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 Gas	Special This Week	Evacuate Mississauga (picture sleeve)	02:14
Compilation	Instructions - D-6	The Circuit	05:14
Emport	Heartaches	Heartaches b/w Picture Frame Love Affair	03:58
Tim Ray	Now What Was That! (July, 1982)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:59
Modernes Pickles	Garbage	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:04
The Diodes	No Time to Cry (1981 Previously Unreleased) (CD only)	Rarities	03:43
Modernes Pickles	Blue Baby Baby White	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:58
Rational Youth	Close to Nature	Dancing on the Berlin Wall	04:43
Within Gothic Towers	I Will Lead You	Within Gothic Towers	04:58
Glamorcult	Dream Girl (Stone Version)	The Stone Sessions	03:43
British Properties	Niag'ra Falls	Eight Days a Week b/w Niag'ra Falls	03:26
Extras	Teddy	Bit Parts	05:50
A Neon Rome	Windowsill	New Heroin	05:20
Deserters	Protection	ST	03:20
Age of Mirrors	Glass and Crystal Lives	Screenplay	04:16
Fictions	Snob Appeal	ST	03:53
Government	How Many Fingers?	How Many Fingers?	07:21
Philip Rambow	The Manison on the Hill	Jungle Law	04:25
Spoons	Out of My Hands	Talkback	03:19
Moral Support	Hold On to Time	Insanity	04:40
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Sometimes	I Fear What I Might Hear	03:41
Blue Oil	Far Too Much	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:52
Escalators	Double Talk	ST	05:17
Chris Evans & The Quarts	Metric Dictators (Measure Canadian Theme)	Metric Dictators (Measure Canadian Theme)	03:36
Corsage	Victory Square	ST	04:16
Hot Tip	Teach Me Something	Stop All Motion	04:12
A Neon Rome	Society Rag	New Heroin	03:00
IQ	Burn Me	Burn Me b/w Sixth World	02:53
Handful of Snowdrops	Terroir I	Land of the Damned	02:41
ACTORS	Slaves: Part Time Punks Session	Part Time Punks Session EP	03:34
Spoons	New Day New World II	New Day New World	02:01
Melinite	For Now	Push The Button And Run!	03:37
Government	Greetings from the Gutter (Reprise)	Electric Eye	00:50
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Rock 'N' Roll	Ohama aka The White Album	04:26
Strange Advance	Prisoner	Worlds Away	04:15
Tame & Talking	Fashion Fit	ST	04:08
Tau Ceti	Radiation (fallout mix 86)	So Far	04:15
Volts	Welcome	Plugged In	04:21
Philip Rambow	A Star (In Her Own Right)	Jungle Law	03:31
Handful of Snowdrops	Voices in the Night	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	06:41
Braineaters	Modern Man Pt 2	Planet X	01:16
Tenants	Reach Out	Visions of Our Future	03:29
John Bell and the Strange	Melissa	Taking You Home in a Taxi b/w Melissa	06:50
Thieves	Color	I See Red	04:09
Time Twins	Yuri Song	Yuri Song b/w Say Uncle (picture sleeve)	07:03
Hunger Project	Still Crossing	Demo 1982	07:46
Blue Oil	Producer	Blue Oil (1981-83)	03:19
The Front	The Hard Line	Gina's at a Party	03:06
Handful of Snowdrops	Charlatan (4 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	05:25
Modernes Pickles	Juvenile Jungle	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:26
Benjamin Russell	Gonna be a Woman Soon	Madman	02:54
A Kid	Dirty Bedding	An Introduction to Civil Engineering (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:35
Instructions	Don't Say Love	ST	03:46
Oui	Intelligence	Oui	03:56
ACTORS	Stimulation	Our Love Will Live Forever	03:15
Lawn	Peace in the Valley	Peace in the Valley	03:37
Psyche	Taking Chances	Unveiling The Secret	04:38
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Part in Peace	I Fear What I Might Hear	03:04
Blue Oil	Twenty Years	ST	03:41
Nevermen	Real Life	The Monitor LP	05:10
Glamorcult	The Light We Will Hold	A Price To Paris	04:23
Cinebar	Another Fine Day	Another Fine Day	03:37
Térapi	Lève-toi!	Primale	02:13
Corsage	Shut-Ins	ST	03:11
Bündock	Stand Still	Société Anonyme	02:45
Golden Calgarians	Sex Under Missiles	Savage Love	03:34
The End	My Paradise	Just Another Dream b/w My Paradise (picture sleeve)	02:59
Benjamin Russell	You Took Me for a Ride	Madman	02:44
e	Reaction	Reaction b/w Coincidence	03:06
Dancespeak	Naked in the Deep (Insomnia)	Heart of My Song b/w Naked in the Deep (Insomnia)	04:47
Minutes From Downtown	Emotion Under Pressure	Minutes From Downtown '82	04:14
Joe Naylor	I'm Canadian Beer	I'm Canadian Beer b/w I Hate Fluorescent Lights	02:26
Buddy King & the Motion!	Schoolgirl Alibis	Schoolgirl Alibis b/w I Didn't Know Her	02:09
The Play	Whatever it Takes	Running Out of Time b/w Whatever it Takes	03:25
Jon Mullane	Open Up to Me	Following Yesterday	03:58
Glamorcult	Time Is Running Out	Shadows From The Past	03:16
Salty Seamen	Sweet Yolanda	In The Groove At Last	03:30
Numbers	Sunday Afternoon	Add Up	03:39
39 Steps	Something New	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:03
Modernettes	No Tears	Gone..But Not Forgiven	03:37
Glamorcult	This Is Our Story	The Stone Sessions	03:44
The Front	Hit and Run	Underworld	04:14
Glamorcult	Pins & Needles	A Price To Paris	03:16
John Young Paul	Have You Seen the Boy in the Gutter with the Broken Mind?	The Life of Ermie Scub	02:10
Martha And The Muffins	Primal Weekend	Trance and Dance	05:14
Roland Blinn	Peg-in-Hole	Peg-in-Hole b/w Tense (and The fishermen)	03:55
BAMFF	Mini Crisis	The Uncanny b/w Mini Crisis	03:35
The Diodes	Photographs Of Mars (Live At The Horseshoe June 7 1980)	Rarities	04:32
Red Herring	Taste Tests	Taste Tests	02:50
Spoons	Repeatable	New Day New World	03:54
Compilation	Arrows - Treat Her Right	Toronto Calling	02:52
Glamorcult	Live for Today	Would it be Over (picture sleeve)	03:34
The Front	Someday	Gina's at a Party	03:34
Compilation	Vital Sines - Come and Buy Your Miracle	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	03:31
Images In Vogue	Breaking Up	Pre-release	04:30
Handful of Snowdrops	Shadows on the Heart	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	05:33
Images In Vogue	Grapevine	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:55
Men Without Hats	Antarctica	Folk of the 80's (EP)	03:25
Handful of Snowdrops	Remedy (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	04:34
The Play	Line of Fire	Line of Fire b/w Whispers in the Air	03:45

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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Channel 5 - ST (EP)

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ACTORS - Our Love Will Live Forever

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ACTORS - Part Time Punks Session EP

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ACTORS - Slaves (FM Attack RMX)

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ACTORS - Mining for Heart

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ACTORS - Acts of Worship

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ACTORS - One Hundred Years

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ACTORS - It Will Come to You

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ACTORS - Reanimated

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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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