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
Streetcar Named Desire	Illustrated Man	Life Begins	05:25
Golden Calgarians	Ballad of Blood Beach	Savage Love	04:30
Volts	Welcome	Plugged In	04:21
Bora Bora	Fashion Passion	Fashion Passion b/w Starting Over	03:47
Rational Youth	Le meilleur des mondes	Cité phosphoree b/w Le meilleur des mondes	02:59
Oui	You Make Me High	Oui	04:41
Home Grown	Thoughts of You	Up the Wall b/w Thoughts of You	04:11
Kings	Don't let Me Know	Are Here	04:00
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News	Midnite News	07:10
Streetcar Named Desire	A Month of Sundays	Life Begins	04:36
Neon	Til Midnight	ST (EP)	03:23
Compilation	Breeding Ground - Thin Red Line	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	05:08
Diodes	Heat or the Beat	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	04:38
I Braineater	Gastly Dance	I Here, Where You	01:26
Volts	Can't Hold on Too Long	Plugged In	03:15
Psyche	Maggots	Insomnia Theatre	04:27
Figures At Dawn	Distance Through Darkness	ST	03:10
Glamorcult	Shadows From The Past	Shadows From The Past	03:54
Spoons	One in Ten Words	Arias & Symphonies	04:10
Drama	Traffic	Loneliness	02:53
A Fish in C	Touch	In Transit (picture sleeve)	03:49
Handful of Snowdrops	Alice in Wonderland (1992)	Mort en direct	05:20
Golden Calgarians	Vladivostok Rock	Savage Love	04:03
The Keys	Whatever Happened to Boy Meets Girl	Whatever Happened to Boy Meets Girl b/w Lied To! (picture sleeve)	03:16
Secret Act	Fred Flinstone, Where Are You	My Neighbourhood	03:52
Compilation	Don Bregg - Sounds So Nice	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:51
Rational Youth	Latin Lovers	ST (mini album)	03:51
Eight Seconds	Sincere	Almacantar	04:27
Age of Mirrors	Columbus Discovers America	Screenplay	03:12
Extras	I’ll be Wanting You	The Road to Zambando	04:15
45's	On the Beach	On the Beach	04:05
Bora Bora	Starting Over	Fashion Passion b/w Starting Over	04:23
Awake The Echoes	Love For Life	Normal Life	03:31
100 Flowers	The Best Status Symbol	21st Guessing	02:54
Psyche	Wake the Flood Unconscious	Mystery Hotel	02:53
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Julie is a TV Set	Midnite News	08:11
Hygiene Club	Pantechnicon - for Gary	Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary	01:15
Timothy Chipman	Joy to the World	Ghost Parade	01:32
Bobby and Synthia	Chant #2	thirty-six hours (EP)	04:00
Mettle	The Invisibles	ST	03:14
Handful of Snowdrops	Terroir II	Land of the Damned	01:01
Reid My Lyps	Susie Don't Run	Susie Don't Run b/w Susie Don't Run	03:57
Diodes	No Time to Cry (1981 Previously Unreleased) (CD only)	Rarities	03:43
Big Dog	Monkey See, Monkey Do	99 Change Hands	01:52
Scenics	I Have You	Underneath the Door	02:07
Darkroom	Don't Talk	San Paku	03:32
Compilation	Crash Course In Science - Kitchen Motors (Produced by John Wicks, Third Story Recording, Philadelphia, USA)	Strange Pleasures EP	02:36
Redlife	Round	Hope for Tomorrow b/w Round	03:28
Handful of Snowdrops	The Scariest Notion (1st Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	05:08
Spoons	Conventional Beliefs	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	03:57
Spoons	In the Hands of Money	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	03:43
Men Without Hats	Mothers	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	12:07
Psyche	Illusion	The Influence	04:26
Compilation	Vital Sines - Not My World (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	04:15
David Raven & the Escorts	Somethin' in Our Way	David Raven And The Escorts	04:25
Handful of Snowdrops	Counterclockwise (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	03:30
Awake The Echoes	Sherry	Normal Life	04:20
Government	Fumigators	Electric Eye	04:27
Inner Sanction	White Boy Rap	Dancematic-Automatic	05:58
Erect	Cry of a Leo	Consequence of Life	02:48
Rex Chainbelt	Rock a Rolla	Foreign Movie	01:40
Border	Black and White	Black and White b/w All in All (picture sleeve)	03:01
I Braineater	Frosted Lips	I Here, Where You	03:28
Skoolboyz	Where's My Waitress?	ST (EP)	03:05
Iko	Radioactive Mist	83	05:24
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Killer Punk	Space and Time	02:42
Age of Mirrors	She Cracks Me Up	Screenplay	03:39
Kinetic Ideals	Windchimes	Touch Me (Now)	13:46
Eight Seconds	Kiss You (When It's Dangerous)	Almacantar	04:07
Rex Chainbelt	Mon Ami	Foreign Movie	02:22
Ceramic Hello	Conversation Between Units	The Absence of a Canary	00:30
Jon Mullane	One More Chance (for u)	Following Yesterday	04:29
100 Flowers	Haunted	21st Guessing	05:09
Ceramic Hello	Staticarnival	The Absence of a Canary	01:18
Psyche	Misery's Return	The Influence	04:57
The Scene (2)	What I Need	Only in Paradise	05:28
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	On the Line	ST	04:09
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Glamorcult	Carry the Water	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:47
Within Gothic Towers	Fanfare To Flight	Within Gothic Towers	04:48
Spoons	Stop	Talkback	03:16
Friendly Fire	Junior Senility	Junior Senility EP	02:54
A Day in Paris	Child's Cry	Prey	03:45
Palace at 4 a.m.	The Age of Reason(able Pleasure)	White Guilt	04:42
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Compilation	Glamatron - Pop Tarts	The Circuit	02:53
Government	On The Prowl (Reprise)	Electric Eye	02:36
Tim Ray	Hate (September, 1980)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:22
The Front	News to You	Underworld	05:11
Benjamin Russell	Dreaming Girl	Madman	02:24
Rational Youth	Sorry	Heredity	04:47
James Harcourt	Hook or By Crrok	Emotional Blackmail	03:33
Extras	I Never Told You, I Told You So	The Watcher (EP)	04:26
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Sometimes	I Fear What I Might Hear	03:41
Boys Brigade	Mannequin	Mannequin Demo	04:13
UJ3RK5	Eisenhower and the Hippies	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	03:48
Kinetic Ideals	Maze of Ways	Life In Shadow b/w Maze of Ways	04:09
Ceramic Hello	M - EX	The Absence of a Canary	00:23
The Scene (2)	Egos Trip	Only in Paradise	06:34
Inner Sanction	Sparkle	Shake Up - Fly Down	02:51

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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The Chemicals - Out of My Mind b/w Run and Hide

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Vex - DNA

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Tim Ray - History Lessons 1978-1984

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Popular Front - Doomsday Army 2026 Remasters by Ron Obvious

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Popular Front - Doomsday Army b/w Puppet

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Klō - No Money b/w The Parking Lot Song

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Klō - Mrs. Fong b/w Break the Floor

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Klō - Fun b/w Weirdo

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Spoons - Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party

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Spoons - New Day New World

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Spoons - Static In Transmission

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Spoons - Vertigo Tango

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Spoons - Bridges Over Borders

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Spoons - Talkback

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Spoons - Nova Heart b/w Symmetry

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Spoons - Arias & Symphonies

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Spoons - Stick Figure Neighbourhood

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Spoons - After the Institution b/w My Job

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Tim Ray - ST

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Voice - Anno Di Voce

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