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
Glen Meadmore	Gotta Thing	Chicken & Biscuits	05:04
A Day in Paris	Child's Cry	Prey	03:45
James Harcourt	Queen Bee	Emotional Blackmail	02:17
Images In Vogue	In the House (Single Version)	In The House (Extended Dance Remix)	03:14
NEO A4	Understand	ST	04:01
Golden Calgarians	Getting Weaker	Savage Love	03:05
Diodes	Curiousity Girl	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	02:52
Boys Brigade	Melody	ST	04:00
Martha And The Muffins	Several Styles of Blonde Girls Dancing	Danseparc	05:53
I Braineater	Tin Pins and Cat Fur	I Here, Where You	02:36
Drastic Measures	Silk Stockings	ST	02:38
Images In Vogue	In the House	In The House	04:07
Land of Giants	Room With a View	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	02:50
Darkroom	Tears Hold No Cure	San Paku	03:46
The Front	The Joke Was On Me	Gina's at a Party	04:03
Family Plot	Wings of Fate	Convictions	04:02
Psyche	You're the Only One	Mystery Hotel	03:28
Awake The Echoes	Turn That Bloody Noise Down	Normal Life	03:15
Spoons	Rodeo	Bridges Over Borders	04:12
NEO A4	Rescue Me	ST	03:59
39 Steps	City of Vice [alternate]	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:25
Rarefaction	You In Me	Ordinary Man	05:50
Austra	Hate Crime	Feel it Break	04:01
Rational Youth	Heredity	Heredity	04:18
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	My Time	Midnite News	05:15
100 Flowers	Nothing is Hard	21st Guessing	04:31
Mettle	Evening Ocean	ST	02:58
One Hand Clapping	Angry Weather	Burlesque (picture sleeve)	04:23
BB Gabor	Moscow Drug Club	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry) b/w Moscow Drug Club (picture sleeve)	04:26
Kings	Don't let Me Know	Are Here	04:00
Élan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
Mannequin Depressives	Dissolve	Girls Are Evil	01:45
Handful of Snowdrops	A Short Story (1985)	Mort en direct	07:10
Golden Calgarians	Thousand Chains	Savage Love	03:51
Images In Vogue	Worlds of Noise	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	04:30
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	On the Line	ST	04:09
Government	Zippers of Fire	33 ⅓ RPM E.P.	04:05
Figures At Dawn	It Doesn't Matter	ST	04:31
Preison's Shade	Don't Leave Me Alone	Race Me Home (EP)	05:11
100 Flowers	Haunted	21st Guessing	05:09
Rave Revues	Have You	Voices	04:01
Bunny & the Lakers	Batlore	Numbers	03:05
100 Flowers	He and She	21st Guessing	04:26
A Day in Paris	Goodbye	Prey	03:24
Martha And The Muffins	Am I On?	Trance and Dance	03:24
Zipper	Another Boyfriend	Another Boyfriend b/w Bad Girls	02:52
Mobile Clones	Abrasive Air	Abrasive Air (picture sleeve)	02:24
A Day in Paris	jUsT tHe sAmE	Rhymes On Vinyl	03:42
Reactors	If I Only Had a Brain	If I Only Had a Brain b/w Alien Radio	02:35
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Sometimes	I Fear What I Might Hear	03:41
Broken Silence	Nightstalking	Nightstalking b/w Through the Glass (picture sleeve)	03:47
Tenants	Death of Innocence	Visions of Our Future	03:39
Degrees of Freedom	Call Me Midnight	China	04:51
Psyche	Wake the Flood Unconscious	Mystery Hotel	02:53
Broken Tables	Image of You	ST	04:24
Start	State of Her Shine	Hey You	03:12
Tau Ceti	Radiation (fallout mix 86)	So Far	04:15
Age of Mirrors	Crazy After Dark	Screenplay	04:56
Handful of Snowdrops	Holy Hossuary (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	04:58
100 Flowers	Rooftops	21st Guessing	03:25
Deserters	No Time for Talking	ST	03:16
Modern Minds	The Mess	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:09
Austra	The Noise	Feel it Break	03:31
Corsage	Big Bang	ST	03:42
Norda	West Over Seas	West Over Seas	05:54
Government	Fumigators	Electric Eye	04:27
Drastic Measures	I Need You Now	ST	02:43
Scissors	Summer Girls	ST	02:18
Braineaters	Johnny	Planet X	06:03
Diodes	Catwalker	Action-Reaction	03:29
Modern Minds	Confidential (Modernettes)	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:58
Rob Bryanton	Just a Shy Guy	Alcohol And Other Drugs	02:30
A Day in Paris	Under	Prey	04:21
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Feelings Feel	Ohama aka The White Album	02:57
I Braineater	Wrong World	Artist, Poet, Thief	03:46
Rikki & The Rokkits	They Never See	New Wave b/w They Never See (picture sleeve)	03:23
Strange Advance	One Chance in a Million	Worlds Away	04:12
John Bell and the Strange	Taking You Home in a Taxi	Taking You Home in a Taxi b/w Melissa	03:24
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Hypno-Gogo	Flashing	In Your Eyes b/w Flashing	04:49
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Braineaters	Modern Man	Planet X	02:15
Age of Mirrors	Wave About Her	Mirage	04:33
Spoons	Nova Heart	Nova Heart b/w Symmetry	06:41
Martha And The Muffins	Boy Without Filters	This Is The Ice Age	04:58
NEO A4	Las Vegas	The Warmer Side of You	03:25
Palace at 4 a.m.	Kiss of a Fish	Untamed World	03:29
Tenants	Sheriff	ST	03:52
Images In Vogue	Travel	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	04:20
Glen Meadmore	Going to Town	Chicken & Biscuits	05:09
Popular Front	Puppet	Doomsday Army b/w Puppet	03:17
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Upcoming Storm	Space and Time	03:38
Wrestlers	Intro - Yeah! I'm Drunk	ST	04:12
Rational Youth	Call Me	Heredity	02:59
Glamorcult	Pins & Needles	A Price To Paris	03:16
Bumpers	I Watch You Go	Media Music/ I Watch You Go /Ian/ Log 1 (picture sleeve)	02:34
Glamatron	Facial Saviour	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	05:02
Eight Seconds	Sincere	Almacantar	04:27
Strange Advance	Watermusic	Worlds Away	00:55
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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The Scene (2) - Only in Paradise

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DeMars - Stories from between the Walls

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DeMars - Les Télé-Têtes

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Compilation - Music Industry Arts 1983

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Jon Mullane - Following Yesterday

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Awake The Echoes - Normal Life

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No Comment - Wondering b/w Honesty

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Entrance System - Imperfect Image

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Shock Culture - ST (EP)

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Our Sir Francis to the Sea - ST

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Tame & Talking - ST

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Vital Sines - Big Dark Dreams

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Vital Sines - Subway Suicide E.P.

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Vital Sines - Collage

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Tim Ray - ST

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Volts - Plugged In

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This Fear - Darkness Shapes Imagination

Tenants - ST

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Compilation - The Circuit

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Moral Support - Insanity

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Scenics - Underneath the Door

Nex'd - Surreal (EP)

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Channel Five - ST (EP)

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Electric Mocean - Motion b/w Television Eyes (picture sleeve)

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Neon - ST (EP)

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The Plugs - Sending An S.O.S. b/w I Saw Her Today

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Bunny & the Lakers - Numbers

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A Day in Paris - Prey

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Hypno-Gogo - In Your Eyes b/w Flashing

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A Day in Paris - Rhymes On Vinyl

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