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
British Properties	Niag'ra Falls	Eight Days a Week b/w Niag'ra Falls	03:26
Boys Brigade	Africa	ST	04:07
Entrance System	No Relative	Imperfect Image	03:19
Absolute 9	Love and Work	ST	03:50
Benjamin Russell	One Love	Pop Modern(e)	03:55
B-Sides	Underground Radio Stars (33⅓ rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	02:40
Inner Sanction	Sparkle	Shake Up - Fly Down	02:51
Compilation	Direktive 17 - Mr. Jones	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	05:38
Tenants	Never Forget a Face	Visions of Our Future	04:07
Blueprints	What You D-Serve	Stare 01	02:51
Boys Brigade	Touch Glass	Mannequin Demo	03:28
Blue Oil	Money	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:50
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Julie is a TV Set	Midnite News	08:11
Philip Rambow	Magnificient Obsession	Jungle Law	03:39
Cannon Heath Down	Bone Of Contention	Heart-Throb Companion	03:34
Drama	Got to Get off the Earth	Loneliness	03:06
Deserters	A.W.O.L.	ST	01:00
Kinetic Ideals	Angular Sky	Angular Sky / Fade Away (EP)	06:57
Spoons	Red Light	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:44
Blue Oil	Celebration	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:41
Government	Letter to Craig	Electric Eye	04:45
BAMFF	Mini Crisis	The Uncanny b/w Mini Crisis	03:35
Martha And The Muffins	Jets Seem Slower in London's Skies	This Is The Ice Age	02:36
Kreemers	Eve of Destruction	Eve of Destruction b/w At The El Mocambo	03:14
Barking Boys	Blood Money	The Yes Girls	05:01
Blue Peter	Out With the Boys	Test Patterns For Living	03:08
Kings	Don't let Me Know	Are Here	04:00
Diodes	Hot Sand (1981 Remixed Version 2017)	Rarities	03:18
Novels	I'm Being Followed	I'm Being Followed b/w Son of Sam (picture sleeve)	03:02
Blue Peter	Same Old Place	Test Patterns For Living	03:12
Compilation	Instructions - D-6	The Circuit	05:14
Glamorcult	After the Battle	Early Glamour	03:12
Instructions	OK	ST	03:53
Spoons	No More Growing Up	Arias & Symphonies	03:25
The End	Just Another Dream	Just Another Dream b/w My Paradise (picture sleeve)	04:04
Images In Vogue	She's a Garden	Educated Man	02:48
Glamatron	Porcelain Doll	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	03:49
Strange Advance	Watermusic	Worlds Away	00:55
Golden Calgarians	It's OK	Savage Love	03:13
Direktive 17	Between the Lines	ST (EP)	03:42
Boys Brigade	The Passion of Love	ST	03:40
A Neon Rome	The Magical Summer Of ’85	A Neon Rome	03:17
Spoons	2,000 Years	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	04:18
Spoons	Bridges Over Borders	Bridges Over Borders	05:02
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Body of Vagrant Waves	I Fear What I Might Hear	08:36
I Braineater	Edge	Artist, Poet, Thief	01:30
Compilation	Dis Band - Hesitation (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	06:16
Rex Chainbelt	Cherry Beach	Foreign Movie	02:55
Compilation	Kinetic Ideals - The Whip (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	06:21
Boys Brigade	Mannequin	Mannequin Demo	04:13
Einstein	Elusive Temptress	Sex and Science	04:48
Psyche	Taking Chances	Unveiling The Secret	04:38
I Before E	Power of Reason	Power of Reason b/w Cocktails	02:23
Breeding Ground	Cerememony of Love	Obscurity And Flair	04:43
Extras	Mega Media Myth	The Road to Zambando	04:47
Benjamin Russell	Shadows Dancing	Pop Modern(e)	04:15
Dream Child	Luv On the Line	Heaven Knows b/w Luv On the Line	04:11
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Sometimes I Fear	Ohama aka The White Album	04:25
Red Herring	Feelings	Taste Tests	02:21
Drastic Measures	Prelude	ST	01:09
Villains	I Don't Care	Go Crazy	03:09
Velveteens	Tired of the Beat	Tall House (EP)	03:30
Scenics	O Charlotte	New Part In Town	03:44
Spoons	Friends in the Media	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	03:31
Rational Youth	I Want To See the Light	I Want to See the Light	03:55
100 Flowers	The Naught	21st Guessing	03:56
Hunger Project	Assembly	The Same Inside b/w Assembly	07:06
The Scene (2)	Soul Spectrum	Only in Paradise	05:09
A Neon Rome	Society Rag	A Neon Rome	03:06
Kaméléon	Microcosme	ST	03:40
Palace at 4 a.m.	Young and Italian	Untamed World	03:16
Handful of Snowdrops	The Keep - When Comes Daylight (1986-87)	Mort en direct	07:30
Age of Mirrors	She Cracks Me Up	Screenplay	03:39
DeMars	L'orgasme d'une planète	Les Télé-Têtes	02:48
Glen Meadmore	Going to Town	Chicken & Biscuits	05:09
Kinetic Ideals	Touch Me (Now)	Touch Me (Now)	07:27
Glamorcult	I Tell Him	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:00
Compilation	Conditioned Response - Are You Responding	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	04:28
Compilation	Vital Sines - Not My World (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	04:15
James Harcourt	Hook or By Crrok	Emotional Blackmail	03:33
Tau Ceti	San Francisco	So Far	04:04
Benjamin Russell	Orphans	Pop Modern(e)	03:35
Nasty Habits	Cleopatra	Playing in the Danger Zone b/w Cleopatra (picture sleeve)	03:27
Cannon Heath Down	Not Now	Heart-Throb Companion	02:15
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Of Whales	I Fear What I Might Hear	04:36
Lou Champagne System	Invisible Prisions	No Visible Means	03:44
Compilation	Donald Breithaupt - Lindsay	Music Industry Arts 1983	04:11
Handful of Snowdrops	The View (1984)	Mort en direct	05:16
Tabby K	Wind Or Water	Summertime b/w Wind Or Water	03:17
Toe Beat	Stranger	Stranger	03:42
Handful of Snowdrops	Spiral Dive (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	02:36
Johnny Faith	Beatown	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	03:24
Johnny Faith	Standing On the Red Line	Standing On the Red Line/ Pure Energy b/w Beatown/ Party time	02:52
Pukka Orchestra	Spies of the Heart	ST	02:50
Figures At Dawn	Bridges Burning	ST	03:36
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
State Of Mind	The Dark Side	I'll Be Yours b/w The Dark Side (picture sleeve)	03:45
The Front	The Haunting (Jimmy Loves Mary-Ann)	Gina's at a Party	04:07
Bobby and Synthia	Chant #2	thirty-six hours (EP)	04:00
Compilation	Arrows - Come On Up	Toronto Calling	02:57

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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Lorne Ranger - I Want to be a Doorman

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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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Spoons - Arias & Symphonies

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Spoons - Stick Figure Neighbourhood

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Spoons - After the Institution b/w My Job

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Tim Ray - ST

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Voice - Anno Di Voce

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Compilation - SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural

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Hygiene Club - Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary

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