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
Plastic Cloud Civilization Machine ST
Jeremy Dormouse Apple Annie Toad
Billy Martin One More Time Strawberry Soul
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Buck Shots ST
Pepper Tree Blue Caravan Pepper Tree & Penny MacCauley (split with Bobby Arvon)
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Until Nine ST (psych cover)
Raphaels I Change My Mind Someday b/w I Change My Mind
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Air I Breathe "Coming Out"
Humble Sponge Lady Is Love Lady Is Love b/w Barabbas
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Sweet Somethings Going Out of My Head - Can't Take My Eyes Off You hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Michael-Jon Rosenberg What a Lovely Place to be Buried ST
David Wiffen Slice of Life Live at the Bunkhouse
Platinum Blonde Hey Hey You Hey Hey You b/w No Regrets
Northwest Company Hard to Cry Hard to Cry b/w Get Away From it All
Intersystems track 01 (entire side 1) Free Psychadelic Poster Inside
Hi-Fives Mo-Shun Fujikami The Warrior b/w Mo-Shun
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Modern Rock Country and Rock & Roll Sound
EQ Bring it On Swellsville
Black Knight Warlords Wrath Master of Disaster (EP)
Rockadrome Inside Out, Inside In Royal American 20th Century Blues
Pat's People To-day Today
Don And Adrian Lord When I’m Down River Run You Down b/w Lord When I’m Down
Blind Owl Roads ST
British North American Act Don't Run Away In the Beginning
Stephanie Taylor Long and Winding Road "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Mock Duck Hurt On Me Test Record
November Grief Recuring Nightmares To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Other Half Swinging Shepherd ST
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Jeremy Dormouse Just to Hear the Bells Toad
Original Bones Lady Anne ST
Brégent La mélancolie Poussière Des Regrets
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Thunderball James Bond 007
Mike Harris Chinese Breakdown Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Skarecrow Mule Skinner Blues Blues...Live at the Explorer
Sweet Somethings He's My Soul Baby hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Perth County Conspiracy Take Your Time ST
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Diamonds Are Forever James Bond 007
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Comin' Home The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Blue Dye Home Grown Stuff
King Herbert And the Knights Let's Get Together With Jack Harden
Moonstone David ST
New Reality Yesterday a Child Was Born Demo Tape
New Day They're Callin' Me Back Home They're Callin' Me Back Home b/w Gotta Spread Some Love Around
Twice Upon a Never Pussy Willows, Cat Tails Twice Upon a Never
Echoes and a Dream Life is a Love Song Echoes and a Dream
Moonstone Murk ST
Bonnie Scots Northern Lights of Aberdeen Laugh and Cry
Bent Wind Riverside Sussex
Canadian Beadles Steady Guy Three Faces North
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre whn th toothpaste runs out Sonic Horses I
Mantra Drifter (D'arcy Draper) ST
Chantettes This Land is Your Land Remember.....
Billy Martin Watermelon Man Strawberry Soul
Bonnie Scots Lizzie Lindsay Laugh and Cry
Jerry Palmer Got a Love String of Hits
Vicky and the Coins B Jam Boogie ST
Emtidi Love Time Rain Saat
Perth County Conspiracy I Shall be Released ST
Jack London & the Sparrows Our Love has Passed ST
September (1) Blue Lady Blue Lady b/w Celebration
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Times are Changing Home Grown Stuff
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Spring Fever She Moves Me Woodstock
A Joint Effort Winter Final Effort
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Blues in Your Room ST (psych cover)
Guess Who American Woman American Woman (split with Christie, Cliff Richards & Arlene Harden)
Siggy Magic & the Hey-Hoe Band Tooth Decay Commercials For Free (EP)
David Wiffen Mule Skinner Blues Live at the Bunkhouse
Ray Griff Garrington Canada "My Native Land"
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
British North American Act Joe Cool In the Beginning
Sound Sett Just a Little (Ron Elliott & Bob Durand, The Breau Brummels) 1966-1967
Joker's Memory A Jokers Memory Part One ST
Sunshyne Eclypse & Sunny Day (Ross Barrett and Ken Spence) The Raven (EP)
VXN No More Putting Love Aside b/w No More (picture sleeve)
King Herbert And the Knights Amen With Jack Harden
New Creation Eternity Ahead Troubled
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Breaking Others Hearts Country and Rock & Roll Sound
EQ Hostile Swellsville
Jack London & the Sparrows If You Don't Want My Love ST
VXN Putting Love Aside Putting Love Aside b/w No More (picture sleeve)
Medium The Mouse ST
Michael-Jon Rosenberg Groovin ST
Moosetracks Hangman ST
Lucio Agostini Centennial Caravan Once Upon a Hundred Years
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia O Come ST
Sedum Shadows Anatomy of a Shadow Thinking Away b/w Anatomy of a Shadow
Dutch Mason Lights Are On But Nobody's Home Half Ain't Been Told
November Grief Requiem (For Mother Earth) To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Trevor Dandy Overture and Judgement Morning Don't Cry Little Tree
New Creation New Creation Troubled
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)
Sound Sett I'm Not Your Stepping Stone (Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart) 1966-1967
Jensen Sisters You Walked Into My Life Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre fires in the tempul Awake in th Red Desert
Roger Rodier Listen to these chords I play (Celeste) Upon Velveatur
The Fringe Flower Generation Canada's Next Number One Recording Group (EP) promo
Glenn Dixon Silence (The Cold Hours Come) Reflections

Compilation

ST

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