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
Jack London & the Sparrows I'll be the Boy ST
Riverson Medallion Castle (Brian Edwards) ST
Michel & the French Canadians Cause I Believe Cause I Believe b/w Comfort Him (picture sleeve)
Jim Brown Bp Nichol - Another Day Older The First See Hear
Catseye I Met a Girl Out in the Country Catseye
Jeremy Dormouse Young Face Toad
Robert Armes Woman in Toronto Songs for Icarus
Plastic Cloud Shadows of Your Mind ST
Grimes Sardaukar Levenbrech Geidi Primes
Grimes Zoal, Face Dancer Geidi Primes
Sidewinders Time For Loving Flatfoot Hustlin'
Liska Tear Away My Heart Cry Out Loud
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Strike Out Every Name ST (psych cover)
British North American Act The World Would Understand In the Beginning
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Thunderball James Bond 007
Bent Wind Riverside Sussex
Hugh Dixon Hot Pants (Dixon) The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
John Palmer Seedling of Light Shorelines
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Liska Weekday Mother Cry Out Loud
Cargo Child of the Playroom Front Side, Back Side
Dolores Claman Western Panorama Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Billy Martin Egg Roll Strawberry Soul
Sheila Graham Straight Life ST
Marty Gillan Time and Love Try A Little Kindness
Ronnie Fray & The Playboys Mean Mama Blues Mean Mama Blues b/w The Vulture
New Day Gotta Spread Some Love Around They're Callin' Me Back Home b/w Gotta Spread Some Love Around
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Bird Woman of Bath ST
Stompin' Tom Connors My Swisha Miss Northland's Own
Luke Simmons and His Blue Mountain Boys Howlin' at the Moon Just Waitin' // Howlin' at the Moon
Huckle Ocean Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Hook & Sling Hell Bent: A Collection of Hard Instrumentals (Split with King Herbert & the Knights)
VXN Illusion of the Heart ST
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Style 386 Year Zero
No Exit Energy Crisis ST
Dutch Mason Dust My Broom Half Ain't Been Told
D.N.A. Because I Love You Because I Love You b/w Seashell
John Palmer Colours For the Shoreline Shorelines
Braineaters Closet Case Planet X
Reign Ghost More Than I Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Johnny Teah & The Jubilee Mountain Boys Hello Mister Lonesome Sad Whistle b/w Hello Mister Lonesome
Perth County Conspiracy Woman for All Seasons ST
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre heart flash us Sonic Horses I
Stompin' Tom Connors Goin' Back Up North Northland's Own
EQ Play The Back Swellsville
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Bird She Fly Low ST
David Because I'm Black ST
Original Bones Song for Pierre Laporte ST
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Spain is for Old Ladies Invisible Roots
Sedum Shadows Anatomy of a Shadow Thinking Away b/w Anatomy of a Shadow
Riverson Eleanor Rigby (John Lennon - Paul McCartney) ST
The Organization Superstar ST
The Organization I Believe in Music ST
Jim Morrison Ready to Rock Ready to Rock b/w (split with Gerry Fiander)
Moonstone Focus ST
B.C. Centennial Spots B.C. Centennial Song Cut No. 4 B.C. Centennial Song
Les 409 They Say They Say b/w Born in Chicago (acetate)
Derek Scott Markle To Whisper Out Your Name ST
Rascalz Just Bein' Blunt Really Livin'
No Exit They'll Never Know ST
Chantettes There But For Fortune Remember.....
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Free to be Free ST (psych cover)
New Creation Yet Still Time Troubled
A Joint Effort Tequilla Sunrise Final Effort
No Exit Parliament Swindle ST
Gargoyle John Naslen - Varsity Blues (background by David King, Rick Williams, and John King) ST
David Wiffen Driving Wheel Camp Fortune (split with Tex Lecor)
Gargoyle Ron Puschak - Ballad of Simon Legree ST
Skeptical Eye Universal Call - The Message The Devil's Playground
Opposite Higher and Higher Help Us Make It
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Ya Ya Chip Dip
Joy Ready to Move Ready to Move b/w Tears to be Cried
Michael-Jon Rosenberg Smokestack Lightning ST
Robert Armes Sun Song Songs for Icarus
Other Half In Passing ST
Gentlemen of Horror Overhead Projector Sterling Death (EP) (alien cover)
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Memory Lane The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Stefan Gnys I Wish I Knew English Oaks and Evangeline
Skeptical Eye Tortured From Inside The Devil's Playground
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Skarecrow Stormy Monday Blues Blues...Live at the Explorer
VXN No More Putting Love Aside b/w No More (picture sleeve)
Ronney Mitchell Just a Little Bit More Baby The Five Man Cargo
Blind Owl Open Your Window ST
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Blue Dye Home Grown Stuff
Pat's People Our Father Today
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre mountain lake Sonic Horses I
Gargoyle Doug Watters and Paul Lang - History of the World (occasional percussion by Tim Inkster) ST
Sheila Graham By the Time I Get to Phoenix ST
Plastic Cloud Civilization Machine ST
Nick Ayoub Quintet Montreal East The Montreal Scene
Uncertain Wipeout Land of 1000 Dances b/w Wipeout
Huckle Minstrel Song Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
EQ Hostile Swellsville
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Interval ST
Jeremy Dormouse I Need a Friend Toad
Skeptical Eye The Devil's Playground The Devil's Playground
Roger Rodier Just fine Upon Velveatur
Ray Griff Sweet Bird of Youth Canada "My Native Land"
Five Man Cargo Memories Memories b/w Why Can't I Get You

Strawberry Soul

I Love Ya Honey b/w Lost Love

ST

Compilation

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

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