Rarest Canadian Music

Welcome to the deep end of the archive—an unparalleled collection of Canada’s most elusive, obscure, and impossible-to-find recordings. Private press LPs, vanished 45s, cassette-only gems, and forgotten studio experiments—all rescued from the brink of silence. Spanning every genre and region, RAREST CANADIAN MUSIC shines a light on the voices, visions, and vinyl that slipped through the cracks of mainstream history. Unearthed, digitized, and preserved—this is Canada’s hidden soundtrack.

Tracks

Artist	Track	Title	Length
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra	Dr. No	James Bond 007	02:31
Gentlemen of Horror	God Knows you by Name	Sterling Death (EP) (alien cover)	01:26
Gordon Lightfoot	Steel Rail Blues	Movin' Soundtrack (CN picture sleeve) (split with Jean Pierre Ferland)	02:53
Pat's People	Changes	Today	03:27
Garden Bower	18 Bricker	Etc. w/ Trains	02:47
Ray Griff	Friends and Neighbors	Canada "My Native Land"	03:12
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry)	Who You Frontin' For (Remix)	Year Zero	04:02
Wes Dakus & the Club 93 Rebels	Dog Food	Dog Food b/w Surfs U Rite (promo)	02:08
Jack London & the Sparrows	Give My Love to Sally	ST	02:52
Mynah Birds	The Mynah Bird Hop	The Mynah Bird Hop b/w The Mynah Bird Song	02:20
Burgundy	Ex-Lovin' Man	Lady Blue b/w Ex-Lovin' Man	02:48
Dutch Mason	Tighten Up On It	Half Ain't Been Told	03:42
Benge	Money Man	Money Man b/w Black Sky Lullaby	02:39
Chantettes	Man Come Into Egypt	Remember.....	02:20
Sheila Graham	Little Green Apples	ST	03:49
Original Bones	Lady Anne	ST	03:05
Rockadrome	R.A.T.C.B. Teaser	Royal American 20th Century Blues	01:08
Riverson	Hermit Glen (Rayburn Blake)	ST	03:06
Moonstone	Relative Hoak	ST	02:28
The Organization	Don't Let the Green Grass Fool Ya	ST	02:58
Jim Brown	Wayne Carr - Timbral Changes	The First See Hear	04:57
Alexander Brott & Donald McGill	Canada: Case History (Earle Birney) - Erosion (E.J. Pratt) - Children of Martha (Gilean Douglas) - Quiet (Marjorie Pickthall) - Paul Bunyan (A Legend of his return to St. Eustache) (Arthur S. Bourinot	Sept for Seven: Seven Brief Movements Combining the Arts of Music and Poetry - A Setting of Five Canadian Poems, Introduced by Musical Prelude and concluded with a Postlude	14:29
Canadian Beadles	Lonely Blue Boy	Three Faces North	02:39
Ray Griff	Maple Leaf	Canada "My Native Land"	03:41
Jolly Tambourine Man	I AM Albella	Wheeeee! Demo	02:12
David Fromager	Country Boy's Memories	If What You Said Was True	04:35
Five Man Cargo	Why Can't I Get You	Memories b/w Why Can't I Get You	02:55
Braineaters	Screw You	Planet X	01:44
Happy Dolls	Drum Solo	Show Album No. 1	05:14
Intersystems	Orange Juice & Velvet Underwear	Number One	19:41
Sweet Somethings	Pot of Gold	hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'	02:31
King Herbert And the Knights	Sing a Simple Song	With Jack Harden	04:48
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	Historical Implications of Turnips	Motherlove	00:24
London Experimental Jazz Quartet	Edible Wallpaper	Invisible Roots	04:01
Story Structure	I Told You (Extended Mix)	I Told You	06:33
David	Take My Hand	ST	03:50
Lucio Agostini	Cocktails In New York	Once Upon a Hundred Years	01:09
Athenians of Toronto	Now More Than Ever	San Skoteiniazei	07:44
Mike Harris	Bill Cheatem	Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)	01:46
Story Structure	I Told You (Instrumental Mix)	I Told You	04:55
The Chessmen	Meadowlands	Mustang b/w Meadowlands	02:33
Willie Dunn	Walking Eagle	Who Were The Ones? Parts 11-12	07:01
Reign Ghost	More Than I	Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires	03:36
Brégent	Je t'Aime	Poussière Des Regrets	05:49
Barry Ennis	Mountain of Ice	Mountain of Ice b/w School Days	01:36
Moosetracks	Someone on the Line	ST	04:40
Cargo	Dubious	Front Side, Back Side	02:55
Reign Ghost	Reaching	ST	09:12
Christmas	Just Suppose	ST	04:29
Genèse	Je crois en moi	L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi	02:34
Langley Schools Music Project	Calling Occupants	Wix - Brown Elementary School	05:21
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck	Walk Your Head Around	Home Grown Stuff	04:30
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre	th ride to th place uv meditaysyun	Sonic Horses I	24:36
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone	Sunshine	"Coming Out"	04:59
Ted Daigle	Cut Across Shorty	Teenage Time	01:41
Hazel McKirdy	End of the World	End of the World b/w Mama Didn't Lie	02:33
Emtidi	Walkin' In The Park	Saat	06:38
Laurie Ingalls	Mountain Magic	Cheap Champagne	02:52
Brazda Brothers	My Little Girl	ST	02:54
No Exit	Decisions	ST	01:29
Trooper	Mr. Big	3 Dressed Up as a 9 b/w Mr. Big (test pressing)	03:22
Skeptical Eye	The Devil's Playground	The Devil's Playground	08:31
Black Knight	Warlords Wrath	Master of Disaster (EP)	05:19
Cargo	Initial Mailing	Rural Route One b/w Initial Mailing	04:19
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau	I'm Not Guilty	ST (psych cover)	03:47
Lost Soul Dept.	Wild-Weekend	Wild-Weekend b/w Pot Belly	02:08
Huckle	I Surrender	Wild Blue Yonder	03:33
Jolly Tambourine Man	Movin' On Up	Wheeeee! Demo	01:12
Ultimate Image	It's a Hard Life	It's a Hard Life b/w Rains of Autumn	02:54
New Creation	Songs to Sing	Troubled	01:48
Gargoyle	Ian Young - A Childhood in South Africa: The Veld Near Ladybrand	ST	01:53
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
Nomads Four	Be On Your Way	Be On Your Way b/w Come On Home	02:33
Langley Schools Music Project	The Long and Winding Road	Wix - Brown Elementary School	03:49
High Park	Let Go the Lifeline	Let Go the Lifeline b/w Sewer Side	01:58
Brad Richards	Send a Little Love My Way	Right Time for Love	03:48
Stefan Gnys	Soliloguy	English Oaks and Evangeline	03:40
Boys Brigade	Shadows	Mannequin Demo	03:32
Happy Dolls	Bombie	Show Album No. 1	04:06
New Day	Gotta Spread Some Love Around	They're Callin' Me Back Home b/w Gotta Spread Some Love Around	04:09
Marty Gillan	Time and Love	Try A Little Kindness	03:09
Reign Ghost	The Gum Wrapper Song	ST	01:51
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding	Silent Night	Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding	03:17
Ted Daigle	Young & Beautiful	Teenage Time	02:26
Catseye	Am I the One	Catseye	03:46
Huckle	Beyonder	Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)	04:25
Clockwork	Cybernaut	Cybernaut b/w Mean Lady	03:57
Sound Sett	I've Been Loving You Too Long (Otis Redding & Jerry Butler)	1966-1967	03:15
Gentlemen of Horror	Bank	ST (EP) (skeleton cover)	00:57
Sound Sett	She Ain't No Use to Me (Dave Bingham & Roger Mayne, The Ugly Ducklings)	1966-1967	03:07
Rascalz	How the Story Goes	Really Livin'	04:32
Rascalz	Gal Business	Really Livin'	02:51
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	01:37
Dutch Mason	Gonna Move to the Country	Half Ain't Been Told	03:38
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia	Rainbow	ST	03:32
Jeremy Dormouse	October Morning	Toad	02:20
Nick Ayoub Quintet	Two and	The Montreal Scene	04:05
Moosetracks	Lest We Forget	ST	03:50
David Wiffen	Slice of Life	Live at the Bunkhouse	01:50
Boys Brigade	Portrait	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	07:45

Rarest Canadian Music

Tracks

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Ellison - ST

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Clockwork - Cybernaut b/w Mean Lady

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Hi Octane Band - Shakey Ground b/w Feelings

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Something Evil - Die Children Die b/w The Great Winnipeg Riot

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Hagood Hardy & the Montage - The Garden Path b/w Won't You Step Into My Life

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The Other Half - ST

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The Haunted - ST

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Minutes From Downtown - Minutes From Downtown '82

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Jolly Tambourine Man - Wheeeee! Demo

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Reign Ghost - Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires

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Reign Ghost - ST

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Christmas - ST

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Lorne Ranger - French Fried Freedom

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Caribou - ST

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Laurie Ingalls - Cheap Champagne

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Sacrifice - Interviews 1985 + First Live Show

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Sacrifice - The Exorcism

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Sacrifice - Turn In Your Grave (demo)

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Dimitroff, Burgess and Friends - Dimitroff, Burgess and Friends

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Ablaze - Psychopath

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May Run - Days Into Years

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Gerry Fiander - So Long, Goodbye (split with Jim Morrison)

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Moonstone - ST

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bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) - Motherlove

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New Creation - Troubled

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Boys Brigade - Live Off-The-Floor Demo

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Boys Brigade - Mannequin Demo

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Haggath - Rehearsal Ildiko's, Toronto, 1986-02-07

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Haggath - Rehearsal 1985-09

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Haggath - Rehearsal 1985-03-11

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