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
Tenants	Losing Youth	Visions of Our Future	03:25
Kinetic Ideals	Me and the Sky	A Personal View (EP)	05:50
Blue Oil	Free Fleas On the Roof	Blue Oil (1981-83)	02:32
Drama	Traffic	Loneliness	02:53
Compilation	Dale Hancocks - Carribea	Music Industry Arts 1983	01:53
NEO A4	Is This It	The Warmer Side of You	03:32
Zipper	Bad Girls	Another Boyfriend b/w Bad Girls	02:55
Darkroom	Pressure	San Paku	04:09
Cardboard Brains	Summertime!	Live At The Edge	03:31
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	The Call	Ohama aka The White Album	05:37
Modernes Pickles	Colors	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:09
Drama	Old Hollywood	Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)	03:32
Extras	Sporting Life	The Road to Zambando	03:50
Handful of Snowdrops	When Comes Daylight	Land of the Damned	05:01
Blue Oil	No Disturbing Call	ST	02:51
Hot Tip	Hard to be Me	Stop All Motion	03:50
B-Sides	She's a Raver (33⅓ rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	02:06
Salty Seamen	In the Groove at Last	In The Groove At Last	02:35
DeMars	Les zoos arborifères	Les Télé-Têtes	03:09
Compilation	Steve Wood - Black and Whites	Music Industry Arts 1983	04:06
BB Gabor	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry)	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry) b/w Hunger, Poverty and Misery (picture sleeve)	02:41
The Scene (2)	Rise	Only in Paradise	05:12
Spoons	Walk the Plank	Arias & Symphonies	04:26
NEO A4	Understand	ST	04:01
Martha And The Muffins	Saigon	Metro Music	04:23
Glamorcult	All Those Lies	The Stone Sessions	03:25
Direktive 17	Between You & Me	ST (EP)	03:38
Tim Ray	Standard Walk (July, 1982)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:25
Diodes	Edge of Darkness	Action-Reaction	03:10
Spoons	No Promises	Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party	04:39
Informer	I Know You Know	I Know You Know b/w Hold It	03:09
Andrew Matheson	Eyes of Harlem	Monterey Shoes	07:44
Sex Church	Put Away	Growing Over	02:00
Martha And The Muffins	Indecision	Metro Music	04:23
True Confessions	He's a Liar	ST	03:16
Drama	Space Age Punks	Loneliness	02:37
Golden Calgarians	New Desperados	New Desperados b/w Minutes to Heaven (picture sleeve)	03:07
Bunny & the Lakers	Yalps From the Alpa	Numbers	02:35
The Hurt	Engaged	Engaged b/w Local Belt (picture sleeve)	03:11
100 Flowers	Coming Up For Air	21st Guessing	04:06
Bunny & the Lakers	Maid in Sweden	Numbers	04:01
Eight Seconds	Listen	Almacantar	05:17
Volts	Welcome	Plugged In	04:21
Drastic Measures	T.N.T.	ST	03:51
Martha And The Muffins	One Day in Paris	This Is The Ice Age	04:20
Mobile Clones	Present Age	Abrasive Air (picture sleeve)	04:24
Eight Seconds	Just Pretend	Almacantar	04:33
Cannon Heath Down	Light Your Eyes	Heart-Throb Companion	03:06
Popular Front	Syncronized Swimming	Doomsday Army 2026 Remasters by Ron Obvious	03:51
Figures At Dawn	Letters from London	ST	04:14
Spoons	B Movie	Static In Transmission	04:34
Tenants	Never Forget a Face	Visions of Our Future	04:07
Philip Rambow	Jessica	Jungle Law	04:00
Braineaters	Modern Man Pt 2	Planet X	01:16
Maja Bannerman	Black Sheep	Songs by Maja Bannerman	03:00
Erect	The Colony	Consequence of Life	02:45
A Kid	Come	An Introduction to Civil Engineering (EP) (picture sleeve)	04:35
Tame & Talking	Fallen Angel (Broken Wings)	ST	03:33
Tim Ray	Garndmothers Parrot (April, 1981)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:16
Figures At Dawn	Sons of the Century	ST	04:36
Glamorcult	Table Thirty	Early Glamour	03:38
Escalators	Strange Girl	ST	04:04
The Keys	Lied To!	Whatever Happened to Boy Meets Girl b/w Lied To! (picture sleeve)	02:18
Psyche	The Brain Collapses (Original Concept)	Insomnia Theatre	04:07
Ohm & the Secret Sources	All in My Mind	Exit From a Dream	04:54
Modernes Pickles	Bonjour de Bob	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	01:01
Rational Youth	Call Me	Heredity	02:59
A Neon Rome	Islam	A Neon Rome	10:18
Spoons	Numb	Static In Transmission	03:50
Erect	Human Beings	Consequence of Life	04:09
Numbers	Won't You Call	Add Up	03:11
39 Steps	Jump on the Death Train	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	04:02
Spoons	Capitol Hill	Stick Figure Neighbourhood	04:37
The Scene (2)	Gardens of Babylon	Only in Paradise	04:56
Klō	Weirdo	Demo 1981	04:01
Compilation	Diatribe - Air Radio	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	03:34
Sue Hansen	Sucking Up to You	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:24
Martha And The Muffins	Halfway Through the Week	Trance and Dance	03:41
Volts	Can't Hold on Too Long	Plugged In	03:15
Quasi Hands	Parallel Lines	ST	03:19
The End	Just Another Dream	Just Another Dream b/w My Paradise (picture sleeve)	04:04
FM109	Mirror Man	ST	03:17
Handful of Snowdrops	From One Place to Another	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	05:10
Tyro	A Little More Time	A Little More Time (EP)	02:11
Darkroom	It's Cold Out Here	San Paku	03:44
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Shadow Love	Space and Time	04:38
Vital Sines	Erik the Generik	Subway Suicide E.P.	02:45
Spunker (aka Neotone)	No More Walrus	Spunker	03:55
Avril Chown	Losin’ Sight	American Boys b/w Losin’ Sight	03:53
Our Sir Francis to the Sea	On the Line	ST	04:09
BAMFF	Mini Crisis	The Uncanny b/w Mini Crisis	03:35
Rob Bryanton	Who's Got a Hold of the Wheel?	Alcohol And Other Drugs	02:56
Modern Minds	Wasted Lives	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	03:01
Popular Front	Christian Education	Doomsday Army 2026 Remasters by Ron Obvious	04:29
The Front	Can't Get Started	Gina's at a Party	04:18
Bitter Reality	Tellin' Me Goodbye	Tellin' Me Goodbye b/w A White Man (In Babylon)	03:38
Rikki & The Rokkits	New Wave	New Wave b/w They Never See (picture sleeve)	03:10
Rational Youth	Cité phosphore	Cité phosphoree b/w Le meilleur des mondes	04:05
Oui	Pulling Me Closer	Oui	03:45
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Love in 3-D	Space and Time	03:36

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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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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