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
The Government	Plaza del Pimps	How Many Fingers?	03:13
ACTORS	XYX	Reanimated	03:44
Spoons	Walk the Plank	Arias & Symphonies	04:26
The Government	Flat Tire	33 ⅓ RPM E.P.	02:25
Robert Armes	Nearly Out of Control	Nearly Out of Control b/w Radio Active	03:35
Tenants	Sheriff	ST	03:52
Within Gothic Towers	I've Got a Reason and You've Got a Prayer	Within Gothic Towers	04:41
Preison's Shade	Race Me Home	Race Me Home (EP)	04:56
Images In Vogue	Politics of Sound	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:30
Ceramic Hello	Staticarnival	The Absence of a Canary	01:18
James G. Thompson	Let it Out (The Sermon)	Hand In Hand	04:01
Modernettes	No Tears	Gone..But Not Forgiven	03:37
Cannon Heath Down	Belly Through	Heart-Throb Companion	04:32
Barking Boys	Ghost Story	The Yes Girls	04:09
Tau Ceti	Radiation	Radiation b/w Bathed in Dark Light	04:20
The Diodes	That Was the Way it Was (Eastern Sound Demo 1979)	Rarities	04:27
Instructions	Wicked Heart	ST	04:02
Pukka Orchestra	Weekend (Come Alive!)	The Palace Of Memeory	06:15
Hunger Project	The Same Inside	Demo 1982	07:07
Bumpers	Media Music	EP	02:28
Drama	Human Question	Loneliness	02:38
Moral Lepers	Suicide	Turn to Stone	02:06
The Modern Minds	Confidential (Modernettes)	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:58
Deserters	Take It Away	ST	03:26
Absolute 9	The Gift	ST	03:03
Popular Front (1)	September Reign	This is the Rubicon	03:12
Benjamin Russell	Rock It	Pop Modern(e)	04:06
Handful of Snowdrops	Godhood (1989)	Mort en direct	04:44
Handful of Snowdrops	Alice in Wonderland (1992)	Mort en direct	05:20
Men Without Hats	Ideas for Walls	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	04:27
Fictions	Dimestore Romance	ST	03:44
Ross Angeles	Hip Hip	Salute	02:21
Breeding Ground	Tales of Adventure	Tales of Adventure (EP)	05:14
Martha And The Muffins	Monotone	Metro Music	02:46
ACTORS	Post Traumatic Love	Reanimated	03:20
Andrew Matheson	Can't Stop the Angels	Monterey Shoes	06:57
Scott Matthews	Boats in Rivers	Boats in Rivers	04:50
Spoons	Capitol Hill	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:37
IQ	Burn Me	Burn Me b/w Sixth World	02:53
Modernes Pickles	Juvenile Jungle	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:26
Wrestlers	When You Sleep Together	ST	03:42
Spoons	The Rhythm	Talkback	04:06
The Front	Treacherous	Underworld	04:42
Bunny & the Lakers	Oops On Parade	Numbers	01:30
Martha And The Muffins	Boy Without Filters	This Is The Ice Age	04:58
Tim Ray	Promised You (April, 1979)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:31
Reactors	If I Only Had a Brain	If I Only Had a Brain b/w Alien Radio	02:35
Melinite	Seasoning	Push The Button And Run!	01:23
The Diodes	Photographs Of Mars (Live At The Horseshoe June 7 1980)	Rarities	04:32
Dis Band	One Man Army	Gone Dead Out	03:20
Rational Youth	In Your Eyes	ST (mini album)	02:46
Age of Mirrors	She Cracks Me Up	Screenplay	03:39
Theo Vandenhoff	Evening Star	In The Throes Of Love	03:44
Velveteens	Tall House	Tall House (EP)	03:05
Johnny Zhivago	Echo	Microalbum	04:03
Inner Sanction	Standing in the Rain	Prophecy	03:21
Martha And The Muffins	Jets Seem Slower in London's Skies	This Is The Ice Age	02:36
B-Sides	She's a Raver (45 rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	01:34
Martha And The Muffins	Casualties of Glass	This Is The Ice Age	05:17
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Of Whales	I Fear What I Might Hear	04:36
Tyro	A Little More Time	A Little More Time (EP)	02:11
Corsage	City Sleeps	ST	04:17
Psyche	The Outsider	Mystery Hotel	04:27
Maurice & The Clichés	Working Girls	C'est la vie	03:44
Odd Man Out	Whatever Happened to Us	Whatever Happened to Us b/w World of My Own (picture sleeve)	04:02
Tenants	Never Forget a Face	Visions of Our Future	04:07
Spoons	Ciao	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	01:35
Spoons	South American Vacation	Arias & Symphonies	04:12
Compilation	The Rhythm Kingz - Drums of Change (K. Gariepy, N. Minotti)	Strange Pleasures EP	06:35
Faded Films	Jack in the Box	Faded Years	05:06
Images In Vogue	Quiet Room	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	03:39
Rational Youth	Cité phosphore	Cité phosphoree b/w Le meilleur des mondes	04:05
UJ3RK5	Hash Dreams of the Everyday Housewife	Live From The Commodore Ballroom	03:26
Handful of Snowdrops	A Miracle	Land of the Damned	04:54
Scissors	Don't Call Me Chick	ST	02:17
Palace at 4 a.m.	I Go Hungry	Untamed World	03:43
The Government	Get You Sleepin'	33 ⅓ RPM E.P.	04:17
CosmaNat	Camping Song	Little Things b/w Camping Song (picture sleeve)	02:17
Oui	Intelligence	Oui	03:56
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Where Do You Call Home?	I Fear What I Might Hear	04:46
Vital Sines	Subway Suicide	Subway Suicide E.P.	04:51
Oui	Fight Back	Oui	03:46
Space Invaders	I Wake Up Being	ST (EP)	03:08
Austra	Beat and the Pulse	Feel it Break	04:55
Breeding Ground	Business	Obscurity And Flair	04:02
Home Grown	Up the Wall	Up the Wall b/w Thoughts of You	04:45
Sandro Durante	Say the Word	Durante	03:46
The Idles	Wildcat	The Idles Demo	03:59
True Confessions	26264	ST	02:15
The Diodes	Curiosity Girl (1977 previously unreleased version)	Rarities	02:51
Doppler Bros.	Big Time Tragedy	Totally Impractical	03:36
39 Steps	Let's Flirt With Danger	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:16
The Modern Minds	Girl Crazy	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:22
39 Steps	Someday is Today [original]	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:33
Spoons	When Time Turns Around	Vertigo Tango	03:40
Regulators	What's in the City	What's in the City b/w That´s Right Nothing's Left (picture sleeve)	03:42
Spoons	Snow Globes	New Day New World	03:32
B-Sides	State of Emergency	Red to Black	04:22
Kaméléon	Omnibus Cactus	ST	02:48
Glamorcult	As I Breathe on The TTC	Shadows From The Past	03:58

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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James G. Thompson - Hand In Hand

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Sandro Durante - Durante

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Sandro Durante - Don't Go (Breaking My Heart) b/w All That Magic

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Glass Apple Bonzai - Love & Hatred in MegaWave City

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Eight Seconds - Big Houses

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Eight Seconds - Almacantar

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Theo Vandenhoff - Saviour on the Spilled Blood

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Theo Vandenhoff - In The Throes Of Love

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Theo Vandenhoff - Heartache Is An Empty Room

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Theo Vandenhoff - Alles Ist Besser

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Theo Vandenhoff - Collected EPs

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Theo Vandenhoff - Tenement

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Sound FX - Sound FX

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Hypno-Gogo - In Your Eyes b/w Flashing

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Mad Shadows - Music in the Night

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The Modern Minds - Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97

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Bruce PM - Makeshift

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Space Invaders - ST (EP)

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Dis Band - Gone Dead Out

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Compilation - Saskatoon Rocks

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The Government - How Many Fingers?

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The Government - Electric Eye

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The Government - 33 ⅓ RPM E.P.

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Bumpers - EP

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Contradance - Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)

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Ross Angeles - Salute

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Steve Blimkie (and the Reason) - You Can´t Hold Me Anymore b/w Freaks On the Tube

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Steve Blimkie (and the Reason) - Blimkie

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Drama - Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)

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Drama - Loneliness

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