cottage Industry	The Crucial Moment	The Winter's Tale	03:49
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Talkin' About Her	Spunker	03:07
Bunny & the Lakers	t.b. Farm (Kiss Me Now)	Numbers	01:27
Salty Seamen	Mindless Sex	In The Groove At Last	02:27
Fictions	I Let Go	ST	02:26
Scenics	Great Piles of Leaves	Underneath the Door	04:18
Vital Sines	Subway Suicide	Subway Suicide E.P.	04:51
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Where Do You Call Home?	I Fear What I Might Hear	04:46
Awake The Echoes	Captive Heart	Normal Life	03:06
Government	On The Prowl (Reprise)	Electric Eye	02:36
Living End (1)	Only When	ST	03:28
Lou Champagne System	Propaganda Frustration	No Visible Means	06:49
Moev	Alibis	Dusk and Desire	04:37
Handful of Snowdrops	Shadows on the Heart	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	05:33
Compilation	Crash Course In Science - Kitchen Motors (Produced by John Wicks, Third Story Recording, Philadelphia, USA)	Strange Pleasures EP	02:36
Minutes From Downtown	Emotion Under Pressure	Minutes From Downtown '82	04:14
Rational Youth	Close to Nature	Cold War Nightlife	04:40
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	And Without a Word	Midway b/w Thin Lines	04:07
Faded Films	Faded Years	Faded Years	04:11
Ross Angeles	She Knows	Salute	03:12
Handful of Snowdrops	Face to Face	Land of the Damned	06:09
Popular Front (1)	Living On the Line	World Weary b/w Living On the Line	03:48
Land of Giants	Security Squad	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	03:32
Fictions	Jersey Shore	ST	02:48
Doppler Bros.	Welcome to Canada	Totally Impractical	03:48
Handful of Snowdrops	The View (1984)	Mort en direct	05:16
DeMars	La nouvelle epoque	Les Télé-Têtes	04:01
Figures At Dawn	Falling	ST	03:24
Images In Vogue	Worlds of Noise	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	04:30
Decade of Dreams	Stop This Car	Wild Colloquial	02:12
Start	Hey You	Hey You	04:03
Frigidaires	5 Guys Named Moe	Three Cool Cats (picture sleeve)	02:14
Psyche	Ride On	Mystery Hotel	02:48
Compilation	Colin Davison - Love's Gone	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:56
The Front	Robbery	Underworld	04:21
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Timeless Thoughts (To the Stars)	Space and Time	04:54
Benjamin Russell	Gonna be a Woman Soon	Madman	02:54
Mobile Clones	Present Age	Abrasive Air (picture sleeve)	04:24
Corsage	Big Night Out (Single Mix)	Big Night Out (EP)	05:11
Mannequin Depressives	I Don't Get You	Girls Are Evil	04:31
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Rich Kids	Spunker	03:37
Johnny Faith	Beatown	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	03:24
Cannon Heath Down	quagmire	Heart-Throb Companion	00:30
Salty Seamen	Rings Around Uranus	In The Groove At Last	02:18
Government	Zippers of Fire	33 ⅓ RPM E.P.	04:05
Timothy Chipman	Strange Days	Strange Days b/w Night Patrol	02:48
Spoons	A Girl in Two Pieces	Arias & Symphonies	04:27
Blue Oil	I Blow You a Kiss	ST	02:36
Compilation	Glamatron - Klüb	The Circuit	02:28
Spoons	Bed of Nails	Vertigo Tango	04:38
Government	Plaza del Pimps	How Many Fingers?	03:13
Modernettes	Won't Have To Worry	Gone..But Not Forgiven	02:22
Redlife	Hope for Tomorrow	Hope for Tomorrow b/w Round	03:44
Magic Dragon	(White Monkey) Under The Volcano	Emotional Landscape	07:16
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Flying Goodbye	Ohama aka The White Album	03:45
39 Steps	Someday is Today [original]	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:33
Einstein	Fire of My Loins	Sex and Science	04:48
Glen Meadmore	Gotta Thing	Chicken & Biscuits	05:04
A Day in Paris	The Hill	Prey	04:38
Within Gothic Towers	I've Got A Reason And You've Got A Prayer	Within Gothic Towers	04:41
Handful of Snowdrops	Hush	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	07:12
John Bell and the Strange	Melissa	Taking You Home in a Taxi b/w Melissa	06:50
Minutes From Downtown	24 Karat Gold	ST	03:01
Drastic Measures	Silk Stockings	ST	02:38
Tau Ceti	San Francisco	And I Wonder b/w San Francisco	04:02
ACTORS	Killing Time (Is Over)	Acts of Worship	03:16
Quasi Hands	Oil Barons	ST	03:49
Vis-A-Vis	Dance With Me	Heart and Soul	03:56
Cannon Heath Down	Bone Of Contention	Heart-Throb Companion	03:34
Salty Seamen	Goddess of the Hunt	In The Groove At Last	02:30
John Young Paul	The Boulevards of Hope	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:37
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	Mr. Cocteau's Holiday	ST	02:17
Images In Vogue	Educated Man	Educated Man	03:54
Spoons	Blow Away	Arias & Symphonies	05:59
Klō	Baby Wants a Baby	Demo 1981	04:18
Rational Youth	Dancing on the Berlin Wall	Cold War Nightlife	04:34
Benjamin Russell	Power of Love	Pop Modern(e)	03:37
Psyche	Children Carry Knives	Insomnia Theatre	04:46
Lawn	Over the Top	Peace in the Valley	03:00
Ralph Mashats	Empty Eyes (Fly My Way)	Irradies b/w Empty Eyes (Fly My Way) (picture sleeve)	05:05
Lawn	Catwalk Slip	Peace in the Valley	03:24
BAMFF	Mini Crisis	The Uncanny b/w Mini Crisis	03:35
Erect	We Are Police	Consequence of Life	02:14
Bunny & the Lakers	Weekend Guests	Numbers	01:57
Odd Man Out	Whatever Happened to Us	Whatever Happened to Us b/w World of My Own (picture sleeve)	04:02
Andrew Matheson	St. Catherines Wheel	Monterey Shoes	05:37
Neon	Indulgence With a Vengeance	ST (EP)	03:58
Erect	Lay Down and Die	Consequence of Life	03:18
Compilation	Dale Hancocks - Carribea	Music Industry Arts 1983	01:53
ACTORS	Face Meets Glass: Part Time Punks Session	Part Time Punks Session EP	03:42
Salty Seamen	Neanderthal	In The Groove At Last	04:24
The Diodes	Terminal Rock (1978 Alternate Version) (CD only)	Rarities	03:21
B-Sides	She's a Raver (33⅓ rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	02:06
Odd Man Out	World of My Own	Whatever Happened to Us b/w World of My Own (picture sleeve)	03:35
Pukka Orchestra	Listen to the Radio	ST	03:48
Living End (1)	Time is Unkind	ST	03:11
e	Dance With Me	The Levitation Syndrome	03:36
Pukka Orchestra	Power Cut	ST	05:13
The Diodes	Coma	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	02:50
A Neon Rome	Society Rag	New Heroin	03:00

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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