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
Tim Ray	Dying in Brooklyn (June, 1978)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:40
Philip Rambow	Bike Boys	Jungle Law	04:26
Klō	You're Chic	Demo 1981	05:34
Spoons	Nova Heart	Nova Heart b/w Symmetry	06:41
Billy Butt & The Brats	No I Can't Say No	Surveillance b/w No I Can't Say No	02:47
No Comment	Honesty	Wondering b/w Honesty	03:46
State Of Mind	The Dark Side	I'll Be Yours b/w The Dark Side (picture sleeve)	03:45
Spoons	On the Beach	Bridges Over Borders	03:48
The Gas	Special This Week	Evacuate Mississauga (picture sleeve)	02:14
Awake The Echoes	I Need Someone to Complain to	Normal Life	02:43
Tau Ceti	Radiation	Radiation b/w Bathed in Dark Light	04:20
Escalators	Wooly Bully	ST	03:58
Golden Calgarians	Happy Man	Savage Love	02:10
Timothy Chipman	Ghost Parade	Ghost Parade	02:25
Benjamin Russell	Boffo	Madman	02:12
Maurice & The Clichés	Social Casualties	C'est la vie	02:36
Bobby and Synthia	The Music Stopped	thirty-six hours (EP)	02:36
Scenics	I'm Sad	New Part In Town	05:04
Pukka Orchestra	Weekend (Come Alive!)	The Palace Of Memeory	06:15
The Diodes	Catwalker	Action-Reaction	03:29
Oui	Turn of the Century	Oui	04:13
The Diodes	No Time to Cry (1981 Previously Unreleased) (CD only)	Rarities	03:43
Spoons	Smiling in Winter	Arias & Symphonies	04:05
The Diodes	Curiousity Girl	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	02:52
Blue Oil	Twenty Years	ST	03:41
ACTORS	CTRL	Our Love Will Live Forever	03:15
Jon Mullane	Somebody	Following Yesterday	03:15
Modern Minds	The Fear Begins	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:48
Novels	Son of Sam	I'm Being Followed b/w Son of Sam (picture sleeve)	02:35
Psyche	Caught in the Act	Unveiling The Secret	05:42
Trespassing Bean Rays	Eclipse	ST (EP) (picture sleeve)	01:24
Pointed Sticks	Out of Luck	The Real Thing b/w Out of Luck	02:32
Modernes Pickles	Are You a Martian	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	04:03
Mettle	The Second Person	ST	03:47
Within Gothic Towers	Day Dreaming	Within Gothic Towers	03:14
Moev	Took Out the Lace	Dusk and Desire	03:42
Palace at 4 a.m.	The Man Who Never Sleeps	Untamed World	04:10
Velveteens	Flies	Tall House (EP)	04:09
Compilation	Nobby Clegg & The Civilians - I Wanna Be In Commercials	Toronto Calling	02:38
Boys Brigade	Touch Glass	Mannequin Demo	03:28
Modernettes	Won't Have To Worry	Gone..But Not Forgiven	02:22
Mannequin Depressives	I Don't Get You	Girls Are Evil	04:31
Melinite	A Daydream Dilemma	Push The Button And Run!	03:44
Inner Sanction	Mystery & Harmony	Shake Up - Fly Down	04:41
Ceramic Hello	Geometry	The Absence of a Canary	07:25
Nevermen	Real Life	The Monitor LP	05:10
Glamorcult	She Doesn't Believe In The Magic	The Stone Sessions	03:57
Tim Ray	No Emotion (September, 1980)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:42
Timothy Chipman	Strange Days	Strange Days b/w Night Patrol	02:48
Breeding Ground	This Time Tomorrow	Tales of Adventure (EP)	04:01
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	And Without a Word	Ohama aka The White Album	04:16
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midway	Midway b/w Thin Lines	06:29
Glamorcult	Forever Strangers	Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)	03:37
Lawn	Peace in the Valley	Peace in the Valley	03:37
Trespassing Bean Rays	Heart of the Mind	ST (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:27
Absolute 9	Love and Work	Love and Work b/w Fence	03:48
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Don't You Think I'm Kiddin' Ya	Spunker	02:51
Rob Bryanton	Insiduous Trends	Alcohol And Other Drugs	04:47
Glamorcult	If Only You Knew	A Price To Paris	03:33
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Flying Goodbye	Ohama aka The White Album	03:45
Glamorcult	I Have Nothing To Say To You	The Stone Sessions	04:01
Vis-A-Vis	Dance With Me	Heart and Soul	03:56
Handful of Snowdrops	Hush (Bonus Track - 1991 unreleased remix)	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	06:27
Pierre Perpall	Da Da Da (Vocal)	Da Da Da	03:50
Handful of Snowdrops	Spiral Dive (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	02:36
I Braineater	7Teen	Artist, Poet, Thief	02:38
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Furniture Dancing	Spunker	03:15
Compilation	Tammie Chicorli - A Special Day	Music Industry Arts 1983	01:29
Villains	Laylow	Go Crazy	03:20
Psyche	Make No Mistake	Mystery Hotel	04:11
Handful of Snowdrops	The Keep (Interim Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	04:31
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News IV	I Fear What I Might Hear	07:58
Neurons	Midnight Meetings	Midnight Meetings b/w New Location	04:27
Cardboard Brains	Caesar Drives a Fast Car	Live At The Edge	03:06
Bruce PM	Senility	Makeshift	02:27
Benjamin Russell	Teresa	Madman	04:15
Andrew Matheson	Can't Stop the Angels	Monterey Shoes	06:57
This Fear	Haunting Me	Darkness Shapes Imagination	05:23
Martha And The Muffins	Primal Weekend	Trance and Dance	05:14
Tulpa	Apologize to Your Mother	Apologize to Your Mother (picture sleeve)	04:29
Popular Front	The Touch	Doomsday Army 2026 Remasters by Ron Obvious	04:32
Andrew Matheson	True Romance	Monterey Shoes	03:42
Tenants	Losing Youth	Visions of Our Future	03:25
Johnny Faith	Pure Energy	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	02:55
The Scene (2)	Rise	Only in Paradise	05:12
Tenants	Reach Out	Visions of Our Future	03:29
Extras	No Generation	Bit Parts	02:33
Erect	She's a Bitch	Consequence of Life	03:14
Erect	We Are Police	We Are Police b/w The Colony	02:19
Kaméléon	Un p'tit coup	ST	04:03
Handful of Snowdrops	Now, Then and Forever (Bonus Track)	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	06:06
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	Hothouse	ST	04:32
Thieves	Kopper & Iron	I See Red	03:38
Rex Chainbelt	Rock a Rolla	Foreign Movie	01:40
Extras	One Last Time	Bit Parts	03:45
Avril Chown	American Boys	American Boys b/w Losin’ Sight	03:04
Tim Ray	Stranded Walk	ST	03:24
A Neon Rome	Society Rag	New Heroin	03:00
Living End (1)	In Your Dreams	ST	02:48
Kaméléon	Anachronisme (1981)	Groupe électro-pop	04:24

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Bumpers - EP

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Contradance - Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)

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Ross Angeles - Salute

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Steve Blimkie (and the Reason) - You Can´t Hold Me Anymore b/w Freaks On the Tube

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Steve Blimkie (and the Reason) - Blimkie

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Drama - Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)

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Drama - Loneliness

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Glamorcult - Atlantis Under the Sea

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Glamorcult - A Price To Paris

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Glamorcult - Shadows From The Past

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Glamorcult - Early Glamour

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Glamorcult - Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994

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Glamorcult - The Stone Sessions

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Glamorcult - Tropical Romance (picture sleeve)

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Glamorcult - Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude

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Glamorcult - Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)

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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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