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
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Madonna ST
A Joint Effort Molly and Tenbrooks Final Effort
Gentlemen of Horror Rich Kids ST (EP) (skeleton cover)
September (1) Blue Lady Blue Lady b/w Celebration
Braineaters Wrong World Planet X
Jim Brown Roy Cooper - Prelude to 1984 The First See Hear
Michael Ratherford Hard Drugs (Version) Hard Drugs
Bent Wind Look at Love Sussex
Pat's People Turn, Turn, Turn Today
Sound Sett Mustang Sally (Mack Rice) 1966-1967
November Grief Intro To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
The Organization Happiness ST
Glenn Dixon One By One Reflections
David Wiffen Abilene Live at the Bunkhouse
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre th ride to th place uv meditaysyun Sonic Horses I
Langley Schools Music Project God Only Knows Wix - Brown Elementary School
John Palmer Such a Long Long Time Shorelines
Pepper Tree Carry On Pepper Tree & Penny MacCauley (split with Bobby Arvon)
Roger Rodier Let's see some happyness Upon Velveatur
Jensen Sisters You Lit the Fire (I Want Only You) Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Blind Owl The Old Man ST
Opposite Party in My Home Help Us Make It
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre whn i first came to vancouvr Sonic Horses I
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
The Organization 60 Years Ago ST
Marty Gillan If You Go Away Try A Little Kindness
Pat's People What Have They Done to the Rain Today
Hugh Dixon Silly Bo Dilly (Dixon) The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Little Pony Home Grown Stuff
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Tex Lecor John McNally Camp Fortune (split with David Wiffen)
New Creation Countdown to Revolution! Troubled
Roger Rodier Am I supposed to let it by again Upon Velveatur
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Do You Agree With Me ST (psych cover)
Jerry Palmer Your Love String of Hits
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck One Glass for Wine Home Grown Stuff
Sunshyne The Raven (David Sinclair) The Raven (EP)
Catseye Love Catseye
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Urine Trouble Year Zero
Barbara Gryfe One Child What the World Needs Now
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Year Zero Year Zero
Sound Sett I Need You (Everybody Needs Somebody) 1966-1967
Twice Upon a Never Early in the Morning Twice Upon a Never
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck No one in Particular Home Grown Stuff
King Herbert And the Knights Sing a Simple Song With Jack Harden
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Never Mind My Job ST (psych cover)
Sedum Shadows Anatomy of a Shadow Thinking Away b/w Anatomy of a Shadow
Fabulous PJ's What Do You Want Me to Do? What Do You Want Me to Do? b/w Proud Mary
Souls of Inspyration Stranger ST
Joni Mitchell Be Cool Wild Things Run Fast (test pressing)
Ardels Heads Up Rhythm & Blues
Jackie Mittoo Special Mission Stepping Tiger
Jeremy Dormouse blackberry quadrille Toad Rejects
British North American Act Joe Cool In the Beginning
Hank Snow I'm Movin' On Western Caravan (split with Rosalie Allen and Sons of Pioneers) (EP) (picture sleeve)
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Porno Groove Year Zero
Jim Brown Lionel Kearns - Transport The First See Hear
Canadian Beadles I'm Coming Home Three Faces North
Mike Harris Rippling Water Jig Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Randy Bishop Lillipads I Sing A Soft Song
Humble Sponge Lady Is Love Lady Is Love b/w Barabbas
Ray Griff Curley Canada "My Native Land"
Cargo Say Goodbye Front Side, Back Side
Liska Angela Cry Out Loud
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Dada Lama Motherlove
Burgundy Lady Blue Lady Blue b/w Ex-Lovin' Man
Joker's Memory A Jokers Memory Part Two ST
Nick Ayoub Quintet Montreal West The Montreal Scene
Ray Griff Alberta My Alberta Canada "My Native Land"
Other Half Eve of Destruction ST
John Palmer Mandalla Shorelines
Biggy Twiggy Band Mama Won't Let You Mama Won't Let You b/w I Don't Want That to Change
Tex Lecor Le frigidaire Camp Fortune (split with David Wiffen)
April Wine Gimme Love The Whole World's Going Crazy (test pressing)
November Grief Recuring Nightmares To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Stompin' Tom Connors The Maritime Waltz Northland's Own
John Palmer The Wheel Shorelines
Jarvis Street Revue Mr. Business Man Mr. Oil Man
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle I'll Take Romance ST
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Georges Leningrad lollipon lady Made In Taiwan
Moonstone Finas Birthday Song ST
Hazel McKirdy Mama Didn't Lie End of the World b/w Mama Didn't Lie
Sound Sett You're a Better Man Than I (Mike & Brian Hugg) 1966-1967
British North American Act See How Free In the Beginning
Robert Armes Slipping Away Songs for Icarus
Sunshyne Dixie Medley (Traditional) The Raven (EP)
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre its raining all ovr th citee Sonic Horses I
Stompin' Tom Connors Movin' On To Rouyn Movin' On To Rouyn b/w Carolyne
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Ticky Tock ST
Catseye It's a Long Way Catseye
A Joint Effort Greed for Gold Final Effort
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) STHNLA Motherlove
John Greenwood Mother's Day Love My Sailboat and Me
Ronney Mitchell Quando Quando The Five Man Cargo
No Exit Energy Crisis ST
Art Snider Edelweiss Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Realize ST (psych cover)
Gordon Lightfoot Movin' Movin' Soundtrack (CN picture sleeve) (split with Jean Pierre Ferland)
The Reaction The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)

ST

ST

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

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

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