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
Psyche	Wake the Flood Unconscious	Mystery Hotel	02:53
Age of Mirrors	Civilian of Discipline	Mirage	04:47
Drastic Measures	Flowers	ST	03:18
Cannon Heath Down	A Charming Sound	Heart-Throb Companion	04:25
Handful of Snowdrops	Somewhere Higher (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	05:25
Bunny & the Lakers	Maid in Sweden	Numbers	04:01
Censure	Foxy Lady	Foxy Lady b/w Amour	04:24
Pukka Orchestra	Rubber Girl	ST	04:34
Compilation	Youth Youth Youth - Wanderlust	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	01:58
Corsage	Shut-Ins	ST	03:11
Scissors	All This And More	ST	02:46
Glamorcult	In Time (Only to be Free)	Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)	04:17
Kaméléon	Genocide genethliaque	ST	04:03
Tau Ceti	San Francisco	And I Wonder b/w San Francisco	04:02
Preison's Shade	Race Me Home	Race Me Home (EP)	04:56
Blue Peter	Living in the Eighties	Test Patterns For Living	02:26
Awake The Echoes	The Best Thing	Normal Life	02:38
Nasty Habits	Cleopatra	Playing in the Danger Zone b/w Cleopatra (picture sleeve)	03:27
Martha And The Muffins	One Day in Paris	This Is The Ice Age	04:20
Strange Advance	Automatic Sighs	Worlds Away	04:41
Thieves	Screams	I See Red	04:40
Shock Culture	Brave New World	ST (EP)	03:14
A Kid	Dirty Bedding	An Introduction to Civil Engineering (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:35
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	Hothouse	ST	04:32
Philip Rambow	Magnificient Obsession	Jungle Law	03:39
Modern Minds	20 Years Old	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:59
Insex	Play or Die	One (EP)	02:14
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Take Me Dancing	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	05:24
Breeding Ground	Epic	Tales of Adventure (EP)	06:43
Moev	Alibis	Dusk and Desire	04:37
Benjamin Russell	Gentle Charms	Madman	01:48
Edsells	She Escaped	Don't Wanna Go to School b/w She Escaped	04:22
UJ3RK5	Locator	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	04:04
Government	It Must be God-Downtown	Electric Eye	02:52
Corsage	West Coast Highway (demo)	Big Night Out (EP)	04:57
Inner Sanction	White Boy Rap	Dancematic-Automatic	05:58
BB Gabor	Moscow Drug Club	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry) b/w Moscow Drug Club (picture sleeve)	04:26
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Gaslit Squares	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	03:56
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Talking About	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	06:06
Vital Sines	Hype	Collage	04:43
Within Gothic Towers	Will I Hope To Love	Within Gothic Towers	05:44
Utopiate	You've Been Warned	You've Been Warned b/w Actions or Misguidance	03:41
Bicycle Thieves	First Aid to the Injured	ST	03:35
Braineaters	Closet Case	Planet X	01:26
39 Steps	Always Tomorrow	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	04:37
Living End (1)	Dislocation	ST	03:16
The Presence	Mechanoid	Blown Away b/w Mechanoid (picture sleeve)	03:55
Drastic Measures	T.N.T.	ST	03:51
Sex Church	Put Away	Growing Over	02:00
B-Sides	Late at Night	Red to Black	03:28
Glamorcult	Start The Revolution	The Stone Sessions	04:03
Government	How Many Fingers?	How Many Fingers?	07:21
Handful of Snowdrops	Trust	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	04:24
Cottage Industry	The Point on a Hill	The Winter's Tale	03:59
Lou Champagne System	Silent Walking	No Visible Means	06:56
I Braineater	Alone	I Here, Where You	02:41
Tame & Talking	Fashion Fit	ST	04:08
Land of Giants	Seven Men	Cannibal Dolls b/w Seven Men	05:12
Numbers	Can't Take It	Add Up	03:40
Age of Mirrors	Crazy After Dark	Screenplay	04:56
Psyche	Twilight	The Influence	04:31
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Thin Lines	Midway b/w Thin Lines	05:53
I Braineater	Just a Boy	I Here, Where You	02:52
Ross Angeles	Empty Amour	Salute	03:19
Null Set	Judgement Days	New Job (EP)	02:19
Compilation	Crash Course In Science - Kitchen Motors (Produced by John Wicks, Third Story Recording, Philadelphia, USA)	Strange Pleasures EP	02:36
Diodes	Curiousity Girl	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	02:52
Benjamin Russell	One Love	Pop Modern(e)	03:55
Hot Tip	Stop All Motion	Stop All Motion	04:34
Thieves	Kopper & Iron	I See Red	03:38
Strange Advance	Kiss in the Dark	Worlds Away	03:56
Lawn	Over the Top	Peace in the Valley	03:00
Cöld Wår	Do You Notice Me	Do You Notice Me b/w Klub Haus (picture sleeve)	03:31
4th Floor	Black and White	Black & White b/w Follow in Stride	04:37
Todd Stevens	This Way!	This Way! (picture sleeve)	03:20
Mannequin Depressives	Dissolve	Girls Are Evil	01:45
Kaméléon	Pique-nique (1981)	Groupe électro-pop	02:22
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Sometimes	I Fear What I Might Hear	03:41
Tin Twist	Stupid Cars	Sometimes It's Funny (picture sleeve)	01:37
Lou Champagne System	Another Dimension	No Visible Means	04:50
Diodes	Coma	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	02:50
Absolute 9	The Gift	ST	03:03
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Shadow Love	Space and Time	04:38
Instructions	Cleek	ST	02:56
Decade of Dreams	Tra la la	Wild Colloquial	02:58
Spoons	Camera Shy	Talkback	04:07
Bonus Boys	Wasting Our Time	Every Time I See A Car Like Yours Go By b/w Wasting Our Time	03:16
Images In Vogue	Foreign Affairs	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:59
Compilation	S.S. - Working Girl	No Pedestrians	03:09
Rational Youth	Heredity	Heredity	04:18
Land of Giants	I Got You Babe	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	04:17
Bitter Reality	Tellin' Me Goodbye	Tellin' Me Goodbye b/w A White Man (In Babylon)	03:38
Novels	Son of Sam	I'm Being Followed b/w Son of Sam (picture sleeve)	02:35
B-Sides	She's a Raver (45 rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	01:34
Popular Front (1)	We One	This is the Rubicon	04:59
Moev	Sweet Nothings	Dusk and Desire	04:33
Spunker (aka Neotone)	You Stand	Spunker	02:36
Within Gothic Towers	In The Darkness	Within Gothic Towers	04:38
Compilation	Moist & Tender - You're On My Way	Toronto Calling	02:42

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Awake The Echoes - Normal Life

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No Comment - Wondering b/w Honesty

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Entrance System - Imperfect Image

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Shock Culture - ST (EP)

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Our Sir Francis to the Sea - ST

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Tame & Talking - ST

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Vital Sines - Big Dark Dreams

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Vital Sines - Subway Suicide E.P.

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Vital Sines - Collage

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Tim Ray - ST

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Volts - Plugged In

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This Fear - Darkness Shapes Imagination

Tenants - ST

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Compilation - The Circuit

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Moral Support - Insanity

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Scenics - Underneath the Door

Nex'd - Surreal (EP)

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Channel Five - ST (EP)

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Electric Mocean - Motion b/w Television Eyes (picture sleeve)

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Neon - ST (EP)

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The Plugs - Sending An S.O.S. b/w I Saw Her Today

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Bunny & the Lakers - Numbers

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A Day in Paris - Prey

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Hypno-Gogo - In Your Eyes b/w Flashing

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A Day in Paris - Rhymes On Vinyl

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David Raven & the Escorts - David Raven And The Escorts

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Compilation - Music Industry Arts 1983

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Bonus Boys - Every Time I See A Car Like Yours Go By b/w Wasting Our Time

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Cry - ST

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Friendly Fire - Junior Senility EP

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