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
Caribou Les goelands ST
EQ Late 4 The Studio Swellsville
The Organization Change in the Weather ST
Vic Vogel Booze is Beautiful Montreal Bandleader
Reign Ghost The Gum Wrapper Song ST
Jack London & the Sparrows Our Love has Passed ST
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Walkin' the Dog Chip Dip
Hugh Dixon Hot Pants (Dixon) The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Mock Duck Hurt On Me Test Record
Michael-Jon Rosenberg Smokestack Lightning ST
Walter Boudreau Danse Jazz - Walter Boudreau + 3 = 4
Mantra Beatrices (D'arcy Draper) ST
Happy Dolls Drum Solo Show Album No. 1
November Grief T.W.O.D. To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Alexander Brott & Donald McGill Canada: Case History (Earle Birney) - Erosion (E.J. Pratt) - Children of Martha (Gilean Douglas) - Quiet (Marjorie Pickthall) - Paul Bunyan (A Legend of his return to St. Eustache) (Arthur S. Bourinot Sept for Seven: Seven Brief Movements Combining the Arts of Music and Poetry - A Setting of Five Canadian Poems, Introduced by Musical Prelude and concluded with a Postlude
Perth County Conspiracy Welcome Surprise ST
Pat's People What Have They Done to the Rain Today
King Herbert And the Knights Ooga Boogaloo With Jack Harden
The Chessmen Mustang Mustang b/w Meadowlands
Bent Wind Mystify Sussex
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre arbutus garden apartments 6 p m Awake in th Red Desert
Trevor Dandy Overture and Judgement Morning Don't Cry Little Tree
Garden Bower 18 Bricker Etc. w/ Trains
Pat's People To-day Today
Mock Duck Home Made Jam Test Record
Stompin' Tom Connors Movin' On To Rouyn Movin' On To Rouyn b/w Carolyne
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre leevin th electrik citee (2) Sonic Horses I
Threads Of Fybre Believe Me Mama b/w Believe Me
David Wiffen Four in the Mornin' Live at the Bunkhouse
April Wine Shotdown The Whole World's Going Crazy (test pressing)
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Reign Ghost Long Day Journey #2 Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Original Bones Steamboat Whistle Blues ST
Ray Griff If it Hadn't Been for Music Canada "My Native Land"
Original Bones Lady Anne ST
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Hook and Sling The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Rockadrome R.A.T.C.B. Reprise Royal American 20th Century Blues
The Fringe I Don't Want To Live Canada's Next Number One Recording Group (EP) promo
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Take a Long Last Look (Joyce Hahn vocals) ST
The Mix Maybe (Face To The Wall) Break Up Shake Up (EP) (picture sleeve)
EQ Swellsville Swellsville
Arcade Fire Old Flame ST
A Joint Effort Greed for Gold Final Effort
Northwest Company Hard to Cry Hard to Cry b/w Get Away From it All
Grimes Zoal, Face Dancer Geidi Primes
Blind Owl Open Your Window ST
Sunshyne Eclypse & Sunny Day (Ross Barrett and Ken Spence) The Raven (EP)
Jerry Palmer Oh, Lucky Me String of Hits
Sound Sett I'm Not Your Stepping Stone (Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart) 1966-1967
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Diamonds Are Forever James Bond 007
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Speak Of The Devil Year Zero
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre boomerang th floating oranges Sonic Horses I
Mike Harris Norwegian Waltz Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Michael Ratherford Hard Drugs Hard Drugs
Canadian Beadles Steady Guy Three Faces North
Rascalz Whose The Hip Hopper Really Livin'
Chantettes This Land is Your Land Remember.....
Lucio Agostini Pastorale Once Upon a Hundred Years
Barbara Gryfe Jerusalem of Gold What the World Needs Now
No Exit Bureaucracy ST
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre and th green wind Awake in th Red Desert
Garden Bower Folsom Prison Blues Etc. w/ Trains
Nick Ayoub Quintet Report from Cairo The Montreal Scene
Derek Scott Markle Daddy's 100 Proof ST
Catseye Days Gone By Catseye
John Palmer Return Shorelines
Siggy Magic & the Hey-Hoe Band Tooth Decay Commercials For Free (EP)
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra James Bond Theme James Bond 007
Stefan Gnys English Oaks English Oaks and Evangeline
Jim Brown Bp Nichol - Another Day Older The First See Hear
Sidewinders Can't You Feel the Fire Flatfoot Hustlin'
Rascalz Perfect Check Up Really Livin'
Pat's People Michael Today
Emtidi Die Reise Saat
Lewis Baloue Even Rainbows Turn Blue L'amour
No Exit Downtown Weekend ST
Gargoyle Barry Hunter - I Got That Feeling ST
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Grimes Beast Infection Geidi Primes
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
The Mix Break Up Shake Up Break Up Shake Up (EP) (picture sleeve)
Five Man Cargo Memories Memories b/w Why Can't I Get You
Sidewinders Time For Loving Flatfoot Hustlin'
Jeremy Dormouse birds of joy Toad Rejects
Blind Owl Lingering Dreams ST
Arcade Fire The Woodland National Anthem ST
Opposite One Night Help Us Make It
Billy Martin Egg Roll Strawberry Soul
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers A Stranger in Your Own World The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Sheila Graham Without You ST
Jeremy Dormouse Just to Hear the Bells Toad
Heat Rocking Chair Brighouse b/w Rocking Chair
Gargoyle Jon Craneman Karsemeyer- What Is (read by Doug Watters) ST
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Interval ST
Original Bones Say it With gentle ST
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra You Only Live Twice James Bond 007
British North American Act Joe Cool In the Beginning
Mantra Drifter (D'arcy Draper) ST

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, 🇨🇦

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

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

Christmas

Christmas-ST (Paragon) LABEL 02

Christmas-ST (Paragon) LABEL 01

Christmas - ST

French Fried Freedom

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