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.	White Guilt	White Guilt	04:34
Benjamin Russell	You Took Me for a Ride	Madman	02:44
The Hurt	Local Belt	Engaged b/w Local Belt (picture sleeve)	03:18
Popular Front (1)	Forty Days	This is the Rubicon	04:40
Glamorcult	Session 2 (Instrumental)	Early Glamour	03:24
Einstein	Bedroom Mirror Rock Star	Sex and Science	04:03
Spoons	Show & Tell	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	03:31
Lou Champagne System	Machine Muzik	No Visible Means	04:20
Glen Meadmore	Going to Town	Chicken & Biscuits	05:09
Moev	Beautiful Beast	Dusk and Desire	03:55
Spoons	Capitol Hill	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:37
Numbers	Sideways Elevator	Sideways Elevator b/w Can't Take it	03:09
Barking Boys	Too Hot In Here	The Yes Girls	04:39
Handful of Snowdrops	Spiral Dive (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	02:36
The Keys	Lied To!	Whatever Happened to Boy Meets Girl b/w Lied To! (picture sleeve)	02:18
Start	Gotta Have Love	Hey You	04:49
Home Grown	Up the Wall	Up the Wall b/w Thoughts of You	04:45
A Neon Rome	Society Rag	A Neon Rome	03:06
Magic Dragon	Memories	Emotional Landscape	04:11
Ceramic Hello	Staticarnival	The Absence of a Canary	01:18
Deserters	Innervisions	ST	03:34
Dada	If I'm Blind	That's Dada (picture sleeve)	02:46
Rational Youth	Call Me	Heredity	02:59
Land of Giants	Fountains in the Rain	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	04:30
Doppler Bros.	Welcome to Canada	Totally Impractical	03:48
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	Direct	ST	03:43
Secret Act	Fred Flinstone, Where Are You	My Neighbourhood	03:52
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Part in Peace	Midnite News	03:44
Tim Ray	Dying in Brooklyn (June, 1978)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:40
Glamorcult	Would It Be Over	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	03:28
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Stop	Spunker	02:57
Glen Meadmore	Gotta Thing	Chicken & Biscuits	05:04
Corsage	West Coast Highway (demo)	Big Night Out (EP)	04:57
Bunny & the Lakers	Oops On Parade	Numbers	01:30
Moral Support	Hold On to Time	Insanity	04:40
Insex	Play or Die	One (EP)	02:14
Neon	Indulgence With a Vengeance	ST (EP)	03:58
Spoons	All the Wrong Things (In the Right Places)	New Day New World	03:20
I Braineater	Sacred Cow	Artist, Poet, Thief	03:03
Spoons	Sooner or Later	Vertigo Tango	03:44
Extras	Seeing You Again	The Road to Zambando	03:40
DeMars	Les enfants dans la lune	Les Télé-Têtes	02:54
John Lutz T.	Street Corner Sally	Kiss And Tell b/w Street Corner Sally	03:06
The Scene (2)	Come of Age	Only in Paradise	05:36
B-Sides	She's a Raver	Red to Black	02:36
Fictions	Jersey Shore	ST	02:48
Philip Rambow	A Star (In Her Own Right)	Jungle Law	03:31
Boys Brigade	Cut Up	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	04:25
Frost In June	Catch the Light	Catch The Light	03:58
Spoons	2,000 Years	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	04:18
Glamorcult	The Bass of Our Style	A Price To Paris	03:53
Spoons	Nova Heart	Arias & Symphonies	05:46
Popular Front	Puppet	Doomsday Army b/w Puppet	03:17
Mettle	Five-Four	ST	04:39
Martha And The Muffins	Be Blase	Trance and Dance	02:42
Lawn	As Yet	Peace in the Valley	02:58
Tulpa	Mystical Dreams	Apologize to Your Mother (picture sleeve)	03:36
Braineaters	Kid Stuff	Planet X	01:33
Compilation	Youth Youth Youth - Wanderlust	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	01:58
Images In Vogue	In the House (Single Version)	In The House (Extended Dance Remix)	03:14
Klō	Dreaming	Demo 1982	03:54
A Day in Paris	cAn'T lOoK aWaY	Rhymes On Vinyl	04:03
Corsage	Snakeskin (live at the Town Pump)	Big Night Out (EP)	05:22
Roland Blinn	Peg-in-Hole	Peg-in-Hole b/w Tense (and The fishermen)	03:55
Rob Bryanton	We Are All Chemicals	Alcohol And Other Drugs	02:31
Erect	We Are Police	We Are Police b/w The Colony	02:19
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Feelings Feel	Ohama aka The White Album	02:57
Rational Youth	Just a Sound in the Night (remix)	ST (mini album)	03:45
Johnny Faith	Pure Energy	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	02:55
Benjamin Russell	Video Freak	Pop Modern(e)	04:17
Taro	Driftin Away	The Line Is Fine b/w Driftin Away (picture sleeve)	03:20
Spoons	Conventional Beliefs	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	03:57
A Neon Rome	Windowsill	A Neon Rome	05:20
Spoons	Don't Shoot the Messenger	Talkback	03:19
FM109	Ecoeure' ecoure'	ST	01:35
Tim Ray	Hate (September, 1980)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:22
Spoons	Numb	Static In Transmission	03:50
Rational Youth	Le meilleur des mondes	Cité phosphoree b/w Le meilleur des mondes	02:59
Handful of Snowdrops	The Ghost of a Song	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	03:44
James Harcourt	You Make My Thing Ping	Emotional Blackmail	02:48
The Front	Someday	Gina's at a Party	03:34
Hush	Now Reality	Replay	04:41
Blue Peter	Do the Robot	Test Patterns For Living	03:25
Images In Vogue	Breaking Up	Educated Man	04:36
Entrance System	Minimal Spirits	Imperfect Image	03:24
Rex Chainbelt	Fighter Plane	Foreign Movie	02:14
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin' to Glide	Are Here	05:43
Cottage Industry	Leader	The Winter's Tale	03:37
Magic Dragon	Objet Du Desire	Emotional Landscape	05:34
Glamorcult	Yes, See Has the Afterglow	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:32
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
Neon	Second Wind	ST (EP)	02:52
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
Hypno-Gogo	Flashing	In Your Eyes b/w Flashing	04:49
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Let Them Eat Static	Midnite News	04:37
Martha And The Muffins	Three Hundred Years - Chemistry	This Is The Ice Age	07:09
Tyro	Told You	A Little More Time (EP)	03:28
Reasons	Take Me Back	Reasonable Rock (EP)	02:01
Numbers	Mr. Dempster	Add Up	03:49
The Chemicals	Break Time	Break Time	03:03

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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Spoons - Vertigo Tango

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Spoons - Bridges Over Borders

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Spoons - Talkback

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Spoons - Nova Heart b/w Symmetry

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