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
Psyche	Unveiling the Secret	Unveiling The Secret	07:03
Maurice & The Clichés	Working Girls	C'est la vie	03:44
Glamorcult	Shadows From The Past	Shadows From The Past	03:54
Hot Tip	Stop All Motion	Stop All Motion	04:34
Images In Vogue	Worlds of Noise	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	04:30
Spoons	The First & Last Time	New Day New World	04:54
Timothy Chipman	Joy to the World	Ghost Parade	01:32
Salty Seamen	I'm Done	In The Groove At Last	03:50
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	The Drum	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	03:49
Corsage	Monument	Big Night Out (EP)	01:25
Minutes From Downtown	24 Karat Gold	ST	03:01
Pukka Orchestra	This Sordid Thing Called Love	The Palace Of Memeory	04:17
I Braineater	Edge	Artist, Poet, Thief	01:30
Blue Oil	Celebration	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:41
Handful of Snowdrops	Now, Then and Forever (4 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	05:57
Strange Advance	Reprise "Worlds Away"	Worlds Away	01:35
Austra	Lose It	Feel it Break	04:29
Age of Mirrors	Still Life in Radio	Screenplay	04:09
The Scene (2)	Gardens of Babylon	Only in Paradise	04:56
Cannon Heath Down	Fortunate	Heart-Throb Companion	01:22
IQ	Sixth World	Burn Me b/w Sixth World	02:59
Hunger Project	Assembly	The Same Inside b/w Assembly	07:06
Glamorcult	Live For Today	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:38
Friendly Fire	I Saw Her Smile	Junior Senility EP	02:31
Strange Advance	She Controls Me	Worlds Away	02:59
Glen Meadmore	Girlene	Chicken & Biscuits	05:07
Class Info	I Want	Inside	05:22
Moral Lepers	Music is Your Body	Turn to Stone	02:45
Corsage	Victory Square	ST	04:16
Golden Calgarians	New Desperados	New Desperados b/w Minutes to Heaven (picture sleeve)	03:07
Roland Blinn	Peg-in-Hole	Peg-in-Hole b/w Tense (and The fishermen)	03:55
Cinebar	Another Fine Day	Another Fine Day	03:37
Nasty Habits	Playing in the Danger Zone	Playing in the Danger Zone b/w Cleopatra (picture sleeve)	03:07
Salty Seamen	One Chance Left	In The Groove At Last	02:33
Electric Mocean	Television Eyes	Motion b/w Television Eyes (picture sleeve)	03:46
Pale Blue	Ruin	Ruin b/w Therapy	03:25
UJ3RK5	Marnie	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	03:32
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Feelings Feel	Ohama aka The White Album	02:57
Philip Rambow	The Manison on the Hill	Jungle Law	04:25
Neon	Slaves	ST (EP)	03:00
Men Without Hats	Security (Everybody Feels Better With)	Folk of the 80's (EP)	03:57
Modern Minds	Substitute	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:46
Tau Ceti	Radiation (fallout mix 86)	So Far	04:15
DeMars	Les enfants dans la lune	Les Télé-Têtes	02:54
Rob Bryanton	Another Day, Another Show	Alcohol And Other Drugs	03:13
James Harcourt	It's a Matter of Time	Emotional Blackmail	02:24
Modernettes	No Tears	Gone..But Not Forgiven	03:37
Oui	Turn of the Century	Oui	04:13
Extras	Circular Impression	Bit Parts	02:13
The Play	Whispers in the Air	Line of Fire b/w Whispers in the Air	03:50
Eight Seconds	Happy Endings	Big Houses	03:46
Glamorcult	Loneliness (Instrumental)	Early Glamour	04:54
Drastic Measures	Big Town Boy (Shirley Matthews)	ST	02:00
Blue Oil	Far Too Much	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:52
Austra	Beat and the Pulse	Feel it Break	04:55
Cardboard Brains	Have You Seen The Boy In The Gutter With The Broken Mind?	Live At The Edge	02:05
Micks	Money Talks	ST (EP)	02:24
Klō	Clown	Demo 1981	03:17
Benjamin Russell	Broken-Hearted Lovers	Pop Modern(e)	02:43
Pierre Perpall	Da Da Da (Vocal)	Da Da Da	03:50
FM109	L'ecole est fuckee	ST	04:19
Direktive 17	Run With Me	ST (EP)	04:35
Maurice & The Clichés	Reach for the Top	C'est la vie	03:07
Glen Meadmore	Do Me Baby	Chicken & Biscuits	05:01
FM109	Food On Nuclear Device	ST	06:38
Klō	Try	Demo 1981	04:22
Glamorcult	Tokyo Streets	Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude	04:44
Rave Revues	Long Time Coming	Long Time Coming b/w Rules Of Play (picture sleeve)	04:11
Government	It Must be God-Downtown	Electric Eye	02:52
Preison's Shade	Race Me Home	Race Me Home (EP)	04:56
Images In Vogue	Talking to Myself	In The House	03:44
Drama	As I Breathe On The T.T.C.	Loneliness	04:04
Modernes Pickles	Love Me	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:01
Austra	Hate Crime	Feel it Break	04:01
Corsage	West Coast Highway (demo)	Big Night Out (EP)	04:57
Breeding Ground	Dirge	Wintergarden (EP)	06:25
Handful of Snowdrops	Now, Then and Forever (Bonus Track)	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	06:06
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Rock 'N' Roll	Ohama aka The White Album	04:26
Spoons	Like a Memory	Bridges Over Borders	03:47
Kinetic Ideals	Touch Me (Now)	Touch Me (Now)	07:27
Bunny & the Lakers	Oops On Parade	Numbers	01:30
Spoons	Blow Away	Arias & Symphonies	05:59
Modernes Pickles	Brothurs	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:17
Modern Minds	Wasted Lives	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	03:01
Channel 5	So Good to Me	ST (EP)	03:19
Spoons	Camera Shy	Talkback	04:07
ACTORS	Forever	Reanimated	03:34
John Young Paul	Ermie has Feelers	The Life of Ermie Scub	03:25
Martha And The Muffins	Primal Weekend	Trance and Dance	05:14
Maurice & The Clichés	Mystery Member - Mr. Remember	ST	02:56
Timothy Chipman	Old Shoes, New Dreams	Ghost Parade	01:33
ACTORS	Bury Me	It Will Come to You	03:28
39 Steps	American Woman	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:11
Scenics	Jonathan Richman	New Part In Town	03:18
Doppler Bros.	Welcome to Canada	Totally Impractical	03:48
Glamorcult	If Only You Knew	Early Glamour	04:13
Modernes Pickles	Life in Ancient Greece	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:19
Glamorcult	Cry	Shadows From The Past	03:35
Drama	Electronic Pink Panther	Loneliness	02:23
Drastic Measures	Jump Off the Lake	ST	02:37

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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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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