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
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Hook & Sling Hell Bent: A Collection of Hard Instrumentals (Split with King Herbert & the Knights)
Fabulous PJ's What Do You Want Me to Do? What Do You Want Me to Do? b/w Proud Mary
Ray Griff Piano Man Canada "My Native Land"
Grimes Shadout Mapes Geidi Primes
Ultimate Image It's a Hard Life It's a Hard Life b/w Rains of Autumn
Haunted Twist ST
Riverson Medallion Castle (Brian Edwards) ST
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding Scarlet Ribbons Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Gentlemen of Horror God Knows you by Name Sterling Death (EP) (alien cover)
Hazel McKirdy End of the World End of the World b/w Mama Didn't Lie
EQ Come Alive Swellsville
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Style 386 Year Zero
Ronney Mitchell Quando Quando The Five Man Cargo
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Urine Trouble Year Zero
Nerve Odd Fellows - Cretonia (1982) (unreleased) Penchant b/w Preludes
Sheila Graham By the Time I Get to Phoenix ST
Jack London & the Sparrows Give My Love to Sally ST
The Organization Out in the Country ST
Bear Paws Stand By Me Kitche-Ogamah
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding My Favourite Things Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Lucio Agostini Reel Once Upon a Hundred Years
Joy Ready to Move Ready to Move b/w Tears to be Cried
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) M.L.’s Dream Motherlove
Lewis Baloue Bon Voyage Romantic Times
The Organization I Believe in Music ST
Roger Rodier My spirits calling Upon Velveatur
Dennis Walton Sweeter Love Sweeter Love
Mock Duck My Time Test Record
Bonnie Scots Coulter's Candy Laugh and Cry
Jeremy Dormouse birds of joy Toad Rejects
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Vic Vogel Shadow of Your Smile and Yesterday Montreal Bandleader
Hugh Dixon Delilah The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Ladykiller Still Madly in Love Still Madly in Love b/w Ice Woman
John Greenwood There is Peace My Sailboat and Me
Mystique Beyond the Four Winds Black Rider
Hi-Fives Fujikami The Warrior Fujikami The Warrior b/w Mo-Shun
Dutch Mason Gonna Move to the Country Half Ain't Been Told
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Doctor Norman Bethune ST
Dutch Mason Walkin' Blues Half Ain't Been Told
Michael-Jon Rosenberg Smokestack Lightning ST
Huckle Ocean Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Uncertain Land of 1000 Dances Land of 1000 Dances b/w Wipeout
Original Bones Friend of the Devil ST
King Herbert And the Knights Let It Be With Jack Harden
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Bird Woman of Bath ST
New Creation No Excuse Troubled
Grimes Feyd Rautha Dark Heart Geidi Primes
Derek Scott Markle Hey Hoe ST
Jeff Moore & Friends For You (Jeff Moore) The Youngest Son
Happy Dolls Drum Solo Show Album No. 1
Ronney Mitchell Welcome to the Country The Five Man Cargo
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Terry & The Pyrates Keep On Dancin' Keep On Dancin' b/w Someone
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Chip's Groove Chip Dip
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Northwind ST
Hugh Dixon Yellow Bird The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Skarecrow Bo Diddley Blues...Live at the Explorer
David Wiffen Since I Fell For You Live at the Bunkhouse
Bear Paws Standing by the River Kitche-Ogamah
Ardels Unchain My Heart Rhythm & Blues
Trevor Dandy Have You Ever Wondered? Don't Cry Little Tree
Vic Vogel Quiet Nights Montreal Bandleader
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre boomerang th floating oranges Sonic Horses I
Pepper Tree Carry On Pepper Tree & Penny MacCauley (split with Bobby Arvon)
Uncertain Wipeout Land of 1000 Dances b/w Wipeout
B.C. Centennial Spots B.C. Centennial Song Cut No. 2 B.C. Centennial Song
Gordon Lightfoot Steel Rail Blues Movin' Soundtrack (CN picture sleeve) (split with Jean Pierre Ferland)
Benge Money Man Money Man b/w Black Sky Lullaby
Don And Adrian River Run You Down River Run You Down b/w Lord When I’m Down
Sheila Graham Stormy ST
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Porno Groove Year Zero
Triaxe Persecution Chain of Superstition b/w Persecution
Glenn Dixon Waiting for the Dreams to Come Reflections
Jeremy Dormouse Sometimes You Ain't Got Nothin Boy Toad
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Live and Let Die James Bond 007
Jerry Palmer Celebration Day String of Hits
Barbara Gryfe Jerusalem of Gold What the World Needs Now
Nerve The Nerve - Penchant (2005 live recording by the Smarties) Penchant b/w Preludes
Gentlemen of Horror Overhead Projector ST (EP) (skeleton cover)
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Country Cooking Phil
Catseye I Met a Girl Out in the Country Catseye
Reign Ghost Ain't it Great Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Stompin' Connors Tom The Maritime Waltz Northland's Own
Langley Schools Music Project Help Me, Rhonda Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Skarecrow Mule Skinner Blues Blues...Live at the Explorer
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Cryin' All Alone Chip Dip
Chantettes Un Canadian Errant Remember.....
Five Man Cargo Why Can't I Get You Memories b/w Why Can't I Get You
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Don And Adrian Lord When I’m Down River Run You Down b/w Lord When I’m Down
Other Half Thoughts ST
John Greenwood Give Us Love My Sailboat and Me
Papa Bears Medicine Show O.K. ST
Nick Ayoub Quintet Pillsville The Montreal Scene
Emtidi Love Time Rain Saat
Jensen Sisters You Walked Into My Life Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Truck Drivers Boogie Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Jim Brown Wayne Carr - Timbral Changes The First See Hear

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

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Crash & Burn, TORONTO, Canada. July 22 and 23, 1977. Not one, but two big nights.

February 22, 1976 we headed across the street from Steve Park's house on Forsyth St. North in HAMILTON, and into what is now called The McMaster Children's Hospital, for our first photo shoot.

It was never really a great shot, but so far it's the only picture we have of our first gig, October 17, 1975. This one came from the Westdale High School year book, which is where we played, in the "new" cafeteria they built on the ground floor courtyard

September 8, 1977 starting the new school year out in Scarberia with TEENAGE HEAD at Centennial College

Lucio Agostini - Once Upon a Hundred Years

Mutual Understanding

In Wonderland

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