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.

Bent Wind - Sussex - Vinyl Side 2

bpNichol - Motherlove vinyl side 2

Reaction

Black Knight - Master of Disaster

George Cook - Why Have You Left Me the Way I Am // On the Trail of Sunset Valley

Rockadrome - Royal American 20th Century Blues BACK

Moonstone - ST

Sweet Somethings - hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'

Siggy Magic & the Hey Ho Band - Commercials For Free (EP)

Frankie

Stephanie Taylor - "I Don't Know Where I Stand"

Gentlemen of Horror - 5 song 45 (Sterling Death) (EP) skull cover

Gentlemen of Horror - 5 song 45 (Sterling Death) (EP) skull cover

David

Original Bones Liner Notes SIDE 02

Bob Bryden

Plastic Cloud - ST

Les 409 acetate label one-of-a-kind garage artifact

Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone - Coming Out

Joker's Memory - ST

Ablaze - Psychopath b/w Sadistic Dream

Hank Snow - Western Caravan (split with Rosalie Allen and Sons of Pioneers) (EP) (picture sleeve)

Phillip Werren - Electronic Music (1968-1971)

Squires - The Sultan b/w Aurora

Natalie Pollock & John Turner

Michel & the French Canadians - Cause I Believe b/w Comfort Him (picture sleeve)

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Diodes The Curse - War Raw / War (split with The Curse)
Michel & the French Canadians Cause I Believe Cause I Believe b/w Comfort Him (picture sleeve)
Mittoo, Jackie Totally Together Stepping Tiger
Mix, The Maybe (Face To The Wall) Break Up Shake Up (EP) (picture sleeve)
Huckle Gabriola Day Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) The Incest Song Motherlove
Opposite Higher and Higher Help Us Make It
Gnys, Stefan You're Not The Only One English Oaks and Evangeline
Dandy, Trevor When I Prayed Last Night Don't Cry Little Tree
Mathieson, Peter Yonge Street Yonge Street b/w heaven Help the Fool
Rascalz The Roughest (We Are) Really Livin'
Dixon, Hugh Yellow Bird The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Dandy, Trevor Is There Any Love? Don't Cry Little Tree
Compilation Shades of Blond - All Your Love International Master Discovery Records
Plastic Cloud Face Behind the Sun ST
409, Les Born in Chicago They Say b/w Born in Chicago (acetate)
New Creation All is Well Troubled
Tyrant Carol Hooked On You b/w Carol
Orphic Egg Crack It Crack It b/w Crack It
Fromager, David Innocent Times If What You Said Was True
Huckle Wild Night Wild Blue Yonder
Huckle Gather The Children Wild Blue Yonder
Grimes Gambang Geidi Primes
Mathieson, Peter Heaven Help the Fool Yonge Street b/w heaven Help the Fool
New Reality Yesterday a Child Was Born Demo Tape
Sidewinders I Like to Dance Flatfoot Hustlin'
Skarecrow Mule Skinner Blues Blues...Live at the Explorer
Harris, Mike Golden Slippers Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Martin, Billy If You Care Strawberry Soul
Mitchell, Ronney Welcome to the Country The Five Man Cargo
King Herbert And the Knights Lucille With Jack Harden
Baloue, Lewis Don't Stop It Now Romantic Times
Nerve Preludes Penchant b/w Preludes
Bent Wind Look at Love Sussex
Rascalz Ragga Muffin Rhymes Really Livin'
Trooper Mr. Big 3 Dressed Up as a 9 b/w Mr. Big (test pressing)
Brazda Brothers 20th Century ST
Braineaters Modern Man Planet X
Perth County Conspiracy I Shall be Released ST
Ardels Lonely Hours Rhythm & Blues
Skeptical Eye Ghet-ti Train The Devil's Playground
Original Bones Steamboat Whistle Blues ST
Papa Bears Medicine Show Soul Kitchen ST
Griff, Ray Alberta My Alberta Canada "My Native Land"
EQ Freestyle Swellsville
Harris, Mike Andy's Favorite Jig Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
New Creation Yet Still Time Troubled
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck One Ring Jane Home Grown Stuff
Morrison, Jim Ready to Rock Ready to Rock b/w (split with Gerry Fiander)
Ultimate Image Rains of Autumn It's a Hard Life b/w Rains of Autumn
Spring Fever Woodstock (Joni Mitchell) Woodstock
Spring Fever Gimme Shelter Woodstock
Vicky and the Coins Girl From Ipanema ST
Gillan, Marty One Act Play (Howie Vickers (The Collectors)) Try A Little Kindness
Greenwood, John Hey, Minstrel Boy My Sailboat and Me
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Skeptical Eye Tortured From Inside The Devil's Playground
Papa Bears Medicine Show Taking My Time ST
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Connors, Stompin' Tom Streets of Toronto Northland's Own
Brown, Jim Bruce Clarke - Of Spiralling Why The First See Hear
Mystique Black Rider Black Rider
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Broadway Boogie Country and Rock & Roll Sound
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Bloodstone Toronto Toronto b/w I'm Your Man
Gentlemen of Horror Rich Kids Sterling Death (EP) (alien cover)
Vicky and the Coins B Jam Boogie ST
Two Tones This is My Song Live at the Village Corner
A Joint Effort Tequilla Sunrise Final Effort
Rock-a-tunes Maria Maria b/w You're Some Kind of Nice (picture sleeve)
Vicky and the Coins Bill Bailey ST
Jeremy Dormouse you can't go back Toad Rejects
Catseye I Met a Girl Out in the Country Catseye
Claman, Dolores Western Panorama Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Rascalz Buggin' to the Boogie Really Livin'
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Reign Ghost Enola Gay Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Lacombe, Buck Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Gravel Road ST
King Herbert And the Knights Let's Get Together With Jack Harden
Lauzon, Marlo & Lutia Modigliani ST
Langley Schools Music Project Band On the Run Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Mantra Depend on Somebody (D'arcy Draper) ST
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Sidewinders Gift to the Sun Flatfoot Hustlin'
Connors, Stompin' Tom Movin' On To Rouyn Movin' On To Rouyn b/w Carolyne
Gryfe, Barbara What the World Needs Now What the World Needs Now
Reign Ghost More Than I Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Baloue, Lewis Let's Fall in Love Tonight L'amour
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Blue Dye Home Grown Stuff
Bent Wind Riverside Sussex
November Grief Infanticide To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Lightfoot, Gordon Steel Rail Blues Movin' Soundtrack (CN picture sleeve) (split with Jean Pierre Ferland)
Chantettes Man Come Into Egypt Remember.....
Two Tones Calypso Baby Live at the Village Corner
Amen, The Peter Zeus Carnivals and Cotton Candy b/w Peter Zeus
Arcade Fire Headlights Look like Diamonds ST
Organization, The Together Forever ST
Claman, Dolores Wilderness West Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Wiffen, David Times are Getting' Hard Live at the Bunkhouse

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