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.

Artist	Track	Title	Length
Images In Vogue	King's Service	In The House	03:25
Front, The	The Truth Hurts	Gina's at a Party	03:13
True Confessions	Smokey's Gonna Twist	ST	02:25
Spoons	Stop	Talkback	03:16
Russell, Benjamin	Dreaming Girl	Madman	02:24
Harcourt, James	Emotional Blackmail	Emotional Blackmail	02:21
Kreemers	Eve of Destruction	Eve of Destruction b/w At The El Mocambo	03:14
Degrees of Freedom	China	China	06:00
Magic Dragon	Once Upon a Time	Emotional Landscape	04:25
Barking Boys	Blood Money	The Yes Girls	05:01
Informer	Hold It	I Know You Know b/w Hold It	03:12
Rational Youth	Sorry	Heredity	04:47
Melinite	A Daydream Dilemma	Push The Button And Run!	03:44
Spoons	Like a Memory	Bridges Over Borders	03:47
Shanghai Lil	Nirvana - Oh What a Night	Flower And a Bee b/w Nirvana - Oh What a Night	04:57
Kinetic Ideals	Fire	Reason (EP)	05:54
Matheson, Andrew	Johnny Lets Run	Monterey Shoes	03:49
Welcome Home	In This Life	In This Life b/w Top of the World (picture sleeve)	04:59
Psyche	The Outsider	Mystery Hotel	04:27
Meadmore, Glen	Lovin' In My Oven	Chicken & Biscuits	04:07
Generra	Don’t Cut Me	Don’t Cut Me b/w Girls in the Hearts	03:57
Decade of Dreams	Tra la la	Wild Colloquial	02:58
Home Grown	Thoughts of You	Up the Wall b/w Thoughts of You	04:11
Drama	Traffic	Loneliness	02:53
Odd Man Out	Whatever Happened to Us	Whatever Happened to Us b/w World of My Own (picture sleeve)	04:02
Norda	V	West Over Seas	05:27
Instructions	Ha - Ha Ha	ST	04:29
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Lola	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	03:08
Figures At Dawn	Close My Eyes	ST	04:54
Modernettes	Red Nails	View From The Bottom (EP)	03:02
Salty Seamen	Club Hot de Paris	In The Groove At Last	02:03
Cannon Heath Down	quagmire	Heart-Throb Companion	00:30
Eight Seconds	Here Stood Troy	Big Houses	06:33
Extras	Aqua Velva Man	Bit Parts	02:49
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Now They've Landed (Harmonics)	Space and Time	05:01
100 Flowers	The Best Status Symbol	21st Guessing	02:54
Mashats, Ralph	Empty Eyes (Fly My Way)	Irradies b/w Empty Eyes (Fly My Way) (picture sleeve)	05:05
Blueprints	Down On My Sublife	Stare 01	04:06
Lawn	Jet Pack	Peace in the Valley	05:41
Class Info	Come for Me	Inside	02:23
Front, The	News to You	Underworld	05:11
Glamorcult	Interlude	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:31
Entrance System	Can't Deny the Rain	Imperfect Image	06:18
Age of Mirrors	Reunion	Screenplay	04:14
Tyro	A Little More Time	A Little More Time (EP)	02:11
Age of Mirrors	Still Life in Radio	Screenplay	04:09
Pukka Orchestra	The Deserter	ST	00:50
Gabor, BB	Moscow Drug Club	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry) b/w Moscow Drug Club (picture sleeve)	04:26
Spoons	Clever	Bridges Over Borders	03:39
Front, The	Treacherous	Underworld	04:42
Corsage	Victory Square	ST	04:16
Erect	Human Beings	Consequence of Life	04:09
Entrance System	Ahohoo	Imperfect Image	03:45
Handful of Snowdrops	Holy Hossuary (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	04:58
Bicycle Thieves	Instead of a Heart	ST	04:31
Compilation	The Secrets - All the Words	No Pedestrians	02:52
Rational Youth	Burn the Night Away	Heredity	03:20
Edsells	Don't Wanna Go to School	Don't Wanna Go to School b/w She Escaped	03:06
Hot Tip	My Shoes	Stop All Motion	03:52
Golden Calgarians	Thousand Chains	Savage Love	03:51
Cannon Heath Down	Not Now	Heart-Throb Companion	02:15
Micks	I Want to be With You	ST (EP)	03:40
Numbers	Can't Take It	Add Up	03:40
Men Without Hats	Where do Boys Go	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	03:56
A Neon Rome	Bsus5	A Neon Rome	08:25
Images In Vogue	Anxiety Reaction	Educated Man	04:05
Champagne, Lou System	Don't Say I'm Here	No Visible Means	03:27
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Gaslit Squares	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	03:56
Psyche	Maggots	Insomnia Theatre	04:27
Russell, Benjamin	Broken-Hearted Lovers	Pop Modern(e)	02:43
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
A Day in Paris	jUsT tHe sAmE	Rhymes On Vinyl	03:42
Spoons	Smiling in Winter	Arias & Symphonies	04:05
Erect	We Are Police	We Are Police b/w The Colony	02:18
Extras	Turning it Out	The Road to Zambando	04:24
Lawn	Don`t Ask	Peace in the Valley	03:43
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Let Them Eat Static	Midnite News	04:37
Martha And The Muffins	Was Ezo	Trance and Dance	03:58
Within Gothic Towers	Will I Hope To Love	Within Gothic Towers	05:44
Kings	Love Store	Are Here	03:28
Eight Seconds	Moving Day	Big Houses	03:45
Diodes	Curiosity Girl (1977 previously unreleased version)	Rarities	02:51
Breeding Ground	Reflections (In a Coffee Cup)	Tales of Adventure (EP)	05:21
Villains	Long, Short, Skinny Or Fat	Go Crazy	02:56
Presence, The	Mechanoid	Blown Away b/w Mechanoid (picture sleeve)	03:55
Wrestlers	When You Sleep Together	ST	03:42
Two Men Laughing	Dancing in Moscow	Imprisoned Lorri b/w Dancing in Moscow (picture sleeve)	02:53
Kinetic Ideals	Me and the Sky	A Personal View (EP)	05:50
Scissors	All This And More	ST	02:46
Eight Seconds	No Picasso	Big Houses	05:04
Erect	Action Reaction	Consequence of Life	02:57
Hurt, The	Local Belt	Engaged b/w Local Belt (picture sleeve)	03:18
Glamorcult	In Time (Only to be Free)	Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)	04:17
Preison's Shade	She Wants Me	Race Me Home (EP)	05:54
39 Steps	Something New	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:03
Glamorcult	Crestfallen	A Price To Paris	03:37
Martha And The Muffins	Women Around the World at Work	This Is The Ice Age	03:59
Martha And The Muffins	Teddy the Dink	Trance and Dance	03:29
Numbers	Can't Take it	Sideways Elevator b/w Can't Take it	03:42
Stevens, Todd	This Way!	This Way! (picture sleeve)	03:20

New Wave Post Punk Wave

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Martha And The Muffins - Danseparc

Gas, The - Evacuate Mississauga (picture sleeve)

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Government - 33 ⅓ RPM E.P.

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Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) - I Fear What I Might Hear

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Zipper - Another Boyfriend b/w Bad Girls

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NEO A4 - ST

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Kinetic Ideals - Life In Shadow b/w Maze of Ways

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Breeding Ground - Wintergarden (EP)

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Second Thoughts - Integrity b/w Wound Up

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Billy Butt & The Brats - Surveillance b/w No I Can't Say No

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End, The - Just Another Dream b/w My Paradise (picture sleeve)

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Numbers - Add Up

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Golden Calgarians - New Desperados b/w Minutes to Heaven (picture sleeve)

Nevermen - The Monitor LP

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Tabby K - Summertime b/w Wind Or Water

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Diodes - Action-Reaction

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Strange Advance - Worlds Away

Tulpa - Apologize to Your Mother (picture sleeve)

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Golden Calgarians - Savage Love

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Rational Youth - Cold War Nightlife

Rikki & The Rokkits - New Wave b/w They Never See (picture sleeve)

Micks - ST (EP)

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Chown, Avril - American Boys b/w Losin’ Sight

Broken Tables - ST

Bobby and Synthia - thirty-six hours (EP)

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Cottage Industry - The Winter's Tale

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Zhivago, Johnny - Microalbum

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Lawn - Peace in the Valley

45's - On the Beach

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Numbers - Sideways Elevator b/w Can't Take it

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