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.

Artist	Track	Title	Length
Cannon Heath Down	Je Suis Certain	Heart-Throb Companion	02:03
Kinetic Ideals	Animalistic	Reason (EP)	05:09
Chipman, Timothy	Ghost Parade	Ghost Parade	02:25
Numbers	Won't You Call	Add Up	03:11
Elan	Penticton Peaches	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:13
B-Sides	No Can Do	Red to Black	03:00
Start	Out of the Tube	Hey You	02:27
Front, The	Looking For You	Gina's at a Party	04:32
Secret Act	Fred Flinstone, Where Are You	My Neighbourhood	03:52
Doppler Bros.	I Wanna Write for the Muzak Man	Totally Impractical	03:58
B-Sides	Bedtime for Ronald	Red to Black	03:52
Erect	Lay Down and Die	Consequence of Life	03:18
Martha And The Muffins	Revenge (Against the World)	Metro Music	03:31
Micks	Money Talks	ST (EP)	02:24
Braineaters	Modern Man Pt 2	Planet X	01:16
Handful of Snowdrops	Hush	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	07:12
Living End (1)	Dislocation	ST	03:16
Glamorcult	A Price to Paris	A Price To Paris	04:31
Handful of Snowdrops	Shadows on the Heart	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	05:33
Presence, The	Mechanoid	Blown Away b/w Mechanoid (picture sleeve)	03:55
Mettle	The Second Person	ST	03:47
Demars	Le zaratt express	Les Tele-Tetes	04:11
Border	All in All	Black and White b/w All in All (picture sleeve)	03:53
Billy Butt & The Brats	Surveillance	Surveillance b/w No I Can't Say No	03:21
Drama	Feable	Loneliness	03:42
Braineaters	London Town	Planet X	01:24
Deserters	A.W.O.L.	ST	02:04
Glamorcult	Interlude	Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude	03:30
Salty Seamen	Neanderthal	In The Groove At Last	04:24
Drastic Measures	See My House	ST	02:46
Scenics	One Comes Closer	Underneath the Door	03:18
Nevermen	Living in the Past	The Monitor LP	04:17
Eight Seconds	Happy Endings	Big Houses	03:46
Scene, The (2)	Soul Spectrum	Only in Paradise	05:09
True Confessions	4th Base	ST	02:46
Spoons	Rodeo	Bridges Over Borders	04:12
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Sebastian (Agnello)	No Compromise	No Compromise b/w Stop Picking On America (picture sleeve)	03:34
3rd Man In	New Fast	New Fast b/w What to Believe (picture sleeve)	03:18
Extras	High-Tech Promises	The Road to Zambando	03:34
Spoons	No More Growing Up	Arias & Symphonies	03:25
Compilation	Arson - We've Gotta Get Out of this Place	No Pedestrians	04:26
Handful of Snowdrops	What You Want	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	05:30
Blinn, Roland	Peg-in-Hole	Peg-in-Hole b/w Tense (and The fishermen)	03:55
Degrees of Freedom	The Sound of a Jealous Heart	China	03:36
A Day in Paris	déjà vu	Rhymes On Vinyl	03:59
Awake The Echoes	Turn That Bloody Noise Down	Normal Life	03:15
Drama	Hidden Melodies	Loneliness	03:54
Handful of Snowdrops	Hush (Bonus Track - 1991 unreleased remix)	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	06:27
Barking Boys	Incident In St. Jamestown	The Yes Girls	04:58
Kinetic Ideals	I Remember	Touch Me (Now)	05:10
Tin Twist	Sitting Here, Waiting Here	Sometimes It's Funny (picture sleeve)	02:32
Glamorcult	The Light We Will Hold	A Price To Paris	04:23
Extras	Sentimental Fool	The Road to Zambando	03:53
Erect	We Are Police	We Are Police b/w The Colony	02:19
Velveteens	Moonwork	Tall House (EP)	03:50
Palace at 4 a.m.	Untamed World	Untamed World	03:52
Bicycle Thieves	Picking Up Pens	ST	04:17
Hot Tip	Teach Me Something	Stop All Motion	04:12
Glamorcult	Table Thirty	Early Glamour	03:38
This Fear	Lights of Capitals	Darkness Shapes Imagination	03:50
Glamorcult	Images of Monlight	Early Glamour	04:19
39 Steps	A Taste of Poison [alternate]	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:35
B-Sides	She's a Raver (33⅓ rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	02:06
Champagne, Lou System	Don't Say I'm Here	No Visible Means	03:27
Men Without Hats	Security (Everybody Feels Better With)	Folk of the 80's (EP)	03:57
Instructions	Suburban Dream	ST	04:15
Fictions	Better	ST	02:31
Glamatron	Continentals	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	04:44
Tau Ceti	Bathed in Dark Light (rhythm version)	So Far	05:23
Strange Advance	Love Games	Worlds Away	03:51
Meadmore, Glen	Do Me Baby	Chicken & Biscuits	05:01
Cannon Heath Down	ma-de-moi-selle	Heart-Throb Companion	03:15
Psyche	Maggots	Insomnia Theatre	04:27
Kaméléon	Smarties (1983)	Groupe électro-pop	04:54
Awake The Echoes	Sherry	Normal Life	04:20
Compilation	The Sturm Group - Upon a Nerve (live)	Sounds From The Streets: 12 Toronto Bands	05:34
Handful of Snowdrops	Somewhere Higher (2nd Lineup Demo)	Groundwork for Fundamentals: Demo Archive Volume 1 (1984-1986)	05:25
Bunny & the Lakers	Yalps From the Alpa	Numbers	02:35
Rex Chainbelt	Disco	Foreign Movie	00:46
Rambow, Philip	Don't Come (Cryin' To Me)	Jungle Law	03:37
Braineaters	Closet Case	Planet X	01:26
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	T.V.	Julie is a T.V. Set b/w T.V.	04:33
Kings	Go Away	Are Here	03:47
Russell, Benjamin	Rock It	Pop Modern(e)	04:06
Rave Revues	Rules Of Play	Long Time Coming b/w Rules Of Play (picture sleeve)	04:23
Mavety, Joe & the Mule	Voices Like Thunder	Crusaders b/w Voices Like Thunder	04:00
Direktive 17	Between the Lines	ST (EP)	03:42
Friendly Fire	Junior Senility	Junior Senility EP	02:54
Shanghai Lil	Nirvana - Oh What a Night	Flower And a Bee b/w Nirvana - Oh What a Night	04:57
Handful of Snowdrops	Ends & Meanings (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	03:00
Glamorcult	All Those Lies	The Stone Sessions	03:25
Eight Seconds	Listen	Almacantar	05:17
Images In Vogue	Rescue Me	In The House	03:49
Angeles, Ross	Hip Hip	Salute	02:21
Motive	Don’t You Know	Don’t You Know b/w It’s Too Late (picture sleeve)	03:21
Compilation	Moist & Tender - You're On My Way	Toronto Calling	02:42
Corsage	Snakeskin (live at the Town Pump)	Big Night Out (EP)	05:22
Moral Lepers	Shadow	Turn to Stone	03:03
Patterns, The	Afraid to Touch	Afraid to Touch b/w Always Sixteen	03:57

New Wave Post Punk Wave

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Martha And The Muffins - Danseparc

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Bonus Boys - Every Time I See A Car Like Yours Go By b/w Wasting Our Time

Gas, The - Evacuate Mississauga (picture sleeve)

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Vital Sines - Subway Suicide/ Erik the Generik b/w Sex & Babies (picture sleeve)

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Harcourt, James - Emotional Blackmail

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Extras - Bit Parts

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Government - 33 ⅓ RPM E.P.

Catherine - Operating System b/w Operating System

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Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) - I Fear What I Might Hear

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Zipper - Another Boyfriend b/w Bad Girls

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Odd Man Out - Whatever Happened to Us b/w World of My Own (picture sleeve)

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Regulators - What's in the City b/w That´s Right Nothing's Left (picture sleeve)

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NEO A4 - ST

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Kinetic Ideals - Life In Shadow b/w Maze of Ways

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Breeding Ground - Wintergarden (EP)

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Second Thoughts - Integrity b/w Wound Up

IQ - Burn Me b/w Sixth World

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Government - How Many Fingers?

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Billy Butt & The Brats - Surveillance b/w No I Can't Say No

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End, The - Just Another Dream b/w My Paradise (picture sleeve)

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Numbers - Add Up

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Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama) - Midway b/w Thin Lines

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Dancespeak - Heart of My Song b/w Naked in the Deep (Insomnia)

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Golden Calgarians - New Desperados b/w Minutes to Heaven (picture sleeve)

Channel Five - ST (EP)

Nevermen - The Monitor LP

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Tabby K - Summertime b/w Wind Or Water

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Diodes - Action-Reaction

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Tyro - A Little More Time (EP)

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Land of Giants - Cannibal Dolls Seven Men With Bonus Tracks

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