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
Blind Owl The Old Man ST
Cargo Dubious Front Side, Back Side
Ellison Untruth Story (Vincent Marandola) ST
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Let Him Go ST (psych cover)
New Creation No Excuse Troubled
Sound Sett I'm Not Your Stepping Stone (Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart) 1966-1967
Two Tones The Fox Live at the Village Corner
Reign Ghost More Than I Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
EQ Hostile Swellsville
Braineaters Kid Stuff Planet X
Lucio Agostini Cocktails In New York Once Upon a Hundred Years
The Stonefield Morning Hours Deep Shades of Blue b/w Morning Hours
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone What's Come Over Me? "Coming Out"
Mantra Dick's Song (Dick Kelder) ST
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Times are Changing Home Grown Stuff
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Hay Gee "Coming Out"
Medium In Between ST
Sound Sett I Need You (Everybody Needs Somebody) 1966-1967
Huckle Wild Blue Yonder Wild Blue Yonder
Jerry Palmer Hey, Sweet Baby String of Hits
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Reflections ST
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) A Hum for Stevie Winwood Motherlove
Trevor Dandy Is There Any Love? Don't Cry Little Tree
Randy Bishop Lillipads I Sing A Soft Song
Perth County Conspiracy Mr. Truthful Licks ST
Rock-a-tunes Maria Maria b/w You're Some Kind of Nice (picture sleeve)
Mike Harris Chinese Breakdown Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Christmas Oasis ST
King Herbert And the Knights You Make Me So Very Happy With Jack Harden
Pepper Tree Blue Caravan Pepper Tree & Penny MacCauley (split with Bobby Arvon)
Ronney Mitchell It's Your Thing The Five Man Cargo
Skarecrow Mule Skinner Blues Blues...Live at the Explorer
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Porno Groove Year Zero
Jim Brown Lionel Kearns - The Woman Who The First See Hear
Plateau My Life My Life b/w Under the Big House
Jeff Moore & Friends Blind Man (Christina Becker) The Youngest Son
Lost Soul Dept. Pot Belly Wild-Weekend b/w Pot Belly
Billy Martin Moon Ride Strawberry Soul
Plateau Under the Big House My Life b/w Under the Big House
Chessmen Meadowlands Mustang b/w Meadowlands
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Terry & The Pyrates Someone Keep On Dancin' b/w Someone
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Stompin' Tom Connors The Birth of the New Dragon Mine The Birth of the New Dragon Mine b/w Luke's Guitar
Ellison Strawberry Rain (Vincent Marandola, Richard Arcand) ST
Sweet Somethings The Wedding hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
High Park Sewer Side Let Go the Lifeline b/w Sewer Side
Robert Armes Put Your Cards on the Table Songs for Icarus
Ardels I'll Go Crazy Rhythm & Blues
Compilation David Foster - Listen to Daddy Unselfconsciously Canadian
Sunshyne Eclypse & Sunny Day (Ross Barrett and Ken Spence) The Raven (EP)
Lucio Agostini Pastorale Once Upon a Hundred Years
Stephanie Taylor Long and Winding Road "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Time is of the Essence Invisible Roots
David Fromager Concrete City Life If What You Said Was True
Roger Rodier While my castles burning Upon Velveatur
Two Tones Children Go Where I Send Thee Live at the Village Corner
Canadian Beadles Fool of the Year Three Faces North
Nick Ayoub Quintet Ya Habibi The Montreal Scene
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Listen Here Chip Dip
Jeremy Dormouse hesitation blues Toad Rejects
Hugh Dixon Saints Go Marching Inn The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Jeremy Dormouse October Morning Toad
Vicky and the Coins Cotton Fields ST
John Palmer Solitude Shorelines
Uncertain Land of 1000 Dances Land of 1000 Dances b/w Wipeout
Garden Bower You’ve Got Me On Fire Etc. w/ Trains
Chantettes Jamaica Farewell Remember.....
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding Christmas Waltz Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Jimmy Apostle & the Willows I Love Ya Honey I Love Ya Honey b/w Lost Love
Marty Gillan Colours Try A Little Kindness
Opposite Oh Mamy Blue Help Us Make It
B.C. Centennial Spots B.C. Centennial Song Cut No. 2 B.C. Centennial Song
Dutch Mason Walkin' Blues Half Ain't Been Told
Brégent Métamorphoses du vampire Poussière Des Regrets
Langley Schools Music Project Sweet Caroline Wix - Brown Elementary School
November Grief T.W.O.D. To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Ardels Unchain My Heart Rhythm & Blues
Compilation Joe Vassos - Leavin' on a Jet Plane Unselfconsciously Canadian
King Herbert And the Knights Amen With Jack Harden
Ellison Satanic (Vincent Marandola, Richard Arcand) ST
Langley Schools Music Project Venus and Mars Wix - Brown Elementary School
Spring Fever Spring Fever Woodstock
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Christmas Your Humble Suitor ST
Plastic Cloud Art's a Happy Man ST
Jerry Palmer Walking Home String of Hits
Jeff Moore & Friends Both Sides (Jeff Moore) The Youngest Son
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Gentlemen of Horror God Knows you by Name Sterling Death (EP) (alien cover)
David Wiffen More Often Than Not Camp Fortune (split with Tex Lecor)
Stompin' Tom Connors My Home Cradled Out in the Waves Northland's Own
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) The Child in Me Motherlove
Grimes Shadout Mapes Geidi Primes
David Wiffen Courtin' in the Kitchen Live at the Bunkhouse
Spring You Were Blind Shine/ It's So Hard b/w Long, Long Way/ You Were Blind
King Herbert And the Knights Ode to Billy Joe With Jack Harden
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Historical Implications of Turnips Motherlove
Twice Upon a Never California Dreamin' Twice Upon a Never

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

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

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