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
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding What Child is This Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Saddle Lake Guitar Rhythm Country and Rock & Roll Sound
EQ Funky Oasis Swellsville
Robert Armes Requiem Songs for Icarus
Langley Schools Music Project Your Sixteen Wix - Brown Elementary School
Sheila Graham Straight Life ST
Original Bones Friend of the Devil ST
No Exit Parliament Swindle ST
Stompin' Tom Connors The Maritime Waltz Northland's Own
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre fading era Sonic Horses I
No Exit Energy Crisis ST
Roger Rodier The Key Upon Velveatur
Derek Scott Markle Hey Hoe ST
Blind Owl Nova Scotia Morning ST
Opposite Don't Say I Love You Help Us Make It
Rascalz Whose The Hip Hopper Really Livin'
Catseye Rhythms of an Empty Room Catseye
Stefan Gnys You're Not The Only One English Oaks and Evangeline
Rockadrome There You Go Again Royal American 20th Century Blues
David Wiffen Blue Live at the Bunkhouse
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Jazz Compo No. 2 "The Beak" ST
Burgundy Lady Blue Lady Blue b/w Ex-Lovin' Man
Bear Paws Stand By Me Kitche-Ogamah
Ted Daigle Red Hen Hop Teenage Time
B.C. Centennial Spots B.C. Centennial Song Cut No. 3 B.C. Centennial Song
Medium New Thing ST
Robert Armes Song for Icarus Songs for Icarus
Two Tones Sinnerman Live at the Village Corner
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Pleasure Sweets Motherlove
Nihilist Spasm Band Oh Brian Dibb No Record
Huckle April Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Brazda Brothers Your Kingdom ST
Huckle Rolling River Wild Blue Yonder
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Casino Royale James Bond 007
Ray Griff Curley Canada "My Native Land"
Arcade Fire The Woodland National Anthem ST
Black Knight Master Of Disaster Master of Disaster (EP)
The Organization Crocadile Rock ST
Robert Armes Epilogue Songs for Icarus
Chantettes Donna Remember.....
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Dutch Mason Gamblin' Fever Half Ain't Been Told
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
Reign Ghost Standing Room Only, Mr. Mars ST
Vicky and the Coins Cotton Fields ST
Mantra Hopscotch (Part 1) (Dick Kelder) ST
Benge Money Man Money Man b/w Black Sky Lullaby
Jack London & the Sparrows If You Don't Want My Love ST
New Day They're Callin' Me Back Home They're Callin' Me Back Home b/w Gotta Spread Some Love Around
Skeptical Eye My Life Is The Devil's Playground
Ultimate Image Rains of Autumn It's a Hard Life b/w Rains of Autumn
Original Bones Itchy Blues ST
Twice Upon a Never Go Where You Go Twice Upon a Never
New Creation The Status Quo Song Troubled
Cargo Dubious Front Side, Back Side
Other Half Stormy Monday Blues ST
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding The Bell that Couldn't Jingle Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Five Man Cargo Why Can't I Get You Memories b/w Why Can't I Get You
Skarecrow Bring It On Home to Me Blues...Live at the Explorer
Opposite Baby Why Help Us Make It
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre whn th toothpaste runs out Sonic Horses I
Chantettes Come and Go With Me Remember.....
Marty Gillan Raindrops Keep Fallin' Try A Little Kindness
Jeremy Dormouse October Morning Toad
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre its raining all ovr th citee Sonic Horses I
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Live and Let Die James Bond 007
Sheila Graham Gentle On My Mind ST
Ronney Mitchell Tonight My Love, Tonight The Five Man Cargo
Matlows If You Were Mine If You Were Mine // Only You
Braineaters Kid Stuff Planet X
Derek Scott Markle Could She Fly ST
John Palmer Mandalla Shorelines
Nerve Penchant Penchant b/w Preludes
Moosetracks This Place is No Place to be Happy ST
Stompin' Tom Connors The Flyin' C.P.R. Northland's Own
Opposite Oh Mamy Blue Help Us Make It
Gargoyle Barry Hunter - I Got That Feeling ST
New Creation Wind Troubled
Gerry Fiander So Long, Goodbye So Long, Goodbye (split with Jim Morrison)
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Walkin' the Dog Chip Dip
Huckle Lady Goldberry Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Marty Gillan She's a Woman (Terry Frewer) Try A Little Kindness
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Moon Raker James Bond 007
Billy Martin Funky Feelin' Strawberry Soul
Ray Griff Canadian Pacific Canada "My Native Land"
Langley Schools Music Project Venus and Mars Wix - Brown Elementary School
Sugluk Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
British North American Act Give Yourself a Ride In the Beginning
Story Structure I Told You (Extended Mix) I Told You
Mystique No Return Black Rider
Bear Paws Lady of the Nite Kitche-Ogamah
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) The Incest Song Motherlove
Huckle Flower To The Sun Wild Blue Yonder
Hugh Dixon Hugh's Hangout (Dixon) The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
The Mix Break Up Shake Up Break Up Shake Up (EP) (picture sleeve)
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) A Mic In A Fist Year Zero
Fred Latremouille Mashed Potato Tossin' and Turnin' - Mashed Potato
November Grief The Aftermath To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Dolores Claman Western Panorama Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes

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

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