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
Plateau My Life My Life b/w Under the Big House
David Fromager Innocent Times If What You Said Was True
Other Half Stormy Monday Blues ST
Rascalz Ragga Muffin Rhymes Really Livin'
Catseye Images Catseye
D.N.A. Seashell Because I Love You b/w Seashell
Lucio Agostini Chuck Wagon Race Once Upon a Hundred Years
Matlows Only You If You Were Mine // Only You
Rascalz Whose The Hip Hopper Really Livin'
Ted Daigle Red Hen Hop Teenage Time
Spring Fever Woodstock (Joni Mitchell) Woodstock
Don Carrington Trio Higher Makin' It Happen
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Cat Piss Year Zero
Sheila Graham The Letter ST
Chantettes Freight Train Remember.....
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Sweet Summer Day ST
Skarecrow Stormy Monday Blues Blues...Live at the Explorer
Cargo Habits and Jails Front Side, Back Side
Souls of Inspyration Pursuit ST
Sidewinders A Voyage Flatfoot Hustlin'
Ardels Dream Lover Rhythm & Blues
Art Snider Exodus Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Pat's People Changes Today
November Grief Exit Life (With China White) To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Jerry Palmer Party Pooper String of Hits
Stompin' Tom Connors Movin' On To Rouyn Movin' On To Rouyn b/w Carolyne
Medium Give Me a Peace ST
Cargo Dubious Front Side, Back Side
John Greenwood There is Peace My Sailboat and Me
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Truck Drivers Boogie Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Stephanie Taylor I Don't Know Where I Stand (Joni Mitchell) "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Robert Armes Epilogue Songs for Icarus
David Wiffen You Don't Know My Mind Live at the Bunkhouse
Ladykiller Still Madly in Love Still Madly in Love b/w Ice Woman
Christmas Sorry I Bore You Victoria ST
Barbara Gryfe Reunion With the Reserves What the World Needs Now
Ted Daigle No One Else Teenage Time
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Doctor Norman Bethune ST
No Exit Energy Crisis ST
Story Structure I Told You (Extended Mix) I Told You
Sweet Somethings Summertime hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Jerry Palmer Your Love String of Hits
Haunted A Message to Pretty ST
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) In A Bad Way (Remix) Year Zero
Jerry Palmer Gotta Learn to Twist String of Hits
David Wiffen Abilene Live at the Bunkhouse
New Creation Eternity Ahead Troubled
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Moose Head ST
Huckle Ocean Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Never Mind My Job ST (psych cover)
Rascalz Quest for Rhyme Really Livin'
Medium In Between ST
Mock Duck Hurt On Me Test Record
Lewis Baloue Even Rainbows Turn Blue L'amour
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre fires in the tempul Awake in th Red Desert
David Fromager Out on the Weekend If What You Said Was True
Georges Leningrad lollipon lady Made In Taiwan
Ronney Mitchell It's Your Thing The Five Man Cargo
Ronney Mitchell Tonight My Love, Tonight The Five Man Cargo
New Reality Here He Goes Demo Tape
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Braineaters Closet Case Planet X
The Fringe Inside Lookin' Out Canada's Next Number One Recording Group (EP) promo
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
Lucio Agostini Once Upon a Hundred Years (Theme) Once Upon a Hundred Years
Pat's People Dona Dona Today
Lewis Baloue My Whole Life L'amour
Opposite A Dark Night Help Us Make It
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Walkin' the Dog Chip Dip
Cyrus Eden You Came For Me First Offense (EP)
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra You Only Live Twice James Bond 007
Athenians of Toronto Proud Mary San Skoteiniazei
Jeff Moore & Friends Blind Man (Christina Becker) The Youngest Son
Spring It's So Hard Shine/ It's So Hard b/w Long, Long Way/ You Were Blind
Billy Martin Prayer Meetin' Strawberry Soul
Ardels Linda Lou Rhythm & Blues
Huckle The Sunshine Shuffle Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Sunshyne Dixie Medley (Traditional) The Raven (EP)
No Exit They'll Never Know ST
Barbara Gryfe People (Lovers) Such As What the World Needs Now
Ronney Mitchell Good Luck Charm - She's Not You The Five Man Cargo
Gentlemen of Horror Rich Kids Sterling Death (EP) (alien cover)
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
David Wiffen Blue Live at the Bunkhouse
The Amen Carnivals and Cotton Candy Carnivals and Cotton Candy b/w Peter Zeus
Vic Vogel Quiet Nights Montreal Bandleader
Twice Upon a Never Last Thing On My Mind Twice Upon a Never
Reign Ghost Long Day Journey #2 Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Glenn Dixon Waiting for the Dreams to Come Reflections
John Palmer Free Me Shorelines
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) M.L.’s Dream Motherlove
Catseye Am I the One Catseye
Stefan Gnys Another Time Another Place English Oaks and Evangeline
Mystique Memories Black Rider
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre leevin th electrik citee Sonic Horses I
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Live and Let Die James Bond 007
Uncertain Land of 1000 Dances Land of 1000 Dances b/w Wipeout
Billy Martin Egg Roll 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

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