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
No Exit Downtown Weekend ST
Happy Dolls Drum Solo Show Album No. 1
Jeremy Dormouse hesitation blues Toad Rejects
Stefan Gnys Another Time Another Place English Oaks and Evangeline
John Greenwood Jig My Sailboat and Me
Lord Ryur Pact With The Sinner Pact With The Sinner b/w Heroes After Heroes
Trevor Dandy Don’t Cry Little Tree Don't Cry Little Tree
Twice Upon a Never Go Where You Go Twice Upon a Never
Original Bones The Verses of the Fool ST
Ellison Strawberry Rain (Vincent Marandola, Richard Arcand) ST
Langley Schools Music Project To Know Him is to Love Him Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Cyrus Eden Horizon First Offense (EP)
Langley Schools Music Project Riannon Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Ronnie Fray & The Playboys The Vulture Mean Mama Blues b/w The Vulture
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Destroy the Nihilistic Picnic Invisible Roots
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Comin' Home Hell Bent: A Collection of Hard Instrumentals (Split with King Herbert & the Knights)
The Stonefield Deep Shades of Blue Deep Shades of Blue b/w Morning Hours
Stompin' Tom Connors The Northern Gentleman Northland's Own
Sound Sett Just in Case You're Wonderin (David Byngham & Glynn Bell, The Ugly Ducklings) 1966-1967
David Wiffen Four Strong Winds Live at the Bunkhouse
Two Tones Dark as a Dungeon Live at the Village Corner
Siggy Magic & the Hey-Hoe Band Tooth Decay Commercials For Free (EP)
November Grief Psychotopsy To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Huckle Get Down Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Randy Bishop Wonderful Angel I Sing A Soft Song
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone What's Come Over Me? "Coming Out"
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding Silent Night Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Bear Paws Season of the Wind Kitche-Ogamah
Black Knight Warlords Wrath Master of Disaster (EP)
Robert Armes Fallen Star Songs for Icarus
Stefan Gnys The Pleasant Land of Counterpane English Oaks and Evangeline
Don Carrington Trio Breaking Up is Hard to Do Makin' It Happen
No Exit Bureaucracy ST
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Time is of the Essence Invisible Roots
The Fringe Flower Generation Canada's Next Number One Recording Group (EP) promo
Triaxe Persecution Chain of Superstition b/w Persecution
Hugh Dixon Esquire Shuffle (Dixon) The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Dutch Mason Dust My Broom Half Ain't Been Told
Luke Simmons and His Blue Mountain Boys Howlin' at the Moon Just Waitin' // Howlin' at the Moon
Pepper Tree The Gypsy Pepper Tree & Penny MacCauley (split with Bobby Arvon)
Riverson Empty Sky (Brian Edwards - Rayburn Blake) ST
Ray Griff Sweet Bird of Youth Canada "My Native Land"
Blind Owl Spring Rain ST
Robert Armes 2-2 Blues Songs for Icarus
Bent Wind Goin' to the City Sussex
Don And Adrian Lord When I’m Down River Run You Down b/w Lord When I’m Down
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding The Bell that Couldn't Jingle Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Medium The Mouse ST
David Fromager Concrete City Life If What You Said Was True
Spring Fever Mama, What About Your Daughter Woodstock
Huckle Beautiful You Are Wild Blue Yonder
Chantettes Advertisement Song Remember.....
Aftermath Sunny Do You Believe In Magic? b/w Sunny
Compilation Shades of Blond - All Your Love International Master Discovery Records
Bent Wind The Lions Sussex
Mantra Hopscotch (Part 1) (Dick Kelder) ST
New Day They're Callin' Me Back Home They're Callin' Me Back Home b/w Gotta Spread Some Love Around
Medium Two by Two ST
Brazda Brothers Your Kingdom ST
Alanis Morissette Fate Stay With Me Fate Stay With Me (picture disc)
Stompin' Tom Connors The Flyin' C.P.R. Northland's Own
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia O Come ST
Two Tones Lord I'm So Weary Live at the Village Corner
Reign Ghost Ain't it Great Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Dennis Walton Jah Way to Salvation is Easy Sweeter Love
Jensen Sisters I Can't Deny Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Biggy Twiggy Band I Don't Want That to Change Mama Won't Let You b/w I Don't Want That to Change
Sidewinders I Like to Dance Flatfoot Hustlin'
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Moosetracks This Place is No Place to be Happy ST
Grimes Gambang Geidi Primes
Gentlemen of Horror Rough Hike Sterling Death (EP) (alien cover)
Rockadrome T.O. Town Royal American 20th Century Blues
Spring Fever Woodstock (Joni Mitchell) Woodstock
New Creation Where Are You Going? Troubled
Robert Armes Bobcaygeon Songs for Icarus
Original Bones Song for Pierre Laporte ST
Platinum Blonde No Regrets Hey Hey You b/w No Regrets
Jeff Moore & Friends For You (Jeff Moore) The Youngest Son
Black Knight Metal Screams Master of Disaster (EP)
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra For Your Eyes Only James Bond 007
Other Half Don't Think Twice ST
Nihilist Spasm Band Oh Brian Dibb No Record
Emtidi Walkin' In The Park Saat
Norris Vines and The Luvlines Feel The Warm Give In b/w Feel The Warm
Stephanie Taylor Long and Winding Road "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Ablaze Psycho Path Psychopath
Sidewinders I Like Your Stuff Flatfoot Hustlin'
A Joint Effort Champagne Junction Final Effort
Jim Brown Bruce Clarke - Of Spiralling Why The First See Hear
Ted Daigle Legend of Chaleur Bay Teenage Time
Jarvis Street Revue Mr. Oil Man Mr. Oil Man
Mike Harris Patty the Coon Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Moosetracks Judith Wills ST
Riverson Between the Lines (Brian Edwards) ST
Vicky and the Coins Old Fashioned Girl ST
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Dr. No James Bond 007

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