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
Living End (1)	In Your Dreams	ST	02:48
Spoons	Ice Age	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:08
Reasons	Take Me Back	Reasonable Rock (EP)	02:01
Degrees of Freedom	In This Room	China	03:41
Compilation	Bongo Fury - Alaska Shuffle	Toronto Calling	04:01
Moral Lepers	Shadow	Turn to Stone	03:03
The Hurt	Local Belt	Engaged b/w Local Belt (picture sleeve)	03:18
Broken Silence	Nightstalking	Nightstalking b/w Through the Glass (picture sleeve)	03:47
Rational Youth	In Your Eyes	ST (mini album)	02:46
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
Inner Sanction	Hush	Shake Up - Fly Down	03:20
Neon	Second Wind	ST (EP)	02:52
Glamorcult	Tropical Romance	Tropical Romance (picture sleeve)	04:23
Compilation	Vera & The Poor Boys - Chameleon Girl	The Circuit	03:10
Kaméléon	Napalm	ST	02:54
UJ3RK5	The Anglican	ST (EP)	03:53
Glamatron	The Word (Death In September)	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	03:24
Dancespeak	Heart of My Song	Heart of My Song b/w Naked in the Deep (Insomnia)	03:49
Tim Ray	Silent Partner	ST	02:47
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	Direct	ST	03:43
Numbers	Bits & Pieces	Add Up	02:45
Deserters	Take It Away	ST	03:26
Drama	Space Age Punks	Loneliness	02:37
Dis Band	Interview continued	Gone Dead Out	00:27
A Neon Rome	Islam	A Neon Rome	10:18
The Government	It Must be God - Downtown	Electric Eye	03:51
Living End (1)	Blow	ST	02:35
The Edge	Play the Game	Release the Circle	04:07
ACTORS	Like U Want 2	Reanimated	03:40
e	Prime Cuts	Prime Cuts	03:37
Glamorcult	Start The Revolution	The Stone Sessions	04:03
Timothy Chipman	Night Patrol	Strange Days b/w Night Patrol	02:22
Contradance	Black Preppies	Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)	02:28
Spoons	The Rhythm	Talkback	04:06
Philip Rambow	Bike Boys	Jungle Law	04:26
Aircuts	Radioactivity	Radioactivity b/w Sheila	02:57
Start	Evil Hearted You	Hey You	02:31
Compilation	The Stranger - Don't Touch Me (Mr. X)	Strange Pleasures EP	04:54
Zipper	Slowtown Rats	Never Too Old (To Rock & Roll) b/w Slowtown Rats	02:51
Deserters	Americans	ST	03:03
The Government	Sponge	33 ⅓ RPM E.P.	02:22
Psyche	Prisoner to Desire	Unveiling The Secret	05:37
Within Gothic Towers	Day Dreaming	Within Gothic Towers	03:14
Scissors	Do You Like it?	ST	02:20
Vital Sines	Hype	Collage	04:43
Theo Vandenhoff	Foreign Legion	Saviour on the Spilled Blood	04:28
Modernes Pickles	Sweet Jenny	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:07
Catherine	Operating System	Operating System b/w Operating System	03:04
Rob Bryanton	Livin' On the Edge of the World	Alcohol And Other Drugs	05:10
Lou Champagne System	Don't Say I'm Here	No Visible Means	03:27
Spoons	Conventional Beliefs	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	03:57
Images In Vogue	Rescue Me	In The House	03:49
Villains	Laylow	Go Crazy	03:20
I Braineater	Comeon	Artist, Poet, Thief	01:44
Maurice & The Clichés	Dean Reckoning	C'est la vie	03:40
Calling Rain	Cross	Laid in Ruins b/w Cross (picture sleeve)	05:21
The Idles	Wildcat	The Idles Demo	03:59
Rarefaction	All the Broken Seams	Ordinary Man	03:44
Tyro	Strong Willed Woman	A Little More Time (EP)	02:27
Images In Vogue	For Germans	Pre-release	04:54
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Midway	Midway b/w Thin Lines	06:29
Glamorcult	Loneliness (Instrumental)	Early Glamour	04:54
Corsage	Big Night Out (Doll & Penny's Trance Mix)	Big Night Out (EP)	07:45
Rheostatics	My Generation	My Generation b/w Satellite Dancing	03:04
Breeding Ground	Reunion	Reunion // Slaughter	04:54
Bitter Reality	Tellin' Me Goodbye	Tellin' Me Goodbye b/w A White Man (In Babylon)	03:38
B-Sides	Regular Guy	Red to Black	02:35
Glamorcult	Shadows From The Past (Part 2)	Shadows From The Past	03:19
Spoons	Blow Away	Arias & Symphonies	05:59
A Neon Rome	The Magical Summer of '85	New Heroin	03:17
Land of Giants	Seven Men	Cannibal Dolls b/w Seven Men	05:12
Tim Ray	Garndmothers Parrot (April, 1981)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:16
Handful of Snowdrops	Sometimes I	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	05:44
Family Plot	Dervish	Convictions	04:11
Degrees of Freedom	Risk	China	03:46
Rikki & The Rokkits	New Wave	New Wave b/w They Never See (picture sleeve)	03:10
B-Sides	Invasion of the Money Snatchers	Invasion Of The Money Snatchers b/w Much Too Serious	03:19
Hush	Highway of Love	Replay	03:31
Boys Brigade	Black + White	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	07:46
Hush	Now Reality (edited)	Replay	06:01
Jon Mullane	Following Yesterday	Following Yesterday	03:44
Class Info	Out of Line	Come For Me b/w Out of Line	04:04
Martha And The Muffins	Trance and Dance	Trance and Dance	07:14
Lou Champagne System	Do Something	No Visible Means	04:34
Glamorcult	On The Line	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:04
A Day in Paris	Too Tired	Prey	03:34
Land of Giants	Fountains in the Rain	Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks	04:30
Glamorcult	I Tell Him	Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994	04:00
Modernes Pickles	Sex in America	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	03:43
Sound FX	Caramia	Sound FX	03:08
Rex Chainbelt	Rich Man	Foreign Movie	02:52
Me And the Mosquitos	Go Away	Go Away b/w Valium	03:43
Kaméléon	Smarties (1983)	Groupe électro-pop	04:54
Ohm & the Secret Sources	I Hold the Key	Exit From a Dream	05:27
Living End (1)	Naive	ST	02:25
Térapi	Espèce de stress	Primale	02:33
Martha And The Muffins	Motorbikin'	Trance and Dance	02:58
B-Sides	B-Side Shuffle	Red to Black	02:25
Hot Tip	Eyes Are Blue	Stop All Motion	03:19
100 Flowers	Haunted	21st Guessing	05:09

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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Glamorcult - Atlantis Under the Sea

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