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
Lawn	Reconsider Baby	Peace in the Valley	03:58
Spice	Beautiful You	Beautiful You b/w Just a Little Bit	03:23
NEO A4	Look to Your Heart	The Warmer Side of You	03:47
Bobby and Synthia	The Music Stopped	thirty-six hours (EP)	02:36
Eight Seconds	Just Pretend	Almacantar	04:33
One Hand Clapping	Bad Pianos	Burlesque (picture sleeve)	01:26
The Edge	Why Do I Miss You?	Release the Circle	03:53
Pukka Orchestra	Goldmine in the Sky	The Palace Of Memeory	03:58
Martha And The Muffins	Be Blase	Trance and Dance	02:42
Blue Oil	Far Too Much	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:52
Instructions	D-6	D-6 b/w Tell-a-Photo (picture sleeve)	03:32
Suns of One	Freedom Time	Freedom Time	04:02
Glamorcult	Lost Souls In Time	The Stone Sessions	03:40
Interpol	Ursula (At Warsaw International)	ST	06:35
Government	It Must be God-Downtown	Electric Eye	02:52
Images In Vogue	Breaking Up	Pre-release	04:30
Government	Portrait	How Many Fingers?	02:36
Inner Sanction	Standing in the Rain	Prophecy	03:21
Instructions	Ha - Ha Ha	ST	04:29
Compilation	Kinetic Ideals - Awful Medley	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	02:44
Bora Bora	Fashion Passion	Fashion Passion b/w Starting Over	03:47
Doppler Bros.	Welcome to Canada	Totally Impractical	03:48
Kultur	Here it Comes	Kultur	03:11
Leotards	Suicide Lover	Suicide Lover b/w Runaway Bridge	03:15
Regulators	That´s Right Nothing's Left	What's in the City b/w That´s Right Nothing's Left (picture sleeve)	02:53
Andrew Matheson	St. Catherines Wheel	Monterey Shoes	05:37
Kinetic Ideals	Touch Me (Now)	Touch Me (Now)	07:27
e	Reaction	Reaction b/w Coincidence	03:06
Cardboard Brains	Caesar Drives a Fast Car	Live At The Edge	03:06
The Chemicals	Out of My Mind	Out of My Mind b/w Run and Hide	03:11
Cannon Heath Down	Belly Through	Heart-Throb Companion	04:32
Voice	Lime	Anno Di Voce	02:58
Jon Mullane	With You	Following Yesterday	03:59
Fictions	Don't Look Down	ST	02:31
Cinebar	Another Fine Day	Another Fine Day	03:37
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Over Mountains	Ohama aka The White Album	03:14
Bonus Boys	Every Time I See A Car Like Yours Go By	Every Time I See A Car Like Yours Go By b/w Wasting Our Time	02:17
The Edge	Play the Game	Release the Circle	04:07
Klō	Weirdo	Demo 1981	04:01
Broken Silence	Nightstalking	Nightstalking b/w Through the Glass (picture sleeve)	03:47
Strange Advance	Watermusic	Worlds Away	00:55
Glamorcult	Holding Onto Yesterday	Shadows From The Past	03:34
Blue Oil	Money	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:50
100 Flowers	The Naught	21st Guessing	03:56
Cöld Wår	Do You Notice Me	Do You Notice Me b/w Klub Haus (picture sleeve)	03:31
Spoons	South American Vacation	Arias & Symphonies	04:12
Drastic Measures	T.N.T.	ST	03:51
Ceramic Hello	The Disqued	The Absence of a Canary	03:54
Lawn	Don`t Ask	Peace in the Valley	03:43
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	The Call	Ohama aka The White Album	05:37
Melinite	Who Needs Foreplay?	Push The Button And Run!	01:30
Images In Vogue	Grapevine	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:55
Ohm & the Secret Sources	You Know I Love You	Exit From a Dream	04:33
Compilation	The Secrets - I'll Cry Tomorrow	No Pedestrians	03:11
Paperboys (1)	Saturday 12 Midnight	Looking for Sharon b/w Saturday 12 Midnight	03:33
Fictions	I Let Go	ST	02:26
Bunny & the Lakers	Shrieks From the Peeks	Numbers	03:10
Rex Chainbelt	Rich Man	Foreign Movie	02:52
Spoons	Imperfekt	Static In Transmission	04:27
Start	Evil Hearted You	Hey You	02:31
A Neon Rome	You Should Fear Us	New Heroin	05:44
Kings	It's Okay	Are Here	02:55
Pukka Orchestra	The Deserter	ST	00:50
Compilation	True Confessions - Fourth Base	No Pedestrians	02:30
The Diodes	Tired Of Waking Up Tired (original demo 1978)	Rarities	03:29
The Diodes	Play With Fire	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	05:30
Bündock	El Salvador (The Beat of)	Société Anonyme	04:30
Glamorcult	Hope For Change To Come	Shadows From The Past	03:42
Null Set	Etude for Triggered Wah	New Job (EP)	05:02
Compilation	Tyranna - Back Off Baby	No Pedestrians	02:26
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News II	I Fear What I Might Hear	04:36
Spoons	Closing Credits	Static In Transmission	04:31
Compilation	Youth Youth Youth - Louie Louie	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	04:01
State Of Mind	I'll Be Yours	I'll Be Yours b/w The Dark Side (picture sleeve)	03:29
UJ3RK5	Locator	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	04:04
Modern Minds	Happy	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:11
Red Herring	Love Machine	Taste Tests	03:32
Drama	Traffic	Loneliness	02:53
Dada	I.D	That's Dada (picture sleeve)	02:29
CosmaNat	Camping Song	Little Things b/w Camping Song (picture sleeve)	02:17
Oui	Information	Oui	04:41
Neurons	New Location	Midnight Meetings b/w New Location	00:07
Boys Brigade	Saigon	ST	04:28
Glamorcult	She Touched My Soul	Early Glamour	04:50
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Planet Nine	Space and Time	05:25
Cannon Heath Down	Having Dreams	Heart-Throb Companion	02:14
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Neighbours	Spunker	04:29
UJ3RK5	Eisenhower & the Hippies	ST (EP)	02:29
Ross Angeles	Hip Hip	Salute	02:21
Boys Brigade	Africa	ST	04:07
Compilation	Bongo Fury - Alaska Shuffle	Toronto Calling	04:01
Pale Blue	Therapy	Ruin b/w Therapy	03:53
Chris Evans & The Quarts	Metric Dictators (Measure Canadian Theme)	Metric Dictators (Measure Canadian Theme)	03:36
Blue Oil	No Disturbing Call	ST	02:51
Minutes From Downtown	Heaven Street	ST	04:35
Rarefaction	You In Me	Ordinary Man	05:50
Spoons	Ciao	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	01:35
Glamorcult	Tokyo Streets	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:12
Handful of Snowdrops	Gabrielle (1987)	Mort en direct	06:32
True Confessions	Modern Personality	ST	04:12

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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