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
Tin Twist	Stupid Cars	Sometimes It's Funny (picture sleeve)	01:37
Magic Dragon	Memories	Emotional Landscape	04:11
Salty Seamen	Too Late to Worry Now	In The Groove At Last	03:52
Spoons	No More Growing Up	Arias & Symphonies	03:25
Boys Brigade	Shadows	Mannequin Demo	03:32
DeMars	Les zoos arborifères	Les Télé-Têtes	03:09
Beach Punks	She Got Body Talk	She Got Body Talk	04:52
Start	Gotta Have Love	Hey You	04:49
Spoons	Through the Hazy	Vertigo Tango	04:04
B-Sides	State of Emergency	Red to Black	04:22
Modern Minds	20 Years Old	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:59
Calling Rain	Cross	Laid in Ruins b/w Cross (picture sleeve)	05:21
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Don't You Think I'm Kiddin' Ya	Spunker	02:51
Martha And The Muffins	This is the Ice Age	This Is The Ice Age	07:34
Modern Minds	Substitute	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:46
Spoons	Only for Athletes	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	05:29
Cardboard Brains	The Monster in Ed	Live At The Edge	03:26
Maurice & The Clichés	Every Corner	Veronika	03:45
Golden Calgarians	Thousand Chains	Savage Love	03:51
Family Plot	Wings of Fate	Convictions	04:02
Extras	Teddy	Bit Parts	05:50
Glamorcult	If Only You Knew	A Price To Paris	03:33
Modernes Pickles	Blue Baby Baby White	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:58
Government	Flat Tire	33 ⅓ RPM E.P.	02:25
K	Sliding In	Sliding In b/w A Thousand Years (picture sleeve)	03:11
Bobby and Synthia	Big Tits	thirty-six hours (EP)	03:44
Wrestlers	When You Sleep Together	ST	03:42
Boys Brigade	Saigon	Mannequin Demo	05:02
A Neon Rome	Cums A Wolf	A Neon Rome	04:15
Utopiate	Actions or Misguidance	You've Been Warned b/w Actions or Misguidance	03:06
Compilation	Rent Boys Inc. - Fetish (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	05:45
Dorian Gray	Perfect Killing Machine	Perfect Killing Machine b/w When Worship Hits the Fan	03:48
Family Plot	Dervish	Convictions	04:11
Spoons	New Day New World II	New Day New World	02:01
John Young Paul	Summertime!	The Life of Ermie Scub	02:29
Rational Youth	Coboloid Race	I Want to See the Light	05:14
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Julie is a TV Set	Ohama aka The White Album	05:08
Einstein	Truck-Stop Girls	Sex and Science	03:24
Compilation	Youth Youth Youth - Wanderlust	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	01:58
Glamorcult	Holding Onto Yesterday	Shadows From The Past	03:34
Glamorcult	Shadows From The Past (Part 2)	Shadows From The Past	03:19
Men Without Hats	Modern Dancing	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	04:29
Extras	Cult Kids	Bit Parts	03:07
Sex Church	Put Away	Growing Over	02:00
Boys Brigade	Saigon	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	04:41
Drastic Measures	Jump Off the Lake	ST	02:37
DeMars	Even for All Those Years	Stories from between the Walls	04:39
Tim Ray	Now What Was That! (July, 1982)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:59
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Shadow Love	Space and Time	04:38
Bitter Reality	Tellin' Me Goodbye	Tellin' Me Goodbye b/w A White Man (In Babylon)	03:38
Martha And The Muffins	Boy Without Filters	This Is The Ice Age	04:58
The Diodes	Strange Time	Action-Reaction	02:53
Land of Giants	Seven Men	Cannibal Dolls b/w Seven Men	05:12
Instructions	Suburban Dream	ST	04:15
Klō	Mrs. Fong	Mrs. Fong b/w Break the Floor	02:32
Glamorcult	A Dream Girl To Me	Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude	03:23
FM109	S.O.S.	ST	03:54
The Diodes	When I Was Young	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	04:18
Rarefaction	Ordinary Man	Ordinary Man	04:17
Scenics	Great Piles of Leaves	Underneath the Door	04:18
Martha And The Muffins	Am I On?	Trance and Dance	03:24
Absolute 9	Love and Work	ST	03:50
Tyro	Strong Willed Woman	A Little More Time (EP)	02:27
Modernes Pickles	Is That Everything	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:34
I Braineater	Waste	I Here, Where You	02:39
Compilation	Instructions - Tell-A-Photo	The Circuit	04:42
Drastic Measures	Silk Stockings	ST	02:38
Images In Vogue	Politics of Sound	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:30
Rational Youth	Sorry	Heredity	04:47
Wrestlers	Intro - Yeah! I'm Drunk	ST	04:12
Images In Vogue	In the House (Single Version)	In The House (Extended Dance Remix)	03:14
ACTORS	Crosses	It Will Come to You	04:12
Rational Youth	The Man in Grey	ST (mini album)	03:19
Timothy Chipman	Strange Days	Strange Days b/w Night Patrol	02:48
Scenics	Jonathan Richman	New Part In Town	03:18
Kings	Don't let Me Know	Are Here	04:00
Blue Peter	Do the Robot	Test Patterns For Living	03:25
Paperboys (1)	Saturday 12 Midnight	Looking for Sharon b/w Saturday 12 Midnight	03:33
Psyche	The Brain Collapses	Insomnia Theatre	04:09
Corsage	St. John's Wood (demo)	Big Night Out (EP)	04:49
ACTORS	Post Traumatic Love (Sons of Nuns Remix)	Reanimated	04:30
39 Steps	Hit It Up	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:14
Images In Vogue	Promised Land	In The House	06:03
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	The Call	Ohama aka The White Album	05:37
Glen Meadmore	Hen Party	Chicken & Biscuits	05:22
Hygiene Club	Hawaii	Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary	03:00
Einstein	Incognito	Sex and Science	03:50
Blue Oil	From the Heart	Blue Oil (1981-83)	01:48
Rheostatics	Satellite Dancing	My Generation b/w Satellite Dancing	03:31
100 Flowers	Nothing is Hard	21st Guessing	04:31
Hush	Highway of Love	Replay	03:31
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	The Drum	Ohama aka The White Album	02:44
Bruce PM	Well, Yes	Makeshift	04:45
Oui	You Make Me High	Oui	04:41
Martha And The Muffins	Sins of Children	Danseparc	05:37
Golden Calgarians	Getting Weaker	Savage Love	03:05
Maurice & The Clichés	Soft Core	C'est la vie	04:26
Compilation	Moist & Tender - You're On My Way	Toronto Calling	02:42
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Julie is a TV Set	Midnite News	08:11
Compilation	L'Etranger - Light in the Morning (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	04:44

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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