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
39 Steps	Someday is Today [original]	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:33
Rational Youth	Just a Sound in the Night	Cold War Nightlife	05:06
ACTORS	Let it Grow	It Will Come to You	02:58
Family Plot	Dervish	Convictions	04:11
Fictions	Do it With the Lights On	ST	03:07
Ear Candy	Part of Me	Self Defence	04:34
Rave Revues	Self Inflicted Wounds	Voices	03:06
Home Grown	Thoughts of You	Up the Wall b/w Thoughts of You	04:11
Secret Act	Talk Talk!	My Neighbourhood	02:55
Government	Sponge	33 ⅓ RPM E.P.	02:22
Skoolboyz	Where's My Waitress?	ST (EP)	03:05
Kaméléon	Microcosme	ST	03:40
Compilation	Donald Breithaupt - Lindsay	Music Industry Arts 1983	04:11
Compilation	Rent Boys Inc. - Beauty is Above the Law	SMASH IT UP - Oral-Aural	02:45
Tenants	Reach Out	Visions of Our Future	03:29
A Day in Paris	The Hill	Prey	04:38
Tenants	How Do You Sleep at Night?	ST	04:34
Decade of Dreams	One Night in Bohemia	Wild Colloquial	03:50
Erect	We Are Police	We Are Police b/w The Colony	02:18
Rheostatics	Satellite Dancing	My Generation b/w Satellite Dancing	03:31
The End	Just Another Dream	Just Another Dream b/w My Paradise (picture sleeve)	04:04
Modern Minds	The End of a Dream	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	03:40
Handful of Snowdrops	Hush	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	07:12
Salty Seamen	Rings Around Uranus	In The Groove At Last	02:18
Breeding Ground	Reunion	Reunion // Slaughter	04:54
Spunker (aka Neotone)	You Stand	Spunker	02:36
John Young Paul	Angels With Dirty Faces	The Life of Ermie Scub	02:33
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	The Call	Midnite News	07:14
Within Gothic Towers	I've Got a Reason and You've Got a Prayer	Within Gothic Towers	04:41
ACTORS	Crosses	It Will Come to You	04:12
Living End (1)	Anaesthesia Grin	ST	03:29
Instructions	Ha - Ha Ha	ST	04:29
Glamorcult	Atlantis Under the Sea	Atlantis Under the Sea	04:21
No Comment	Wondering	Wondering b/w Honesty	03:33
Ohm & the Secret Sources	You Know I Love You	Exit From a Dream	04:33
Glamorcult	Silent Reflection	A Price To Paris	03:59
Rational Youth	City of Night	Cold War Nightlife	04:02
Handful of Snowdrops	From One Place to Another (1990)	Mort en direct	05:11
Scissors	Do You Like it?	ST	02:20
Austra	Lose It	Feel it Break	04:29
Benjamin Russell	Angel of Mercy	Madman	02:45
Salty Seamen	Club Hot de Paris	In The Groove At Last	02:03
Awake The Echoes	You're More Trouble Than You' re Worth	Normal Life	03:58
The Patterns	Always Sixteen	Afraid to Touch b/w Always Sixteen	02:44
The Diodes	Lost in the Dark	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	02:50
Martha And The Muffins	Terminal Twilight	Metro Music	04:41
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin' to Glide	Are Here	05:43
Bicycle Thieves	Picking Up Pens	ST	04:17
NEO A4	The Warmer Side Of You	The Warmer Side of You	04:13
Scenics	O Boy	Underneath the Door	01:58
Tim Ray	I'm Waiting (April, 1979)	History Lessons 1978-1984	03:00
A Neon Rome	Bsus5	A Neon Rome	08:25
Palace at 4 a.m.	The Age of Reason(able Pleasure)	White Guilt	04:42
DeMars	Moonshadow	Stories from between the Walls	06:28
Jon Mullane	With You	Following Yesterday	03:59
The Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired (Live On Open Mike With Mike Bullard, Jan. 22 1999)	Rarities	03:51
Modernes Pickles	Deathrace 2000	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:44
Lou Champagne System	Selling So Sweet	No Visible Means	02:48
Andrew Matheson	Debbie	Monterey Shoes	06:26
Buddy King & the Motion!	Schoolgirl Alibis	Schoolgirl Alibis b/w I Didn't Know Her	02:09
FM109	Ecoeure' ecoure'	ST	01:35
Rex Chainbelt	Talk It Over	Foreign Movie	02:15
Bruce PM	Radios and Cameras	Makeshift	03:58
Glamorcult	Fusion (Instrumental)	Early Glamour	04:23
Glamorcult	Theories of Modern Affection	A Price To Paris	04:27
Instructions	Cleek	ST	02:56
Melinite	Trouble in Section 17	Push The Button And Run!	01:46
Vital Sines	Subway Suicide	Subway Suicide E.P.	04:51
Extras	No Generation	Bit Parts	02:33
Trespassing Bean Rays	Heer Comes the Future	ST (EP) (picture sleeve)	04:50
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	01:57
Images In Vogue	Travel	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	05:34
Leotards	Suicide Lover	Suicide Lover b/w Runaway Bridge	03:15
Scenics	This Day	New Part In Town	03:08
Aircuts	Sheila	Radioactivity b/w Sheila	03:22
Tribal Earth	Interaction - Reaction	Interaction b/w Reaction (EP)	05:49
I Braineater	Canada	Artist, Poet, Thief	02:23
Secret Act	Night Club	My Neighbourhood	03:45
Government	Following You	Electric Eye	02:07
Kings	My Habit	Are Here	03:41
Border	All in All	Black and White b/w All in All (picture sleeve)	03:53
NEO A4	One's Enough	ST	03:40
Spice	Just a Little Bit	Beautiful You b/w Just a Little Bit	02:17
Philip Rambow	Love is a Hard Time	Jungle Law	04:19
Informer	I Know You Know	I Know You Know b/w Hold It	03:09
Images In Vogue	Lust for Love	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:18
Spoons	Waterline	Vertigo Tango	05:02
Rob Bryanton	Insiduous Trends	Alcohol And Other Drugs	04:47
Two Men Laughing	Dancing in Moscow	Imprisoned Lorri b/w Dancing in Moscow (picture sleeve)	02:53
Benjamin Russell	One Love	Pop Modern(e)	03:55
Instructions	D-6	D-6 b/w Tell-a-Photo (picture sleeve)	03:32
The Diodes	Hot Sand (1981 Remixed Version 2017)	Rarities	03:18
Tyro	A Little More Time	A Little More Time (EP)	02:11
Maja Bannerman	Black Sheep	Songs by Maja Bannerman	03:00
Two Men Laughing	Imprisoned Lorri	Imprisoned Lorri b/w Dancing in Moscow (picture sleeve)	03:39
BB Gabor	Hunger, Poverty and Misery	Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelry) b/w Hunger, Poverty and Misery (picture sleeve)	03:50
Psyche	Psychic Vampire	Insomnia Theatre	02:55
Modernes Pickles	Colors	Plexiglass Sidewalks Forever: Demos, Outtakes & Rarities 1979–1985	02:09
ACTORS	Post Traumatic Love (Slow Waves Remix)	Reanimated	05:04
Scenics	I Killed Marx	Underneath the Door	04:29

New Wave Post Punk Wave

Tracks

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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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Glamorcult - A Price To Paris

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Glamorcult - Shadows From The Past

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Glamorcult - Early Glamour

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Glamorcult - Moments of Glamor 1984 - 1994

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Glamorcult - The Stone Sessions

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Glamorcult - Tropical Romance (picture sleeve)

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Glamorcult - Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude

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Glamorcult - Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)

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CosmaNat - Little Things b/w Camping Song (picture sleeve)

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Channel 5 - ST (EP)

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ACTORS - Our Love Will Live Forever

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ACTORS - Part Time Punks Session EP

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ACTORS - Slaves (FM Attack RMX)

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ACTORS - Mining for Heart

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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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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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