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
James Harcourt	Moment of Madness	Emotional Blackmail	03:03
Degrees of Freedom	In This Room	China	03:41
Decade of Dreams	One Night in Bohemia	Wild Colloquial	03:50
Martha And The Muffins	Teddy the Dink	Trance and Dance	03:29
Glamorcult	Thing Of Beauty	The Stone Sessions	03:57
Avril Chown	American Boys	American Boys b/w Losin’ Sight	03:04
John Young Paul	The Monster in Ed	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:06
Land of Giants	Just Yet	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	03:30
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News II	Midnite News	03:30
Future Yanx	Suite For A Nation	Suite For A Nation (picture sleeve)	03:12
ACTORS	CTRL	Our Love Will Live Forever	03:15
Psyche	Psyche Theme	The Influence	02:48
Martha And The Muffins	Am I On?	Trance and Dance	03:24
Breeding Ground	In the Sun	Tales of Adventure (EP)	05:22
100 Flowers	He and She	21st Guessing	04:26
FM109	L'ecole est fuckee	ST	04:19
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Strange Advance	Reprise "Worlds Away"	Worlds Away	01:35
Spunker (aka Neotone)	You Stand	Spunker	02:36
Decade of Dreams	The Bridge	Wild Colloquial	03:31
Extras	Sentimental Fool	The Road to Zambando	03:53
Edsells	Don't Wanna Go to School	Don't Wanna Go to School b/w She Escaped	03:06
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Sometimes	I Fear What I Might Hear	03:41
Fictions	Fixation	ST	03:19
Modernes Pickles	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:45
Blue Peter	Do the Robot	Test Patterns For Living	03:25
Corsage	Big Bang	ST	03:42
Null Set	Etude for Triggered Wah	New Job (EP)	05:02
Spoons	Old Emotions	Talkback	03:42
Glamorcult	On The Line	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:04
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Your Face	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	03:16
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
Modernes Pickles	Colors	We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White	02:18
Spice	Just a Little Bit	Beautiful You b/w Just a Little Bit	02:17
Decade of Dreams	A Conversation With Myself	Wild Colloquial	03:32
B-Sides	B-Side Shuffle	Red to Black	02:25
No Comment	Honesty	Wondering b/w Honesty	03:46
Handful of Snowdrops	Godhood (1989)	Mort en direct	04:44
Land of Giants	Key to Your Heart	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	02:50
Drastic Measures	Jump Off the Lake	ST	02:37
Family Plot	Old Refrain	Convictions	04:09
Eight Seconds	Thorn in My Side	Big Houses	04:08
Family Plot	Stag Party	Convictions	03:33
Eight Seconds	Sincere	Almacantar	04:27
Numbers	Mr. Dempster	Add Up	03:49
Living End (1)	Anaesthesia Grin	ST	03:29
Austra	The Future	Feel it Break	04:02
Compilation	Winston Hancock & The Changes - Love at First Sight	The Circuit	02:36
Drama	Traffic	Loneliness	02:53
Modernettes	The Rebel Kind	View From The Bottom (EP)	02:08
Kaméléon	Un p'tit coup	ST	04:03
Blue Oil	No Disturbing Call	ST	02:51
Channel 5	How Could We Know	ST (EP)	02:32
Ohm & the Secret Sources	You Know I Love You	Space and Time	04:26
Extras	Everytime I See Your Face	Bit Parts	02:33
Class Info	Circle Game	Inside	02:20
The Plugs	I Saw Her Today	Sending An S.O.S. b/w I Saw Her Today	03:04
Modernes Pickles	I'm in Love with the Super Friends	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:42
Images In Vogue	Victimize	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:19
Glamorcult	As I Breathe on The TTC	Shadows From The Past	03:58
Low Fun	The New Dictator	The New Dictator b/w Words We Left Behind	05:01
I Braineater	Future Now	I Here, Where You	03:08
Government	Greetings from the Gutter (Reprise)	Electric Eye	00:50
Boys Brigade	Mannequin	ST	03:41
Vital Sines	New Heroes	Big Dark Dreams	04:55
Family Plot	Swagger	Convictions	03:12
Hot Tip	Eyes Are Blue	Stop All Motion	03:19
Modernes Pickles	Deathrace 2000	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:44
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Gaslit Squares	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	03:56
Handful of Snowdrops	A Miracle	Land of the Damned	04:54
Breeding Ground	Happy Now I Know	Tales of Adventure (EP)	03:45
Direktive 17	Don’t Pass Me By	ST (EP)	05:07
Modern Minds	Holly	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	01:59
Scenics	Bubbles	Underneath the Door	02:26
Psyche	The Outsider	Mystery Hotel	04:27
Rational Youth	Saturdays in Silesia	Cold War Nightlife	04:21
Modernes Pickles	Destination Martin	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	03:13
Martha And The Muffins	Three Hundred Years - Chemistry	This Is The Ice Age	07:09
True Confessions	Modern Girl	ST	03:03
John Lutz T.	Street Corner Sally	Kiss And Tell b/w Street Corner Sally	03:06
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	My Time	Midnite News	05:15
Spoons	When Time Turns Around	Vertigo Tango	03:40
Erect	Don't Put Me Down	Consequence of Life	02:44
Drama	This Time	Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)	04:13
Informer	I Know You Know	I Know You Know b/w Hold It	03:09
Tame & Talking	The Hole	ST	03:11
100 Flowers	Haunted	21st Guessing	05:09
Faded Films	The Top	Faded Years	02:43
Blue Peter	Time and Money	Test Patterns For Living	02:07
Moev	90 Minutes	Zimmerkampf	05:15
Salty Seamen	Mindless Sex	In The Groove At Last	02:27
Glamorcult	I Will Still Be There	The Stone Sessions	04:05
Glamorcult	Holding Onto Yesterday	Shadows From The Past	03:34
Red Herring	Love Machine	Taste Tests	03:32
Drama	Got to Get off the Earth	Loneliness	03:06
e	The Fall	The Levitation Syndrome	03:15
Lunasam	Redhead	Redhead	03:52
Drastic Measures	Prelude	ST	01:09
Edsells	She Escaped	Don't Wanna Go to School b/w She Escaped	04:22
Erect	The Colony	Consequence of Life	02:45

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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CosmaNat - Little Things b/w Camping Song (picture sleeve)

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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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