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
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Medium The Mouse ST
Derek Scott Markle Goin' Thru the Town ST
Compilation Joe Vassos - New World Unselfconsciously Canadian
Hugh Dixon Delilah The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Brégent Dieu est nègre Poussière Des Regrets
British North American Act See How Free In the Beginning
Athenians of Toronto Proud Mary San Skoteiniazei
Sidewinders I Like Your Stuff Flatfoot Hustlin'
Rascalz Buggin' to the Boogie Really Livin'
Liska Weekday Mother Cry Out Loud
Other Half Evil Ways ST
Marty Gillan Sweet Caroline Try A Little Kindness
London Experimental Jazz Quartet The Sound of Next Year's Echo Invisible Roots
Billy Martin It's Your Life Strawberry Soul
Jeremy Dormouse Just to Hear the Bells Toad
Mike Harris Maple Sugar Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra You Only Live Twice James Bond 007
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre heart flash us Sonic Horses I
Alanis Morissette Fate Stay With Me Fate Stay With Me (picture disc)
Pepper Tree Message Pepper Tree & Penny MacCauley (split with Bobby Arvon)
Papa Bears Medicine Show Baroque ST
Rockadrome Live and Love Child Royal American 20th Century Blues
Randy Bishop I Sing a Soft Song I Sing A Soft Song
VXN Putting Love Aside Putting Love Aside b/w No More (picture sleeve)
Plateau My Life My Life b/w Under the Big House
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Moose Head ST
Papa Bears Medicine Show Golden Girl ST
Original Bones I Went Walkin' ST
Skeptical Eye Believe in Me The Devil's Playground
David Lovely Lady ST
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Jazz Compo No. 2 "The Beak" ST
Langley Schools Music Project Your Sixteen Wix - Brown Elementary School
Skeptical Eye Concealed Truth The Devil's Playground
Jeff Moore & Friends Blind Man (Christina Becker) The Youngest Son
Cyrus Eden Horizon First Offense (EP)
Cargo Initial Mailing Rural Route One b/w Initial Mailing
Gentlemen of Horror Bank ST (EP) (skeleton cover)
Garden Bower This Woman (live) Etc. w/ Trains
Pat's People What Have They Done to the Rain Today
Liska Dagger of the Soul Cry Out Loud
Skarecrow Wine Wine Wine Blues...Live at the Explorer
King Herbert And the Knights I Believe With Jack Harden
Nick Ayoub Quintet Blues for McHugh The Montreal Scene
Billy Martin Stax Strawberry Soul
New Reality Lost Never Found Demo Tape
Original Bones Friend of the Devil ST
Guess Who American Woman American Woman (split with Christie, Cliff Richards & Arlene Harden)
Derek Scott Markle Southern Lady ST
Mike Harris Rippling Water Jig Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Moonstone In Case ST
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre heard ya tellin Awake in th Red Desert
Riverson Empty Sky (Brian Edwards - Rayburn Blake) ST
Jeremy Dormouse rollin' again Toad Rejects
Nerve Odd Fellows - Mr. Handshake (1982) (unreleased) Penchant b/w Preludes
Humble Sponge Lady Is Love Lady Is Love b/w Barabbas
David Wiffen Times are Getting' Hard Live at the Bunkhouse
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Ted Daigle It May be Silly Teenage Time
Bear Paws Stand By Me Kitche-Ogamah
Blind Owl Happy To Be Alive ST
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre is yr car 2 soft 4 th road Awake in th Red Desert
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Time is of the Essence Invisible Roots
Heat Rocking Chair Brighouse b/w Rocking Chair
Braineaters Kid Stuff Planet X
Chantettes Bamboo Remember.....
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Thunderball James Bond 007
Hugh Dixon What's New The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Jerry Palmer Got a Love String of Hits
Walter Boudreau Passion Jazz - Walter Boudreau + 3 = 4
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre whn i first came to vancouvr Sonic Horses I
Jeremy Dormouse Who Do You Love Toad
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Destroy the Nihilistic Picnic Invisible Roots
Garden Bower O Pretty Angela Pretty Angela Etc. w/ Trains
Jim Brown Lionel Kearns - The Woman Who The First See Hear
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
John Greenwood 3/4 Time My Sailboat and Me
Trevor Dandy It's a Long Journey Don't Cry Little Tree
Randy Bishop Tragi-Comedy in Four Acts: Act 1) In Honour of a Dissonant Triad; Act 1) A Tale Told By An Idiot; Act 3) Who Was That Unmasked Man?; Act 4) Morning I Sing A Soft Song
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Realize ST (psych cover)
Blind Owl Spring Rain ST
Chantettes There But For Fortune Remember.....
Marty Gillan Colours Try A Little Kindness
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Year Zero Year Zero
Lewis Baloue Romance For Two L'amour
September (1) Blue Lady Blue Lady b/w Celebration
Stephanie Taylor I'm Going to Make You Love Me "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Les 409 Born in Chicago They Say b/w Born in Chicago (acetate)
Grimes Beast Infection Geidi Primes
B.C. Centennial Spots B.C. Centennial Song Cut No. 4 B.C. Centennial Song
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Other Half Swinging Shepherd ST
Art Snider Exodus Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Hugh Dixon Green Green Grass of Home (vocals: Pat Dixon) The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Intersystems track 06 (entire side 2) Free Psychadelic Poster Inside
Original Bones Steamboat Whistle Blues ST
Stephanie Taylor Working on a Groove Thing "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
New Creation Countdown to Revolution! Troubled
Sweet Somethings He's My Soul Baby hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Souls of Inspyration Of Lambs & Wolves ST

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