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
Happy Dolls Misty Blue Show Album No. 1
Stefan Gnys Evangeline English Oaks and Evangeline
Grimes Shadout Mapes Geidi Primes
John Palmer The Wheel Shorelines
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) A Mic In A Fist Year Zero
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Modern Rock Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre the canada council juree prson is missing Sonic Horses I
David Wiffen Times are Getting' Hard Live at the Bunkhouse
Stormbringer The Curse The Curse b/w Evil Mind
Moonstone Black Blind Light ST
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Lucio Agostini Centennial Caravan Once Upon a Hundred Years
Brad Richards Send a Little Love My Way Right Time for Love
A Joint Effort Tequilla Sunrise Final Effort
Two Tones We Come Here to Sing Live at the Village Corner
No Exit They'll Never Know ST
Braineaters London Town Planet X
Medium In Between ST
Robert Armes Lying Close Together Songs for Icarus
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Times are Changing Home Grown Stuff
A Joint Effort Winter Final Effort
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding Snowfall Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Phillip Werren Dance Music I Electronic Music (1968-1971)
Spring Fever Oh Baby Hold Me Woodstock
Skeptical Eye Believe in Me The Devil's Playground
Mystique Beyond the Four Winds Black Rider
Huckle Gabriola Day Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
VXN The Magic’s in Your Hands ST
The Organization 60 Years Ago ST
Roger Rodier Just fine Upon Velveatur
Langley Schools Music Project Help Me, Rhonda Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Pat's People Richman's Spiritual Today
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Roger Rodier Let's see some happyness Upon Velveatur
Mantra Midnigh Train (D'arcy Draper) ST
Moosetracks Someone on the Line ST
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre whn th toothpaste runs out Sonic Horses I
Arcade Fire The Woodland National Anthem ST
Hank Noble & His Red River Valley Boys I`ll Spend My Life Loving You Things That Might Have Been // I`ll Spend My Life Loving You
Ablaze Sadistic Dream Psychopath
Cargo Black Window Front Side, Back Side
Happy Dolls Drum Solo Show Album No. 1
Mantra Depend on Somebody (D'arcy Draper) ST
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre its raining all ovr th citee Sonic Horses I
Huckle The Sunshine Shuffle Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Original Bones Sit Down ST
Canadian Beadles Lonely Blue Boy Three Faces North
Art Snider Denise Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Robert Armes Slipping Away Songs for Icarus
Two Tones The Fox Live at the Village Corner
King Beezz Gloria Gloria b/w She Belongs to Me
Twice Upon a Never Go Where You Go Twice Upon a Never
Joni Mitchell You Dream Flat Tires Wild Things Run Fast (test pressing)
Mock Duck Introduction - Ground Hog Test Record
New Creation Eternity Ahead Troubled
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Broadway Boogie Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Comin' Home Hell Bent: A Collection of Hard Instrumentals (Split with King Herbert & the Knights)
Dolores Claman Western Way Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
King Herbert And the Knights Amen With Jack Harden
Gargoyle Barry Hunter - Learning How to Love ST
David Wiffen Climb the Stairs Camp Fortune (split with Tex Lecor)
Braineaters Closet Case Planet X
Sweet Somethings Frosty Friday hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Liska Coming Home Cry Out Loud
Brégent Epitaphe villon Poussière Des Regrets
John Palmer Such a Long Long Time Shorelines
Haunted Searching For My Baby ST
Dutch Mason Gonna Move to the Country Half Ain't Been Told
Souls of Inspyration Pursuit ST
Pat's People What Have They Done to the Rain Today
Rockadrome Very Strange Royal American 20th Century Blues
Happy Dolls Bombie Show Album No. 1
Papa Bears Medicine Show Wait and See ST
John Greenwood Blessed My Sailboat and Me
David Wiffen Slice of Life Live at the Bunkhouse
Lost Soul Dept. Wild-Weekend Wild-Weekend b/w Pot Belly
Other Half Stormy Monday Blues ST
Rascalz Gal Business Really Livin'
Brégent Métamorphoses du vampire Poussière Des Regrets
Canadian Beadles I Lost Your Love Last Night Three Faces North
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Country Cooking Phil
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra The Spy Who Loved Me James Bond 007
Stompin' Connors Tom My Swisha Miss Northland's Own
Vicky and the Coins Girl From Ipanema ST
Sweet Somethings Pot of Gold hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Skeptical Eye Tortured From Inside The Devil's Playground
Compilation Buddy Victor - Didn’t' We Unselfconsciously Canadian
Cargo Only My Best Friends Can Tell Front Side, Back Side
Liska Weekday Mother Cry Out Loud
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Hit The Breaks Year Zero
Athenians of Toronto 26 or 6 to 4 San Skoteiniazei
Langley Schools Music Project Desperado Wix - Brown Elementary School
Pepper Tree Carry On Pepper Tree & Penny MacCauley (split with Bobby Arvon)
Brégent La mélancolie Poussière Des Regrets
Johnny Teah & The Jubilee Mountain Boys Hello Mister Lonesome Sad Whistle b/w Hello Mister Lonesome
Nihilist Spasm Band When in London Sleep at the York Hotel No Record
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Goldfinger James Bond 007
Ronnie Dove and the Ron-Als I'm Happy Beach Rat b/w I'm Happy
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre fires in the tempul Awake in th Red Desert
Blind Owl Hooked On You ST

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

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Crash & Burn, TORONTO, Canada. July 22 and 23, 1977. Not one, but two big nights.

February 22, 1976 we headed across the street from Steve Park's house on Forsyth St. North in HAMILTON, and into what is now called The McMaster Children's Hospital, for our first photo shoot.

It was never really a great shot, but so far it's the only picture we have of our first gig, October 17, 1975. This one came from the Westdale High School year book, which is where we played, in the "new" cafeteria they built on the ground floor courtyard

September 8, 1977 starting the new school year out in Scarberia with TEENAGE HEAD at Centennial College

Lucio Agostini - Once Upon a Hundred Years

Mutual Understanding

In Wonderland

Mutual Understanding - In Wonderland

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