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
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Rich Kids	Spunker	03:37
Spoons	South American Vacation	Arias & Symphonies	04:12
Perfect World	Twist and Shove	Twist and Shove b/w Have a Good Look (picture sleeve)	03:18
Lou Champagne System	Broken Hearts	No Visible Means	03:31
Land of Giants	Seven Men	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	05:12
Ceramic Hello	Climatic Nouveaux	The Absence of a Canary	03:57
Numbers	She's Got Everything	Add Up	02:38
Nex'd	Surreal	Surreal (EP)	05:45
Philip Rambow	Love is a Hard Time	Jungle Law	04:19
Glamorcult	A Farewell to Arms	Would it be Over (picture sleeve)	02:35
Vex	DNA	DNA	03:24
B-Sides	Run and Hide	Red to Black	03:40
Glamorcult	Past Glory (Stone Version)	The Stone Sessions	04:32
Leotards	Suicide Lover	Suicide Lover b/w Runaway Bridge	03:15
100 Flowers	Haunted	21st Guessing	05:09
Andrew Matheson	St. Catherines Wheel	Monterey Shoes	05:37
The Voxx	Flower Boy	Flower Boy b/w Flower Boy DVB	03:01
The Idles	Uptown/Downtown	The Idles Demo	03:23
Benjamin Russell	Gonna be a Woman Soon	Madman	02:54
Cottage Industry	The Point on a Hill	The Winter's Tale	03:59
Vis-A-Vis	Dance With Me	Heart and Soul	03:56
A Day in Paris	Prey	Prey	04:56
Modernes Pickles	Love Me	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:01
Spoons	Ciao	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	01:35
Modernettes	Femme Fatale	View From The Bottom (EP)	02:53
UJ3RK5	Marnie	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	03:32
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Mad at the World	Space and Time	03:51
Kings	It's Okay	Are Here	02:55
No Comment	Honesty	Wondering b/w Honesty	03:46
Compilation	Hygiene Club - Sea Monster	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	03:03
Strange Advance	Watermusic	Worlds Away	00:55
Informer	I Know You Know	I Know You Know b/w Hold It	03:09
ACTORS	Like Suicide	Acts of Worship	03:44
Martha And The Muffins	Sinking Land	Metro Music	05:28
Age of Mirrors	She Cracks Me Up	Screenplay	03:39
Glamorcult	Forever Strangers	Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)	03:35
Timothy Chipman	Joy to the World	Ghost Parade	01:32
Modernes Pickles	Is That Everything	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:34
Secret Act	Northern Spy	My Neighbourhood	03:31
Escalators	Strange Girl	ST	04:04
Erect	Action Reaction	Consequence of Life	02:57
Government	Following You (Reprise)	Electric Eye	02:15
Kinetic Ideals	Fire	Reason (EP)	05:54
Bleu Néon	Néon Blafard	Cité Promise	03:35
Tau Ceti	San Francisco	And I Wonder b/w San Francisco	04:02
Moral Support	Hold On to Time	Insanity	04:40
Spoons	Conventional Beliefs	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	03:57
Tim Ray	Lost Lagoon (April, 1981)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:52
Cardboard Brains	Have You Seen The Boy In The Gutter With The Broken Mind?	Live At The Edge	02:05
Handful of Snowdrops	Somewhere Higher (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	05:25
Men Without Hats	Utter Space	Folk of the 80's (EP)	02:44
Compilation	Steve Wood - It's Not That Easy	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:45
Bangkok	Eve of Destruction	Eve of Destruction b/w Planet of My Own	02:13
Ohm & the Secret Sources	I Hold the Key	Space and Time	05:20
UJ3RK5	The Anglican	ST (EP)	03:53
Corsage	She's Become a Memory	ST	04:06
Direktive 17	Jericho	ST (EP)	03:58
Benjamin Russell	Video Freak	Pop Modern(e)	04:17
Images In Vogue	Holiday (Version)	In The House (Extended Dance Remix)	04:16
Bruce PM	From Sparks to Embers	Makeshift	06:15
Censure	Amour	Foxy Lady b/w Amour	04:33
Direktive 17	Run With Me	ST (EP)	04:35
Ohm & the Secret Sources	You Know I Love You	Exit From a Dream	04:33
Austra	Hate Crime	Feel it Break	04:01
Chocolate Bunnies From Hell	Pumpin' For Jill	Pumpin' For Jill b/w Simple Man (picture sleeve)	04:02
39 Steps	City of Vice [alternate]	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:25
Cardboard Brains	Summertime!	Live At The Edge	03:31
Spoons	Red Light	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:44
The Diodes	No Time to Cry (1981 Previously Unreleased) (CD only)	Rarities	03:43
Hot Tip	Friends	Stop All Motion	03:49
Spoons	Annita	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:21
Modernes Pickles	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:45
I Braineater	Sacred Cow	Artist, Poet, Thief	03:03
Spoons	Only for Athletes	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	05:29
Direktive 17	Don’t Pass Me By	ST (EP)	05:07
Hunger Project	Assembly	Demo 1982	04:48
Compilation	Donald Breithaupt - Lindsay	Music Industry Arts 1983	04:11
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Psyche	Haunted	The Influence	04:10
Instructions	Tell-a-Photo	D-6 b/w Tell-a-Photo (picture sleeve)	03:38
Scenics	Farm Reports and Test Patterns	New Part In Town	03:50
Compilation	Ballyhoo - Love (Emotion + Desire) (Miguel G, Marco T., and Nick T.)	Strange Pleasures EP	03:21
Kings	Partyitis	Are Here	03:51
Blueprints	What You D-Serve	Stare 01	02:51
Rob Bryanton	Who's Got a Hold of the Wheel?	Alcohol And Other Drugs	02:56
Corsage	Monument	Big Night Out (EP)	01:25
Kaméléon	Insomnuit	ST	04:26
The Plugs	I Saw Her Today	Sending An S.O.S. b/w I Saw Her Today	03:04
The Play	Line of Fire	Line of Fire b/w Whispers in the Air	03:45
Age of Mirrors	Talk of the Crowd	Mirage	04:13
Kings	Run Shoes Running	Are Here	02:34
Maurice & The Clichés	Reach for the Top	C'est la vie	03:07
39 Steps	Something New	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:03
Glamorcult	Lonely Faces	The Stone Sessions	03:12
Minutes From Downtown	24 Karat Gold	ST	03:01
Doppler Bros.	The Wreck of the Eaton Centre	Totally Impractical	04:27
Paperboys (1)	Looking for Sharon	Looking for Sharon b/w Saturday 12 Midnight	02:57
Neon	Til Midnight	ST (EP)	03:23
Rex Chainbelt	Disco	Foreign Movie	00:46
Compilation	The Dave Howard Singers - They Come They Go	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	03:33

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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