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
Compilation	Youth Youth Youth - Domination	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	01:47
B-Sides	Red to Black	Red to Black	03:20
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midnite News II	I Fear What I Might Hear	04:36
This Fear	Haunting Me	Darkness Shapes Imagination	05:23
Bitter Reality	Tellin' Me Goodbye	Tellin' Me Goodbye b/w A White Man (In Babylon)	03:38
Spoons	Shaking the Fear	Vertigo Tango	04:16
Age of Mirrors	This Double Life	Screenplay	03:43
Figures At Dawn	Letters from London	ST	04:14
Modernes Pickles	Life in Ancient Greece	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:19
James Harcourt	Queen Bee	Emotional Blackmail	02:17
Rob Bryanton	We Are All Chemicals	Alcohol And Other Drugs	02:31
Compilation	Mike Peters - Trucker's Paradise	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:56
Martha And The Muffins	Am I On?	Trance and Dance	03:24
Start	Gotta Have Love	Hey You	04:49
Lawn	Over the Top	Peace in the Valley	03:00
Glamorcult	All That Matters	Shadows From The Past	03:39
Boys Brigade	Exodus	ST	03:45
The Diodes	Edge of Darkness	Action-Reaction	03:10
Handful of Snowdrops	Terroir II	Land of the Damned	01:01
Psyche	Psyche Theme	The Influence	02:48
Klō	Fun	Demo 1982	05:08
Cardboard Brains	Jungles	Live At The Edge	02:17
Hot Tip	My Shoes	Stop All Motion	03:52
Rex Chainbelt	Talk It Over	Foreign Movie	02:15
Living End (1)	Anaesthesia Grin	ST	03:29
Bruce PM	Even More Joyful Noise	Makeshift	03:50
Bunny & the Lakers	Shrieks From the Peeks	Numbers	03:10
DeMars	Les télé-têtes	Les Télé-Têtes	04:41
Psyche	Nocturnal Passenger	Mystery Hotel	06:07
Psyche	The Dark Pool	The Influence	04:54
39 Steps	Always Tomorrow	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	04:37
Modern Minds	Holly	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	01:59
Extras	Zambando	The Road to Zambando	04:17
Oui	Circle of Love	Oui	04:20
Doppler Bros.	Welcome to Canada	Totally Impractical	03:48
Térapi	Lève-toi!	Primale	02:13
Iko	Elevator	83	03:56
Men Without Hats	Where do Boys Go	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	03:56
I Braineater	Edge	Artist, Poet, Thief	01:30
Spoons	Sooner or Later	Vertigo Tango	03:44
Maurice & The Clichés	Veronika	Veronika	03:40
A Kid	Wrong and Bite	An Introduction to Civil Engineering (EP) (picture sleeve)	06:21
Pointed Sticks	The Real Thing	The Real Thing b/w Out of Luck	02:31
Tim Ray	1/4 to Eight (October, 1978)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:40
Compilation	Winston Hancock - Girls, Girls	No Pedestrians	03:15
Reasons	Boy He's Got a Girl	Reasonable Rock (EP)	02:52
Tim Ray	Once or Twice (January, 1982)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:17
The Play	Whispers in the Air	Line of Fire b/w Whispers in the Air	03:50
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Your Face	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	03:16
Golden Calgarians	Happy Man	Savage Love	02:10
Martha And The Muffins	You Sold the Cottage	This Is The Ice Age	04:01
Compilation	Donald Breithaupt - Lindsay	Music Industry Arts 1983	04:11
Joe Mavety & the Mule	Voices Like Thunder	Crusaders b/w Voices Like Thunder	04:00
Handful of Snowdrops	A Short Story (1985)	Mort en direct	07:10
Bündock	Pris par le temps	Société Anonyme	03:23
The Idles	Slow Down	The Idles Demo	02:18
Kinetic Ideals	Fade Away	Angular Sky / Fade Away (EP)	07:44
Chocolate Bunnies From Hell	Simple Man	Pumpin' For Jill b/w Simple Man (picture sleeve)	04:16
A Day in Paris	jUsT tHe sAmE	Rhymes On Vinyl	03:42
Compilation	The Stranger - Don't Touch Me (Mr. X)	Strange Pleasures EP	04:54
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Let Them Eat Static	Midnite News	04:37
Blue Peter	Time and Money	Test Patterns For Living	02:07
Null Set	Teats de Nuit	New Job (EP)	02:51
Villains	I Don't Care	Go Crazy	03:09
Within Gothic Towers	Is This My Moment Of Glory	Within Gothic Towers	04:01
Modern Minds	The Mess	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:09
The Scene (2)	I Am	Only in Paradise	04:14
Kinetic Ideals	Touch Me (Now)	Touch Me (Now)	07:27
e	Coincidence	Reaction b/w Coincidence	03:06
Golden Calgarians	Vladivostok Rock	Savage Love	04:03
Trespassing Bean Rays	Eclipse	ST (EP) (picture sleeve)	01:24
Modernes Pickles	Burning Airwaves	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	03:30
Kaméléon	Les chats balerines (1981)	Groupe électro-pop	04:01
Shock Culture	Brave New World	ST (EP)	03:14
Utopiate	You've Been Warned	You've Been Warned b/w Actions or Misguidance	03:41
Spoons	Conventional Beliefs	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	03:57
Inner Sanction	Hush	Shake Up - Fly Down	03:20
Golden Calgarians	My Big Truck	Savage Love	03:25
I Braineater	Canada	Artist, Poet, Thief	02:23
Images In Vogue	Educated Man	Educated Man	03:54
NEO A4	Las Vegas	The Warmer Side of You	03:25
Ohm & the Secret Sources	I Hold the Key	Exit From a Dream	05:27
The Diodes	No Time to Cry (1981 Previously Unreleased) (CD only)	Rarities	03:43
Kinetic Ideals	Structures	Reason (EP)	04:47
Spoons	Walk Across the Water	Bridges Over Borders	04:44
Eight Seconds	Picture	Big Houses	06:13
Government	Portrait	How Many Fingers?	02:36
Novels	I'm Being Followed	I'm Being Followed b/w Son of Sam (picture sleeve)	03:02
Glamorcult	The Basis of Our Style	Early Glamour	04:00
Inner Sanction	White Boy Rap	Dancematic-Automatic	05:58
Tulpa	Mystical Dreams	Apologize to Your Mother (picture sleeve)	03:36
Welcome Home	Top of the World	In This Life b/w Top of the World (picture sleeve)	04:02
Rob Bryanton	Courage	Alcohol And Other Drugs	03:34
Scott Matthews	Boats in Rivers	Boats in Rivers	04:50
Handful of Snowdrops	Astronauts (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	06:31
Cannon Heath Down	Belly Through	Heart-Throb Companion	04:32
BAMFF	Mini Crisis	The Uncanny b/w Mini Crisis	03:35
Melinite	When You Turn Again	Push The Button And Run!	03:12
Streetcar Named Desire	Illustrated Man	Life Begins	05:25
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Errands For Eros	Spunker	04:09

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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