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
British North American Act Joe Cool In the Beginning
Canadian Beadles I Lost Your Love Last Night Three Faces North
Twice Upon a Never Pussy Willows, Cat Tails Twice Upon a Never
Original Bones Itchy Blues ST
November Grief T.W.O.D. To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Love Won't let Me Wait "Coming Out"
Medium Two by Two ST
Robert Armes Woman in Toronto Songs for Icarus
Riverson Clear Night (Rayburn Blake) ST
Ardels Unchain My Heart Rhythm & Blues
Roger Rodier Am I supposed to let it by again Upon Velveatur
Langley Schools Music Project Help Me, Rhonda Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) In A Bad Way (Remix) Year Zero
Reign Ghost Enola Gay Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Gargoyle Barry Hunter - I Got That Feeling ST
Skeptical Eye Ghet-ti Train The Devil's Playground
Huckle Wild Night Wild Blue Yonder
Tex Lecor Je t'amène avec moi Camp Fortune (split with David Wiffen)
Jack London & the Sparrows Dream on Dreamer ST
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau God Bless ST (psych cover)
Ronney Mitchell Quando Quando The Five Man Cargo
Jeremy Dormouse Baby Blue Toad
Mock Duck Home Made Jam Test Record
Jeremy Dormouse Small Man Toad
Spring Fever She Taught My Katie Woodstock
Reign Ghost Standing Room Only, Mr. Mars ST
Marty Gillan Lalena Try A Little Kindness
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) The Incest Song Motherlove
Jarvis Street Revue 300 South Mr. Oil Man
Ray Griff Jimmy, Luke and Me Canada "My Native Land"
Don Carrington Trio Make Me Smile Makin' It Happen
Chantettes Jamaica Farewell Remember.....
Riverson Eleanor Rigby (John Lennon - Paul McCartney) ST
Lucio Agostini Canadians on the Go-Go Once Upon a Hundred Years
Braineaters Wrong World Planet X
Perth County Conspiracy If You Can Want ST
Joe College & the Rulers Working Class Hero It Ain't Allright (With Me) b/w Working Class Hero
B.C. Centennial Spots B.C. Centennial Song Cut No. 1 B.C. Centennial Song
Jack London & the Sparrows Glad to Be With You ST
Brazda Brothers Blooming Flowers ST
Jack London & the Sparrows If You Don't Want My Love ST
Dolores Claman Odd Couplet #2 Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Jensen Sisters I Can't Deny Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Lewis Baloue As the Boats Go By Romantic Times
Twice Upon a Never Come the Day Twice Upon a Never
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Live and Let Die James Bond 007
The Organization Who Ever Finds This ST
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Siggy Magic & the Hey-Hoe Band Passive & Blue Commercials For Free (EP)
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Dr. No James Bond 007
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Angels Hair Mother Love Suite: Intro; Allementry; Plunket Pastoral; Two Buried Texts Part I - Silver Lake Six; Two Buried Texts Part II - Silver Lake Six; A Little Love Poem for Your Lobes to Nibble On; Visitation; Cada Motherlove
Plastic Cloud Epistle to Paradise ST
Perth County Conspiracy Hurdy-Gurdy Man ST
New Creation Sodom and Gomorrah Troubled
No Exit They'll Never Know ST
British North American Act See How Free In the Beginning
Huckle She's Coming Home Wild Blue Yonder
Ray Griff Canada Canada "My Native Land"
King Herbert And the Knights Ooga Boogaloo With Jack Harden
Huckle Wild Blue Yonder Wild Blue Yonder
Bonnie Scots Coulter's Candy Laugh and Cry
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Walkin' the Dog Chip Dip
David Wiffen Mule Skinner Blues Live at the Bunkhouse
Billy Martin Stax Strawberry Soul
Ted Daigle When You Said You All Ruby b/w When You Said You All
Twice Upon a Never Leavin' On a Jet Plane Twice Upon a Never
Opposite Don't Say I Love You Help Us Make It
Langley Schools Music Project To Know Him is to Love Him Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Barbara Gryfe Jerusalem of Gold What the World Needs Now
Catseye It's a Long Way Catseye
John Palmer Colours For the Shoreline Shorelines
Ray Griff Curley Canada "My Native Land"
Raphaels I Change My Mind Someday b/w I Change My Mind
Jeremy Dormouse the immortal st. canthor Toad Rejects
Twice Upon a Never Last Round Twice Upon a Never
Vic Vogel Close to You Montreal Bandleader
Billy Martin Egg Roll Strawberry Soul
Don And Adrian River Run You Down River Run You Down b/w Lord When I’m Down
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Breaking Others Hearts Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Ted Daigle Sweet Little Sixteen Teenage Time
Nihilist Spasm Band The Byron Bog No Record
George Cook Why Have You Left Me the Way I Am Why Have You Left Me the Way I Am // On the Trail of Sunset Valley
Skeptical Eye Sad Jazz The Devil's Playground
Two Tones Summer Love Live at the Village Corner
Gentlemen of Horror God Knows you by Name ST (EP) (skeleton cover)
Lewis Baloue We Danced All Night Romantic Times
Jeremy Dormouse what joy - what bliss Toad Rejects
Spring Fever Watch Yourself Woodstock
Barry Ennis School Days Mountain of Ice b/w School Days
Huckle April Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Durocher ST
Twice Upon a Never Obladi Oblada Twice Upon a Never
Hugh Dixon Silly Bo Dilly (Dixon) The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Mystique Memories Black Rider
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre fading era Sonic Horses I
Lost Soul Dept. Wild-Weekend Wild-Weekend b/w Pot Belly
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Hook and Sling The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Rascalz Gal Business Really Livin'
Jeremy Dormouse rollin' again Toad Rejects
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Wet Wash ST

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