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
Family Plot	Taxi Driver	Convictions	05:17
Extras	I Never Told You, I Told You So	The Watcher (EP)	04:26
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
Benjamin Russell	Want a World	Madman	02:13
Tin Twist	Sitting Here, Waiting Here	Sometimes It's Funny (picture sleeve)	02:32
Villains	I Don't Care	Go Crazy	03:09
Kaméléon	Napalm	ST	02:54
Rave Revues	Everyone’s a Critic	Voices	06:45
Iko	Approach on Tokyo	83	05:15
Tame & Talking	Fashion Fit	ST	04:08
Compilation	Pat Grehan - Fury Girl	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:13
Rex Chainbelt	Allies	Foreign Movie	03:47
ACTORS	Bad Boys (Don't Go to Heaven)	Our Love Will Live Forever	03:50
Rational Youth	Ring the Bells	Cold War Nightlife	05:13
Chris Evans & The Quarts	Metric Dictators (Measure Canadian Theme)	Metric Dictators (Measure Canadian Theme)	03:36
Rational Youth	I Want To See the Light	I Want to See the Light	03:55
Glamorcult	Past Glory	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:12
Compilation	L'Etranger - Light in the Morning (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	04:44
Handful of Snowdrops	When Comes Daylight	Land of the Damned	05:01
Age of Mirrors	Still Life in Radio	Screenplay	04:09
Perfect World	Have a Good Look	Twist and Shove b/w Have a Good Look (picture sleeve)	05:10
Kaméléon	Microcosme (1981)	Groupe électro-pop	03:45
Jon Mullane	In Our Hearts	Following Yesterday	03:22
Wrestlers	When You Sleep Together	ST	03:42
Compilation	Arrows - Come On Up	Toronto Calling	02:57
Rational Youth	In Your Eyes	Heredity	03:13
The Diodes	Lawn Boy Lover (1977 previously unreleased)	Rarities	02:33
Mr. Science	Popeshat	Popeshat b/w Where R the Legs	04:15
Hygiene Club	Hawaii	Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary	03:00
Martha And The Muffins	Sinking Land	Metro Music	05:28
Border	Black and White	Black and White b/w All in All (picture sleeve)	03:01
Tenants	You Don't Know What I've Been Thru	ST	03:40
Deserters	Present Life	ST	03:21
Popular Front	Puppet Man	Doomsday Army 2026 Remasters by Ron Obvious	03:17
Glamorcult	Cocktail Conversations	A Price To Paris	04:32
Faded Films	East of the Asylum	Faded Years	04:46
Élan	Penticton Peaches	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:13
Handful of Snowdrops	A New Light (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	04:19
Rolf Kempf	Bye Bye Baby	One More Time b/w Bye Bye Baby (picture sleeve)	03:36
Streetcar Named Desire	Yesteryear	Life Begins	02:58
Steve Blimkie (and the Reason)	Break My Heart Tomorrow	Blimkie	03:11
State Of Mind	The Dark Side	I'll Be Yours b/w The Dark Side (picture sleeve)	03:45
Interpol	Chocolate Covered Killer Bees	ST	03:20
Spoons	Love Drum	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	04:16
Reactors	If I Only Had a Brain	If I Only Had a Brain b/w Alien Radio	02:35
Men Without Hats	Antarctica	Folk of the 80's (EP)	03:25
Eight Seconds	Happy Endings	Big Houses	03:46
Tenants	Sheriff	ST	03:52
Living End (1)	In Your Dreams	ST	02:48
Rave Revues	Nightmares	Voices	03:36
Rob Bryanton	We Are All Chemicals	Alcohol And Other Drugs	02:31
Buddy King & the Motion!	Schoolgirl Alibis	Schoolgirl Alibis b/w I Didn't Know Her	02:09
Age of Mirrors	This Double Life	Screenplay	03:43
Pukka Orchestra	Weekend (Come Alive!)	The Palace Of Memeory	06:15
Glamorcult	All Those Lies	The Stone Sessions	03:25
Mettle	All You Wanted	ST	03:59
Golden Calgarians	Ballad of Blood Beach	Savage Love	04:30
ACTORS	Exploded View	Our Love Will Live Forever	03:33
Philip Rambow	Creature Comforts	Jungle Law	02:28
Living End	Death at an Early Age	Death at an Early Age b/w Magic Carpet Ride	03:12
Breeding Ground	In the Sun	Tales of Adventure (EP)	05:22
Glamorcult	Tropical Romance	Tropical Romance (picture sleeve)	04:23
Pukka Orchestra	This Sordid Thing Called Love	The Palace Of Memeory	04:17
Numbers	Sideways Elevator	Sideways Elevator b/w Can't Take it	03:09
True Confessions	Modern Girl	ST	03:03
Spoons	Game Above Your Head	Vertigo Tango	03:51
I Braineater	Future Now	I Here, Where You	03:08
Instructions	Cleek	ST	02:56
Dorian Gray	Perfect Killing Machine	Perfect Killing Machine b/w When Worship Hits the Fan	03:48
Kaméléon	Chanson en "on" (Pour Kaméléon)	ST	03:09
Age of Mirrors	Columbus Discovers America	Screenplay	03:12
ACTORS	Jacknife	Reanimated	04:24
Villains	Wendy's Melody	Go Crazy	03:47
Compilation	Bongo Fury - Alaska Shuffle	Toronto Calling	04:01
B-Sides	Much Too Serious	Invasion Of The Money Snatchers b/w Much Too Serious	02:44
ACTORS	Face Meets Glass	It Will Come to You	03:36
Norda	Snakes And Ladders	West Over Seas	02:51
Hot Tip	My Shoes	Stop All Motion	03:52
Living End (1)	The Procession	ST	04:40
Broken Tables	Image of You	ST	04:24
Red Herring	Maturity	Taste Tests	04:23
The Play	Whispers in the Air	Line of Fire b/w Whispers in the Air	03:50
Rarefaction	Night Crawler	Ordinary Man	05:02
Moev	Alibis	Dusk and Desire	04:37
Johnny Faith	Party time	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	01:42
Interpol	When Rock 'n' Roll Was in the Hole	ST	02:26
Glamorcult	Forever Strangers	Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)	03:37
Villains	Laugh it Out	Go Crazy	03:54
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Of Whales	I Fear What I Might Hear	04:36
Moev	Sweet Nothings	Dusk and Desire	04:33
Decade of Dreams	Tra la la	Wild Colloquial	02:58
Spoons	Ice Age	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:08
The Front	The Joke Was On Me	Gina's at a Party	04:03
Martha And The Muffins	One Day in Paris	This Is The Ice Age	04:20
Spoons	Time Stands Still	Talkback	05:00
Deserters	Alien	ST	03:43
Glamorcult	The Basis of Our Style	Early Glamour	04:00
Bobby and Synthia	Dig That Space	thirty-six hours (EP)	02:33
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Sister H. Immaculata	Spunker	02:12
The End	My Paradise	Just Another Dream b/w My Paradise (picture sleeve)	02:59

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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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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