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
No Comment	Honesty	Wondering b/w Honesty	03:46
Glamorcult	Tokyo Streets (Bonus Track)	A Price To Paris	04:15
The Diodes	Terminal Rock (1978 Alternate Version) (CD only)	Rarities	03:21
Instructions	Naked Deer	ST	02:49
Utopiate	Actions or Misguidance	You've Been Warned b/w Actions or Misguidance	03:06
Lou Champagne System	Do Something	No Visible Means	04:34
Spoons	Blow Away	Arias & Symphonies	05:59
Tribal Earth	Who You Are (In the Movies)	Interaction b/w Reaction (EP)	02:46
39 Steps	Something New	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:03
Blue Peter	Do the Robot	Test Patterns For Living	03:25
Kinetic Ideals	Fade Away	Angular Sky / Fade Away (EP)	07:44
I Braineater	Tin Pins and Cat Fur	I Here, Where You	02:36
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Furniture Dancing	Spunker	03:15
ACTORS	Dead Inside	Our Love Will Live Forever	03:29
A Neon Rome	Windowsill	New Heroin	05:20
Rex Chainbelt	Fighter Plane	Foreign Movie	02:14
FM109	Help	ST	02:11
Spoons	Bridges Over Borders	Bridges Over Borders	05:02
Villains	Wendy's Melody	Go Crazy	03:47
Roland Blinn	Tense	Peg-in-Hole b/w Tense (and The fishermen)	02:27
Mannequin Depressives	Erase It	Girls Are Evil	04:58
Compilation	Dis Band - Hesitation (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	06:16
Start	In Passion	Hey You	03:24
Philip Rambow	A Star (In Her Own Right)	Jungle Law	03:31
Rational Youth	Dancing on the Berlin Wall	Cold War Nightlife	04:34
Hygiene Club	Pantechnicon - for Gary	Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary	01:15
The Play	Midnight Dreams	Midnight Dreams b/w Atlantic City	03:12
Government	I Don't Really Care	Electric Eye	04:04
Moral Support	Rising	Insanity	03:04
Drastic Measures	Silk Stockings	ST	02:38
Spoons	Out of My Hands	Talkback	03:19
Handful of Snowdrops	Charlatan (4 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	05:25
James Harcourt	Queen Bee	Emotional Blackmail	02:17
BB Gabor	Moscow Drug Club	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry) b/w Moscow Drug Club (picture sleeve)	04:26
Shanghai Lil	Nirvana - Oh What a Night	Flower And a Bee b/w Nirvana - Oh What a Night	04:57
John Young Paul	The Boulevards of Hope	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:37
Compilation	Winston Hancock & The Changes - Love at First Sight	The Circuit	02:36
The Scene (2)	What I Need	Only in Paradise	05:28
The Idles	Wildcat	The Idles Demo	03:59
Spoons	I've Been Here Before	Vertigo Tango	03:58
Age of Mirrors	Somewhere in Arabia	Screenplay	03:37
A Neon Rome	Cums a Wolf	New Heroin	04:15
Spoons	Radio Heaven	Bridges Over Borders	03:57
Boys Brigade	Voices	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	04:27
The Vox	Mary-Go-Round	Mary-Go-Round b/w Bored of the 80's	03:29
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Maurice & The Clichés	C'est la vie	C'est la vie	03:15
Class Info	Out of Line	Come For Me b/w Out of Line	04:04
Rob Bryanton	Just a Shy Guy	Alcohol And Other Drugs	02:29
Modernes Pickles	Is That Everything	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:34
Dandelions	Great Big Pictures	Great Big Pictures b/w Funky Monday (picture sleeve)	04:01
UJ3RK5	Locator	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	04:04
Breeding Ground	Happy Now I Know	Tales of Adventure (EP)	03:45
Handful of Snowdrops	Holy Hossuary (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	04:58
Instructions	Wicked Heart	ST	04:02
The Edge	Go Away	Release the Circle	03:11
Benjamin Russell	Want a World	Madman	02:13
Timothy Chipman	Ghost Parade	Ghost Parade	02:25
Kinetic Ideals	Touch Me (Now)	Touch Me (Now)	07:27
Start	Kids in the USA	Hey You	03:17
Age of Mirrors	Civilian of Discipline	Mirage	04:47
BB Gabor	Hunger, Poverty and Misery	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry) b/w Hunger, Poverty and Misery (picture sleeve)	03:50
Awake The Echoes	Love For Life	Normal Life	03:31
Ceramic Hello	Staticarnival	The Absence of a Canary	01:18
Braineaters	Modern Man Pt 2	Planet X	01:16
Hot Tip	Teach Me Something	Stop All Motion	04:12
Handful of Snowdrops	Spiral Dive (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	02:36
The Front	Robbery	Underworld	04:21
Iko	Model Type A	83	05:08
Tenants	Schoolgirl	ST	02:47
Images In Vogue	Anxiety Reaction	Educated Man	04:05
Psyche	Misery's Return	The Influence	04:57
Hot Tip	My Shoes	Stop All Motion	03:52
NEO A4	Rescue Me	ST	03:59
Klō	Weirdo	Demo 1982	03:38
Ohm & the Secret Sources	I Hold the Key	Exit From a Dream	05:27
Glamorcult	Table Thirty	Early Glamour	03:38
Compilation	Arson - We've Gotta Get Out of this Place	No Pedestrians	04:26
Rave Revues	Long Time Coming	Long Time Coming b/w Rules Of Play (picture sleeve)	04:11
Suns of One	Freedom Time	Freedom Time	04:02
Class Info	Come for Me	Inside	02:23
Kinetic Ideals	Maze of Ways	Life In Shadow b/w Maze of Ways	04:09
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin' to Glide	Are Here	05:43
Ceramic Hello	M - EX	The Absence of a Canary	00:23
Eight Seconds	Picture	Big Houses	06:13
Absolute 9	Fence	ST	02:58
Ceramic Hello	Climatic Nouveaux	The Absence of a Canary	03:57
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	My Time	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	05:15
Decade of Dreams	Sarah	Wild Colloquial	02:26
Tenants	I Love Romance	ST	03:55
Corsage	City Sleeps	ST	04:17
Handful of Snowdrops	No More Lies (4 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	04:38
Strange Advance	Prisoner	Worlds Away	04:15
Glamorcult	Fusion (Instrumental)	Early Glamour	04:23
Tabby K	Wind Or Water	Summertime b/w Wind Or Water	03:17
Tenants	Losing Youth	Visions of Our Future	03:25
Glamorcult	In Time (Only to be Free)	Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)	04:19
Spoons	One in Ten Words	Arias & Symphonies	04:10
Compilation	Big Deal - Movie Star	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	04:36
ACTORS	Slaves: Part Time Punks Session	Part Time Punks Session EP	03:34

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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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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