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
Bunny & the Lakers	Oops On Parade	Numbers	01:30
Palace at 4 a.m.	White Guilt	White Guilt	04:34
Electric Mocean	Motion	Motion b/w Television Eyes (picture sleeve)	04:03
Modernettes	Red Nails	View From The Bottom (EP)	03:02
Compilation	Winston Hancock & The Changes - Love at First Sight	The Circuit	02:36
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Of Whales	I Fear What I Might Hear	04:36
Handful of Snowdrops	What You Want	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	05:30
Erect	Don't Put Me Down	Consequence of Life	02:44
Klō	Mrs. Fong	Mrs. Fong b/w Break the Floor	02:32
Rikki & The Rokkits	New Wave	New Wave b/w They Never See (picture sleeve)	03:10
Modernes Pickles	Juvenile Jungle	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:26
Cardboard Brains	Ermie Has Feelers	Live At The Edge	05:36
Men Without Hats	Utter Space	Folk of the 80's (EP)	02:44
Rikki & The Rokkits	They Never See	New Wave b/w They Never See (picture sleeve)	03:23
Villains	Boogie Man	Go Crazy	04:24
Compilation	Direktive 17 - Mr. Jones	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	05:38
Fictions	Jersey Shore	ST	02:48
B-Sides	Much Too Serious	Invasion Of The Money Snatchers b/w Much Too Serious	02:44
Jon Mullane	Open Up to Me	Following Yesterday	03:58
Handful of Snowdrops	Hush (Bonus Track - 1991 unreleased remix)	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	06:27
NEO A4	In My Life	The Warmer Side of You	03:19
Spoons	Repeatable	New Day New World	03:54
Ohm & the Secret Sources	You Know I Love You	Space and Time	04:26
Extras	No Generation	Bit Parts	02:33
Compilation	The Secrets - All the Words	No Pedestrians	02:52
Rolf Kempf	One More Time	One More Time b/w Bye Bye Baby (picture sleeve)	03:26
Tim Ray	Stranded Walk	ST	03:24
Minutes From Downtown	Emotion Under Pressure	Minutes From Downtown '82	04:14
Benjamin Russell	Boffo	Madman	02:12
Glamorcult	Atlantis Under the Sea	Atlantis Under the Sea	04:21
Rob Bryanton	Livin' On the Edge of the World	Alcohol And Other Drugs	05:10
Age of Mirrors	Columbus Discovers America	Screenplay	03:12
Rational Youth	Le meilleur des mondes	Cité phosphoree b/w Le meilleur des mondes	02:59
Modern Minds	All Day & All of the Night	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:18
UJ3RK5	The Locator	ST (EP)	03:11
B-Sides	Invasion of the Money Snatchers	Invasion Of The Money Snatchers b/w Much Too Serious	03:19
Oui	Information	Oui	04:41
Me And the Mosquitos	Go Away	Go Away b/w Valium	03:43
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	The Swimmer	ST	02:30
Scott Matthews	Boats in Rivers	Boats in Rivers	04:50
Spoons	Walk Across the Water	Bridges Over Borders	04:44
I Braineater	I Here Where You	I Here, Where You	02:51
Iko	Gonado Tropic Synthesis	83	07:18
Awake The Echoes	Captive Heart	Normal Life	03:06
Modernes Pickles	People Get Killed and Get Up and Kill	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	03:25
Rave Revues	Everyone’s a Critic	Voices	06:45
Psyche	Wink of an Eye	Insomnia Theatre	05:37
Novels	Son of Sam	I'm Being Followed b/w Son of Sam (picture sleeve)	02:35
K	Sliding In	Sliding In b/w A Thousand Years (picture sleeve)	03:11
Eight Seconds	Chopin's Heart	Big Houses	04:51
Blue Oil	Unwind	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:35
Tim Ray	Hate (September, 1980)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:22
Handful of Snowdrops	Sometimes I (4 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	06:06
Rational Youth	City of Night	Cold War Nightlife	04:02
I Braineater	Tax On Toys (plus tracks 4-6)	I Here, Where You	09:19
Inner Sanction	Hush	Shake Up - Fly Down	03:20
Tim Ray	Horses Mouth (April, 1981)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:29
Blue Peter	Cloak and Dagger	Test Patterns For Living	03:45
Scenics	Farm Reports and Test Patterns	New Part In Town	03:50
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Talkin' About Her	Spunker	03:07
UJ3RK5	Name Pavlov Ring Bell	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	05:28
Glamorcult	If Only You Knew	A Price To Paris	03:33
NEO A4	Is This It	The Warmer Side of You	03:32
Popular Front (1)	World Weary	World Weary b/w Living On the Line	04:54
Moev	In Your Head	Zimmerkampf	04:35
Martha And The Muffins	Obedience	Danseparc	03:30
Images In Vogue	In the House (Single Version)	In The House (Extended Dance Remix)	03:14
Psyche	The Outsider	Mystery Hotel	04:27
Awake The Echoes	Turn That Bloody Noise Down	Normal Life	03:15
Volts	No Time Like the First Time	Plugged In	02:52
Ceramic Hello	Conversation Between Units	The Absence of a Canary	00:30
Bunny & the Lakers	Maid in Sweden	Numbers	04:01
Kings	My Habit	Are Here	03:41
Spoons	Annita	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:21
The Diodes	Play With Fire	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	05:30
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News Finale	Ohama aka The White Album	05:46
Braineaters	Modern Man Pt 2	Planet X	01:16
A Neon Rome	Windowsill	New Heroin	05:20
Perfect World	Have a Good Look	Twist and Shove b/w Have a Good Look (picture sleeve)	05:10
FM109	S.O.S.	ST	03:54
Bleu Néon	Exorcisme	Cité Promise	04:33
Scissors	Wrecked My Car	ST	02:16
Compilation	Big Deal - Movie Star	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	04:36
The Diodes	When I Was Young	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	04:18
Family Plot	Tic Tac	Convictions	04:08
Spoons	My Favourite Page	Talkback	04:01
Avril Chown	American Boys	American Boys b/w Losin’ Sight	03:04
Breeding Ground	Underground	Wintergarden (EP)	04:31
Glamatron	Facial Saviour	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	05:02
Entrance System	No Relative	Imperfect Image	03:19
Friendly Fire	I Saw Her Smile	Junior Senility EP	02:31
Hush	Dancing in East Berlin	Replay	04:17
The Idles	Heat Up	The Idles Demo	02:58
Class Info	Out of Line	Come For Me b/w Out of Line	04:04
Mama Quilla II	KKK	ST (EP)	05:40
Roland Blinn	Peg-in-Hole	Peg-in-Hole b/w Tense (and The fishermen)	03:55
Hush	Now Reality	Replay	04:41
Kaméléon	Smarties (1983)	Groupe électro-pop	04:54
Rational Youth	Holiday in Bangkok	ST (mini album)	05:27
Martha And The Muffins	Swimming	This Is The Ice Age	03:54

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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