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
Golden Calgarians	It's OK	Savage Love	03:13
A Neon Rome	Windowsill	A Neon Rome	05:20
Lou Champagne System	Another Dimension	No Visible Means	04:50
The Diodes	Strange Time	Action-Reaction	02:53
Klō	Clown	Demo 1981	03:17
The Diodes	City of the Dead	Action-Reaction	04:04
Maurice & The Clichés	Working Girls	C'est la vie	03:44
Living End (1)	Anaesthesia Grin	ST	03:29
I Braineater	Frosted Lips	I Here, Where You	03:28
UJ3RK5	Locator	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	04:04
Tim Ray	I'm Waiting (April, 1979)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:00
Maurice & The Clichés	Top Forty	ST	03:37
Ohm & the Secret Sources	City of the Shadow	Space and Time	03:57
Rational Youth	Sorry	Heredity	04:47
Trespassing Bean Rays	Eclipse	ST (EP) (picture sleeve)	01:24
DeMars	Les télé-têtes	Les Télé-Têtes	04:41
Compilation	Mark Malibu And The Wasagas - Buzz Beat	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	04:12
I Braineater	Songs for the Masses	I Here, Where You	03:43
Salty Seamen	Too Late to Worry Now	In The Groove At Last	03:52
Degrees of Freedom	August is an Angel	China	04:27
Compilation	L'Etranger - Light in the Morning (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	04:44
Erect	Cry of a Leo	Consequence of Life	02:48
Punkin Machine	Zarcon Rock On	Zarcon Rock On // Zarcon Rock On	03:40
The Front	Looking For You	Gina's at a Party	04:32
Time Twins	Yuri Song	Yuri Song b/w Say Uncle (picture sleeve)	07:03
John Young Paul	Surrender to the Void	The Life of Ermie Scub	04:05
Cardboard Brains	Have You Seen The Boy In The Gutter With The Broken Mind?	Live At The Edge	02:05
Tulpa	Mystical Dreams	Apologize to Your Mother (picture sleeve)	03:36
Corsage	Myself and You (demo)	Big Night Out (EP)	04:00
Magic Dragon	Once Upon a Time	Emotional Landscape	04:25
Volts	As the Radio Died	Plugged In	03:35
Cardboard Brains	Babies Run My World	Live At The Edge	02:07
Men Without Hats	Safety Dance	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	04:24
Bunny & the Lakers	Sandy	Numbers	02:09
Rob Bryanton	Who's Got a Hold of the Wheel?	Alcohol And Other Drugs	02:56
Klō	Baby Wants a Baby	Demo 1981	04:18
Scissors	Nadine	ST	02:03
A Neon Rome	Society Rag	A Neon Rome	03:06
Rob Bryanton	Courage	Alcohol And Other Drugs	03:34
Moral Lepers	China Rag	Turn to Stone	04:26
Secret Act	Northern Spy	My Neighbourhood	03:31
Bonus Boys	Wasting Our Time	Every Time I See A Car Like Yours Go By b/w Wasting Our Time	03:16
Faded Films	East of the Asylum	Faded Years	04:46
Within Gothic Towers	Day Dreaming	Within Gothic Towers	03:14
Rex Chainbelt	Test Tube Baby	Foreign Movie	01:53
The Idles	Wildcat	The Idles Demo	03:59
Faded Films	The Top	Faded Years	02:43
Philip Rambow	Don't Come (Cryin' To Me)	Jungle Law	03:37
Tenants	Forget About Forgetting	ST	03:53
Dandelions	Funky Monday	Great Big Pictures b/w Funky Monday (picture sleeve)	02:51
Bruce PM	Electronic Security	Makeshift	03:59
Blue Oil	Money	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:50
Degrees of Freedom	China	China	06:00
Minutes From Downtown	Pushing the Limits of Love	ST	03:14
39 Steps	A Taste of Poison [alternate]	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:35
David Raven & the Escorts	One Way Love	David Raven And The Escorts	02:36
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	Direct	ST	03:43
Class Info	Circle Game	Inside	02:20
Einstein	A Brighter Tomorrow	Sex and Science	03:09
Maurice & The Clichés	Good Bye Mr. Bond	ST	03:52
Thieves	Color	I See Red	04:09
Maja Bannerman	Call Me	Songs by Maja Bannerman	03:06
Térapi	Espèce de stress	Primale	02:33
Salty Seamen	One Chance Left	In The Groove At Last	02:33
Handful of Snowdrops	As Thought Outside but Looking In (Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	04:06
DeMars	Torn to Pieces	Stories from between the Walls	03:35
Eight Seconds	No Picasso	Big Houses	05:04
Modern Minds	Confidential (Modernettes)	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:58
Maurice & The Clichés	Skyline	C'est la vie	03:49
UJ3RK5	Booty Dread	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	02:49
Cannon Heath Down	Belly Through	Heart-Throb Companion	04:32
Corsage	St. John's Wood (demo)	Big Night Out (EP)	04:49
Frigidaires	5 Guys Named Moe	Three Cool Cats (picture sleeve)	02:14
Compilation	Ballyhoo - Love (Emotion + Desire) (Miguel G, Marco T., and Nick T.)	Strange Pleasures EP	03:21
Images In Vogue	Quiet Room	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:39
Numbers	Sideways Elevator	Sideways Elevator b/w Can't Take it	03:09
Class Info	Come for Me	Inside	02:23
Moral Support	Strange Day for Dancing	Insanity	03:21
Glamorcult	Mine Is The Maiden	The Stone Sessions	04:16
Tim Ray	Horses Mouth (April, 1981)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:29
Spoons	No More Growing Up	Arias & Symphonies	03:25
Images In Vogue	Politics of Sound	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:30
Velveteens	Moonwork	Tall House (EP)	03:50
Men Without Hats	Utter Space	Folk of the 80's (EP)	02:44
Psyche	The Sundial	The Influence	03:38
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News II	Midnite News	03:30
Government	It Must be God-Downtown	Electric Eye	02:52
Preison's Shade	She Wants Me	Race Me Home (EP)	05:54
Secret Act	Night Club	My Neighbourhood	03:45
Compilation	Donald Breithaupt - Lindsay	Music Industry Arts 1983	04:11
Klō	Dreaming	Demo 1982	03:54
Hygiene Club	Girls at the Bank	Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary	02:05
Spoons	Star Maps	Static In Transmission	04:05
Shanghai Lil	Nirvana - Oh What a Night	Flower And a Bee b/w Nirvana - Oh What a Night	04:57
Tim Ray	Promised You (April, 1979)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:31
Klō	You're Chic	Demo 1981	05:34
Blue Oil	No Disturbing Call	ST	02:51
Compilation	Itchy And The Crabs - Argy Bargy	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	05:36
Maurice & The Clichés	Unschuld	C'est la vie	03:43
Rational Youth	Close to Nature	Dancing on the Berlin Wall	04:43

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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