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
Canadian Beadles Think I'm Gonna Cry Three Faces North
Plastic Cloud Civilization Machine ST
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Intermission Poetry Home Grown Stuff
Jeremy Dormouse birds of joy Toad Rejects
Art Snider It Was a Very Good Year Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Garden Bower Lord I’m Tired Etc. w/ Trains
Nerve Preludes Penchant b/w Preludes
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre boomerang th floating oranges Sonic Horses I
Siggy Magic & the Hey-Hoe Band Commercials for Free Commercials For Free (EP)
Lucio Agostini Pastorale Once Upon a Hundred Years
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau God Bless ST (psych cover)
Stompin' Connors Tom The Flyin' C.P.R. Northland's Own
Sedum Shadows Anatomy of a Shadow Thinking Away b/w Anatomy of a Shadow
Cargo Rural Route One Rural Route One b/w Initial Mailing
Jackie Mittoo Harder than the Rest Stepping Tiger
Teenage Head Tearin' Me Apart Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Jeremy Dormouse Who Do You Love Toad
Art Snider Edelweiss Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Huckle The Sunshine Shuffle Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Brazda Brothers Nature ST
Liska A Smile Cry Out Loud
London Experimental Jazz Quartet My Dog's Tail is Longer Than Yours Invisible Roots
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Hell Bent Hell Bent: A Collection of Hard Instrumentals (Split with King Herbert & the Knights)
Bonnie Scots The Billy and the Sally Laugh and Cry
Braineaters Closet Case Planet X
EQ Come Alive Swellsville
Marty Gillan If You Go Away Try A Little Kindness
Black Knight Aaraigathor (Metal Anthem) Master of Disaster (EP)
Sweet Somethings Do You Wanna Dance hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Canadian Beadles Leah Three Faces North
Brazda Brothers Gemini ST
Pat's People Dona Dona Today
New Creation Where Are You Going? Troubled
The Shouter's In The Evening In The Evening b/w Can I Help It
D.N.A. Seashell Because I Love You b/w Seashell
Jeremy Dormouse fly around my pretty little miss Toad Rejects
Sweet Somethings My Guy (From My Girl) hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Stompin' Connors Tom The Northern Gentleman Northland's Own
Billy Martin One More Time Strawberry Soul
Sidewinders Gift to the Sun Flatfoot Hustlin'
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Mr. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang James Bond 007
The Amen Carnivals and Cotton Candy Carnivals and Cotton Candy b/w Peter Zeus
No Exit Energy Crisis ST
Nick Ayoub Quintet Montreal East The Montreal Scene
Grimes Shadout Mapes Geidi Primes
Willie Dunn Walking Eagle Who Were The Ones? Parts 11-12
Langley Schools Music Project To Know Him is to Love Him Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
King Herbert And the Knights Ode to Billy Joe With Jack Harden
David Wiffen Courtin' in the Kitchen Live at the Bunkhouse
Black Knight Warlords Wrath Master of Disaster (EP)
Huckle Beautiful You Are Wild Blue Yonder
Pat's People We Shall Overcome Today
Brégent Métamorphoses du vampire Poussière Des Regrets
David House of the Rising Sun ST
The Stonefield Deep Shades of Blue Deep Shades of Blue b/w Morning Hours
Catseye Images Catseye
November Grief T.W.O.D. To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Ronnie Fray & The Playboys Mean Mama Blues Mean Mama Blues b/w The Vulture
Stompin' Connors Tom Movin' On To Rouyn Movin' On To Rouyn b/w Carolyne
Ronney Mitchell Quando Quando The Five Man Cargo
Sound Sett I'm Not Your Stepping Stone (Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart) 1966-1967
Jensen Sisters Let a Raindrop be a Tear for You Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Thornton Rogers J. Out in the West Out in the West b/w The Blues
Compilation Jim Wheeler and the Spokes - Secret Spy International Master Discovery Records
Jack London & the Sparrows If You Don't Want My Love ST
Christmas Just Suppose ST
Royal Family Sometimes Sometimes b/w Solitude (picture sleeve)
Ronney Mitchell I Feel the Earth Move The Five Man Cargo
Black Knight Master Of Disaster Master of Disaster (EP)
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Interval ST
New Creation Yet Still Time Troubled
Skeptical Eye The Devil's Playground The Devil's Playground
B.C. Centennial Spots B.C. Centennial Song Cut No. 1 B.C. Centennial Song
Ted Daigle Young & Beautiful Teenage Time
Mantra Depend on Somebody (D'arcy Draper) ST
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Sunrise Waltz Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding Silver Bells Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Mike Harris Golden Slippers Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
The Fringe Inside Lookin' Out Canada's Next Number One Recording Group (EP) promo
Ronney Mitchell Good Luck Charm - She's Not You The Five Man Cargo
Spring Fever Gimme Shelter Woodstock
Norris Vines and The Luvlines Give In Give In b/w Feel The Warm
Jensen Sisters I Want to Give You My Love Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Bent Wind Goin' to the City Sussex
Stompin' Connors Tom Streets of Toronto Northland's Own
British North American Act I'll Find a Way In the Beginning
Sidewinders A Voyage Flatfoot Hustlin'
Brazda Brothers Your Kingdom ST
Jensen Sisters Do What Makes You Happy Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Michael-Jon Rosenberg Smokestack Lightning ST
Jackie Mittoo Sugar Jar Stepping Tiger
Happy Dolls Sweet Gypsy Rose Show Album No. 1
Blind Owl Happy To Be Alive ST
Robert Armes Requiem Songs for Icarus
Sound Sett Mustang Sally (Mack Rice) 1966-1967
Mock Duck Introduction - Ground Hog Test Record
Dutch Mason Tighten Up On It Half Ain't Been Told
British North American Act See How Free In the Beginning
Arcade Fire My Heart is an Apple ST
Spring Fever She Moves Me Woodstock

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

ST

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

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