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
Mock Duck Hurt On Me Test Record
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Marty Gillan Time and Love Try A Little Kindness
September (1) Celebration Blue Lady b/w Celebration
Spade Nielsen What's Happening Fuddle Duddle b/w What's Happening (radio station advance copy)
Lewis Baloue Things Just Happen That Way L'amour
Moonstone Top Heavy ST
Rockadrome There You Go Again Royal American 20th Century Blues
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Eric's Madness Invisible Roots
Randy Bishop Wonderful Angel I Sing A Soft Song
David Take My Hand ST
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Doctor Norman Bethune ST
Sugluk Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Jerry Palmer Oh, Lucky Me String of Hits
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)
Ronney Mitchell I Feel the Earth Move The Five Man Cargo
Bear Paws Lady of the Nite Kitche-Ogamah
Original Bones Sit Down ST
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Hit The Breaks Year Zero
Garden Bower Folsom Prison Blues Etc. w/ Trains
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Pepper Tree Man of Gold Pepper Tree & Penny MacCauley (split with Bobby Arvon)
Howard & Smith Monotype Limited Design Variations The Optic Earful
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone What's Come Over Me? "Coming Out"
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Memory Lane The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Hugh Dixon Green Green Grass of Home (vocals: Pat Dixon) The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Jarvis Street Revue 300 South Mr. Oil Man
John Greenwood Hey, Minstrel Boy My Sailboat and Me
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Willie Dunn Walking Eagle Who Were The Ones? Parts 11-12
Jeremy Dormouse fly around my pretty little miss Toad Rejects
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Comin' Home The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Nucleus Johnny Peace Johnny Peace b/w Ernie's Gone (picture sleeve)
Gentlemen of Horror Bank Sterling Death (EP) (alien cover)
John Palmer Return Shorelines
British North American Act I'll Find a Way In the Beginning
Rock-a-tunes Maria Maria b/w You're Some Kind of Nice (picture sleeve)
Grimes Beast Infection Geidi Primes
The Fringe Token For My Mind Canada's Next Number One Recording Group (EP) promo
Garden Bower This Woman (live) Etc. w/ Trains
Mike Harris London Hornipie Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Ronnie Fray & The Playboys The Vulture Mean Mama Blues b/w The Vulture
November Grief Recuring Nightmares To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Grimes Rosa Geidi Primes
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Spain is for Old Ladies Invisible Roots
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Modigliani ST
Riverson Winter Garden (Brian Edwards) ST
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Take a Long Last Look (Joyce Hahn vocals) ST
Reign Ghost The Gum Wrapper Song ST
Sweet Somethings My Guy (From My Girl) hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Sidewinders I Like Your Stuff Flatfoot Hustlin'
Derek Scott Markle Hey Hoe ST
New Day Gotta Spread Some Love Around They're Callin' Me Back Home b/w Gotta Spread Some Love Around
Ellison Freedom (Vincent Marandola) ST
Boys Brigade Shadows Live Off-The-Floor Demo
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Elevated Platform Home Grown Stuff
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
May Run Lay Your Hands Days Into Years
Gargoyle Larry Smith - I'm Gonna Love You ST
Calgary Range Riders Rocky Mountain Rhythm Rocky Mountain Rhythm // Curly Hair
Ted Daigle Legend of Chaleur Bay Teenage Time
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Let's Make Up Your Mind (Joyce Hahn vocals) ST
Moonstone Murk ST
Roger Rodier Listen to these chords I play (Celeste) Upon Velveatur
Rockadrome Ain't It a Shame Royal American 20th Century Blues
Moosetracks Airplane Over the Rockies ST
The Haunted Montreal Blues ST
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre whn i first came to vancouvr Sonic Horses I
John Greenwood Give Us Love My Sailboat and Me
EQ Let it be Known Swellsville
Bent Wind Hate Sussex
Chantettes Donna Remember.....
Hank Snow I Don't Hurt Anymore Western Caravan (split with Rosalie Allen and Sons of Pioneers) (EP) (picture sleeve)
New Creation No Excuse Troubled
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Blind Owl Happy To Be Alive ST
Billy Martin It's Your Life Strawberry Soul
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
VXN Just a Game ST
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre fires in the tempul Awake in th Red Desert
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Moonstone In Case ST
Lewis Baloue As the Boats Go By Romantic Times
Liska All My Love Cry Out Loud
Laurie Ingalls Midnight Lady Cheap Champagne
Robert Armes Fallen Star Songs for Icarus
David Fromager Catch Him If You Can If What You Said Was True
Don And Adrian Lord When I’m Down River Run You Down b/w Lord When I’m Down
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre mountain lake Sonic Horses I
Canadian Beadles I Lost Your Love Last Night Three Faces North
Opposite Land of 1000 Dances Help Us Make It
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck One Ring Jane Home Grown Stuff
Rascalz Whose The Hip Hopper Really Livin'
Ray Griff Our Country Canada "My Native Land"
Phillip Werren Dance Music I Electronic Music (1968-1971)
Gentlemen of Horror Rich Kids Sterling Death (EP) (alien cover)
Michael-Jon Rosenberg Dreams in Fall ST
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Edible Wallpaper Invisible Roots
Pat's People We Shall Overcome Today

Neil Young - My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) (promo, DJ Label copy only)

Toronto, Ontario → Winnipeg, Manitoba, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellison - ST

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Clockwork - Cybernaut b/w Mean Lady

Laval, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Hi Octane Band - Shakey Ground b/w Feelings

Halifax, Nova Scotia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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

Winnipeg, Manitoba, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Hagood Hardy & the Montage - The Garden Path b/w Won't You Step Into My Life

Angola, Indiana, 🇺🇸 → Brantford → Oakville → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

The Other Half - ST

Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

The Haunted - ST

Chateauguy, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Minutes From Downtown - Minutes From Downtown '82

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Jolly Tambourine Man - Wheeeee! Demo

Collingwood → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Reign Ghost - Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires

Oshawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Reign Ghost - ST

Oshawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Christmas - ST

Oshawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Lorne Ranger - French Fried Freedom

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Caribou - ST

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Laurie Ingalls - Cheap Champagne

Lethbridge, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Sacrifice - Interviews 1985 + First Live Show

Scarborough → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Sacrifice - The Exorcism

Scarborough → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Sacrifice - Turn In Your Grave (demo)

Scarborough → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Dimitroff, Burgess and Friends - Dimitroff, Burgess and Friends

Fort Erie, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ablaze - Psychopath

Beloeil, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

May Run - Days Into Years

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Gerry Fiander - So Long, Goodbye (split with Jim Morrison)

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Moonstone - ST

Winnipeg, Manitoba

FEATURED

bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) - Motherlove

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

New Creation - Troubled

Coquitlam, British Columbia

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, 🇨🇦

My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) (promo, DJ Label copy only)

ST

Cybernaut b/w Mean Lady

Shakey Ground b/w Feelings

45-Hi Octane Band - Shakey Ground VINYL 02

Die Children Die b/w The Great Winnipeg Riot

The Garden Path b/w Won't You Step Into My Life

45-Hagood Hardy & the Montage - The Garden Path VINYL 02

ST

ST

Minutes From Downtown '82

Minutes From Downtown

CASSETTE - Minutes From Downtown - ST DEMO FRONT

Wheeeee! Demo

Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires

ST

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Christmas

Christmas

Christmas

Christmas

Christmas

Christmas

ST

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