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
Decade of Dreams	Tra la la	Wild Colloquial	02:58
Tin Twist	Sometimes It's Funny	Sometimes It's Funny (picture sleeve)	03:38
Modernes Pickles	Life in Ancient Greece	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:19
Extras	Sentimental Fool	The Road to Zambando	03:53
Spoons	Ice Age	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:08
Images In Vogue	Rescue Me	In The House	03:49
Darkroom	Tears Hold No Cure	San Paku	03:46
Rational Youth	Bang On	Heredity	04:11
Land of Giants	Fire With Fire	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	04:50
True Confessions	Smokey's Gonna Twist	ST	02:25
Frigidaires	Three Cool Cats	Three Cool Cats (picture sleeve)	02:12
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Sometimes	I Fear What I Might Hear	03:41
Ceramic Hello	The Disqued	The Absence of a Canary	03:54
Modernettes	Femme Fatale	View From The Bottom (EP)	02:53
Martha And The Muffins	Danseparc (Every Day It's Tomorrow)	Danseparc	03:22
Contradance	She's Got an Eyepiece	Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)	04:19
Martha And The Muffins	One Day in Paris	This Is The Ice Age	04:20
Ohm & the Secret Sources	I Hold the Key	Space and Time	05:20
Breeding Ground	Epic	Tales of Adventure (EP)	06:43
Boys Brigade	Touch Glass	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	03:25
They Never Sleep	Bite the Bullet (Submission Mix)	Bite the Bullet (Submission Mix)	09:14
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	The Drum	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	03:49
D.A.R.Y.L.	Time 2 Start Again	Time 2 Start Again b/w Time 2 Start Again (Garage Mix)	04:35
Extras	Zambando	The Road to Zambando	04:17
Tenants	Death of Innocence	Visions of Our Future	03:39
Numbers	Can't Take It	Add Up	03:40
Entrance System	Swoon	Imperfect Image	04:05
Compilation	Youth Youth Youth - Wanderlust	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	01:58
Ross Angeles	She Knows	Salute	03:12
Spoons	Landing Lights	New Day New World	04:29
Glamorcult	The Bass of Our Style	A Price To Paris	03:53
The Patterns	Afraid to Touch	Afraid to Touch b/w Always Sixteen	03:57
Cinebar	Venus	Another Fine Day	03:43
Maja Bannerman	Black Sheep	Songs by Maja Bannerman	03:00
Compilation	The Damned - Intro to "Smash It Up"	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	01:26
Handful of Snowdrops	Shadows on the Heart	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	05:33
Eight Seconds	Call and a Cry	Almacantar	04:11
Bunny & the Lakers	Maid in Sweden	Numbers	04:01
Paperboys (1)	Saturday 12 Midnight	Looking for Sharon b/w Saturday 12 Midnight	03:33
Glamorcult	My Lady	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:02
Tau Ceti	Radiation (fallout mix 86)	So Far	04:15
Modern Minds	The End of a Dream	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	03:40
Scenics	Walk in the Desert	Underneath the Door	01:32
Cardboard Brains	Babies Run My World	Live At The Edge	02:07
Kinetic Ideals	Absurdity	Reason (EP)	05:23
The Diodes	Tired Of Waking Up Tired (original demo 1978)	Rarities	03:29
4th Floor	Follow in Stride	Black & White b/w Follow in Stride	04:16
Spoons	B Movie	Static In Transmission	04:34
e	Power Blackout	The Levitation Syndrome	02:39
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Lola	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	03:08
Glamorcult	Lost Souls In Time	The Stone Sessions	03:40
Direktive 17	Between the Lines	ST (EP)	03:42
Modern Minds	Confidential (Modernettes)	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:58
Living End (1)	In Your Dreams	ST	02:48
Spunker (aka Neotone)	No More Walrus	Spunker	03:55
Red Herring	The Crab Song	Taste Tests	03:57
Glamorcult	Distant Memories	The Stone Sessions	04:07
Kaméléon	Smarties (1983)	Groupe électro-pop	04:54
Kings	Partyitis	Are Here	03:51
Numbers	She's Got Everything	Add Up	02:38
Land of Giants	I Will	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	03:44
Palace at 4 a.m.	The Man Who Never Sleeps	Untamed World	04:10
Lunasam	Redhead	Redhead	03:52
B-Sides	Underground Radio Stars (45 rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	01:59
Handful of Snowdrops	Scream Cry or Fall	Land of the Damned	05:06
Martha And The Muffins	Women Around the World at Work	This Is The Ice Age	03:59
Eight Seconds	Commissioner St.	Almacantar	04:40
Censure	Amour	Foxy Lady b/w Amour	04:33
Chris Evans & The Quarts	Metric Dictators (Measure Canadian Theme)	Metric Dictators (Measure Canadian Theme)	03:36
Ear Candy	Part of Me	Self Defence	04:34
Inner Sanction	Hush	Shake Up - Fly Down	03:20
Magic Dragon	(White Monkey) Under The Volcano	Emotional Landscape	07:16
Avril Chown	American Boys	American Boys b/w Losin’ Sight	03:04
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Love in 3-D	Space and Time	03:36
Tau Ceti	And I Wonder	So Far	04:14
Government	Greetings from the Gutter (Reprise)	Electric Eye	00:50
e	Coincidence	Reaction b/w Coincidence	03:06
Benjamin Russell	Orphans	Pop Modern(e)	03:35
NEO A4	Las Vegas	The Warmer Side of You	03:25
Spoons	I've Been Here Before	Vertigo Tango	03:58
Kinetic Ideals	Touch Me (Now)	Touch Me (Now)	07:27
The Scene (2)	Come of Age	Only in Paradise	05:36
Land of Giants	Thing Called Love	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	06:57
Strange Advance	Worlds Away	Worlds Away	07:00
Salty Seamen	Goddess of the Hunt	In The Groove At Last	02:30
Rob Bryanton	Insiduous Trends	Alcohol And Other Drugs	04:47
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Térapi	Espèce de stress	Primale	02:33
Timothy Chipman	Ghost Parade	Ghost Parade	02:25
Glamorcult	Innocense of Yesterday	Early Glamour	04:21
Corsage	Big Bang	ST	03:42
John Young Paul	Surrender to the Void	The Life of Ermie Scub	04:05
Bündock	Silhouette	Société Anonyme	04:06
Rheostatics	My Generation	My Generation b/w Satellite Dancing	03:04
The Voxx	Flower Boy	Flower Boy b/w Flower Boy DVB	03:01
Null Set	Stripe	New Job (EP)	01:18
Glamorcult	The Basis of Our Style	Early Glamour	04:00
Scenics	One Comes Closer	Underneath the Door	03:18
Handful of Snowdrops	White Dominoes (1st Lineup Studio Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	03:11
Tim Ray	All Sane (June, 1978)	History Lessons 1978-1984	01:50

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Bleu Néon - Cité Promise

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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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