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
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
April Wine Shotdown The Whole World's Going Crazy (test pressing)
Michel & the French Canadians Cause I Believe Cause I Believe b/w Comfort Him (picture sleeve)
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Plateau Mambo ST
Langley Schools Music Project To Know Him is to Love Him Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Sheila Graham Gentle On My Mind ST
Sweet Somethings Will You Love Me Tomorrow hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Fred Latremouille Mashed Potato Tossin' and Turnin' - Mashed Potato
A Joint Effort Tequilla Sunrise Final Effort
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre the canada council juree prson is missing Sonic Horses I
Garden Bower O Pretty Angela Pretty Angela Etc. w/ Trains
Robert Armes Sun Song Songs for Icarus
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Sunshine "Coming Out"
Marty Gillan If You Go Away Try A Little Kindness
Barbara Gryfe Don't Give Up What the World Needs Now
David Fromager Girl from the North Country If What You Said Was True
Moosetracks Happily Day Is Done ST
Opposite Land of 1000 Dances Help Us Make It
John Greenwood Give Us Love My Sailboat and Me
Twice Upon a Never Obladi Oblada Twice Upon a Never
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)
Cargo Rural Route One Rural Route One b/w Initial Mailing
Sweet Somethings Pot of Gold hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Breaking Others Hearts Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Bent Wind Touch of Red Sussex
Georges Leningrad Main name est Eva Braun Made In Taiwan
New Day Gotta Spread Some Love Around They're Callin' Me Back Home b/w Gotta Spread Some Love Around
Medium Give Me a Peace ST
Marty Gillan Sweet Caroline Try A Little Kindness
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
No Exit No Exit ST
Trevor Dandy It's a Long Journey Don't Cry Little Tree
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre arbutus garden apartments 6 p m Awake in th Red Desert
Moonstone Top Heavy ST
Moosetracks Cry A Little Tear ST
Nick Ayoub Quintet Bib and I The Montreal Scene
Huckle Get Down Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Mock Duck Home Made Jam Test Record
Langley Schools Music Project I Get Around Wix - Brown Elementary School
David Wiffen Mule Skinner Blues Live at the Bunkhouse
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Triaxe Chain of Superstition Chain of Superstition b/w Persecution
The Organization Change in the Weather ST
Plastic Cloud Face Behind the Sun ST
London Experimental Jazz Quartet The Sound of Next Year's Echo Invisible Roots
Hugh Dixon Hugh's Hangout (Dixon) The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Moonstone Hope You Come See ST
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Cryin' All Alone Chip Dip
Stonemen In the Evening In the Evening b/w Faded Colors
Stefan Gnys I Wish I Knew English Oaks and Evangeline
Haunted A Message to Pretty ST
Grimes Feyd Rautha Dark Heart Geidi Primes
Rascalz Just Bein' Blunt Really Livin'
Mantra Dick's Song (Dick Kelder) ST
Howard & Smith Monotype Limited Duet: Photomodifications The Optic Earful
Bear Paws Standing by the River Kitche-Ogamah
Roger Rodier Let's see some happyness Upon Velveatur
Athenians of Toronto Proud Mary San Skoteiniazei
Randy Bishop I Sing a Soft Song I Sing A Soft Song
New Creation Eternity Ahead Troubled
Jensen Sisters You Lit the Fire (I Want Only You) Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Sidewinders Gift to the Sun Flatfoot Hustlin'
Sheila Graham By the Time I Get to Phoenix ST
Bear Paws Can't You See Kitche-Ogamah
Ronnie Dove and the Ron-Als Beach Rat Beach Rat b/w I'm Happy
Garden Bower 18 Bricker Etc. w/ Trains
Skarecrow I Got to Have It Blues...Live at the Explorer
Rascalz Quest for Rhyme Really Livin'
Rockadrome There You Go Again Royal American 20th Century Blues
Braineaters Closet Case Planet X
EQ Swellsville Swellsville
Perth County Conspiracy Lace and Cobwebs ST
Nihilist Spasm Band Destroy the Nations No Record
Riverson Stoney Day (Brian Edwards, Lisa Eisenhardt (Lisa Hartt)) ST
Mike Harris By the Fireside Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Rascalz Whose The Hip Hopper Really Livin'
Jeremy Dormouse Just to Hear the Bells Toad
Something Evil Die Children Die Die Children Die b/w The Great Winnipeg Riot
Joy Ready to Move Ready to Move b/w Tears to be Cried
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle You Are Too Beautiful ST
Ardels Stereo Popeye Rhythm & Blues
Sedum Shadows Anatomy of a Shadow Thinking Away b/w Anatomy of a Shadow
Vicky and the Coins In Old Shanty Town ST
The Organization Superstar ST
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre awake in the red desert Awake in th Red Desert
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Gargoyle Ian Young - A Childhood in South Africa: The Veld Near Ladybrand ST
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Stompin' Tom Connors Movin' On to Rouyn Northland's Own
Canadian Beadles Think I'm Gonna Cry Three Faces North
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) STHNLA Motherlove
Jerry Palmer Gotta Learn to Twist String of Hits
Marty Gillan She's a Woman (Terry Frewer) Try A Little Kindness
New Creation Countdown to Revolution! Troubled
Michael-Jon Rosenberg Dreams in Fall ST
No Exit Decisions ST
Tex Lecor Ti-bicycle Camp Fortune (split with David Wiffen)

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

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

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