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
Rational Youth	In Your Eyes	ST (mini album)	02:46
Generra	Girls in the Hearts	Don’t Cut Me b/w Girls in the Hearts	04:19
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Quasi Hands	Keep Moving	ST	02:48
Glamorcult	If Only You Knew	Early Glamour	04:13
Eight Seconds	Happy Endings	Big Houses	03:46
Lou Champagne System	Machine Muzik	No Visible Means	04:20
Lawn	Don`t Ask	Peace in the Valley	03:43
Government	I Don't Really Care	Electric Eye	04:04
Rin Tin Tin	Jackin' the House of Commons	Give Meech a Chance // Jackin' the House of Commons	08:26
Salty Seamen	Too Late to Worry Now	In The Groove At Last	03:52
The Front	The Same Girl	Underworld	04:14
Hunger Project	The Same Inside	The Same Inside b/w Assembly	04:49
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	The Drum	Ohama aka The White Album	02:44
Glamorcult	Time Is Running Out	Shadows From The Past	03:16
Diodes	Photographs Of Mars (Live At The Horseshoe June 7 1980)	Rarities	04:32
Popular Front	Syncronized Swimming	Doomsday Army 2026 Remasters by Ron Obvious	03:51
Images In Vogue	In the House (Single Version)	In The House (Extended Dance Remix)	03:14
I Braineater	Fade	I Here, Where You	03:35
Einstein	Fire of My Loins	Sex and Science	04:48
Psyche	Insatiable	Mystery Hotel	04:41
Kaméléon	Napalm	ST	02:54
Spoons	World in Motion	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	04:18
Cottage Industry	Kulturkreise	The Winter's Tale	03:02
Blue Peter	Living in the Eighties	Test Patterns For Living	02:26
Kings	Go Away	Are Here	03:47
Tim Ray	Silent Partner	ST	02:47
Kings	Anti Hero man	Are Here	03:26
Moev	Common House	Zimmerkampf	03:27
Erect	We Are Police	We Are Police b/w The Colony	02:19
A Neon Rome	Bsus5	A Neon Rome	08:25
Rational Youth	Holiday in Bangkok	ST (mini album)	05:27
Red Herring	Taste Tests	Taste Tests	02:50
Spoons	Friends in the Media	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	03:31
Chris Evans & The Quarts	Metric Dictators (Measure Canadian Theme)	Metric Dictators (Measure Canadian Theme)	03:36
Glamorcult	Time Will Pass On By	Shadows From The Past	04:38
Modernettes	Red Nails	View From The Bottom (EP)	03:02
Compilation	Charles Kurt - The Silence Upstairs	Music Industry Arts 1983	02:11
Kings	Partyitis	Are Here	03:51
B-Sides	She's a Raver (33⅓ rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	02:06
Handful of Snowdrops	What You Want	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	05:30
Age of Mirrors	This Double Life	Screenplay	03:43
Direktive 17	Don’t Pass Me By	ST (EP)	05:07
Kinetic Ideals	Touch Me (Now)	Touch Me (Now)	07:27
Big Dog	Monkey See, Monkey Do	99 Change Hands	01:52
Bunny & the Lakers	Inhalation - Ventilation	Numbers	02:07
Blue Peter	Cloak and Dagger	Test Patterns For Living	03:45
Andrew Matheson	St. Catherines Wheel	Monterey Shoes	05:37
Tower Bridge	Perfection	Perfection b/w Out of My Mind Girl (picture sleeve)	04:07
Lou Champagne System	Silent Walking	No Visible Means	06:56
Instructions	The Extra	ST	03:12
Compilation	Pat Grehan - Fury Girl	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:13
John Lutz T.	Street Corner Sally	Kiss And Tell b/w Street Corner Sally	03:06
Popular Front (1)	Forty Days	This is the Rubicon	04:40
Bicycle Thieves	First Aid to the Injured	ST	03:35
FM109	Ecoeure' ecoure'	ST	01:35
Erect	We Are Police	Consequence of Life	02:14
Tau Ceti	And I Wonder	So Far	04:14
Images In Vogue	Worlds of Noise	Incipience 1: Studio Tracks 1981-1982	04:30
Modernettes	Femme Fatale	View From The Bottom (EP)	02:53
Dada	If I'm Blind	That's Dada (picture sleeve)	02:46
B-Sides	She's a Raver	Red to Black	02:36
Mr. Science	Popeshat	Popeshat b/w Where R the Legs	04:15
Start	Gotta Have Love	Hey You	04:49
Compilation	Colin Davison - Love's Gone	Music Industry Arts 1983	03:56
Compilation	Youth Youth Youth - Wanderlust	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	01:58
Class Info	That Aint No Lie	Inside	02:19
Pukka Orchestra	Listen to the Radio	ST	03:48
Rarefaction	Night Crawler	Ordinary Man	05:02
Cannon Heath Down	Julia Rainbow	Heart-Throb Companion	04:31
Class Info	Come for Me	Inside	02:23
Degrees of Freedom	The Sound of a Jealous Heart	China	03:36
Strange Advance	Kiss in the Dark	Worlds Away	03:56
Broken Silence	Through the Glass	Nightstalking b/w Through the Glass (picture sleeve)	03:46
Kreemers	Eve of Destruction	Eve of Destruction b/w At The El Mocambo	03:14
Ceramic Hello	M - EX	The Absence of a Canary	00:23
Spoons	A Girl in Two Pieces	Arias & Symphonies	04:27
Diodes	Curiousity Girl	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	02:52
Joe Naylor	I Hate Fluorescent Lights	I'm Canadian Beer b/w I Hate Fluorescent Lights	03:18
Corsage	Baby Said	ST	03:37
Deserters	Thought Police	ST	04:08
Melinite	Trouble in Section 17	Push The Button And Run!	01:46
Handful of Snowdrops	Still We Live (1st Lineup Studio Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	03:37
Extras	Aqua Velva Man	Bit Parts	02:49
Spoons	Blow Away	Arias & Symphonies	05:59
Strange Advance	She Controls Me	Worlds Away	02:59
Rational Youth	Heredity	Heredity	04:18
Reactors	If I Only Had a Brain	If I Only Had a Brain b/w Alien Radio	02:35
Pukka Orchestra	Rubber Girl	ST	04:34
Strange Advance	One Chance in a Million	Worlds Away	04:12
Spoons	B Movie	Static In Transmission	04:34
Images In Vogue	King's Service	In The House	03:25
Spoons	No Promises	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	04:39
Golden Calgarians	Thousand Chains	Savage Love	03:51
Boys Brigade	Touch Glass	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	03:25
Numbers	Bits & Pieces	Add Up	02:45
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Timeless Thoughts (To the Stars)	Space and Time	04:54
Family Plot	Stag Party	Convictions	03:33
Second Thoughts	Wound Up	Integrity b/w Wound Up	02:50

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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Lorne Ranger - I Want to be a Doorman

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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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Spoons - Vertigo Tango

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Spoons - Bridges Over Borders

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Spoons - Talkback

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Spoons - Nova Heart b/w Symmetry

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Spoons - Arias & Symphonies

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Spoons - Stick Figure Neighbourhood

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Spoons - After the Institution b/w My Job

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Tim Ray - ST

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Voice - Anno Di Voce

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Compilation - SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural

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Hygiene Club - Hawaii/ Girls at the Bank b/w Sea Monster/ Pantechnicon - for Gary

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Avril Chown - American Boys b/w Losin’ Sight

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Kultur - Kultur

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