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
Rockadrome There You Go Again Royal American 20th Century Blues
Mantra Hopscotch (Part 2) (Dick Kelder) ST
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Elevated Platform Home Grown Stuff
Jensen Sisters You Light Up My Life Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Echoes and a Dream Midnight Passion Echoes and a Dream
Ray Griff Our Country Canada "My Native Land"
Vic Vogel Shadow of Your Smile and Yesterday Montreal Bandleader
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Goldfinger James Bond 007
Adanac Reply The Other One What Would It Be Like? b/w The Other One
British North American Act Only a Dream In the Beginning
Terry & The Pyrates Keep On Dancin' Keep On Dancin' b/w Someone
Athenians of Toronto Everybody's Everything San Skoteiniazei
Wes Dakus & the Club 93 Rebels Dog Food Dog Food b/w Surfs U Rite (promo)
Rascalz Gal Business Really Livin'
Skeptical Eye Ghet-ti Train The Devil's Playground
Sidewinders I Like to Dance Flatfoot Hustlin'
Blind Owl The Old Man ST
Dolores Claman Wilderness West Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre heart flash us Sonic Horses I
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre whn u cum into me Sonic Horses I
Aftermath Do You Believe In Magic? Do You Believe In Magic? b/w Sunny
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Piano Piano ST (psych cover)
George Cook Why Have You Left Me the Way I Am Why Have You Left Me the Way I Am // On the Trail of Sunset Valley
Stompin' Tom Connors Movin' On to Rouyn Northland's Own
Derek Scott Markle Goin' Thru the Town ST
Brégent Mon frère Poussière Des Regrets
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre yu sing Awake in th Red Desert
King Beezz Gloria Gloria b/w She Belongs to Me
Papa Bears Medicine Show Baroque ST
Billy Martin Moon Ride Strawberry Soul
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Country Four Blues Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Teenage Head Tearin' Me Apart Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Reign Ghost Enola Gay Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
B.C. Centennial Spots B.C. Centennial Song Cut No. 3 B.C. Centennial Song
Perth County Conspiracy Mr. Truthful Licks ST
David Cup of Tea ST
John Palmer Free Me Shorelines
Other Half 100 lbs. Clay ST
David Fromager Radio Madness If What You Said Was True
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Mantra Dick's Song (Dick Kelder) ST
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Memory Lane The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Liska Missing You Cry Out Loud
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Speak Of The Devil Year Zero
David Wiffen Coast to Coast Fever Camp Fortune (split with Tex Lecor)
Jerry Palmer Hey, Sweet Baby String of Hits
Lewis Baloue Bon Voyage Romantic Times
Gentlemen of Horror Rich Kids Sterling Death (EP) (alien cover)
Adanac Reply What Would It Be Like? What Would It Be Like? b/w The Other One
Gargoyle Ian Young - Child of the Sea ST
Jackie Mittoo Stepping Tiger Stepping Tiger
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Northwind ST
Ted Daigle Cut Across Shorty Teenage Time
Nick Ayoub Quintet Ya Habibi The Montreal Scene
Hugh Dixon Green Green Grass of Home (vocals: Pat Dixon) The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Walter Boudreau Danse Jazz - Walter Boudreau + 3 = 4
British North American Act See How Free In the Beginning
Willie Dunn Ballad of a Metis Who Were The Ones? Parts 11-12
Grimes Sardaukar Levenbrech Geidi Primes
King Herbert And the Knights Let's Get Together With Jack Harden
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding What Child is This Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Phillip Werren Dance Music I Electronic Music (1968-1971)
Billy Martin Watermelon Man Strawberry Soul
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Dada Lama Motherlove
Lucio Agostini Voyageur Canoe Race Once Upon a Hundred Years
Sheila Graham Gentle On My Mind ST
British North American Act If You're Looking for Honey In the Beginning
Gargoyle Ian Young - A Childhood in South Africa: The Veld Near Ladybrand ST
Squires Aurora The Sultan b/w Aurora
Happy Dolls Shake Your Booty Show Album No. 1
Skeptical Eye Concealed Truth The Devil's Playground
Sweet Somethings The Wedding hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Canadian Beadles Leah Three Faces North
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Cat Piss Year Zero
Siggy Magic & the Hey-Hoe Band Tooth Decay Commercials For Free (EP)
Moosetracks Someone on the Line ST
Don Carrington Trio A Song for My Father Makin' It Happen
Gentlemen of Horror God Knows you by Name Sterling Death (EP) (alien cover)
Stephanie Taylor Chelsea Morning (Joni Mitchell) "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Mantra Stay (D'arcy Draper) ST
Arcade Fire The Woodland National Anthem ST
Joe College & the Rulers Working Class Hero It Ain't Allright (With Me) b/w Working Class Hero
Christmas Your Humble Suitor ST
Ted Daigle Mary Lou Teenage Time
Threads Of Fybre Believe Me Mama b/w Believe Me
Clymaxe Walkin' Blues R. U. Cumming? b/w Walkin' Blues
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Year Zero Year Zero
Sweet Somethings Hold On, I'm Comin' hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Lewis Baloue Like To See You Again L'amour
Braineaters London Town Planet X
Plateau My Life My Life b/w Under the Big House
Jeremy Dormouse Suzanne Toad
New Creation Songs to Sing Troubled
Jarvis Street Revue Sally's Hymn (Smoker's Funeral Song) Mr. Oil Man
Catseye Am I the One Catseye
Mock Duck Home Made Jam Test Record
Ronnie Fray & The Playboys The Vulture Mean Mama Blues b/w The Vulture
Emtidi Touch The Sun Saat
November Grief Requiem (For Mother Earth) To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)

Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes

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

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