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
Langley Schools Music Project God Only Knows Wix - Brown Elementary School
Sacrifice 1986-02_Terry Sadler interviews Sacrifice_Interviews Interviews 1985 + First Live Show
Skeptical Eye Concealed Truth The Devil's Playground
Riverson Between the Lines (Brian Edwards) ST
Robert Armes Bobcaygeon Songs for Icarus
Randy Bishop (A World of) Black And Brown I Sing A Soft Song
Stefan Gnys Soliloguy English Oaks and Evangeline
Huckle Lady Goldberry Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
New Reality Here He Goes Demo Tape
Braineaters Modern Man Planet X
Souls of Inspyration Sun Shines in the Winter ST
Art Snider Denise Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Don Carrington Trio If I Were a Carpenter Makin' It Happen
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
David Take My Hand ST
Stompin' Tom Connors The Maritime Waltz Northland's Own
The Other Half Stormy Monday Blues ST
Two Tones Children Go Where I Send Thee Live at the Village Corner
Rascalz The Roughest (We Are) Really Livin'
John Greenwood Hey, Minstrel Boy My Sailboat and Me
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre whn th toothpaste runs out Sonic Horses I
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Bird She Fly Low ST
The Other Half Warm Summer's Night ST
Gerry Fiander So Long, Goodbye So Long, Goodbye (split with Jim Morrison)
John Greenwood My Sailboat and Me My Sailboat and Me
Jensen Sisters You Walked Into My Life Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Nothing Beautiful ST
Plastic Cloud Dainty General Rides ST
David Fromager Country Boy's Memories If What You Said Was True
Athenians of Toronto Now More Than Ever San Skoteiniazei
Riverson Eleanor Rigby (John Lennon - Paul McCartney) ST
Spring Fever She Taught My Katie Woodstock
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Strike Out Every Name ST (psych cover)
Cargo Habits and Jails Front Side, Back Side
Garden Bower This Woman (live) Etc. w/ Trains
Dis Band I'm Tired Gone Dead Out
Ronnie Fray & The Playboys Mean Mama Blues Mean Mama Blues b/w The Vulture
Lewis Baloue Cool Night In Paris L'amour
Jack London & the Sparrows Glad to Be With You ST
April Wine Shotdown The Whole World's Going Crazy (test pressing)
Adanac Reply The Other One What Would It Be Like? b/w The Other One
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Bloodstone I'm Your Man Toronto b/w I'm Your Man
Barbara Gryfe Colours of the Rainbow What the World Needs Now
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Don't Despair (Jazz Version) ST
John Greenwood The Princess My Sailboat and Me
Jim Brown Lionel Kearns - Transport The First See Hear
Stompin' Tom Connors The Peterborough Postman Northland's Own
Calgary Range Riders Curly Hair Rocky Mountain Rhythm // Curly Hair
Moosetracks Happily Day Is Done ST
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)
Hank Snow I Don't Hurt Anymore Western Caravan (split with Rosalie Allen and Sons of Pioneers) (EP) (picture sleeve)
Plastic Cloud Bridge Under the Sky ST
Reign Ghost More Than I Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Sheila Graham Aquarius ST
King Herbert And the Knights Let's Get Together With Jack Harden
Bloodstone Toronto Toronto b/w I'm Your Man
Brégent Métamorphoses du vampire Poussière Des Regrets
Ray Griff Curley Canada "My Native Land"
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Robert Armes 2-2 Blues Songs for Icarus
Raphaels Someday Someday b/w I Change My Mind
Medium Give Me a Peace ST
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Bill Bissett’s Lullaby Motherlove
C.B. & The Klassic Rockers Roll Over Beethoven Roll Over Beethoven b/w What'd I Say
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Jazz Widow Waltz Invisible Roots
Langley Schools Music Project Help Me, Rhonda Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Dutch Mason Polk Salad Annie Half Ain't Been Told
Black Knight Warlords Wrath Master of Disaster (EP)
King Herbert And the Knights Ode to Billy Joe With Jack Harden
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra The Spy Who Loved Me James Bond 007
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle You Are Too Beautiful ST
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) You Know The Science Year Zero
Blind Owl Some Tears You Have To Cry ST
Boys Brigade Shadows Mannequin Demo
Rock-a-tunes You're Some Kind of Nice Maria b/w You're Some Kind of Nice (picture sleeve)
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Pot O' Gold Home Grown Stuff
Billy Martin Watermelon Man Strawberry Soul
Chantettes Freight Train Remember.....
Chantettes Bamboo Remember.....
Golden Earrings Nothing Much My Situation b/w Nothing Much
Ronney Mitchell Quando Quando The Five Man Cargo
Huckle Wild Night Wild Blue Yonder
Jeremy Dormouse you can't go back Toad Rejects
Vicky and the Coins Five Foot Two ST
Bent Wind The Lions Sussex
Liska You Make Me Smile Again Cry Out Loud
EQ Late 4 The Studio Swellsville
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre leevin th electrik citee Sonic Horses I
Lucio Agostini Voyageur Canoe Race Once Upon a Hundred Years
Ladykiller Still Madly in Love Still Madly in Love b/w Ice Woman
Jeff Moore & Friends Both Sides (Jeff Moore) The Youngest Son
Boys Brigade Touch Glass Live Off-The-Floor Demo
Boys Brigade Voices Live Off-The-Floor Demo
Grimes Sardaukar Levenbrech Geidi Primes
Braineaters Modern Man Pt 2 Planet X
Phillip Werren Dance Music I Electronic Music (1968-1971)
Two Tones This is My Song Live at the Village Corner
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel

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