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
Fictions	Shuffle	ST	02:39
Tyro	A Little More Time	A Little More Time (EP)	02:11
Scenics	I Killed Marx	Underneath the Door	04:29
Hot Tip	Stop All Motion	Stop All Motion	04:34
Scissors	Summer Girls	ST	02:18
Kinetic Ideals	I Remember	Touch Me (Now)	05:10
Benjamin Russell	Rock It	Pop Modern(e)	04:06
Glamorcult	Shadows From The Past	Shadows From The Past	03:54
The Diodes	Lost in the Dark	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	02:50
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	Hothouse	ST	04:32
Instructions	D-6	D-6 b/w Tell-a-Photo (picture sleeve)	03:32
Friendly Fire	Complete Control	Junior Senility EP	03:12
Psyche	The Saint Became a Lush	Unveiling The Secret	06:25
Tenants	Connect the Dots	ST	04:04
Rob Bryanton	Everybody Feels Some Pain	Alcohol And Other Drugs	04:45
ACTORS	Post Traumatic Love (Mark Hjorthoy Remix)	Reanimated	06:24
Compilation	Nobby Clegg & The Civilians - Essay - Me Dad	Toronto Calling	06:06
Compilation	Moist & Tender - Alienation	Toronto Calling	03:22
Frigidaires	5 Guys Named Moe	Three Cool Cats (picture sleeve)	02:14
The Presence	Mechanoid	Blown Away b/w Mechanoid (picture sleeve)	03:55
Scott Matthews	Navigation	Boats in Rivers	03:33
Blue Peter	Out With the Boys	Test Patterns For Living	03:08
Calling Rain	Laid in Ruins	Laid in Ruins b/w Cross (picture sleeve)	04:45
Tim Ray	Run On (January, 1982)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:08
Glamorcult	S.O.S.	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:31
Rex Chainbelt	Cherry Beach	Foreign Movie	02:55
Wrestlers	When You Sleep Together	ST	03:42
Modern Minds	The End of a Dream	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	03:40
Scenics	Jonathan Richman	New Part In Town	03:18
Men Without Hats	Ideas for Walls	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	04:27
John Young Paul	Have You Seen the Boy in the Gutter with the Broken Mind?	The Life of Ermie Scub	02:10
Martha And The Muffins	Hide and Seek	Metro Music	03:58
Boys Brigade	Black + White	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	07:46
Blue Oil	Twenty Years	ST	03:41
Barking Boys	Incident In St. Jamestown	The Yes Girls	04:58
Extras	Turning it Out	The Road to Zambando	04:24
Bitter Reality	A White Man (In Babylon)	Tellin' Me Goodbye b/w A White Man (In Babylon)	03:40
39 Steps	Let's Flirt With Danger	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:16
Degrees of Freedom	The Sound of a Jealous Heart	China	03:36
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Julie is a T.V. Set	Julie is a T.V. Set b/w T.V.	05:08
Bumpers	Media Music	Media Music/ I Watch You Go /Ian/ Log 1 (picture sleeve)	02:30
45's	Real Confused	On the Beach	02:15
Glamorcult	Mine is the Maiden	Early Glamour	04:39
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Hunger Project	Still Crossing	Demo 1982	07:46
Conning Tower	Indian Dancing	Indian Dancing b/w Looking Up From Under	04:40
Modern Minds	Out of Luck (Pointed Sticks)	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:55
Klō	No Money	No Money b/w The Parking Lot Song	02:38
Mettle	All You Wanted	ST	03:59
Spoons	The Rhythm	Talkback	04:06
Maurice & The Clichés	Soft Core	Soft Core	04:26
Boys Brigade	Melody	ST	04:04
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Rich Kids	Spunker	03:37
Drastic Measures	Jump Off the Lake	ST	02:37
Compilation	Hunger Project - Assembly	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	05:41
Bunny & the Lakers	Batlore	Numbers	03:05
ACTORS	Death from Above	Acts of Worship	03:32
Velveteens	Moonwork	Tall House (EP)	03:50
Cardboard Brains	Babies Run My World	Live At The Edge	02:07
Volts	As the Radio Died	Plugged In	03:35
Psyche	The Sundial	The Influence	03:38
Darkroom	Proven Guilty	San Paku	03:32
Handful of Snowdrops	In the Eye of the Storm	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	07:25
State Of Mind	The Dark Side	I'll Be Yours b/w The Dark Side (picture sleeve)	03:45
Benjamin Russell	Broken-Hearted Lovers	Madman	02:30
Kaméléon	Les chats balerines (1981)	Groupe électro-pop	04:01
Rarefaction	Ordinary Man	Ordinary Man	04:17
Compilation	Glamatron - Pop Tarts	The Circuit	02:53
Interpol	When Rock 'n' Roll Was in the Hole	ST	02:26
The Diodes	Action Re-action	Action-Reaction	03:18
ACTORS	Crystal	It Will Come to You	03:40
Images In Vogue	Welcome to Sorrow	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	04:07
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Mushin No Shin	Midnite News	05:35
Tenants	Winner	ST	03:21
Cannon Heath Down	Belly Through	Heart-Throb Companion	04:32
Drastic Measures	Romanticon	ST	02:42
Modern Minds	Holly	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	01:59
Spoons	Be Alone Tonight	Bridges Over Borders	05:11
The Play	Whatever it Takes	Running Out of Time b/w Whatever it Takes	03:25
Glen Meadmore	Do Me Baby	Chicken & Biscuits	05:01
Compilation	Winston Hancock - Girls, Girls	No Pedestrians	03:15
Rave Revues	Long Time Coming	Long Time Coming b/w Rules Of Play (picture sleeve)	04:11
Fictions	Dimestore Romance	ST	03:44
I Braineater	Tax On Toys (plus tracks 4-6)	I Here, Where You	09:19
e	Dance With Me	The Levitation Syndrome	03:36
Escalators	Wooly Bully	ST	03:58
Direktive 17	Jericho	ST (EP)	03:58
Tim Ray	1/4 to Eight (October, 1978)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:40
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	I Tie My Shoes	Ohama aka The White Album	05:58
The End	My Paradise	Just Another Dream b/w My Paradise (picture sleeve)	02:59
Lou Champagne System	Don't Say I'm Here	No Visible Means	03:27
Awake The Echoes	You're More Trouble Than You' re Worth	Normal Life	03:58
Corsage	Jackson	ST	03:41
Doppler Bros.	The Wreck of the Eaton Centre	Totally Impractical	04:27
Kaméléon	Rouge barbele	ST	04:54
True Confessions	Mating Games	ST	03:06
Nasty Habits	Playing in the Danger Zone	Playing in the Danger Zone b/w Cleopatra (picture sleeve)	03:07
Blue Oil	Sardine City	Blue Oil (1981-83)	01:49
Within Gothic Towers	Day Dreaming	Within Gothic Towers	03:14
The Vox	Mary-Go-Round	Mary-Go-Round b/w Bored of the 80's	03:29

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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