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
Instructions	The Factory	ST	03:41
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
Modernes Pickles	March of the Fingertips	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:57
One Hand Clapping	The Moon is Blue	Burlesque (picture sleeve)	02:39
S.Q	One Love	Alone at Night b/w One Love (picture sleeve)	03:34
Glamorcult	The Basis of Our Style	Early Glamour	04:00
Cardboard Brains	Caesar Drives a Fast Car	Live At The Edge	03:06
Class Info	Out of Line	Come For Me b/w Out of Line	04:04
Hush	Now Reality (edited)	Replay	06:01
Martha And The Muffins	Boys in the Bushes	Danseparc	04:43
Martha And The Muffins	Sinking Land	Metro Music	05:28
Rave Revues	Rules Of Play	Long Time Coming b/w Rules Of Play (picture sleeve)	04:23
Rave Revues	Self Inflicted Wounds	Voices	03:06
Rheostatics	Satellite Dancing	My Generation b/w Satellite Dancing	03:31
Rational Youth	Ring the Bells	Cold War Nightlife	05:13
Scissors	Do You Like it?	ST	02:20
Blue Peter	Same Old Place	Test Patterns For Living	03:12
A Neon Rome	Society Rag	A Neon Rome	03:06
Tim Ray	No Emotion (September, 1980)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:42
Glamorcult	A Dream Girl To Me	Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude	03:23
Ceramic Hello	Geometry	The Absence of a Canary	07:25
Austra	Shoot the Water	Feel it Break	03:22
Salty Seamen	One Chance Left	In The Groove At Last	02:33
Rex Chainbelt	Cherry Beach	Foreign Movie	02:55
Mannequin Depressives	Dissolve	Girls Are Evil	01:45
Compilation	Youth Youth Youth - Louie Louie	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	04:01
Braineaters	Modern Man	Planet X	02:15
Men Without Hats	Safety Dance	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	04:24
Age of Mirrors	Simple Gift of Love	Mirage	03:05
Images In Vogue	Holiday (Version)	In The House (Extended Dance Remix)	04:16
Villains	Boogie Man	Go Crazy	04:24
Men Without Hats	Modern Dancing	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	04:29
Extras	Jealous Girl	Bit Parts	03:31
Compilation	The Rhythm Kingz - Drums of Change (K. Gariepy, N. Minotti)	Strange Pleasures EP	06:35
Tenants	Losing Youth	Visions of Our Future	03:25
Johnny Zhivago	It Must be Love	Microalbum	03:43
Hunger Project	Still Crossing	Demo 1982	07:46
Kinetic Ideals	Life in Shadow	Life In Shadow b/w Maze of Ways	02:57
Philip Rambow	Love is a Hard Time	Jungle Law	04:19
Lou Champagne System	Another Dimension	No Visible Means	04:50
Rolf Kempf	Bye Bye Baby	One More Time b/w Bye Bye Baby (picture sleeve)	03:36
Einstein	Man-Child	Sex and Science	03:38
Jon Mullane	In Our Hearts	Following Yesterday	03:22
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Rich Kids	Spunker	03:37
British Properties	Eight Days a Week	Eight Days a Week b/w Niag'ra Falls	03:20
Handful of Snowdrops	From One Place to Another	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	05:10
Trespassing Bean Rays	Eclipse	ST (EP) (picture sleeve)	01:24
Rational Youth	Dancing On The Berlin Wall (Remix)	Dancing on the Berlin Wall	04:34
Glamorcult	My Lady	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:02
Neon	Second Wind	ST (EP)	02:52
Spunker (aka Neotone)	You Don't Wanna Hear This Song	Spunker	02:16
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	My Time	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	05:15
Benjamin Russell	Action and Reaction	Madman	02:14
Breeding Ground	Turn to Dust	Tales of Adventure (EP)	05:20
Deserters	Take It Away	ST	03:26
Iko	Communication Off	83	04:34
Popular Front	The Touch	Doomsday Army 2026 Remasters by Ron Obvious	04:32
Roland Blinn	Peg-in-Hole	Peg-in-Hole b/w Tense (and The fishermen)	03:55
Channel 5	How Could We Know	ST (EP)	02:32
Edsells	She Escaped	Don't Wanna Go to School b/w She Escaped	04:22
Volts	Words on the Wind	Plugged In	02:48
Andre Beaupre	The Saga of Wayne Gretzky	The Saga of Wayne Gretzky b/w The Saga of Wayne Gretzky Part II	03:16
Bündock	Silhouette	Société Anonyme	04:06
Scissors	All This And More	ST	02:46
Frigidaires	Three Cool Cats	Three Cool Cats (picture sleeve)	02:12
Steve Blimkie (and the Reason)	Break My Heart Tomorrow	Blimkie	03:11
Direktive 17	Jericho	ST (EP)	03:58
Eight Seconds	Tell Diane	Big Houses	04:45
100 Flowers	Coming Up For Air	21st Guessing	04:06
John Bell and the Strange	Taking You Home in a Taxi	Taking You Home in a Taxi b/w Melissa	03:24
Streetcar Named Desire	Life Begins	Life Begins	04:40
Timothy Chipman	Ghost Parade	Ghost Parade	02:25
Within Gothic Towers	I Will Lead You	Within Gothic Towers	04:58
Compilation	The Northern Pikes - Public to Notice	Saskatoon Rocks	05:41
Instructions	D-6	D-6 b/w Tell-a-Photo (picture sleeve)	03:32
Kaméléon	Genocide genethliaque	ST	04:03
Salty Seamen	Rings Around Uranus	In The Groove At Last	02:18
The Government	Plaza del Pimps	How Many Fingers?	03:13
Hunger Project	Assembly	The Same Inside b/w Assembly	07:06
Spoons	Life On Demand	New Day New World	04:14
Land of Giants	Thing Called Love	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	06:57
Cottage Industry	The Crucial Moment	The Winter's Tale	03:49
ACTORS	Forever	Reanimated	03:34
Spoons	Out of My Hands	Talkback	03:19
Spoons	My Favourite Page	Talkback	04:01
UJ3RK5	Booty Dread	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	02:49
Informer	Hold It	I Know You Know b/w Hold It	03:12
Joe Naylor	I Hate Fluorescent Lights	I'm Canadian Beer b/w I Hate Fluorescent Lights	03:24
Start	Just Another Girl	Hey You	04:57
A Day in Paris	Child's Cry	Prey	03:45
Bündock	Tied for Time	Société Anonyme	03:55
Erect	The Colony	Consequence of Life	02:45
Blue Oil	Money	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:55
Handful of Snowdrops	Now, Then and Forever (Bonus Track)	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	06:06
ACTORS	Post Traumatic Love (Slow Waves Remix)	Reanimated	05:04
Spunker (aka Neotone)	No More Walrus	Spunker	03:55
Steve Blimkie (and the Reason)	Just Like Me	Blimkie	02:16
Magic Dragon	(White Monkey) Under The Volcano	Emotional Landscape	07:16
The Diodes	Roses and Thorns	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	03:22
Tenants	Forget About Forgetting	ST	03:53

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Hypno-Gogo - In Your Eyes b/w Flashing

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Mad Shadows - Music in the Night

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The Modern Minds - Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97

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Bruce PM - Makeshift

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Space Invaders - ST (EP)

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Dis Band - Gone Dead Out

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Compilation - Saskatoon Rocks

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The Government - How Many Fingers?

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The Government - Electric Eye

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The Government - 33 ⅓ RPM E.P.

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Bumpers - EP

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Contradance - Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)

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Ross Angeles - Salute

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Steve Blimkie (and the Reason) - You Can´t Hold Me Anymore b/w Freaks On the Tube

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Steve Blimkie (and the Reason) - Blimkie

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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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