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	Length
Jackie Mittoo	Sugar Jar	Stepping Tiger	04:45
Spring Fever	She Moves Me	Woodstock	03:30
Jack London & the Sparrows	Give My Love to You	ST	02:17
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
Marty Gillan	Home from the Forest	Try A Little Kindness	02:40
Compilation	Tommy Banks Orchestra - Bluesette	Unselfconsciously Canadian	03:35
Expedition to Earth	Time Time Time	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:55
A Joint Effort	Bus Song	Final Effort	05:09
David	House of the Rising Sun	ST	03:41
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau	Never Mind My Job	ST (psych cover)	02:20
Athenians of Toronto	Everybody's Everything	San Skoteiniazei	03:52
Ronney Mitchell	It's Your Thing	The Five Man Cargo	03:43
Jerry Palmer	Party Pooper	String of Hits	01:58
Robert Armes	2-2 Blues	Songs for Icarus	03:30
Nihilist Spasm Band	Oh Brian Dibb	No Record	04:36
Hugh Dixon	Saints Go Marching Inn	The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)	03:51
Pat's People	Turn, Turn, Turn	Today	03:23
Other Half	Swinging Shepherd	ST	02:30
Jeremy Dormouse	hesitation blues	Toad Rejects	02:31
David Fromager	Concrete City Life	If What You Said Was True	02:20
Ted Daigle	Farewell Adelita	Teenage Time	01:36
Ray Griff	Canada	Canada "My Native Land"	03:53
Gentlemen of Horror	Overhead Projector	ST (EP) (skeleton cover)	02:41
Joe College & the Rulers	It Ain't Allright (With Me)	It Ain't Allright (With Me) b/w Working Class Hero	04:10
Roger Rodier	You don't know what it's like	Upon Velveatur	04:11
Les Bel Kanto	A Kind of Break Down	A Kind of Break Down b/w Dors (promo)	03:05
Northwest Company	Get Away From it All	Hard to Cry b/w Get Away From it All	02:49
Langley Schools Music Project	To Know Him is to Love Him	Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger	01:49
Hi-Fives	Fujikami The Warrior	Fujikami The Warrior b/w Mo-Shun	02:10
Derek Scott Markle	Could it Be	ST	03:03
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau	Free to be Free	ST (psych cover)	03:05
A Joint Effort	Tequilla Sunrise	Final Effort	02:35
Jeremy Dormouse	Who Do You Love	Toad	03:22
Lewis Baloue	Love Showered Me	L'amour	04:01
Don And Adrian	Lord When I’m Down	River Run You Down b/w Lord When I’m Down	03:40
David Wiffen	Slice of Life	Live at the Bunkhouse	01:50
Dutch Mason	Mannish Boy	Half Ain't Been Told	05:22
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre	she's a very good cook	Awake in th Red Desert	02:17
Dolores Claman	Western Panorama	Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes	02:59
John Greenwood	There is Peace	My Sailboat and Me	03:34
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry)	Country Cooking	Phil	04:07
Les 409	They Say	They Say b/w Born in Chicago (acetate)	02:25
King Herbert And the Knights	Sing a Simple Song	With Jack Harden	04:48
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle	Take a Long Last Look (Joyce Hahn vocals)	ST	02:22
Ardels	Night Time is the Right Time	Rhythm & Blues	02:58
Skeptical Eye	Mama Does'n Understand	The Devil's Playground	05:15
Mock Duck	Sitting on Top of the World	Test Record	04:15
Langley Schools Music Project	Mandy	Wix - Brown Elementary School	02:40
Michael Ratherford	Hard Drugs (Version)	Hard Drugs	03:54
Reign Ghost	More Than I	Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires	03:36
Pat's People	Less of Me	Today	02:20
Joy	Ready to Move	Ready to Move b/w Tears to be Cried	02:10
Plastic Cloud	Dainty General Rides	ST	04:14
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia	Modigliani	ST	03:06
New Creation	Sodom and Gomorrah	Troubled	02:49
The Amen	Carnivals and Cotton Candy	Carnivals and Cotton Candy b/w Peter Zeus	02:55
Huckle	Flowers	Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)	03:09
Walter Boudreau	Boul Chaumont	Jazz - Walter Boudreau + 3 = 4	08:26
Teenage Head	Tearin' Me Apart	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:41
John Palmer	The Wheel	Shorelines	01:03
Huckle	Hello Sunshine	Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)	02:27
New Creation	Eternity Ahead	Troubled	02:49
Nihilist Spasm Band	The Byron Bog	No Record	11:21
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre	awake in the red desert	Awake in th Red Desert	03:37
Fred Latremouille	Tossin' and Turnin'	Tossin' and Turnin' - Mashed Potato	01:54
Platinum Blonde	No Regrets	Hey Hey You b/w No Regrets	03:22
Stefan Gnys	English Oaks	English Oaks and Evangeline	04:29
Sidewinders	Can't You Feel the Fire	Flatfoot Hustlin'	04:55
Wes Dakus & the Club 93 Rebels	Surfs U Rite	Dog Food b/w Surfs U Rite (promo)	02:25
Jack London & the Sparrows	Glad to Be With You	ST	02:10
Ellison	Untruth Story (Vincent Marandola)	ST	05:58
Original Bones	Sit Down	ST	03:24
Dolores Claman	Wilderness West	Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes	02:57
Art Snider	Silly Jilly	Corny Songs I Play on My Organ	02:14
Billy Martin	It's Your Life	Strawberry Soul	02:42
Lewis Baloue	Don't Stop It Now	Romantic Times	05:10
David Fromager	Out on the Weekend	If What You Said Was True	03:26
Jeremy Dormouse	Just to Hear the Bells	Toad	03:28
Jeremy Dormouse	Sometimes You Ain't Got Nothin Boy	Toad	02:34
The Stonefield	Morning Hours	Deep Shades of Blue b/w Morning Hours	04:34
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry)	Keep Your Hand Off My Girl	Year Zero	03:39
Siggy Magic & the Hey-Hoe Band	Commercials for Free	Commercials For Free (EP)	01:52
Circle C	Burn	Burn (promo)	02:57
Grimes	Sardaukar Levenbrech	Geidi Primes	02:05
VXN	Not Only in Love	ST	03:54
Arcade Fire	Headlights Look like Diamonds	ST	04:25
Hugh Dixon	Silly Bo Dilly (Dixon)	The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)	02:52
The Fringe	I Don't Want To Live	Canada's Next Number One Recording Group (EP) promo	03:52
David	Descension	ST	03:50
Nick Ayoub Quintet	Montreal East	The Montreal Scene	04:54
Sugluk	Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	02:35
Hazel McKirdy	Mama Didn't Lie	End of the World b/w Mama Didn't Lie	02:03
Evolution Expantion	Blow Up	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	02:39
Diodes	The Curse - War	Raw / War (split with The Curse)	01:37
Gargoyle	Ian Young - A Childhood in South Africa: The Veld Near Ladybrand	ST	01:53
Pat's People	Get To-Gether	Today	03:04
Sweet Somethings	Hold On, I'm Comin'	hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'	02:19
Lewis Baloue	Where Did My Love Go Away	Romantic Times	04:05
Neil Young	My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)	My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) (promo, DJ Label copy only)	03:46
Stompin' Tom Connors	Carolyne	Movin' On To Rouyn b/w Carolyne	03:04

Rarest Canadian Music

Tracks

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Ellison - ST

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Perth County Conspiracy - ST

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Heat - Brighouse b/w Rocking Chair

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

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Kings - Switchin'

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Spring - Shine/ It's So Hard b/w Long, Long Way/ You Were Blind

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Fyre - David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges

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Joker's Memory - ST

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Beverly Glenn-Copeland - ST

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Bent Wind - Sussex

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Teenage Head - Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)

The Mutual Understanding - In Wonderland

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Jim Brown - The First See Hear

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Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra - James Bond 007

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Reign Ghost - ST

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Reign Ghost - Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires

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Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone - "Coming Out"

Chessmen - Mustang b/w Meadowlands

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London Experimental Jazz Quartet - Invisible Roots

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Nihilist Spasm Band - No Record

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Diodes - Raw / War (split with The Curse)

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D.N.A. - Because I Love You b/w Seashell

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Compilation - International Master Discovery Records

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Shades of Blond - All Your Love

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49th Parallel - She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)

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Trevor Dandy - Don't Cry Little Tree

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Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) - Phil

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Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) - Year Zero

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Ardels - Rhythm & Blues

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Nucleus - Johnny Peace b/w Ernie's Gone (picture sleeve)

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