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
K	A Thousand Years	Sliding In b/w A Thousand Years (picture sleeve)	04:13
John Bell and the Strange	Taking You Home in a Taxi	Taking You Home in a Taxi b/w Melissa	03:24
Volts	As the Radio Died	Plugged In	03:35
Age of Mirrors	This Double Life	Screenplay	03:43
Decade of Dreams	A Conversation With Myself	Wild Colloquial	03:32
Joe Naylor	I'm Canadian Beer	I'm Canadian Beer b/w I Hate Fluorescent Lights	02:26
Bicycle Thieves	Picking Up Pens	ST	04:17
Images In Vogue	Breaking Up	Educated Man	04:36
Deserters	Boys In Berlin	ST	03:42
Handful of Snowdrops	Hush	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	07:12
John Young Paul	The Girl Spells Grief	The Life of Ermie Scub	01:38
Contradance	Black Preppies	Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)	02:28
Bitter Reality	A White Man (In Babylon)	Tellin' Me Goodbye b/w A White Man (In Babylon)	03:40
Boys Brigade	Into the Flow	ST	05:09
Quasi Hands	Keep Moving	ST	02:48
Contradance	She's Got an Eyepiece	Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)	04:19
Psyche	Eternal	Mystery Hotel	04:15
FM109	Mirror Man	ST	03:17
Eight Seconds	Happy Endings	Big Houses	03:46
Handful of Snowdrops	Terroir I	Land of the Damned	02:41
Cottage Industry	Kulturkreise	The Winter's Tale	03:02
Eight Seconds	Chopin's Heart	Big Houses	04:51
The Diodes	Time Damage (Sept. 1977 Toronto Sound Demo) (CD only)	Rarities	02:18
100 Flowers	We're Waiting	21st Guessing	03:11
Glamorcult	In Time (Only to be Free)	Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)	04:17
Faded Films	Faded Years	Faded Years	04:11
The Diodes	Heat or the Beat	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	04:38
Timothy Chipman	Strange Days	Strange Days b/w Night Patrol	02:48
Melinite	For Now	Push The Button And Run!	03:37
Drama	Loneliness	Loneliness	03:28
A Neon Rome	Islam	New Heroin	10:18
Carbon Unit	The Martian Hop	The Martian Hop b/w The Marsh (picture sleeve)	03:48
State Of Mind	I'll Be Yours	I'll Be Yours b/w The Dark Side (picture sleeve)	03:29
Interpol	Ursula (At Warsaw International)	ST	06:35
Erect	Action Reaction	Consequence of Life	02:57
Hot Tip	Teach Me Something	Stop All Motion	04:12
Bicycle Thieves	Instead of a Heart	ST	04:31
Hot Tip	Hard to be Me	Stop All Motion	03:50
Magic Dragon	Once Upon a Time	Emotional Landscape	04:25
100 Flowers	21st Guessing	21st Guessing	04:16
Spoons	Repeatable	New Day New World	03:54
A Day in Paris	cAn'T lOoK aWaY	Rhymes On Vinyl	04:03
Austra	Hate Crime	Feel it Break	04:01
Modern Minds	The Mess	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:09
Moev	Circles And Squares	Dusk and Desire	03:29
Scenics	I'm Sad	New Part In Town	05:04
Cannon Heath Down	A Charming Sound	Heart-Throb Companion	04:25
Barking Boys	Cool It Down	The Yes Girls	04:11
Glamorcult	Live for Today	Would it be Over (picture sleeve)	03:34
John Young Paul	Have You Seen the Boy in the Gutter with the Broken Mind?	The Life of Ermie Scub	02:10
Rational Youth	Dancing on the Berlin Wall	Cold War Nightlife	04:34
Maurice & The Clichés	Working Girls	C'est la vie	03:44
Zipper	Bad Girls	Another Boyfriend b/w Bad Girls	02:55
The Front	Hide And Seek	Gina's at a Party	03:17
Numbers	Mr. Dempster	Add Up	03:49
Neon	Second Wind	ST (EP)	02:52
Tim Ray	D-Scratch (April, 1981)	History Lessons 1978-1984	02:04
Figures At Dawn	In from the Cold	ST	03:54
Two Men Laughing	Dancing in Moscow	Imprisoned Lorri b/w Dancing in Moscow (picture sleeve)	02:53
Tim Ray	Mondo Cane (July, 1984)	History Lessons 1978-1984	04:44
Ceramic Hello	Climatic Nouveaux	The Absence of a Canary	03:57
Inner Sanction	Culture Dance	Shake Up - Fly Down	04:35
Bumpers	Ian	Media Music/ I Watch You Go /Ian/ Log 1 (picture sleeve)	03:26
Braineaters	Wrong World	Planet X	02:35
A Neon Rome	Windowsill	A Neon Rome	05:20
Popular Front (1)	World Weary	World Weary b/w Living On the Line	04:54
Tame & Talking	The Hole	ST	03:11
Handful of Snowdrops	A Miracle	Land of the Damned	04:54
Maurice & The Clichés	Soft Core	C'est la vie	04:26
Sue Hansen	Sucking Up to You	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:24
Calling Rain	Cross	Laid in Ruins b/w Cross (picture sleeve)	05:21
Images In Vogue	Educated Man	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:41
Buddy King & the Motion!	Schoolgirl Alibis	Schoolgirl Alibis b/w I Didn't Know Her	02:09
Palace at 4 a.m.	Kiss of a Fish	Untamed World	03:29
Pukka Orchestra	Your Secret is Safe With Me	ST	04:11
Rin Tin Tin	Give Meech a Chance	Give Meech a Chance // Jackin' the House of Commons	03:11
Glamorcult	The Bass of Our Style	A Price To Paris	03:53
Age of Mirrors	The Day the Earth Stands Still - Breathless	Mirage	05:44
Spunker (aka Neotone)	Dead Dogs	Spunker	02:32
Ohm & the Secret Sources	All in My Mind	Exit From a Dream	04:54
Rob Bryanton	Livin' On the Edge of the World	Alcohol And Other Drugs	05:10
Bruce PM	Well, Yes	Makeshift	04:45
Johnny Zhivago	Looking at You	Microalbum	04:28
Breeding Ground	Underground	Wintergarden (EP)	04:31
Cannon Heath Down	Safe As Milk	Heart-Throb Companion	03:35
Reid My Lyps	Susie Don't Run	Susie Don't Run b/w Susie Don't Run	03:57
The Front	Can't Get Started	Gina's at a Party	04:18
Second Thoughts	Wound Up	Integrity b/w Wound Up	02:50
Hunger Project	The Same Inside	Demo 1982	07:07
100 Flowers	Rooftops	21st Guessing	03:25
Austra	The Choke	Feel it Break	04:12
Ear Candy	The Hunter	Self Defence	05:06
Within Gothic Towers	The Cavern Of Solitude	Within Gothic Towers	04:06
Utopiate	You've Been Warned	You've Been Warned b/w Actions or Misguidance	03:41
Modernes Pickles	I'm in Love with the Super Friends	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:42
Glamorcult	On The Line	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:04
Images In Vogue	Grapevine	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:55
Tim Ray	Promised You (April, 1979)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:31
Degrees of Freedom	Risk	China	03:46
Tim Ray	Love-Fusion	ST	03:50

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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ACTORS - Our Love Will Live Forever

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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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