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
Spoons	Red Light	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:44
45's	Real Confused	On the Beach	02:15
Kings	My Habit	Are Here	03:41
Lorne Ranger	I Want to be a Doorman	I Want to be a Doorman	04:02
Cannon Heath Down	Bone Of Contention	Heart-Throb Companion	03:34
Drama	Got to Get off the Earth	Loneliness	03:06
Glamorcult	Interlude	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:31
Tenants	Schoolgirl	ST	02:47
Boys Brigade	Cut Up	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	04:25
Benjamin Russell	Orphans	Pop Modern(e)	03:35
Spoons	Walk Across the Water	Bridges Over Borders	04:44
Blue Oil	Producer	Blue Oil (1981-83)	03:19
Quasi Hands	Lovelife	ST	03:01
Johnny Faith	Standing On the Red Line	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	02:52
Extras	Teddy	Bit Parts	05:50
Rational Youth	Beware the Fly	Cold War Nightlife	04:04
Awake The Echoes	I Need Someone to Complain to	Normal Life	02:43
Zipper	Bad Girls	Another Boyfriend b/w Bad Girls	02:55
The Front	Treacherous	Underworld	04:42
Figures At Dawn	Distance Through Darkness	ST	03:10
Benjamin Russell	Out of it Girl	Madman	01:37
Rex Chainbelt	Rock a Rolla	Foreign Movie	01:40
Glamorcult	A Price to Paris	A Price To Paris	04:31
Images In Vogue	Anxiety Reaction	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:00
The Vox	Mary-Go-Round	Mary-Go-Round b/w Bored of the 80's	03:29
Velveteens	Flies	Tall House (EP)	04:09
Villains	You Are (All These Things to Me)	Go Crazy	04:38
Handful of Snowdrops	Still We Live (1st Lineup Studio Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	03:37
Palace at 4 a.m.	White Guilt	White Guilt	04:34
Andrew Matheson	My Girls (Pin-Up Parade)	Monterey Shoes	03:52
Spoons	The Rhythm	Talkback	04:06
Modernes Pickles	We Are the Modernes Pickles	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:35
Extras	Mega Media Myth	The Road to Zambando	04:47
Glamorcult	My Lady	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:02
Handful of Snowdrops	Land of the Damned	Land of the Damned	08:37
39 Steps	Something New	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:03
Rarefaction	I Dreamt	Abstract Minds b/w I Dreamt (picture sleeve)	04:04
Decade of Dreams	One Night in Bohemia	Wild Colloquial	03:50
Modernes Pickles	We are the Modern Pickles	We are the Modern Pickles b/w Colors/ Blue Baby Baby White	02:44
Psyche	Thundershowers	Unveiling The Secret	05:13
Neon	Second Wind	ST (EP)	02:52
Todd Stevens	Stranger on the Run	This Way! (picture sleeve)	03:26
Handful of Snowdrops	In the Eye of the Storm	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	07:25
Popular Front	Doomsday Army	Doomsday Army b/w Puppet	03:53
Handful of Snowdrops	Healer (1988)	Mort en direct	06:25
Age of Mirrors	Orange Blossom Special	Mirage	04:00
Psyche	Eternal	Mystery Hotel	04:15
Entrance System	Tower Talk	Imperfect Image	05:53
Emport	Heartaches	Heartaches b/w Picture Frame Love Affair	03:58
Images In Vogue	Politics of Sound	Pre-release	03:30
Fictions	Better	ST	02:31
The Gas	Special This Week	Evacuate Mississauga (picture sleeve)	02:14
Rational Youth	Call Me	Heredity	02:59
K	A Thousand Years	Sliding In b/w A Thousand Years (picture sleeve)	04:13
Rational Youth	Le meilleur des mondes	Cold War Nightlife	03:14
NEO A4	The Warmer Side Of You	The Warmer Side of You	04:13
Informer	Hold It	I Know You Know b/w Hold It	03:12
Age of Mirrors	Wave About Her	Mirage	04:33
Thieves	Kopper & Iron	I See Red	03:38
Compilation	Rent Boys Inc. - Fetish (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	05:45
The Edge	Release the Circle	Release the Circle	04:36
John Young Paul	The Girl Spells Grief	The Life of Ermie Scub	01:38
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Sister H. Immaculata	Spunker	02:12
Cottage Industry	The Crucial Moment	The Winter's Tale	03:49
Modernes Pickles	I Want More Slack	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:31
Low Fun	Words We Left Behind	The New Dictator b/w Words We Left Behind	03:41
Martha And The Muffins	Was Ezo	Trance and Dance	03:58
Spoons	End of Story	Static In Transmission	04:39
Vis-A-Vis	Prison of Eyes	Heart and Soul	04:50
B-Sides	She's a Raver (33⅓ rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	02:06
Rarefaction	Abstract Minds	Abstract Minds b/w I Dreamt (picture sleeve)	04:10
Kaméléon	Smarties (1983)	Groupe électro-pop	04:54
Class Info	Out of Line	Inside	04:04
FM109	S.O.S.	ST	03:54
Compilation	Don Bregg - Hypnotized	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:27
Psyche	The Outsider	Mystery Hotel	04:27
Spoons	For Tran	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	03:45
The Front	Simple Dreams	Gina's at a Party	03:39
100 Flowers	Pam	21st Guessing	03:33
Extras	One Last Time	Bit Parts	03:45
Low Fun	The New Dictator	The New Dictator b/w Words We Left Behind	05:01
Austra	Darken Her Horse	Feel it Break	05:21
Ceramic Hello	Staticarnival	The Absence of a Canary	01:18
Absolute 9	The Gift	ST	03:03
Modernettes	Won't Have To Worry	Gone..But Not Forgiven	02:22
Edsells	She Escaped	Don't Wanna Go to School b/w She Escaped	04:22
Bunny & the Lakers	Sandy	Numbers	02:09
The End	My Paradise	Just Another Dream b/w My Paradise (picture sleeve)	02:59
Extras	I Never Told You, I Told You So	The Watcher (EP)	04:26
Class Info	Circle Game	Inside	02:20
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Over Mountains	Ohama aka The White Album	03:14
Breeding Ground	Cerememony of Love	Obscurity And Flair	04:43
NEO A4	Understand	ST	04:01
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Shadow Love	Space and Time	04:38
Extras	High-Tech Promises	The Road to Zambando	03:34
Glen Meadmore	Gotta Thing	Chicken & Biscuits	05:04
Sebastian (Agnello)	Stop Picking On America	No Compromise b/w Stop Picking On America (picture sleeve)	03:23
Compilation	S.S. - Working Girl	No Pedestrians	03:09
Spoons	Vertigo Tango	Vertigo Tango	04:36
Kings	Go Away	Are Here	03:47

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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Spoons - Vertigo Tango

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Spoons - Bridges Over Borders

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Spoons - Talkback

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Spoons - Nova Heart b/w Symmetry

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