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
Brazda Brothers Calm River ST
Mock Duck Introduction - Ground Hog Test Record
Black Knight Metal Screams Master of Disaster (EP)
Rascalz Ragga Muffin Rhymes Really Livin'
Strange Movies What A Drag (I Can) Feel It Coming b/w What A Drag
Sheila Graham Stormy ST
Gentlemen of Horror Overhead Projector Sterling Death (EP) (alien cover)
King Beezz Gloria Gloria b/w She Belongs to Me
Stephanie Taylor Feeling Groovy "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
New Creation The Status Quo Song Troubled
Gordon Lightfoot Movin' Movin' Soundtrack (CN picture sleeve) (split with Jean Pierre Ferland)
Hank Snow I Don't Hurt Anymore Western Caravan (split with Rosalie Allen and Sons of Pioneers) (EP) (picture sleeve)
Reign Ghost Ain't it Great Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Moosetracks Sophie ST
Sound Sett Dead Sea (Bruce MacGregor modified) 1966-1967
Robert Armes Epilogue Songs for Icarus
Mantra Beatrices (D'arcy Draper) ST
Jackie Mittoo Special Mission Stepping Tiger
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Style 386 Year Zero
Happy Dolls Pick Up the Pieces Show Album No. 1
Chantettes Sail Away Remember.....
British North American Act Only a Dream In the Beginning
Skarecrow More Than Once Blues...Live at the Explorer
Moonstone Top Heavy ST
Canadian Beadles I Lost Your Love Last Night Three Faces North
David Wiffen Slice of Life Live at the Bunkhouse
Les 409 Born in Chicago They Say b/w Born in Chicago
Bonnie Scots The Billy and the Sally Laugh and Cry
David Fromager Nicky If What You Said Was True
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Edible Wallpaper Invisible Roots
Stephanie Taylor Long and Winding Road "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Mike Harris Rippling Water Jig Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Strange Movies (I Can) Feel It Coming (I Can) Feel It Coming b/w What A Drag
Haunted 1-2-5 ST
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) A Mic In A Fist Year Zero
Liska Coming Home Cry Out Loud
Jeremy Dormouse October Morning Toad
Moosetracks Someone on the Line ST
Don And Adrian River Run You Down River Run You Down b/w Lord When I’m Down
British North American Act I'll Find a Way In the Beginning
Spade Nielsen Fuddle Duddle Fuddle Duddle b/w What's Happening (radio station advance copy)
Jeremy Dormouse what joy - what bliss Toad Rejects
Skarecrow If It Feels Just Right Blues...Live at the Explorer
Ronney Mitchell Time Alone Will Tell The Five Man Cargo
King Herbert And the Knights Amen With Jack Harden
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) The Child in Me Motherlove
Vicky and the Coins When the Saints Go Marching In ST
Original Bones Tom Greene County Fair ST
Sheila Graham 24 Hours of Loneliness ST
Rascalz Kibbles 'N Bits Really Livin'
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Who You Frontin' For (Remix) Year Zero
Reign Ghost Pudsy's Parable Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Bonnie Scots Northern Lights of Aberdeen Laugh and Cry
Moonstone Focus ST
Chantettes Freight Train Remember.....
Twice Upon a Never Turtle Dove Twice Upon a Never
New Day They're Callin' Me Back Home They're Callin' Me Back Home b/w Gotta Spread Some Love Around
Lewis Baloue Love Showered Me L'amour
Riverson Winter Garden (Brian Edwards) ST
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Oil in the Ground "Coming Out"
Gentlemen of Horror Rough Hike Sterling Death (EP) (alien cover)
Two Tones This is My Song Live at the Village Corner
Stompin' Tom Connors Little Wawa Little Wawa b/w The Northern Gentleman
Marty Gillan If You Go Away Try A Little Kindness
Langley Schools Music Project Mandy Wix - Brown Elementary School
Lucio Agostini Centennial Caravan Once Upon a Hundred Years
Pat's People To-day Today
Walter Boudreau Passion Jazz - Walter Boudreau + 3 = 4
Jeremy Dormouse birds of joy Toad Rejects
Trevor Dandy Lord I Come to Thee Don't Cry Little Tree
Rascalz Just Bein' Blunt Really Livin'
David Cup of Tea ST
Aftermath Sunny Do You Believe In Magic? b/w Sunny
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) STHNLA Motherlove
Twice Upon a Never Early in the Morning Twice Upon a Never
Stormbringer Evil Mind The Curse b/w Evil Mind
Jeff Moore & Friends Call Me When It's Over (Jeff Moore) The Youngest Son
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Grazin' in the Grass Chip Dip
Blind Owl Song To the Wind ST
New Creation Dig! (The Origin of Man) Troubled
Fabulous PJ's What Do You Want Me to Do? What Do You Want Me to Do? b/w Proud Mary
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding Christmas Waltz Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
A Joint Effort Greed for Gold Final Effort
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
David Fromager Country Boy's Memories If What You Said Was True
Sheila Graham The Tragedy of Butterfly McHeart ST
Rascalz Whose The Hip Hopper Really Livin'
British North American Act Just How You Feel In the Beginning
Ray Griff Piano Man Canada "My Native Land"
Mock Duck Home Made Jam Test Record
November Grief Infanticide To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Johnny Teah & The Jubilee Mountain Boys Sad Whistle Sad Whistle b/w Hello Mister Lonesome
The Organization Out in the Country ST
Arcade Fire Headlights Look like Diamonds ST
Gordon Lightfoot Talking Freight Movin' Soundtrack (CN picture sleeve) (split with Jean Pierre Ferland)
Opposite One Night Help Us Make It
Sunshyne Dixie Medley (Traditional) The Raven (EP)
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Buck Shots ST
Billy Martin Phillie Dog Strawberry Soul

ST

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

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