Unexpected Guest at a Cancelled Party is a compilation album of unreleased material by Canadian 80s new wave band Spoons.

Named after the B-side to their "Talk Back" single, it was released independently by Spoons member Gordon Deppe in June 2007 (2007-06).

According to Gordon Deppe the album "covers the time roughly between 1983 and 1985",[2] and was the band's first release of studio material since their 1988 Vertigo Tango album.

Deppe related the origin of the material: "Most of these songs were recorded after "Romantic Traffic" and "Tell No Lies", in a tiny, hidden away studio in Oakville, Ontario.

We were about to embark on a whole new chapter in our musical lives that would leave these old ideas forgotten, to slowly weather over time and eventually fade into the earth.