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 Creation All is Well Troubled
A Joint Effort Hitchhikers Dream Final Effort
Skarecrow Wee Wee Baby Blues...Live at the Explorer
Mantra Midnigh Train (D'arcy Draper) ST
Derek Scott Markle To Whisper Out Your Name ST
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Cat Piss Year Zero
Platinum Blonde No Regrets Hey Hey You b/w No Regrets
Ted Daigle Ruby Ruby b/w When You Said You All
Strange Movies (I Can) Feel It Coming (I Can) Feel It Coming b/w What A Drag
Sheila Graham Straight Life ST
Hugh Dixon Yellow Bird The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Brazda Brothers Nature ST
Strange Movies What A Drag (I Can) Feel It Coming b/w What A Drag
Derek Scott Markle I Don't Know For Certain ST
A Joint Effort Molly and Tenbrooks Final Effort
Brazda Brothers Lonely Time ST
Reign Ghost Breadbox Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Hank Snow I Don't Hurt Anymore Western Caravan (split with Rosalie Allen and Sons of Pioneers) (EP) (picture sleeve)
Gargoyle Brian Dunfield - Too Late ST
Skeptical Eye Believe in Me The Devil's Playground
Pat's People Our Father Today
Dolores Claman Western Panorama Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Derek Scott Markle Could She Fly ST
A Joint Effort Greed for Gold Final Effort
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Hay Gee "Coming Out"
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra From Russia With Love James Bond 007
Intersystems track 01 (entire side 1) Free Psychadelic Poster Inside
Rascalz Really Livin' Really Livin'
British North American Act If You're Looking for Honey In the Beginning
Langley Schools Music Project Desperado Wix - Brown Elementary School
Georges Leningrad lollipon lady Made In Taiwan
Lucio Agostini Once Upon a Hundred Years (Theme) Once Upon a Hundred Years
Jerry Palmer Head Over Heels in Love String of Hits
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Times are Changing Home Grown Stuff
Cargo Say Goodbye Front Side, Back Side
Spring Fever Watch Yourself Woodstock
Billy O'Boie and the Country Jewels I Love My Gal I Love My Gal b/w Little Rosa (picture sleeve)
Raphaels Someday Someday b/w I Change My Mind
Other Half Eve of Destruction ST
Huckle Ocean Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Bent Wind Look at Love Sussex
Trevor Dandy Have You Ever Wondered? Don't Cry Little Tree
April Wine Gimme Love The Whole World's Going Crazy (test pressing)
Blind Owl Happy To Be Alive ST
New Creation Songs to Sing Troubled
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Time is of the Essence Invisible Roots
Athenians of Toronto Everybody's Everything San Skoteiniazei
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Little Pony Home Grown Stuff
Opposite We Say Yeah Help Us Make It
Ronney Mitchell Good Luck Charm - She's Not You The Five Man Cargo
Jeremy Dormouse Believe Me Toad
Marty Gillan Try a Little Kindness Try A Little Kindness
New Creation Dig! (The Origin of Man) Troubled
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Nothing Beautiful ST
Roger Rodier My spirits calling Upon Velveatur
Hugh Dixon Chopin's Nocturne The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Gentlemen of Horror Rich Kids Sterling Death (EP) (alien cover)
Robert Armes Fallen Star Songs for Icarus
Chantettes Come and Go With Me Remember.....
Alexander Brott & Donald McGill Canada: Case History (Earle Birney) - Erosion (E.J. Pratt) - Children of Martha (Gilean Douglas) - Quiet (Marjorie Pickthall) - Paul Bunyan (A Legend of his return to St. Eustache) (Arthur S. Bourinot Sept for Seven: Seven Brief Movements Combining the Arts of Music and Poetry - A Setting of Five Canadian Poems, Introduced by Musical Prelude and concluded with a Postlude
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Urine Trouble Year Zero
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Saddle Lake Guitar Rhythm Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Thornton Rogers J. The Blues Out in the West b/w The Blues
Jensen Sisters Let a Raindrop be a Tear for You Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra The Spy Who Loved Me James Bond 007
King Herbert And the Knights Chicken Strut With Jack Harden
John Palmer Mandalla Shorelines
Blind Owl Song To the Wind ST
Sidewinders Flat Foot Hustlin' Flatfoot Hustlin'
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Let Him Go ST (psych cover)
Sidewinders Time For Loving Flatfoot Hustlin'
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) STHNLA Motherlove
Golden Earrings Nothing Much My Situation b/w Nothing Much
Ronney Mitchell Welcome to the Country The Five Man Cargo
Vic Vogel Shadow of Your Smile and Yesterday Montreal Bandleader
Roger Rodier While my castles burning Upon Velveatur
Moonstone Cointreau ST
Trevor Dandy When I Prayed Last Night Don't Cry Little Tree
Marty Gillan Yesterme, Yesteryou, Yesterday Try A Little Kindness
Mantra Hopscotch (Part 1) (Dick Kelder) ST
Alanis Morissette Fate Stay With Me Fate Stay With Me (picture disc)
Brégent Epitaphe villon Poussière Des Regrets
Arcade Fire I'm Sleeping in a Submarine ST
Twice Upon a Never Early in the Morning Twice Upon a Never
Cargo Initial Mailing Rural Route One b/w Initial Mailing
VXN Not Only in Love ST
Aftermath Sunny Do You Believe In Magic? b/w Sunny
Brégent La mélancolie Poussière Des Regrets
Rock-a-tunes Maria Maria b/w You're Some Kind of Nice (picture sleeve)
Jim Brown Al Neil Trio - Lombardo The First See Hear
Rockadrome Royal American Twentieth Century Blues Royal American 20th Century Blues
Pepper Tree The Gypsy Pepper Tree & Penny MacCauley (split with Bobby Arvon)
Hank Snow I'm Movin' On Western Caravan (split with Rosalie Allen and Sons of Pioneers) (EP) (picture sleeve)
Barbara Gryfe Colours of the Rainbow What the World Needs Now
Skarecrow Ain't Gonna Pop 'Dem Blues Blues...Live at the Explorer
The Reaction The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre awake in the red desert Awake in th Red Desert
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Casino Royale James Bond 007
Opposite Le Telephone Help Us Make It

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