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
Christmas Jungle Fabulous ST
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Howard & Smith Monotype Limited Symphony #1 In A, B, C, D, etc. The Optic Earful
Black Knight Aaraigathor (Metal Anthem) Master of Disaster (EP)
New Creation Yet Still Time Troubled
Derek Scott Markle I Don't Know For Certain ST
Medium Give Me a Peace ST
Jerry Palmer Celebration Day String of Hits
Art Snider It Was a Very Good Year Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Grimes Caladan Geidi Primes
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding Snowfall Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Rascalz Ragga Muffin Rhymes Really Livin'
Humble Sponge Lady Is Love Lady Is Love b/w Barabbas
Dolores Claman Wilderness West Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Don Carrington Trio Breaking Up is Hard to Do Makin' It Happen
Sound Sett You're a Better Man Than I (Mike & Brian Hugg) 1966-1967
Skarecrow Stormy Monday Blues Blues...Live at the Explorer
King Herbert And the Knights Let It Be With Jack Harden
Huckle Get Down Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Jeff Moore & Friends Call Me When It's Over (Jeff Moore) The Youngest Son
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Realize ST (psych cover)
Dolores Claman Summer Walk Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Jolly Tambourine Man Lisa Burger Wheeeee! Demo
Skarecrow Ballad of Glen & Trevor Blues...Live at the Explorer
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre is yr car 2 soft 4 th road Awake in th Red Desert
Barbara Gryfe People (Lovers) Such As What the World Needs Now
Papa Bears Medicine Show Taking My Time ST
Jackie Mittoo Special Mission Stepping Tiger
Jensen Sisters You Light Up My Life Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Huckle She's Coming Home Wild Blue Yonder
Jeremy Dormouse birds of joy Toad Rejects
Guess Who American Woman American Woman (split with Christie, Cliff Richards & Arlene Harden)
Bear Paws All for the Love a Girl Kitche-Ogamah
Jack London & the Sparrows Take it Slow (vocal by Jerry Edmonton) ST
Garden Bower You’ve Got Me On Fire Etc. w/ Trains
Sound Sett Just in Case You're Wonderin (David Byngham & Glynn Bell, The Ugly Ducklings) 1966-1967
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Sunshine "Coming Out"
Andre Beaupre The Saga of Wayne Gretzky The Saga of Wayne Gretzky b/w The Saga of Wayne Gretzky Part II
Catseye Rhythms of an Empty Room Catseye
Siggy Magic & the Hey-Hoe Band People Who Created Me Commercials For Free (EP)
Spring Fever Oh Baby Hold Me Woodstock
Reign Ghost Ain't it Great Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Derek Scott Markle To Whisper Out Your Name ST
Arcade Fire Vampire Forest Fire ST
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Goldfinger James Bond 007
British North American Act Just How You Feel In the Beginning
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre fading era Sonic Horses I
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Speak Of The Devil Year Zero
Dutch Mason Polk Salad Annie Half Ain't Been Told
Stephanie Taylor Long and Winding Road "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Chantettes Gay Hawaiian Melody Remember.....
Lewis Baloue Love Showered Me L'amour
Gargoyle Brian Dunfield - Too Late ST
Mantra Stay (D'arcy Draper) ST
New Creation Eternity Ahead Troubled
Skeptical Eye Believe in Me The Devil's Playground
Langley Schools Music Project Help Me, Rhonda Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Huckle Gabriola Day Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Stompin' Tom Connors The World Goes Round (Expo 67 Montreal) Northland's Own
Hugh Dixon Hot Pants (Dixon) The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Medium I'll Love Everyone at Last ST
Huckle Beautiful You Are Wild Blue Yonder
Huckle Rolling River Wild Blue Yonder
Brégent Epitaphe villon Poussière Des Regrets
EQ Freestyle Swellsville
Sacrifice DE01_Sacrifice_Larry_s Hideaway (Toronto)_1985-03-25 Interviews 1985 + First Live Show
Sound Sett I'm Not Your Stepping Stone (Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart) 1966-1967
Lucio Agostini Pan Am Young and Old Once Upon a Hundred Years
No Exit Bureaucracy ST
Tex Lecor The Draveur Camp Fortune (split with David Wiffen)
Robert Armes Someday Songs for Icarus
May Run The Promise Days Into Years
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Durocher ST
Opposite One Night Help Us Make It
Bent Wind Sacred Cows Sussex
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre the canada council juree prson is missing Sonic Horses I
Michael Ratherford Hard Drugs (Version) Hard Drugs
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Walter Boudreau Synchronisation I Jazz - Walter Boudreau + 3 = 4
Arcade Fire No Cars Go ST
Gentlemen of Horror Rough Hike ST (EP) (skeleton cover)
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre gold minrs Sonic Horses I
Hugh Dixon Guitar Soco Guitar Solo (acetate)
Riverson Take Me (Rayburn Blake) ST
The Haunted A Message to Pretty ST
Sound Sett I've Been Loving You Too Long (Otis Redding & Jerry Butler) 1966-1967
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Someone Think Home Grown Stuff
Lewis Baloue Bon Voyage Romantic Times
Lucio Agostini Skiing in Québec Once Upon a Hundred Years
The Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Gargoyle Ian Young - Child of the Sea ST
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Perth County Conspiracy Hindsight ST
Jeremy Dormouse rollin' again Toad Rejects
Ladykiller Ice Woman Still Madly in Love b/w Ice Woman
Laurie Ingalls Fairweather Woman Cheap Champagne
Michel & the French Canadians Comfort Him Cause I Believe b/w Comfort Him (picture sleeve)
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Here Is Year Zero
Roger Rodier The Key Upon Velveatur
EQ Let it be Known Swellsville

FEATURED

Clockwork - Cybernaut b/w Mean Lady

Laval, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Hi Octane Band - Shakey Ground b/w Feelings

Halifax, Nova Scotia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Something Evil - Die Children Die b/w The Great Winnipeg Riot

Winnipeg, Manitoba, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Hagood Hardy & the Montage - The Garden Path b/w Won't You Step Into My Life

Angola, Indiana, 🇺🇸 → Brantford → Oakville → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

The Other Half - ST

Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, 🇨🇦

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The Haunted - ST

Chateauguy, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Minutes From Downtown - Minutes From Downtown '82

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Jolly Tambourine Man - Wheeeee! Demo

Collingwood → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Reign Ghost - Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires

Oshawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Reign Ghost - ST

Oshawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Christmas - ST

Oshawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Lorne Ranger - French Fried Freedom

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Caribou - ST

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Laurie Ingalls - Cheap Champagne

Lethbridge, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Sacrifice - Interviews 1985 + First Live Show

Scarborough → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Sacrifice - The Exorcism

Scarborough → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Sacrifice - Turn In Your Grave (demo)

Scarborough → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Dimitroff, Burgess and Friends - Dimitroff, Burgess and Friends

Fort Erie, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Ablaze - Psychopath

Beloeil, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

May Run - Days Into Years

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Gerry Fiander - So Long, Goodbye (split with Jim Morrison)

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Moonstone - ST

Winnipeg, Manitoba

FEATURED

bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) - Motherlove

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

New Creation - Troubled

Coquitlam, British Columbia

FEATURED

Boys Brigade - Live Off-The-Floor Demo

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Boys Brigade - Mannequin Demo

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Haggath - Rehearsal Ildiko's, Toronto, 1986-02-07

Mississauga, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Haggath - Rehearsal 1985-09

Mississauga, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Haggath - Rehearsal 1985-03-11

Mississauga, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Dolores Claman - Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes

Vancouver, British Columbia → Toronto → London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Cybernaut b/w Mean Lady

Shakey Ground b/w Feelings

45-Hi Octane Band - Shakey Ground VINYL 02

Die Children Die b/w The Great Winnipeg Riot

The Garden Path b/w Won't You Step Into My Life

45-Hagood Hardy & the Montage - The Garden Path VINYL 02

ST

ST

Minutes From Downtown '82

Minutes From Downtown

CASSETTE - Minutes From Downtown - ST DEMO FRONT

Wheeeee! Demo

Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires

ST

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Christmas

Christmas

Christmas

Christmas

Christmas

Christmas

ST

Christmas

Christmas-ST (Paragon) LABEL 02

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