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
Northwest Company Hard to Cry Hard to Cry b/w Get Away From it All
Barry Ennis School Days Mountain of Ice b/w School Days
Fabulous PJ's Proud Mary What Do You Want Me to Do? b/w Proud Mary
Barbara Gryfe Don't Give Up What the World Needs Now
Ray Griff D-Dogies Canada "My Native Land"
Langley Schools Music Project Mandy Wix - Brown Elementary School
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Blue Dye Home Grown Stuff
British North American Act Baby Jane Days and Nights In the Beginning
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Spain is for Old Ladies Invisible Roots
Lucio Agostini Introduction Once Upon a Hundred Years
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Thunderball James Bond 007
Raphaels I Change My Mind Someday b/w I Change My Mind
Triaxe Persecution Chain of Superstition b/w Persecution
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Bird Woman of Bath ST
Skarecrow Standin' by the Keyhole Blues...Live at the Explorer
Moonstone Said Gently ST
Spring You Were Blind Shine/ It's So Hard b/w Long, Long Way/ You Were Blind
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Destroy the Nihilistic Picnic Invisible Roots
Huckle Flowers Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre yu seem to be apeering to follo sum distant star Sonic Horses I
Twice Upon a Never Obladi Oblada Twice Upon a Never
Hugh Dixon Delilah The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Roger Rodier Just fine Upon Velveatur
Original Bones Rollin' Over ST
Bonnie Scots This Land Is Your Land Laugh and Cry
The Fringe Executive Dream Canada's Next Number One Recording Group (EP) promo
Dolores Claman Wilderness West Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Marty Gillan Time and Love Try A Little Kindness
Bear Paws Stand By Me Kitche-Ogamah
Trevor Dandy It's a Long Journey Don't Cry Little Tree
Rockadrome There You Go Again Royal American 20th Century Blues
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre o a b a Awake in th Red Desert
Derek Scott Markle I Don't Know For Certain ST
EQ Hostile Swellsville
Nihilist Spasm Band Oh Brian Dibb No Record
Rockadrome Royal American Twentieth Century Blues Royal American 20th Century Blues
Bear Paws Kitch-Ogamah Kitche-Ogamah
Huckle Gabriola Day Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
September (1) Blue Lady Blue Lady b/w Celebration
Uncertain Land of 1000 Dances Land of 1000 Dances b/w Wipeout
Billy Martin Prayer Meetin' Strawberry Soul
Joy Ready to Move Ready to Move b/w Tears to be Cried
EQ Let it be Known Swellsville
Ronney Mitchell Just a Little Bit More Baby The Five Man Cargo
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Dada Lama Motherlove
The Organization Happiness ST
Jeremy Dormouse High Flying Bird Toad
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Mr. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang James Bond 007
Peter Mathieson Yonge Street Yonge Street b/w heaven Help the Fool
The Organization Pretty City Lady ST
Circle C Burn Burn (promo)
Garden Bower This Woman (live) Etc. w/ Trains
David Fromager If What You Said Was True If What You Said Was True
Orphic Egg Crack It Crack It b/w Crack It
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre heard ya tellin Awake in th Red Desert
Sidewinders A Voyage Flatfoot Hustlin'
Reign Ghost More Than I Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Joy Tears to be Cried Ready to Move b/w Tears to be Cried
Canadian Beadles Steady Guy Three Faces North
Stompin' Connors Tom Goin' Back Up North Northland's Own
No Exit Decisions ST
Gordon Lightfoot Steel Rail Blues Movin' Soundtrack (CN picture sleeve) (split with Jean Pierre Ferland)
Compilation Joe Vassos - New World Unselfconsciously Canadian
Hank Snow I'm Movin' On Western Caravan (split with Rosalie Allen and Sons of Pioneers) (EP) (picture sleeve)
John Greenwood Mother's Day Love My Sailboat and Me
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Bill Bissett’s Lullaby Motherlove
Opposite Party in My Home Help Us Make It
David Wiffen Four Strong Winds Live at the Bunkhouse
VXN Just a Game ST
Two Tones Copper Kettle Live at the Village Corner
David Wiffen Climb the Stairs Camp Fortune (split with Tex Lecor)
Haunted Untie Me ST
Opposite A Dark Night Help Us Make It
EQ Play The Back Swellsville
Lewis Baloue My Whole Life L'amour
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Memory Lane The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
John Greenwood Every Time I Think of You I Smile My Sailboat and Me
Skarecrow My Coffee's Gettin' Cold Blues...Live at the Explorer
Thornton Rogers J. Out in the West Out in the West b/w The Blues
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre my mouths on fire Awake in th Red Desert
Jeff Moore & Friends Sandy's Song (Jeff Moore) The Youngest Son
British North American Act Don't Run Away In the Beginning
Calgary Range Riders Rocky Mountain Rhythm Rocky Mountain Rhythm // Curly Hair
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) A Hum for Stevie Winwood Motherlove
King Herbert And the Knights Lucille With Jack Harden
Mock Duck My Time Test Record
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Bird She Fly Low ST
Gargoyle Jon Craneman Karsemeyer- What Is (read by Doug Watters) ST
New Reality Moments of Silence Demo Tape
Brazda Brothers Lonely Time ST
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Ultimate Image Rains of Autumn It's a Hard Life b/w Rains of Autumn
Canadian Beadles Think I'm Gonna Cry Three Faces North
Barbara Gryfe Who Am I What the World Needs Now
King Herbert And the Knights You Make Me So Very Happy With Jack Harden
Stompin' Connors Tom My Swisha Miss Northland's Own
Intersystems track 06 (entire side 2) Free Psychadelic Poster Inside
Ronney Mitchell Fools Rush in The Five Man Cargo
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre an ode to d a levy Awake in th Red Desert
Ted Daigle Legend of Chaleur Bay Teenage Time

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

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