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
Doppler Bros.	Big Time Tragedy	Totally Impractical	03:36
Erect	The Tube	Consequence of Life	04:33
Meadmore, Glen	Do Me Baby	Chicken & Biscuits	05:01
Reactors	Alien Radio	If I Only Had a Brain b/w Alien Radio	02:22
Compilation	S.S. - Working Girl	No Pedestrians	03:09
Handful of Snowdrops	What You Want	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	05:30
Martha And The Muffins	Trance and Dance	Trance and Dance	07:14
Rational Youth	Just a Sound in the Night	Cold War Nightlife	05:06
BAMFF	The Uncanny	The Uncanny b/w Mini Crisis	03:50
Iko	Subway 49	83	04:53
NEO A4	Standing	ST	03:50
Handful of Snowdrops	Remedy (8 Track Home Demo)	Storm Debris & Astronaut Remains: Demo Archive Volume 2 (1990-1992)	04:34
Meadmore, Glen	Girlene	Chicken & Biscuits	05:07
Cottage Industry	The Urge to Merge	The Winter's Tale	04:33
Men Without Hats	Mothers	BBC Rock Hour Special #442 Version A	12:07
Hurt, The	Engaged	Engaged b/w Local Belt (picture sleeve)	03:11
Contradance	Trouble in the Darkness	Black Preppies EP (picture sleeve)	05:53
Entrance System	Minimal Spirits	Imperfect Image	03:24
Rivals	I Don't Believe in Ghoulies	I'll Just Let You Go b/w I Don't Believe in Ghoulies	04:42
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Julie is a TV Set	Midnite News	08:11
NEO A4	Don't Believe	The Warmer Side of You	04:50
Figures At Dawn	In from the Cold	ST	03:54
Images In Vogue	One Way Heart	In The House	03:30
Martha And The Muffins	Revenge (Against the World)	Metro Music	03:31
Modern Minds	Substitute	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:46
Compilation	Winston Hancock - Girls, Girls	No Pedestrians	03:15
NEO A4	The Warmer Side Of You	The Warmer Side of You	04:13
I, Braineater	Alone	I Here, Where You	02:41
Age of Mirrors	Talk of the Crowd	Mirage	04:13
Glamorcult	In Time (Only to be Free)	Forever Strangers (picture sleeve)	04:17
Villains	Boogie Man	Go Crazy	04:24
Figures At Dawn	Close My Eyes	ST	04:54
Future Yanx	Suite For A Nation	Suite For A Nation (picture sleeve)	03:12
Awake The Echoes	Turn That Bloody Noise Down	Normal Life	03:15
Modern Minds	20 Years Old	Live at the Riv Rock Room – K97	02:59
Class Info	I Want	Inside	05:22
Numbers	Sideways Elevator	Sideways Elevator b/w Can't Take it	03:09
Class Info	Come For Me	Come For Me b/w Out of Line	02:27
Harcourt, James	Queen Bee	Emotional Blackmail	02:17
Compilation	Arson - We've Gotta Get Out of this Place	No Pedestrians	04:26
Awake The Echoes	Sherry	Normal Life	04:20
Cannon Heath Down	Bone Of Contention	Heart-Throb Companion	03:34
Glamatron	Facial Saviour	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	05:02
Extras	No Generation	Bit Parts	02:33
39 Steps	Let's Flirt With Danger	All Kinds of Shit '85-'87	03:16
Lawn	Rites	Peace in the Valley	03:48
Deserters	Present Life	ST	03:21
Cöld Wår	Do You Notice Me	Do You Notice Me b/w Klub Haus (picture sleeve)	03:31
Family Plot	Taxi Driver	Convictions	05:17
Rex Chainbelt	Foreign Movie	Foreign Movie	02:42
Quasi Hands	Keep Moving	ST	02:48
Corsage	Down at the Rock	ST	03:26
Deserters	A.W.O.L.	ST	02:04
Glamorcult	Shadows From The Past	Shadows From The Past	03:54
Images In Vogue	For Germans	Incipience 4: Live At Luvafair October 6 1982	04:39
Diodes	Curiousity Girl	Survivors: Previously unreleased material 1977-1981	02:52
Norda	Snakes And Ladders	West Over Seas	02:51
Odd Man Out	World of My Own	Whatever Happened to Us b/w World of My Own (picture sleeve)	03:35
Palace at 4 a.m.	The Man Who Never Sleeps	Untamed World	04:10
Direktive 17	Run With Me	ST (EP)	04:35
Cardboard Brains	Babies Run My World	Live At The Edge	02:07
Mettle	Evening Ocean	ST	02:58
Glamorcult	Tokyo Streets	Tokyo Streets/ A Dream Girl To Me // Anna King/ Interlude	04:44
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Don't Be Afraid	Ohama Meets Dania: Love Only Lasts Awhile	04:30
Friendly Fire	Complete Control	Junior Senility EP	03:12
Eight Seconds	Picture	Big Houses	06:13
Deserters	Boys In Berlin	ST	03:42
Matheson, Andrew	True Romance	Monterey Shoes	03:42
Interpol	Chocolate Covered Killer Bees	ST	03:20
Drama	This Time	Old Hollywood (picture sleeve)	04:13
Scissors	Wrecked My Car	ST	02:16
Cannon Heath Down	ma-de-moi-selle	Heart-Throb Companion	03:15
Front, The	Looking For You	Gina's at a Party	04:32
Kaméléon	Un p'tit coup	ST	04:03
Rarefaction	Ordinary Man	Ordinary Man	04:17
Rational Youth	Holiday in Bangkok	ST (mini album)	05:27
Martha And The Muffins	Monotone	Metro Music	02:46
Spoons	Old Emotions	Talkback	03:42
Instructions	Tell-a-Photo	D-6 b/w Tell-a-Photo (picture sleeve)	03:38
Bunny & the Lakers	Oops On Parade	Numbers	01:30
Strange Advance	Watermusic	Worlds Away	00:55
Rarefaction	Open Up Your Heart	Ordinary Man	04:12
Dandelions	Great Big Pictures	Great Big Pictures b/w Funky Monday (picture sleeve)	04:01
Rambow, Philip	Beyond the Naked & the Dead	Jungle Law	03:11
Scene, The (2)	Meet the Man	Only in Paradise	03:54
Chemicals	Run and Hide	Out of My Mind b/w Run and Hide	02:49
Salty Seamen	I'm Done	In The Groove At Last	03:50
B-Sides	Underground Radio Stars (33⅓ rpm)	Bedtime for Ronald (or the USA) (EP)	02:40
Diodes	Terminal Rock (1978 Alternate Version) (CD only)	Rarities	03:21
Cannon Heath Down	Light Your Eyes	Heart-Throb Companion	03:06
Front, The	The Same Girl	Underworld	04:14
Klō	Break the Floor	Mrs. Fong b/w Break the Floor	03:34
Diodes	Rocket Over & Under	Action-Reaction	04:21
Start	Kids in the USA	Hey You	03:17
UJ3RK5	The Locator	ST (EP)	03:11
Glamatron	The Word (Death In September)	Only the Heart Beats...Inside the Silence	03:24
Compilation	Crash Course In Science - Kitchen Motors (Produced by John Wicks, Third Story Recording, Philadelphia, USA)	Strange Pleasures EP	02:36
Play, The	Whatever it Takes	Running Out of Time b/w Whatever it Takes	03:25
Spice	Just a Little Bit	Beautiful You b/w Just a Little Bit	02:17
Ohm & the Secret Sources	Mr. Crystal	Space and Time	05:32

New Wave Post Punk Wave

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Martha And The Muffins - Danseparc

Gas, The - Evacuate Mississauga (picture sleeve)

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Government - 33 ⅓ RPM E.P.

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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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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

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

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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Strange Advance - Worlds Away

Tulpa - Apologize to Your Mother (picture sleeve)

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Golden Calgarians - Savage Love

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Rational Youth - Cold War Nightlife

Rikki & The Rokkits - New Wave b/w They Never See (picture sleeve)

Micks - ST (EP)

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Chown, Avril - American Boys b/w Losin’ Sight

Broken Tables - ST

Bobby and Synthia - thirty-six hours (EP)

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Cottage Industry - The Winter's Tale

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Zhivago, Johnny - Microalbum

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Lawn - Peace in the Valley

45's - On the Beach

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Numbers - Sideways Elevator b/w Can't Take it

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