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
New Reality Yesterday a Child Was Born Demo Tape
Rockadrome Ain't It a Shame Royal American 20th Century Blues
Braineaters Modern Man Planet X
Billy Martin One More Time Strawberry Soul
Langley Schools Music Project Desperado Wix - Brown Elementary School
Pat's People Richman's Spiritual Today
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding Scarlet Ribbons Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Jim Brown Lloyd Burritt - The Hollow Men The First See Hear
Perth County Conspiracy Welcome Surprise ST
Liska You Make Me Smile Again Cry Out Loud
David Never Been In Love ST
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Plateau My Life My Life b/w Under the Big House
Art Snider "Travellin Man" (Theme from the Tommy Hunter Show) Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Gentlemen of Horror God Knows you by Name Sterling Death (EP) (alien cover)
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Lorne Ranger Come On French Fried Freedom
Joe College & the Rulers Working Class Hero It Ain't Allright (With Me) b/w Working Class Hero
Caribou Femme ST
Ted Daigle It May be Silly Teenage Time
The Fringe I Don't Want To Live Canada's Next Number One Recording Group (EP) promo
Vicky and the Coins B Jam Boogie ST
The Other Half Summertime ST
Echoes and a Dream Thank You (Led Zeppelin) Echoes and a Dream
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre mountain lake Sonic Horses I
Gentlemen of Horror Overhead Projector Sterling Death (EP) (alien cover)
The Nerve Penchant Penchant b/w Preludes
Marty Gillan Raindrops Keep Fallin' Try A Little Kindness
Tyrant Carol Hooked On You b/w Carol
Jerry Palmer Party Pooper String of Hits
Sugluk Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Sound Sett Just in Case You're Wonderin (David Byngham & Glynn Bell, The Ugly Ducklings) 1966-1967
Willie Dunn Protest Song Who Were The Ones? Parts 11-12
Stompin' Tom Connors May, The Millright's Daughter Northland's Own
Huckle Gather The Children Wild Blue Yonder
Blind Owl Song To the Wind ST
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Comin' Home The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
September (1) Blue Lady Blue Lady b/w Celebration
Huckle Lady Goldberry Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Adanac Reply What Would It Be Like? What Would It Be Like? b/w The Other One
Northwest Company Hard to Cry Hard to Cry b/w Get Away From it All
Skarecrow Can't Judge a Book Blues...Live at the Explorer
David Wiffen Abilene Live at the Bunkhouse
Gargoyle Doug Watters and Paul Lang - History of the World (occasional percussion by Tim Inkster) ST
Derek Scott Markle House Song ST
Robert Armes Requiem Songs for Icarus
D.N.A. Because I Love You Because I Love You b/w Seashell
Chantettes Donna Remember.....
King Herbert And the Knights Ode to Billy Joe With Jack Harden
Jackie Mittoo Totally Together Stepping Tiger
Original Bones Say it With gentle ST
No Exit Bureaucracy ST
Intersystems track 01 (entire side 1) Free Psychadelic Poster Inside
Dis Band Gone Dead Out Gone Dead Out
David Wiffen Since I Fell For You Live at the Bunkhouse
Stephanie Taylor Working on a Groove Thing "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Ronney Mitchell Tonight My Love, Tonight The Five Man Cargo
Spring Shine Shine/ It's So Hard b/w Long, Long Way/ You Were Blind
Billy Martin Moon Ride Strawberry Soul
Wes Dakus & the Club 93 Rebels Dog Food Dog Food b/w Surfs U Rite (promo)
Sound Sett Mustang Sally (Mack Rice) 1966-1967
Robert Armes 2-2 Blues Songs for Icarus
Ronney Mitchell Good Luck Charm - She's Not You The Five Man Cargo
New Creation Wind Troubled
Roger Rodier Listen to these chords I play (Celeste) Upon Velveatur
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Only Takes a Minute "Coming Out"
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
EQ Funky Oasis Swellsville
Twice Upon a Never Early in the Morning Twice Upon a Never
Ray Griff Jimmy, Luke and Me Canada "My Native Land"
Jackie Mittoo Sugar Jar Stepping Tiger
Something Evil The Great Winnipeg Riot Die Children Die b/w The Great Winnipeg Riot
Jim Brown Bp Nichol - Another Day Older The First See Hear
Huckle She's Coming Home Wild Blue Yonder
Cargo Only My Best Friends Can Tell Front Side, Back Side
Compilation Buddy Victor - The More I See You Unselfconsciously Canadian
Ray Griff Canada Canada "My Native Land"
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) The Incest Song Motherlove
Jeremy Dormouse Just to Hear the Bells Toad
Shagnasty Ringing in My Ear Ringing in My Ear b/w All My Teachers
Dis Band Interview continued Gone Dead Out
VXN Could it Be ST
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Broadway Boogie Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Skarecrow I Got to Have It Blues...Live at the Explorer
Jeremy Dormouse freight train Toad Rejects
November Grief Requiem (For Mother Earth) To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Terry & The Pyrates Someone Keep On Dancin' b/w Someone
Jolly Tambourine Man Movin' On Up Wheeeee! Demo
Ted Daigle Mary Lou Teenage Time
Riverson Stoney Day (Brian Edwards, Lisa Eisenhardt (Lisa Hartt)) ST
Dutch Mason C.C. Rider Half Ain't Been Told
Hugh Dixon Green Green Grass of Home (vocals: Pat Dixon) The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
The Nerve The Nerve - Penchant (2005 live recording by the Smarties) Penchant b/w Preludes
B.C. Centennial Spots B.C. Centennial Song Cut No. 3 B.C. Centennial Song
Athenians of Toronto Make Me Smile San Skoteiniazei
Gargoyle Ian Young - Child of the Sea ST
May Run The Only One Days Into Years
Happy Dolls Pick Up the Pieces Show Album No. 1
A Joint Effort Tequilla Sunrise Final Effort

Gone Dead Out

Dis Band

CASSETTE - Dis Band - Gone Dead Out CASSETTE 02

CASSETTE - Dis Band - Gone Dead Out CASSETTE 01

CASSETTE - Dis Band - Gone Dead Out BACK

CASSETTE - Dis Band - Gone Dead Out FRONT FOLDOUT

My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) (promo, DJ Label copy only)

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

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