Rarest Canadian Music

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
Don And Adrian Lord When I’m Down River Run You Down b/w Lord When I’m Down
Rock-a-tunes Maria Maria b/w You're Some Kind of Nice (picture sleeve)
Mike Harris Golden Slippers Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Brégent Métamorphoses du vampire Poussière Des Regrets
Aftermath Sunny Do You Believe In Magic? b/w Sunny
New Reality Here He Goes Demo Tape
B.C. Centennial Spots B.C. Centennial Song Cut No. 4 B.C. Centennial Song
Huckle Get Down Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Bear Paws Can't You See Kitche-Ogamah
Bear Paws Devil Is On the Run Kitche-Ogamah
Spring Fever I Just Want to Make Love to You Woodstock
Langley Schools Music Project God Only Knows Wix - Brown Elementary School
Grimes Venus In Fleurs Geidi Primes
Derek Scott Markle The Circle is Changin' Around ST
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre heard ya tellin Awake in th Red Desert
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre th ride to th place uv meditaysyun Sonic Horses I
Jeff Moore & Friends For You (Jeff Moore) The Youngest Son
Moosetracks Down Young Street ST
Langley Schools Music Project Riannon Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Jim Brown Bruce Clarke - Of Spiralling Why The First See Hear
Five Man Cargo Why Can't I Get You Memories b/w Why Can't I Get You
Christmas Just Suppose ST
Compilation Jim Wheeler and the Spokes - Secret Spy International Master Discovery Records
Bent Wind Look at Love Sussex
Mantra Depend on Somebody (D'arcy Draper) ST
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Cryin' All Alone Chip Dip
Liska Rose Cry Out Loud
Don And Adrian River Run You Down River Run You Down b/w Lord When I’m Down
Rascalz The Roughest (We Are) Really Livin'
Orphic Egg Crack It Crack It b/w Crack It
David Wiffen Mule Skinner Blues Live at the Bunkhouse
Randy Bishop Two Jugglers I Sing A Soft Song
Two Tones This is My Song Live at the Village Corner
Langley Schools Music Project Good Vibrations Wix - Brown Elementary School
Joe College & the Rulers Working Class Hero It Ain't Allright (With Me) b/w Working Class Hero
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Intermission Poetry Home Grown Stuff
Plastic Cloud Face Behind the Sun ST
Braineaters Johnny Planet X
Perth County Conspiracy Woman for All Seasons ST
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Jazz Compo No. 2 "The Beak" ST
Raphaels Someday Someday b/w I Change My Mind
Michael-Jon Rosenberg Smokestack Lightning ST
David Wiffen Driving Wheel Camp Fortune (split with Tex Lecor)
David Fromager Radio Madness If What You Said Was True
Benge Black Sky Lullaby Money Man b/w Black Sky Lullaby
Skarecrow I Got to Have It Blues...Live at the Explorer
Sidewinders Time For Loving Flatfoot Hustlin'
Derek Scott Markle Goin' Thru the Town ST
Stephanie Taylor Chelsea Morning (Joni Mitchell) "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Michel & the French Canadians Cause I Believe Cause I Believe b/w Comfort Him (picture sleeve)
Rockadrome Inside Out, Inside In Royal American 20th Century Blues
Triaxe Persecution Chain of Superstition b/w Persecution
Ronney Mitchell Quando Quando The Five Man Cargo
Fabulous PJ's Proud Mary What Do You Want Me to Do? b/w Proud Mary
Billy Martin Phillie Dog Strawberry Soul
King Herbert And the Knights Ooga Boogaloo With Jack Harden
Northwest Company Get Away From it All Hard to Cry b/w Get Away From it All
Jeremy Dormouse what joy - what bliss Toad Rejects
Huckle Hello Sunshine Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Haunted Shake ST
Pat's People Changes Today
Ray Griff The Last of the Winfield Amateurs Canada "My Native Land"
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Roads to New York Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Moosetracks Hangman ST
Terry & The Pyrates Someone Keep On Dancin' b/w Someone
Jeremy Dormouse Believe Me Toad
Other Half Swinging Shepherd ST
Dutch Mason Mannish Boy Half Ain't Been Told
Platinum Blonde Hey Hey You Hey Hey You b/w No Regrets
George Cook Why Have You Left Me the Way I Am Why Have You Left Me the Way I Am // On the Trail of Sunset Valley
Legacy Come With Me Come With Me b/w Gimme My Drugs
Blind Owl Nova Scotia Morning ST
Jack London & the Sparrows Leavin' Blues (vocal by Jerry Edmonton) ST
Don Carrington Trio Make Me Smile Makin' It Happen
Gargoyle Doug Watters and Paul Lang - History of the World (occasional percussion by Tim Inkster) ST
The Organization Together Forever ST
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) The Incest Song Motherlove
Haunted Montreal Blues ST
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Strange Movies (I Can) Feel It Coming (I Can) Feel It Coming b/w What A Drag
Spring Fever She Taught My Katie Woodstock
Chantettes Gay Hawaiian Melody Remember.....
Arcade Fire No Cars Go ST
Terry & The Pyrates Keep On Dancin' Keep On Dancin' b/w Someone
Derek Scott Markle To Whisper Out Your Name ST
Bonnie Scots Jeanie McCall Laugh and Cry
New Reality Yesterday a Child Was Born Demo Tape
David Fromager Country Boy's Memories If What You Said Was True
Lucio Agostini Centennial Caravan Once Upon a Hundred Years
Original Bones Sit Down ST
November Grief T.W.O.D. To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Jim Brown Ross Barrett & Jim Brown - Tree Person The First See Hear
Skarecrow Rest Assured Blues...Live at the Explorer
London Experimental Jazz Quartet The Sound of Next Year's Echo Invisible Roots
Norris Vines and The Luvlines Give In Give In b/w Feel The Warm
Two Tones Lord I'm So Weary Live at the Village Corner
Riverson Between the Lines (Brian Edwards) ST
Chantettes This Land is Your Land Remember.....
Haunted Out of Time ST
Marty Gillan Colours Try A Little Kindness

I Love Ya Honey b/w Lost Love

ST

Compilation

ST

GUESS289-color

Brighouse b/w Rocking Chair

45-Something Evil-Die Children Die VINYL 02

45-Something Evil-Die Children Die VINYL 01

45-Something Evil-The Great Winnipeg Riot BACK

Die Children Die b/w The Great Winnipeg Riot

Something Evil

Heat

45-Heat - Brighouse bw Rocking Chair VINYL 02

Switchin'

Diodes' Paul Robinson @ Black Swan, Ottawa March 1978 courtesy Cameron Muir

Shine/ It's So Hard b/w Long, Long Way/ You Were Blind

David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges

1980-07_DOA_Toronto_flyer

1983-01-03_DOA_Pier (Raleigh, NC)_flyer_+

1984-09-28_DOA + Abrasive Wheels + Battalion Of Saints + Killroy_Olympic Audit (LA, CA)_flyer_+

1987-05-24_Sacrifice + Ablaze + Faulkwolf_Bathurst Theatre (Toronto)_orange original flyer reduced

ST

ST

Glenn-Copeland, Beverly

Sussex

Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Comments

Robert Williston

ok. thanks. I'll get those posted in the next little while....RW

Anonymous

oops - correct title of the Rockadrome album is "Royal American 20th Century Blues" - vk

Anonymous

I'd like to nominate: the first Cargo album (Front Side Back Side), bil bisset & mandan massacre (Awake in th Red Desert), the first two Intersystems albums, Jeff Moore & Friends (The Youngest Son), the second Reign Ghost album (featuring Lynda Squires), and Rockadrome (20th Century Royal American Blues) - vk