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
R. Taylor Dean My Lady Bug Stay Away From That Beatle Bug My Lady Bug Stay Away From That Beatle Bug b/w Poor Girl (unreleased)
Terry & The Pyrates Someone Keep On Dancin' b/w Someone
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Eric's Madness Invisible Roots
Roger Rodier While my castles burning Upon Velveatur
Jim Morrison Ready to Rock Ready to Rock b/w (split with Gerry Fiander)
Heat Brighouse Brighouse b/w Rocking Chair
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Chip's Groove Chip Dip
Stefan Gnys You're Not The Only One English Oaks and Evangeline
Mantra Hopscotch (Part 2) (Dick Kelder) ST
Vic Vogel Shadow of Your Smile and Yesterday Montreal Bandleader
Something Evil The Great Winnipeg Riot Die Children Die b/w The Great Winnipeg Riot
Blind Owl Open Your Window ST
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers A Stranger in Your Own World The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Spring Fever A Long Time Coming Woodstock
Mike Harris Patty the Coon Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Opposite Higher and Higher Help Us Make It
Tex Lecor Le frigidaire Camp Fortune (split with David Wiffen)
Intersystems track 01 (entire side 1) Free Psychadelic Poster Inside
John Palmer Such a Long Long Time Shorelines
Roger Rodier Let's see some happyness Upon Velveatur
No Exit Downtown Weekend ST
The Organization Superstar ST
Art Snider Sweet Caroline Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Cargo I Found a Way Once a Proud Man b/w I Found a Way
Happy Dolls Hello Dolly Show Album No. 1
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre an ode to d a levy Awake in th Red Desert
Souls of Inspyration Of Lambs & Wolves ST
Rascalz Perfect Check Up Really Livin'
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Goldfinger James Bond 007
Adanac Reply The Other One What Would It Be Like? b/w The Other One
Gentlemen of Horror Rough Hike Sterling Death (EP) (alien cover)
David Fromager Concrete City Life If What You Said Was True
Reign Ghost Standing Room Only, Mr. Mars ST
Rockadrome Inside Out, Inside In Royal American 20th Century Blues
Sound Sett Oh No (The Sound Sett) 1966-1967
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) State Of The Art Year Zero
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Plastic Cloud Art's a Happy Man ST
Chantettes Advertisement Song Remember.....
King Herbert And the Knights Chicken Strut With Jack Harden
Biggy Twiggy Band I Don't Want That to Change Mama Won't Let You b/w I Don't Want That to Change
The Mix Break Up Shake Up Break Up Shake Up (EP) (picture sleeve)
Robert Armes Woman in Toronto Songs for Icarus
Roger Rodier My spirits calling Upon Velveatur
Riverson Can't Live Without You (Franki Hart) ST
Grimes Grisgris Geidi Primes
Gentlemen of Horror Overhead Projector Sterling Death (EP) (alien cover)
David Fromager Catch Him If You Can If What You Said Was True
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Ablaze Sadistic Dream Psychopath
Barbara Gryfe One Child What the World Needs Now
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Wanda Unda Landa Chip Dip
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Rainbow ST
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Robert Armes Lying Close Together Songs for Icarus
Sheila Graham Straight Life ST
Jeremy Dormouse October Morning Toad
Pat's People Turn, Turn, Turn Today
Twice Upon a Never California Dreamin' Twice Upon a Never
Barbara Gryfe Don't Give Up What the World Needs Now
Langley Schools Music Project Help Me, Rhonda Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Sugluk Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Nerve Odd Fellows - Cretonia (1982) (unreleased) Penchant b/w Preludes
Bent Wind Goin' to the City Sussex
Huckle April Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Rockadrome There You Go Again Royal American 20th Century Blues
Willie Dunn Ballad of a Metis Who Were The Ones? Parts 11-12
Blind Owl Hooked On You ST
New Reality Moments of Silence Demo Tape
John Greenwood Blessed My Sailboat and Me
British North American Act I'll Find a Way In the Beginning
VXN No More Putting Love Aside b/w No More (picture sleeve)
Art Snider "Travellin Man" (Theme from the Tommy Hunter Show) Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Grimes Caladan Geidi Primes
New Reality Yesterday a Child Was Born Demo Tape
No Exit Do You Wanna Join? ST
Cyrus Eden You Came For Me First Offense (EP)
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau I'm Not Guilty ST (psych cover)
Billy O'Boie and the Country Jewels I Love My Gal I Love My Gal b/w Little Rosa (picture sleeve)
EQ Step Up Swellsville
Marty Gillan Time and Love Try A Little Kindness
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone That's the Way I Like It "Coming Out"
Compilation Jim Wheeler and the Spokes - Secret Spy International Master Discovery Records
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) The Bassment Show Year Zero
New Reality Here He Goes Demo Tape
Plastic Cloud Epistle to Paradise ST
Braineaters Modern Man Pt 2 Planet X
Mike Harris Bill Cheatem Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Ted Daigle It May be Silly Teenage Time
Skarecrow My Coffee's Gettin' Cold Blues...Live at the Explorer
Catseye Rhythms of an Empty Room Catseye
High Park Let Go the Lifeline Let Go the Lifeline b/w Sewer Side
John Palmer Return Shorelines
Skarecrow Rest Assured Blues...Live at the Explorer
George Hauschild & Carole Penticton Penticton b/w But For Love
Jerry Palmer Gotta Learn to Twist String of Hits
John Palmer Better Later Than Never Shorelines
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre fires in the tempul Awake in th Red Desert
Twice Upon a Never Pussy Willows, Cat Tails Twice Upon a Never
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre heard ya tellin Awake in th Red Desert

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

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