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
Palace at 4 a.m.	I Go Hungry	Untamed World	03:43
Modernes Pickles	Destination Martin	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	03:13
Tim Ray	1/4 to Eight (October, 1978)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:40
Insex	One	One (EP)	04:47
I Braineater	Just a Boy	I Here, Where You	02:52
The Front	Underworld	Underworld	03:59
Roland Blinn	Tense	Peg-in-Hole b/w Tense (and The fishermen)	02:27
Scissors	Wrecked My Car	ST	02:16
Modernettes	The Rebel Kind	View From The Bottom (EP)	02:08
Benjamin Russell	Want a World	Madman	02:13
Modern Minds	Love to Me	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:32
Rational Youth	Close to Nature	Cold War Nightlife	04:40
Glamorcult	A Dream Girl To Me	Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude	03:23
Spoons	The First & Last Time	New Day New World	04:54
Compilation	Glamatron - Klüb	The Circuit	02:28
Einstein	Body & Mind	Sex and Science	03:49
Rational Youth	Holiday in Bangkok	ST (mini album)	05:27
Electric Mocean	Motion	Motion b/w Television Eyes (picture sleeve)	04:03
Spoons	Quiet World	Talkback	04:37
e	Dance With Me	The Levitation Syndrome	03:36
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Dead Dogs	Spunker	02:32
Villains	Call Me Up	Go Crazy	03:00
Maja Bannerman	Black Sheep	Songs by Maja Bannerman	03:00
Maurice & The Clichés	Mixed Emotions	ST	03:53
Rarefaction	You In Me	Ordinary Man	05:50
Blue Peter	Factory Living	Test Patterns For Living	02:50
Moral Lepers	Dead of Night	Turn to Stone	03:59
Handful of Snowdrops	Face to Face	Land of the Damned	06:09
Bruce PM	More Joyful Noise	Makeshift	03:31
Johnny Zhivago	Echo	Microalbum	04:03
Extras	Cult Kids	Bit Parts	03:07
Start	Out of the Tube	Hey You	02:27
FM109	Food On Nuclear Device	ST	06:38
UJ3RK5	Naum Gabo	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	04:18
Villains	Lovers	Go Crazy	03:03
Extras	Sentimental Fool	The Road to Zambando	03:53
Boys Brigade	Melody	Interview with Boys Brigade and Producer Geddy Lee	04:06
FM109	L'ecole est fuckee	ST	04:19
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Volts	These Things Remain	Plugged In	03:57
Rational Youth	Heredity	Heredity	04:18
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Gaslit Squares	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	03:56
Compilation	Instructions - D-6	The Circuit	05:14
Rikki & The Rokkits	New Wave	New Wave b/w They Never See (picture sleeve)	03:10
Lou Champagne System	Don't Say I'm Here	No Visible Means	03:27
Nasty Habits	Playing in the Danger Zone	Playing in the Danger Zone b/w Cleopatra (picture sleeve)	03:07
Kinetic Ideals	Touch Me (Now)	Touch Me (Now)	07:27
100 Flowers	Pam	21st Guessing	03:33
The Idles	Please Don't Call	The Idles Demo	02:44
A Kid	Dirty Bedding	An Introduction to Civil Engineering (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:35
Darkroom	Pressure	San Paku	04:09
Spice	Just a Little Bit	Beautiful You b/w Just a Little Bit	02:17
A Kid	Come	An Introduction to Civil Engineering (EP) (picture sleeve)	04:35
B-Sides	No Can Do	Red to Black	03:00
Glen Meadmore	Just a Girl	Chicken & Biscuits	05:57
Bobby and Synthia	Video Violence	thirty-six hours (EP)	03:53
Magic Dragon	Objet Du Desire	Emotional Landscape	05:34
Kaméléon	Insomnuit (1981)	Groupe électro-pop	04:35
Martha And The Muffins	Sinking Land	Metro Music	05:28
Darkroom	It's Cold Out Here	San Paku	03:44
Land of Giants	Fire With Fire	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	04:50
Red Herring	Taste Tests	Taste Tests	02:50
Joe Mavety & the Mule	Voices Like Thunder	Crusaders b/w Voices Like Thunder	04:00
Scott Matthews	Navigation	Boats in Rivers	03:33
Fictions	Better	ST	02:31
Ross Angeles	Empty Amour	Salute	03:19
Scenics	I Have You	Underneath the Door	02:07
Martha And The Muffins	Symptomatic Love	Trance and Dance	04:08
UJ3RK5	The Anglican	ST (EP)	03:53
Kreemers	At The El Mocambo	Eve of Destruction b/w At The El Mocambo	02:48
Klō	Try	Demo 1981	04:22
Martha And The Muffins	World Without Borders	Danseparc	03:08
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
The Diodes	Strange Time	Action-Reaction	02:53
Secret Act	Talk Talk!	My Neighbourhood	02:55
Mettle	The Invisibles	ST	03:14
Robert Armes	Nearly Out of Control	Nearly Out of Control b/w Radio Active	03:35
Mettle	Evening Ocean	ST	02:58
Chocolate Bunnies From Hell	Pumpin' For Jill	Pumpin' For Jill b/w Simple Man (picture sleeve)	04:02
Compilation	The Sharks - Get Off the Radio	No Pedestrians	03:00
Decade of Dreams	Tra la la	Wild Colloquial	02:58
Drama	Human Question	Loneliness	02:38
Andrew Matheson	My Girls (Pin-Up Parade)	Monterey Shoes	03:52
Rex Chainbelt	Goodbye Carol	Foreign Movie	03:24
The End	My Paradise	Just Another Dream b/w My Paradise (picture sleeve)	02:59
Kaméléon	Chanson en "on" (Pour Kaméléon)	ST	03:09
Martha And The Muffins	Suburban Dream	Trance and Dance	03:27
Glamorcult	Live For Today	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:38
Extras	I’ll be Wanting You	The Road to Zambando	04:15
Bruce PM	Senility	Makeshift	02:27
Rin Tin Tin	Jackin' the House of Commons	Give Meech a Chance // Jackin' the House of Commons	08:26
Mannequin Depressives	I Don't Get You	Girls Are Evil	04:31
Corsage	Baby Said	ST	03:37
Doppler Bros.	Big Time Tragedy	Totally Impractical	03:36
Corsage	Troubles	ST	04:57
Compilation	Jennifer Cauley - In Every Dream	Music Industry Arts 1983	02:45
NEO A4	Don't Believe	The Warmer Side of You	04:50
Martha And The Muffins	Boys in the Bushes	Danseparc	04:43
Spoons	World in Motion	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	04:18
Eight Seconds	Tell Diane	Big Houses	04:45

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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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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