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
Billy O'Boie and the Country Jewels	I Love My Gal	I Love My Gal b/w Little Rosa (picture sleeve)	02:22
Perth County Conspiracy	Take Your Time	ST	03:21
Lewis Baloue	Don't Stop It Now	Romantic Times	05:10
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia	Café Symphony	ST	03:22
Stephanie Taylor	Chelsea Morning (Joni Mitchell)	"I Don't Know Where I Stand"	02:41
Sidewinders	Can't You Feel the Fire	Flatfoot Hustlin'	04:55
Spring	Long Long Way	Shine/ It's So Hard b/w Long, Long Way/ You Were Blind	03:17
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck	Funny Feeling	Home Grown Stuff	03:31
Sacrifice	DE01_Sacrifice_Larry_s Hideaway (Toronto)_1985-03-25	Interviews 1985 + First Live Show	46:51
Haunted	1-2-5	ST	02:30
Lucio Agostini	Reel	Once Upon a Hundred Years	01:07
Gargoyle	Ian Young - Child of the Sea	ST	01:21
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone	Rated "X"	"Coming Out"	03:45
VXN	Which One Are You	ST	03:11
Jerry Palmer	Your Love	String of Hits	02:53
D.N.A.	Seashell	Because I Love You b/w Seashell	04:08
A Joint Effort	Winter	Final Effort	04:01
Marty Gillan	Raindrops Keep Fallin'	Try A Little Kindness	02:44
Blind Owl	Open Your Window	ST	04:08
Lewis Baloue	Let's Fall in Love Tonight	L'amour	03:41
Michael Ratherford	Hard Drugs (Version)	Hard Drugs	03:54
Skeptical Eye	My Life Is	The Devil's Playground	02:04
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers	Hook & Sling	Hell Bent: A Collection of Hard Instrumentals (Split with King Herbert & the Knights)	05:51
Jack London & the Sparrows	Take it Slow (vocal by Jerry Edmonton)	ST	02:17
Huckle	Beautiful You Are	Wild Blue Yonder	04:27
Joe College & the Rulers	It Ain't Allright (With Me)	It Ain't Allright (With Me) b/w Working Class Hero	04:10
British North American Act	Joe Cool	In the Beginning	02:27
Twice Upon a Never	Butterfly of Love	Twice Upon a Never	02:45
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre	awake in the red desert	Awake in th Red Desert	03:37
Jeremy Dormouse	rollin' again	Toad Rejects	02:38
Jeremy Dormouse	I Need a Friend	Toad	02:12
New Creation	Yet Still Time	Troubled	03:25
Lewis Baloue	Even Rainbows Turn Blue	L'amour	03:33
R. Taylor Dean	Poor Girl	My Lady Bug Stay Away From That Beatle Bug b/w Poor Girl (unreleased)	02:40
Derek Scott Markle	To Whisper Out Your Name	ST	02:35
Lewis Baloue	We Danced All Night	Romantic Times	03:35
Neil Young	My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)	My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) (promo, DJ Label copy only)	03:46
Cyrus Eden	You Came For Me	First Offense (EP)	02:53
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck	Walk Your Head Around	Home Grown Stuff	04:30
Robert Armes	Fallen Star	Songs for Icarus	04:28
Twice Upon a Never	Turtle Dove	Twice Upon a Never	02:16
Jack London & the Sparrows	Give My Love to Sally	ST	02:52
Randy Bishop	Two Jugglers	I Sing A Soft Song	02:55
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
David Fromager	Concrete City Life	If What You Said Was True	02:20
Liska	Dagger of the Soul	Cry Out Loud	01:36
Clymaxe	Walkin' Blues	R. U. Cumming? b/w Walkin' Blues	04:05
The Mix	Maybe (Face To The Wall)	Break Up Shake Up (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:25
Stompin' Tom Connors	Sudbury Saturday Night	Northland's Own	02:31
David Wiffen	Times are Getting' Hard	Live at the Bunkhouse	03:11
Liska	Tear Away My Heart	Cry Out Loud	03:31
April Wine	Gimme Love	The Whole World's Going Crazy (test pressing)	03:58
Cargo	Rural Route One	Rural Route One b/w Initial Mailing	02:18
Sedum Shadows	Thinking Away	Thinking Away b/w Anatomy of a Shadow	02:26
Riverson	Take Me (Rayburn Blake)	ST	02:55
The Organization	Who Ever Finds This	ST	04:31
The Organization	Change in the Weather	ST	02:37
Opposite	Higher and Higher	Help Us Make It	02:46
EQ	Freestyle	Swellsville	04:33
Echoes and a Dream	Midnight Passion	Echoes and a Dream	04:18
Michael-Jon Rosenberg	The High	ST	06:00
Brazda Brothers	Nature	ST	03:04
Tex Lecor	Le frigidaire	Camp Fortune (split with David Wiffen)	02:57
Mantra	Simple Joys (D'arcy Draper)	ST	03:10
Stumpwater	Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	03:33
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Souls of Inspyration	Dil Kusha (Heart's Happiness)	ST	06:44
Catseye	Hedgegate	Catseye	04:10
Rogues	I Can't Hold Out Much Longer	I Can't Hold Out Much Longer b/w I'll Make It Up To You	02:28
Jensen Sisters	You Light Up My Life	Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze	03:12
Ellison	Winter Slutch (Vincent Marandola)	ST	04:06
Happy Dolls	Hello Dolly	Show Album No. 1	01:44
Athenians of Toronto	Light My Fire	San Skoteiniazei	03:21
Medium	I'll Love Everyone at Last	ST	02:53
Other Half	In Passing	ST	04:26
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle	Gravel Road	ST	02:28
Two Tones	This is My Song	Live at the Village Corner	02:19
Jeremy Dormouse	Young Face	Toad	01:53
Huckle	Lady Goldberry	Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)	02:31
Stompin' Tom Connors	Goin' Back Up North	Northland's Own	02:48
British North American Act	All the World is In Your Eyes	In the Beginning	02:13
Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Royal Family	Sometimes	Sometimes b/w Solitude (picture sleeve)	02:09
Plastic Cloud	You Don't Care	ST	10:35
Georges Leningrad	lollipon lady	Made In Taiwan	03:31
Langley Schools Music Project	Space Oddity	Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger	05:26
Jerry Palmer	Travelin' Shoes	String of Hits	02:04
Art Snider	Silly Jilly	Corny Songs I Play on My Organ	02:14
Stephanie Taylor	Softly as I Leave You	"I Don't Know Where I Stand"	02:52
Emtidi	Love Time Rain	Saat	02:54
VXN	No More	Putting Love Aside b/w No More (picture sleeve)	03:49
David Fromager	Nicky	If What You Said Was True	03:00
Ablaze	Sadistic Dream	Psychopath	05:34
Langley Schools Music Project	To Know Him is to Love Him	Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger	01:49
Emtidi	Die Reise	Saat	10:15
New Reality	Lost Never Found	Demo Tape	04:46
Boys Brigade	Shadows	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	03:28
Jeremy Dormouse	the immortal st. canthor	Toad Rejects	03:14
Gargoyle	Doug Watters and Paul Lang - History of the World (occasional percussion by Tim Inkster)	ST	09:11

Rarest Canadian Music

Tracks

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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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Lorne Ranger - French Fried Freedom

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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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Dolores Claman - Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes

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Billy Martin - Strawberry Soul

Jimmy Apostle & the Willows - I Love Ya Honey b/w Lost Love

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Ellison - ST

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Perth County Conspiracy - ST

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Heat - Brighouse b/w Rocking Chair

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

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Kings - Switchin'

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

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

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Joker's Memory - ST

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Beverly Glenn-Copeland - ST

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