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
Sacrifice 1985-07-12_Sacrifice_Brutal Torture interview at Larry_s_Interviews Interviews 1985 + First Live Show
Roger Rodier Just fine Upon Velveatur
Howard & Smith Monotype Limited Stage 3: Bossanova The Optic Earful
John Greenwood My Sailboat and Me My Sailboat and Me
Jeremy Dormouse freight train Toad Rejects
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Elevated Platform Home Grown Stuff
Catseye It's a Long Way Catseye
Marty Gillan You've Made Me So Very Happy Try A Little Kindness
Legacy Gimme My Drugs Come With Me b/w Gimme My Drugs
B.C. Centennial Spots B.C. Centennial Song Cut No. 3 B.C. Centennial Song
Mike Harris Rippling Water Jig Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
B.C. Centennial Spots B.C. Centennial Song Cut No. 2 B.C. Centennial Song
Papa Bears Medicine Show Baroque ST
Medium Give Me a Peace ST
Jolly Tambourine Man I AM Albella Wheeeee! Demo
Jimmy Apostle & the Willows I Love Ya Honey I Love Ya Honey b/w Lost Love
Michael-Jon Rosenberg The High ST
Rock-a-tunes Maria Maria b/w You're Some Kind of Nice (picture sleeve)
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) A Mic In A Fist Year Zero
Laurie Ingalls Goin' Home Cheap Champagne
Tex Lecor Ste-Scholastique Blues Camp Fortune (split with David Wiffen)
Robert Armes 2-2 Blues Songs for Icarus
Willie Dunn Ballad of a Metis Who Were The Ones? Parts 11-12
Ray Griff Jacket River Canada "My Native Land"
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Summertime Chip Dip
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Free to be Free ST (psych cover)
Royal Family Solitude Sometimes b/w Solitude (picture sleeve)
Liska You Make Me Smile Again Cry Out Loud
Catseye Am I the One Catseye
The Other Half Don't Think Twice ST
Adanac Reply What Would It Be Like? What Would It Be Like? b/w The Other One
Brazda Brothers Walking in the Sun ST
John Greenwood The Princess My Sailboat and Me
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Barbara Gryfe Sunrise Sunset What the World Needs Now
Willie Dunn Walking Eagle Who Were The Ones? Parts 11-12
No Exit When Will They Learn? ST
Vic Vogel Close to You Montreal Bandleader
Siggy Magic & the Hey-Hoe Band Tooth Decay Commercials For Free (EP)
John Palmer Free Me Shorelines
Stompin' Tom Connors Carolyne Northland's Own
Sedum Shadows Anatomy of a Shadow Thinking Away b/w Anatomy of a Shadow
King Herbert And the Knights Let's Get Together With Jack Harden
Randy Bishop Childhood Song to Christopher Robin I Sing A Soft Song
Skarecrow Rest Assured Blues...Live at the Explorer
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra James Bond Theme James Bond 007
Strange Movies (I Can) Feel It Coming (I Can) Feel It Coming b/w What A Drag
Spring It's So Hard Shine/ It's So Hard b/w Long, Long Way/ You Were Blind
Langley Schools Music Project Space Oddity Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Compilation Joe Vassos - Leavin' on a Jet Plane Unselfconsciously Canadian
Lewis Baloue Don't Stop It Now Romantic Times
Bear Paws Season of the Wind Kitche-Ogamah
Billy Martin It's Your Life Strawberry Soul
Hugh Dixon Silly Bo Dilly (Dixon) The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Canadian Beadles Funny Feeling Three Faces North
Derek Scott Markle The Circle is Changin' Around ST
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre fires in the tempul Awake in th Red Desert
Laurie Ingalls Mountain Magic Cheap Champagne
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Live and Let Die James Bond 007
Art Snider Silly Jilly Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Comin' Home The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Jeremy Dormouse Young Face Toad
The Nerve Preludes Penchant b/w Preludes
Skarecrow I Got to Have It Blues...Live at the Explorer
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Moose Head ST
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Durocher ST
Lewis Baloue Bon Voyage Romantic Times
Compilation Judy Singh - Emily Unselfconsciously Canadian
Reign Ghost Long Day Journey #1 ST
The Other Half Eve of Destruction ST
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Cat Piss Year Zero
Gargoyle Ian Young - Child of the Sea ST
Ray Griff Alberta My Alberta Canada "My Native Land"
Bonnie Scots Scotland 'Ra Brave Laugh and Cry
Lucio Agostini Cocktails In New York Once Upon a Hundred Years
Bent Wind The Lions Sussex
Michael-Jon Rosenberg Smokestack Lightning ST
Ardels Dream Lover Rhythm & Blues
November Grief Exit Life (With China White) To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Huckle Minstrel Song Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Pepper Tree Carry On Pepper Tree & Penny MacCauley (split with Bobby Arvon)
Lucio Agostini Chuck Wagon Race Once Upon a Hundred Years
Reign Ghost Southern Hemisphere Blues Legacy ST
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck One Glass for Wine Home Grown Stuff
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Tribute to Pretty Maidens Prayer Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Jolly Tambourine Man Movin' On Up Wheeeee! Demo
New Creation Countdown to Revolution! Troubled
Ted Daigle No One Else Teenage Time
David Fromager Innocent Times If What You Said Was True
Arcade Fire The Woodland National Anthem ST
Twice Upon a Never Leavin' On a Jet Plane Twice Upon a Never
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) The Incest Song Motherlove
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Grazin' in the Grass Chip Dip
Sidewinders Time For Loving Flatfoot Hustlin'
Mantra Depend on Somebody (D'arcy Draper) ST
The Other Half Evil Ways ST
Bear Paws All for the Love a Girl Kitche-Ogamah
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra You Only Live Twice James Bond 007
Perth County Conspiracy Lace and Cobwebs ST

FEATURED

Ellison - ST

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Clockwork - Cybernaut b/w Mean Lady

Laval, Québec, 🇨🇦

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Hi Octane Band - Shakey Ground b/w Feelings

Halifax, Nova Scotia, 🇨🇦

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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, 🇨🇦

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The Other Half - ST

Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, 🇨🇦

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The Haunted - ST

Chateauguy, Québec, 🇨🇦

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Minutes From Downtown - Minutes From Downtown '82

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Jolly Tambourine Man - Wheeeee! Demo

Collingwood → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Reign Ghost - Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires

Oshawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Reign Ghost - ST

Oshawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Christmas - ST

Oshawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Lorne Ranger - French Fried Freedom

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

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Caribou - ST

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

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Laurie Ingalls - Cheap Champagne

Lethbridge, Alberta, 🇨🇦

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Sacrifice - Interviews 1985 + First Live Show

Scarborough → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Sacrifice - The Exorcism

Scarborough → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Sacrifice - Turn In Your Grave (demo)

Scarborough → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Dimitroff, Burgess and Friends - Dimitroff, Burgess and Friends

Fort Erie, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Ablaze - Psychopath

Beloeil, Québec, 🇨🇦

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May Run - Days Into Years

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 🇨🇦

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

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Moonstone - ST

Winnipeg, Manitoba

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bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) - Motherlove

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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New Creation - Troubled

Coquitlam, British Columbia

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Boys Brigade - Live Off-The-Floor Demo

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Boys Brigade - Mannequin Demo

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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

Mississauga, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Haggath - Rehearsal 1985-09

Mississauga, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Haggath - Rehearsal 1985-03-11

Mississauga, Ontario, 🇨🇦

ST

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

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