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
Philip Rambow	Bike Boys	Jungle Law	04:26
Cannon Heath Down	Je Suis Certain	Heart-Throb Companion	02:03
DeMars	Le rêveur egaré	Les Télé-Têtes	04:06
Neon	Slaves	ST (EP)	03:00
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Rock 'N' Roll	Ohama aka The White Album	04:26
Maurice & The Clichés	Working Girls	C'est la vie	03:44
Breeding Ground	This Time Tomorrow	Tales of Adventure (EP)	04:01
Annabelle's Room	Classical Rage	ST	03:30
Spoons	Spaces	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	03:12
Living End (1)	The Procession	ST	04:40
NEO A4	Sex (For Love)	The Warmer Side of You	02:39
Moev	Cocoon	Zimmerkampf	04:45
A Fish in C	Touch	In Transit (picture sleeve)	03:49
Glen Meadmore	Do Me Baby	Chicken & Biscuits	05:01
Spoons	You Light Up	Static In Transmission	04:23
Blue Oil	Innocent Boys	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:45
Klō	Weirdo	Fun b/w Weirdo	03:32
The Diodes	Everything I Am	Action-Reaction	03:15
Two Men Laughing	Imprisoned Lorri	Imprisoned Lorri b/w Dancing in Moscow (picture sleeve)	03:39
Compilation	Pat Grehan - Fury Girl	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:13
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Talkin' About Her	Spunker	03:07
Instructions	Suburban Dream	ST	04:15
39 Steps	Someday is Today [original]	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:33
Corsage	West Coast Highway (demo)	Big Night Out (EP)	04:57
ACTORS	Slaves	It Will Come to You	03:33
Rational Youth	Le meilleur des mondes	Cold War Nightlife	03:14
Family Plot	Stag Party	Convictions	03:33
Redlife	Round	Hope for Tomorrow b/w Round	03:28
Mannequin Depressives	I Don't Get You	Girls Are Evil	04:31
Rheostatics	Satellite Dancing	My Generation b/w Satellite Dancing	03:31
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Mobile Clones	Motionless	Abrasive Air (picture sleeve)	04:19
Martha And The Muffins	Was Ezo	Trance and Dance	03:58
Boys Brigade	Saigon	ST	04:28
Compilation	Youth Youth Youth - Louie Louie	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	04:01
Corsage	Monument	Big Night Out (EP)	01:25
Government	On The Prowl (Reprise)	Electric Eye	02:36
ACTORS	Object of Desire	Our Love Will Live Forever	03:12
Rational Youth	Close to Nature	Dancing on the Berlin Wall	04:43
Handful of Snowdrops	Alice in Wonderland (1992)	Mort en direct	05:20
Tulpa	Mystical Dreams	Apologize to Your Mother (picture sleeve)	03:36
Bündock	Forbidden Zone	Société Anonyme	03:44
Johnny Zhivago	Echo	Microalbum	04:03
Compilation	Donald Breithaupt - Can't Find the Key	Music Industry Arts 1983	05:45
Thieves	Color	I See Red	04:09
Numbers	Sunday Afternoon	Add Up	03:39
Blue Peter	Living in the Eighties	Test Patterns For Living	02:26
Family Plot	Dervish	Convictions	04:11
Degrees of Freedom	China	China	06:00
Spoons	My Favourite Page	Talkback	04:01
Strange Advance	Kiss in the Dark	Worlds Away	03:56
Within Gothic Towers	In The Darkness	Within Gothic Towers	04:38
Tim Ray	Standard Walk (July, 1982)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:25
Government	Letter to Craig	Electric Eye	04:45
Awake The Echoes	Always Something Wrong	Normal Life	03:59
Tim Ray	Preamble - One Last Look (September, 1980)	History Lessons 1978-1984	06:21
Fictions	Snob Appeal	ST	03:53
Living End (1)	Only When	ST	03:28
Andrew Matheson	True Romance	Monterey Shoes	03:42
Emport	Picture Frame Love Affair	Heartaches b/w Picture Frame Love Affair	04:19
Instructions	Wicked Heart	ST	04:02
Cardboard Brains	Summertime!	Live At The Edge	03:31
Start	Hey You	Hey You	04:03
Andrew Matheson	Eyes of Harlem	Monterey Shoes	07:44
Tim Ray	1/4 to Eight (October, 1978)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:40
Glamorcult	In Time (Only to be Free)	Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)	04:17
The Front	The Hard Line	Gina's at a Party	03:06
Spoons	Rodeo	Bridges Over Borders	04:12
Spoons	Landing Lights	New Day New World	04:29
Compilation	Rent Boys Inc. - Beauty is Above the Law	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	02:45
Kinetic Ideals	Animalistic	Reason (EP)	05:09
Handful of Snowdrops	In the Eye of the Storm	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	07:25
Hunger Project	Assembly	The Same Inside b/w Assembly	07:06
Conning Tower	Indian Dancing	Indian Dancing b/w Looking Up From Under	04:40
Modernettes	Static	View From The Bottom (EP)	03:54
B-Sides	Emotions	Red to Black	04:11
Drastic Measures	Jump Off the Lake	ST	02:37
Moev	Sweet Nothings	Dusk and Desire	04:33
DeMars	La nouvelle epoque	Les Télé-Têtes	04:01
A Neon Rome	The Magical Summer Of ’85	A Neon Rome	03:17
Nevermen	Real Life	The Monitor LP	05:10
Compilation	Instructions - D-6	The Circuit	05:14
The Diodes	Time of Your Life (1978 Previously Unreleased)	Rarities	02:46
James Harcourt	Like the Way It Feels	Emotional Blackmail	02:34
I Braineater	7Teen	Artist, Poet, Thief	02:38
Bündock	Season for Love	Société Anonyme	04:11
UJ3RK5	Hash Dreams of the Everyday Housewife	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	03:26
Rational Youth	Le meilleur des mondes	Cité phosphoree b/w Le meilleur des mondes	02:59
Sebastian (Agnello)	No Compromise	No Compromise b/w Stop Picking On America (picture sleeve)	03:34
Spoons	Numb	Static In Transmission	03:50
Age of Mirrors	Still Life in Radio	Screenplay	04:09
ACTORS	Like Suicide	Acts of Worship	03:44
Images In Vogue	Save It	In The House	03:38
Instructions	Learn from Computers	ST	04:15
Benjamin Russell	Angel of Mercy	Madman	02:45
Psyche	The Sundial	The Influence	03:38
UJ3RK5	Eisenhower and the Hippies	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	03:48
Benjamin Russell	Orphans	Pop Modern(e)	03:35
Tim Ray	Silent Partner (July, 1982)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:47
Reactors	If I Only Had a Brain	If I Only Had a Brain b/w Alien Radio	02:35

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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Modernes Pickles - Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985

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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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