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
Red Herring	The Crab Song	Taste Tests	03:57
Family Plot	My Mad Friend	Convictions	05:06
Spoons	Closing Credits	Static In Transmission	04:31
Images In Vogue	Fade Away	Educated Man	03:31
Tim Ray	1/4 to Eight (October, 1978)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:40
Broken Tables	The Ruins	ST	05:50
Compilation	Rent Boys Inc. - Beauty is Above the Law	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	02:45
B-Sides	Bedtime for Ronald	Red to Black	03:52
Volts	Words on the Wind	Plugged In	02:48
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Drugs	Ohama aka The White Album	04:36
ACTORS	Crystal	It Will Come to You	03:40
4th Floor	Follow in Stride	Black & White b/w Follow in Stride	04:16
NEO A4	Don't Believe	The Warmer Side of You	04:50
The Diodes	Edge of Darkness	Action-Reaction	03:10
Class Info	Circle Game	Inside	02:20
Handful of Snowdrops	Somewhere Higher (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	05:25
Vital Sines	Collage	Collage	04:25
Modern Minds	Out of Luck (Pointed Sticks)	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:55
Palace at 4 a.m.	Palace at 4 A.M.	Untamed World	01:25
Kinetic Ideals	Touch Me (Now)	Touch Me (Now)	07:27
Darkroom	It's Cold Out Here	San Paku	03:44
Bleu Néon	Exorcisme	Cité Promise	04:33
Moev	Cracked Mirror	Cracked Mirror (EP)	05:57
Friendly Fire	Junior Senility	Junior Senility EP	02:54
ACTORS	Post Traumatic Love (Felix Bondarev Remix)	Reanimated	04:08
Corsage	Down at the Rock	ST	03:26
Ear Candy	The Hunter	Self Defence	05:06
Sue Hansen	Sucking Up to You	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:24
Erect	We Are Police	We Are Police b/w The Colony	02:19
ACTORS	Post Traumatic Love	Reanimated	03:20
Neon	Slaves	ST (EP)	03:00
A Neon Rome	Windowsill	A Neon Rome	05:20
Benjamin Russell	Orphans	Pop Modern(e)	03:35
Glamorcult	Holding Onto Yesterday	Shadows From The Past	03:34
Iko	Communication Off	83	04:34
Golden Calgarians	Savage Love	Savage Love	04:16
Doppler Bros.	Welcome to Canada	Totally Impractical	03:48
Insex	Play or Die	One (EP)	02:14
The Idles	Slow Down	The Idles Demo	02:18
Spoons	No Electrons	Arias & Symphonies	05:12
Modernes Pickles	Love Me	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:01
Within Gothic Towers	Is This My Moment of Glory	Within Gothic Towers	04:01
Norda	West Over Seas	West Over Seas	05:54
Government	Gunshot Wound	Electric Eye	02:56
Modernettes	Red Nails	View From The Bottom (EP)	03:02
Rational Youth	Heredity	Heredity	04:18
Johnny Faith	Pure Energy	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	02:55
John Lutz T.	Street Corner Sally	Kiss And Tell b/w Street Corner Sally	03:06
Lawn	Rites	Peace in the Valley	03:48
Inner Sanction	Direction Perfection	Dancematic-Automatic	04:32
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
Wrestlers	Dance of the Drunk	ST	02:37
Future Yanx	Suite For A Nation	Suite For A Nation (picture sleeve)	03:12
B-Sides	Bedtime for Ronald (33⅓ rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	04:27
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Love in 3-D	Space and Time	03:36
Mettle	Five-Four	ST	04:39
Benjamin Russell	Out of it Girl	Madman	01:37
Blue Peter	Time and Money	Test Patterns For Living	02:07
Government	Get You Sleepin'	33 ⅓ RPM E.P.	04:17
Johnny Faith	Party time	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	01:42
Glamorcult	Tropical Romance	Tropical Romance (picture sleeve)	04:23
Eight Seconds	Tell Diane	Big Houses	04:45
Rob Bryanton	Havin' Some Fun Tonight	Alcohol And Other Drugs	00:36
Class Info	Come for Me	Inside	02:23
Glamorcult	All That Matters	Shadows From The Past	03:39
Dandelions	Great Big Pictures	Great Big Pictures b/w Funky Monday (picture sleeve)	04:01
Cannon Heath Down	Belly Through	Heart-Throb Companion	04:32
Reasons	The Fall	Reasonable Rock (EP)	02:59
FM109	Food On Nuclear Device	ST	06:38
Spoons	Escape With You	Static In Transmission	04:21
39 Steps	Something New	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:03
Spunker (aka Neotone)	You Stand	Spunker	02:36
Rex Chainbelt	Goodbye Carol	Foreign Movie	03:24
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:50
One Hand Clapping	The Moon is Blue	Burlesque (picture sleeve)	02:39
Cardboard Brains	Is That Why?	Live At The Edge	03:28
Martha And The Muffins	Whatever Happened to Radio Valve Road?	Danseparc	03:00
Palace at 4 a.m.	I Go Hungry	Untamed World	03:43
ACTORS	I'm Not Here	Our Love Will Live Forever	03:32
Glamorcult	If Only You Knew	A Price To Paris	03:33
Steve Blimkie (and the Reason)	Just Like Me	Blimkie	02:16
Emport	Heartaches	Heartaches b/w Picture Frame Love Affair	03:58
The Chemicals	Break Time	Break Time	03:03
Class Info	That Aint No Lie	Inside	02:19
Modern Minds	Punk Violence	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:16
ACTORS	One Hundred Years	One Hundred Years	06:38
BB Gabor	Moscow Drug Club	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry) b/w Moscow Drug Club (picture sleeve)	04:26
Tenants	Never Forget a Face	Visions of Our Future	04:07
Popular Front (1)	World Weary	World Weary b/w Living On the Line	04:54
Modernettes	Static	View From The Bottom (EP)	03:54
Martha And The Muffins	Swimming	This Is The Ice Age	03:54
Living End (1)	Dislocation	ST	03:16
Blue Peter	Same Old Place	Test Patterns For Living	03:12
Modernes Pickles	Possessed in the City	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:28
Rave Revues	Everyone’s a Critic	Voices	06:45
Villains	You Are (All These Things to Me)	Go Crazy	04:38
Bangkok	Planet of My Own	Eve of Destruction b/w Planet of My Own	03:04
Sex Church	Waking Up	Growing Over	05:26
Salty Seamen	Lime Green Blues	In The Groove At Last	02:29
Glamorcult	Distant Memories	The Stone Sessions	04:07

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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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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