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
VXN The Magic’s in Your Hands ST
Adanac Reply What Would It Be Like? What Would It Be Like? b/w The Other One
Bear Paws House of the Rising Sun Kitche-Ogamah
EQ Hostile Swellsville
Marty Gillan Colours Try A Little Kindness
Original Bones Steamboat Whistle Blues ST
Platinum Blonde No Regrets Hey Hey You b/w No Regrets
Ray Griff Our Country Canada "My Native Land"
Shagnasty Ringing in My Ear Ringing in My Ear b/w All My Teachers
Ardels Stereo Popeye Rhythm & Blues
Bear Paws Standing by the River Kitche-Ogamah
Grimes Shadout Mapes Geidi Primes
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Lewis Baloue It's a New Day Romantic Times
The Fringe Token For My Mind Canada's Next Number One Recording Group (EP) promo
Original Bones Drop Down Mama ST
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre normal is not returning Sonic Horses I
Orphic Egg Crack It Crack It b/w Crack It
Five Man Cargo Memories Memories b/w Why Can't I Get You
Alanis Morissette Fate Stay With Me Fate Stay With Me (picture disc)
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Oil in the Ground "Coming Out"
Dennis Walton Jah Way to Salvation is Easy Sweeter Love
King Beezz She Belongs to Me Gloria b/w She Belongs to Me
Haunted Untie Me ST
Twice Upon a Never Come the Day Twice Upon a Never
Stonemen In the Evening In the Evening b/w Faded Colors
Langley Schools Music Project Calling Occupants Wix - Brown Elementary School
Stephanie Taylor Long and Winding Road "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Twice Upon a Never Turtle Dove Twice Upon a Never
Lewis Baloue Summer's Moon L'amour
Huckle Wild Blue Yonder Wild Blue Yonder
Nerve Odd Fellows - Cretonia (1982) (unreleased) Penchant b/w Preludes
Stefan Gnys Horizoning English Oaks and Evangeline
EQ Step Up Swellsville
The Organization Don't Let the Green Grass Fool Ya ST
Gargoyle Ian Young - A Childhood in South Africa: The Veld Near Ladybrand ST
King Herbert And the Knights Chicken Strut With Jack Harden
John Greenwood Hey, Minstrel Boy My Sailboat and Me
Compilation Buddy Victor - Didn’t' We Unselfconsciously Canadian
Bent Wind Touch of Red Sussex
B.C. Centennial Spots B.C. Centennial Song Cut No. 4 B.C. Centennial Song
Jerry Palmer Sweet Lorene String of Hits
No Exit Decisions ST
Jeremy Dormouse Who Do You Love Toad
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Eric's Madness Invisible Roots
Royal Family Sometimes Sometimes b/w Solitude (picture sleeve)
Trevor Dandy It's a Long Journey Don't Cry Little Tree
Reign Ghost The Gum Wrapper Song ST
Neil Young My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) (promo, DJ Label copy only)
Blind Owl Nova Scotia Morning ST
Ice Soul Searcher On the Radio b/w Soul Searcher
Wes Dakus & the Club 93 Rebels Dog Food Dog Food b/w Surfs U Rite (promo)
Catseye I Met a Girl Out in the Country Catseye
Nina Dunn Stay and Dance If You Want My Love (Do It) b/w Stay and Dance
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding The Bell that Couldn't Jingle Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
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)
Trooper 3 Dressed Up as a 9 3 Dressed Up as a 9 b/w Mr. Big (test pressing)
Willie Dunn Protest Song Who Were The Ones? Parts 11-12
Michael Ratherford Hard Drugs (Version) Hard Drugs
Langley Schools Music Project Mandy Wix - Brown Elementary School
November Grief Psychotopsy To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Cargo Talk With Us Front Side, Back Side
Lost Soul Dept. Pot Belly Wild-Weekend b/w Pot Belly
Robert Armes Song for Icarus Songs for Icarus
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Jack London & the Sparrows It's Been One of Those Days ST
Sweet Somethings Frosty Friday hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Stompin' Tom Connors The Northern Gentleman Little Wawa b/w The Northern Gentleman
Boys Brigade Saigon Live Off-The-Floor Demo
Opposite Help Us Make it Through the Night Help Us Make It
Jim Brown Lloyd Burritt - The Hollow Men The First See Hear
Thornton Rogers J. Out in the West Out in the West b/w The Blues
Opposite Ebony Eyes Help Us Make It
Joker's Memory A Jokers Memory Part Two ST
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre fires in the tempul Awake in th Red Desert
Ladykiller Ice Woman Still Madly in Love b/w Ice Woman
Gargoyle Barry Hunter - I Got That Feeling ST
Brégent Mon frère Poussière Des Regrets
Raphaels I Change My Mind Someday b/w I Change My Mind
Huckle Gather The Children Wild Blue Yonder
Brazda Brothers Your Kingdom ST
British North American Act All the World is In Your Eyes In the Beginning
Spring Fever Oh Baby Hold Me Woodstock
Sound Sett Mustang Sally (Mack Rice) 1966-1967
November Grief Recuring Nightmares To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
John Palmer Such a Long Long Time Shorelines
Dutch Mason Baby Please Don't Go Half Ain't Been Told
Georges Leningrad lollipon lady Made In Taiwan
Mock Duck My Time Test Record
Andre Beaupre The Saga of Wayne Gretzky The Saga of Wayne Gretzky b/w The Saga of Wayne Gretzky Part II
Jack London & the Sparrows If You Don't Want My Love ST
New Creation All is Well Troubled
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre leevin th electrik citee Sonic Horses I
Langley Schools Music Project Desperado Wix - Brown Elementary School
Arcade Fire No Cars Go ST
Plateau My Life My Life b/w Under the Big House
Jeremy Dormouse Believe Me Toad
Michael-Jon Rosenberg The High ST
Athenians of Toronto 26 or 6 to 4 San Skoteiniazei
Stompin' Tom Connors Little Wawa Little Wawa b/w The Northern Gentleman

FEATURED

Boys Brigade - Live Off-The-Floor Demo

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Boys Brigade - Mannequin Demo

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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

Mississauga, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Haggath - Rehearsal 1985-09

Mississauga, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Haggath - Rehearsal 1985-03-11

Mississauga, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Dolores Claman - Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes

Vancouver, British Columbia → Toronto → London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Billy Martin - Strawberry Soul

Harlem, New York, 🇺🇸 - Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

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

FEATURED

Ellison - ST

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Perth County Conspiracy - ST

Stratford, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Heat - Brighouse b/w Rocking Chair

FEATURED

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

Winnipeg, Manitoba, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Kings - Switchin'

Vancouver, British Columbia; Oakville, Ontario

FEATURED

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

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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

Barrie, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Joker's Memory - ST

Ottawa, Ontario

FEATURED

Beverly Glenn-Copeland - ST

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 🇺🇸 → Montréal, Québec → New Brunswick, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Bent Wind - Sussex

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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

Hamilton, Ontario, 🇨🇦

The Mutual Understanding - In Wonderland

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Jim Brown - The First See Hear

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra - James Bond 007

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Reign Ghost - ST

Oshawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Reign Ghost - Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires

Oshawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone - "Coming Out"

Philadelphia, USA → Florida, USA → Ottawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

The Chessmen - Mustang b/w Meadowlands

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

London Experimental Jazz Quartet - Invisible Roots

London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Nihilist Spasm Band - No Record

London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Diodes - Raw / War (split with The Curse)

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

D.N.A. - Because I Love You b/w Seashell

Hamilton, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Live Off-The-Floor Demo

Mannequin Demo

Boys Brigade

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

Rehearsal 1985-09

Rehearsal 1985-03-11

Haggath

Haggath / Rehearsal 1985-09 tape

Haggath / Rehearsal 1985-09_tape track list_02

Haggath / Live Rehearsal Ildiko's, Toronto, 1986-02-07_tape cover_02

Haggath / Live Rehearsal Ildiko's, Toronto, 1986-02-07_tape cover_03

Haggath / Rehearsal 1985-03-11 (rehearsal) DE21_tape track list_02

Haggath / Rehearsal 1985-03-11 (rehearsal) DE21_tape

Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes

Strawberry Soul

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

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