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
VXN No More Putting Love Aside b/w No More (picture sleeve)
Art Snider Nasty Arthur Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Sacrifice DE01_Sacrifice_Larry_s Hideaway (Toronto)_1985-03-25 Interviews 1985 + First Live Show
Skarecrow Bring It On Home to Me Blues...Live at the Explorer
Adanac Reply The Other One What Would It Be Like? b/w The Other One
Blind Owl Open Your Window ST
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Modern Rock Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Catseye Love Catseye
Vicky and the Coins In Old Shanty Town ST
Catseye Am I the One Catseye
Gerry Fiander So Long, Goodbye So Long, Goodbye (split with Jim Morrison)
Hugh Dixon Hot Pants (Dixon) The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Stormbringer Evil Mind The Curse b/w Evil Mind
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Saddle Lake Guitar Rhythm Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Garden Bower O Pretty Angela Pretty Angela Etc. w/ Trains
The Fringe I Don't Want To Live Canada's Next Number One Recording Group (EP) promo
Art Snider Ode to Billy Joe Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Moonstone Black Blind Light ST
Opposite Oh Mamy Blue Help Us Make It
September (1) Celebration Blue Lady b/w Celebration
Langley Schools Music Project In My Room Wix - Brown Elementary School
King Herbert And the Knights Chicken Strut With Jack Harden
Marty Gillan You've Made Me So Very Happy Try A Little Kindness
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Plateau Mambo ST
Ray Griff If it Hadn't Been for Music Canada "My Native Land"
Five Man Cargo Why Can't I Get You Memories b/w Why Can't I Get You
Dis Band Interview Outro Gone Dead Out
Laurie Ingalls Goin' Home Cheap Champagne
Thornton Rogers J. Out in the West Out in the West b/w The Blues
Cargo I Found a Way Once a Proud Man b/w I Found a Way
Jim Brown Wayne Carr - Timbral Changes The First See Hear
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Hook & Sling Hell Bent: A Collection of Hard Instrumentals (Split with King Herbert & the Knights)
John Greenwood Jig My Sailboat and Me
Garden Bower This Woman (live) Etc. w/ Trains
May Run (In My Way) Tonite Days Into Years
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Dr. No James Bond 007
Gargoyle Ron Puschak - Ballad of Simon Legree ST
Sacrifice 1985-10_Slaughter, Sacrifice, Terminal Rage_CKLN FM fundraising_Interviews Interviews 1985 + First Live Show
Perth County Conspiracy I Shall be Released ST
Jeremy Dormouse the immortal st. canthor Toad Rejects
Roger Rodier My spirits calling Upon Velveatur
Rascalz Perfect Check Up Really Livin'
Brad Richards Right Time for Love Right Time for Love
David Wiffen Mule Skinner Blues Live at the Bunkhouse
David Wiffen You Don't Know My Mind Live at the Bunkhouse
Grimes Shadout Mapes Geidi Primes
John Greenwood Every Time I Think of You I Smile My Sailboat and Me
Athenians of Toronto 26 or 6 to 4 San Skoteiniazei
Hazel McKirdy Mama Didn't Lie End of the World b/w Mama Didn't Lie
Gargoyle Ian Young - A Childhood in South Africa: The Veld Near Ladybrand ST
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) The Bassment Show Year Zero
Huckle She's Coming Home Wild Blue Yonder
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
The Fringe Executive Dream Canada's Next Number One Recording Group (EP) promo
Tex Lecor Le frigidaire Camp Fortune (split with David Wiffen)
Glenn Dixon As Our Days Fly By Reflections
Gentlemen of Horror Rich Kids Sterling Death (EP) (alien cover)
Ted Daigle Mary Lou Teenage Time
John Palmer Solitude Shorelines
May Run Anastasia Days Into Years
Jack London & the Sparrows You Don’t Want Me Now ST
Lucio Agostini Skiing in Québec Once Upon a Hundred Years
Jensen Sisters Dancin' in the Autumn Breeze Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Reign Ghost Pudsy's Parable Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Marty Gillan Colours Try A Little Kindness
Emtidi Tr„ume Saat
Sacrifice Turn in Your Grave The Exorcism
Moonstone Hope You Come See ST
Gentlemen of Horror Overhead Projector Sterling Death (EP) (alien cover)
Spring Shine Shine/ It's So Hard b/w Long, Long Way/ You Were Blind
New Creation All is Well Troubled
Vic Vogel Shadow of Your Smile and Yesterday Montreal Bandleader
Canadian Beadles Fool of the Year Three Faces North
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Dada Lama Motherlove
Boys Brigade Touch Glass Mannequin Demo
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre th ride to th place uv meditaysyun Sonic Horses I
Bloodstone Toronto Toronto b/w I'm Your Man
Christmas Sorry I Bore You Victoria ST
Mantra Tomorrow Without You (D'arcy Draper) ST
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Casino Royale James Bond 007
Jackie Mittoo World of Love Stepping Tiger
Dolores Claman Western Way Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Ted Daigle Ruby Ruby b/w When You Said You All
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Ticky Tock ST
May Run The Promise Days Into Years
Gentlemen of Horror Rough Hike Sterling Death (EP) (alien cover)
Ablaze Sadistic Dream Psychopath
Compilation Tommy Banks Orchestra - Bluesette Unselfconsciously Canadian
Phillip Werren Dance Music I Electronic Music (1968-1971)
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia The Undertaker's Ball ST
Stefan Gnys Horizoning English Oaks and Evangeline
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Liska Cry Out Loud Cry Out Loud
Sacrifice The Exorcism The Exorcism
Happy Dolls Hello Dolly Show Album No. 1
The Organization 60 Years Ago ST
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding Snowfall Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Jeremy Dormouse hollywood heaven Toad Rejects
Brégent Dieu est nègre Poussière Des Regrets
Jim Brown Ross Barrett & Jim Brown - Tree Person The First See Hear

Ready to Rock b/w (with Gerry Fiander)

Gerry Fiander with Elvis Presley (History Van R&R Vol 1)

Jim Morrison

Jim Morrison / Ready to Rock b/w (split with Gerry Fiander)

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

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