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	Length
Jim Brown	Roy Cooper - Prelude to 1984	The First See Hear	07:03
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra	Live and Let Die	James Bond 007	02:47
Spade Nielsen	Fuddle Duddle	Fuddle Duddle b/w What's Happening (radio station advance copy)	02:31
Boys Brigade	Black + White	Live Off-The-Floor Demo	07:46
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle	Plateau Mambo	ST	02:09
Howard & Smith Monotype Limited	The Alphatype Beep	The Optic Earful	05:16
Jeremy Dormouse	Young Face	Toad	01:53
May Run	(In My Way) Tonite	Days Into Years	03:46
The Organization	Out in the Country	ST	02:57
Jerry Palmer	Celebration Day	String of Hits	02:07
Hugh Dixon	Saints Go Marching Inn	The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)	03:51
Jeremy Dormouse	By the Way	Toad	02:59
Garden Bower	This Woman (live)	Etc. w/ Trains	03:29
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	Bill Bissett’s Lullaby	Motherlove	00:59
Lucio Agostini	Up, Up and a Bull	Once Upon a Hundred Years	02:22
Spring Fever	Woodstock (Joni Mitchell)	Woodstock	03:59
Original Bones	Drop Down Mama	ST	03:22
Gentlemen of Horror	Rich Kids	Sterling Death (EP) (alien cover)	01:23
Stefan Gnys	The Pleasant Land of Counterpane	English Oaks and Evangeline	04:36
Black Knight	Metal Screams	Master of Disaster (EP)	04:28
Gargoyle	Barry Hunter - I Got That Feeling	ST	02:14
Mantra	Beatrices (D'arcy Draper)	ST	03:15
Plateau	My Life	My Life b/w Under the Big House	03:33
London Experimental Jazz Quartet	My Dog's Tail is Longer Than Yours	Invisible Roots	04:15
Lucio Agostini	Dundurn Castle	Once Upon a Hundred Years	01:08
Hugh Dixon	What's New	The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)	02:52
Michael Ratherford	Hard Drugs	Hard Drugs	03:52
Sheila Graham	24 Hours of Loneliness	ST	01:59
Jim Brown	Bruce Clarke - Of Spiralling Why	The First See Hear	09:40
Intersystems	Lately	Number One	18:16
Billy Martin	Egg Roll	Strawberry Soul	03:02
Robert Armes	2-2 Blues	Songs for Icarus	03:30
Huckle	Beyonder	Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)	04:25
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play)	People Of The Ice	02:18
Brazda Brothers	Soldier in a Battleground	ST	02:27
Skarecrow	Bo Diddley	Blues...Live at the Explorer	07:37
Original Bones	The Verses of the Fool	ST	02:14
Roger Rodier	Let's see some happyness	Upon Velveatur	04:56
Plastic Cloud	Bridge Under the Sky	ST	04:35
New Day	They're Callin' Me Back Home	They're Callin' Me Back Home b/w Gotta Spread Some Love Around	04:06
Jeff Moore & Friends	Is It You (Jeff Moore)	The Youngest Son	01:59
Ray Griff	Curley	Canada "My Native Land"	03:07
Souls of Inspyration	Dil Kusha (Heart's Happiness)	ST	06:44
Terry & The Pyrates	Keep On Dancin'	Keep On Dancin' b/w Someone	02:21
Lucio Agostini	Chuck Wagon Race	Once Upon a Hundred Years	00:51
Mike Harris	Chinese Breakdown	Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)	02:07
Spring	It's So Hard	Shine/ It's So Hard b/w Long, Long Way/ You Were Blind	02:36
King Herbert And the Knights	Sissy Strut	With Jack Harden	03:44
Canadian Beadles	Funny Feeling	Three Faces North	02:05
David	Never Been In Love	ST	03:30
Jack London & the Sparrows	I'll be the Boy	ST	01:55
C.B. & The Klassic Rockers	What'd I Say	Roll Over Beethoven b/w What'd I Say	04:04
Langley Schools Music Project	Sweet Caroline	Wix - Brown Elementary School	02:58
Jack London & the Sparrows	Leavin' Blues (vocal by Jerry Edmonton)	ST	03:14
Ted Daigle	Farewell Adelita	Teenage Time	01:36
United Empire Loyalists	No, No, No	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	02:49
Langley Schools Music Project	Your Sixteen	Wix - Brown Elementary School	02:21
David Fromager	Concrete City Life	If What You Said Was True	02:20
Moonstone	Black Blind Light	ST	04:24
Catseye	Hedgegate	Catseye	04:10
Rascalz	Buggin' to the Boogie	Really Livin'	03:55
Beverly Glenn-Copeland	Good Morning Blues	ST	04:37
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre	leevin th electrik citee	Sonic Horses I	09:01
Lucio Agostini	Centennial Caravan	Once Upon a Hundred Years	02:06
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Teenage Time	02:46
Vicky and the Coins	Five Foot Two	ST	02:15
The Organization	Superstar	ST	03:04
Jack London & the Sparrows	You Don’t Want Me Now	ST	02:04
Nihilist Spasm Band	When in London Sleep at the York Hotel	No Record	04:59
No Exit	Decisions	ST	01:29
Twice Upon a Never	Pussy Willows, Cat Tails	Twice Upon a Never	02:07
Hugh Dixon	Hot Pants (Dixon)	The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)	03:54
Catseye	Rhythms of an Empty Room	Catseye	05:53
Ladykiller	Ice Woman	Still Madly in Love b/w Ice Woman	02:43
Huckle	High For Sky	Wild Blue Yonder	01:16
Tex Lecor	John McNally	Camp Fortune (split with David Wiffen)	04:04
Perth County Conspiracy	Lace and Cobwebs	ST	02:41
John Palmer	The Wheel	Shorelines	01:03
New Creation	Yet Still Time	Troubled	03:25
Luke Simmons and His Blue Mountain Boys	Howlin' at the Moon	Just Waitin' // Howlin' at the Moon	02:56
Nina Dunn	Stay and Dance	If You Want My Love (Do It) b/w Stay and Dance	05:10
Stompin' Tom Connors	Goin' Back Up North	Northland's Own	02:48
Rascalz	Just Bein' Blunt	Really Livin'	04:27
Liska	Angela	Cry Out Loud	04:15
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre	the canada council juree prson is missing	Sonic Horses I	03:07
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎	Roads to New York	Country and Rock & Roll Sound	03:22
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	02:50
Christmas	Oasis	ST	06:10
Dolores Claman	Later Latin	Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes	02:44
Gordon Lightfoot	Steel Rail Blues	Movin' Soundtrack (CN picture sleeve) (split with Jean Pierre Ferland)	02:53
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers	Hell Bent	Hell Bent: A Collection of Hard Instrumentals (Split with King Herbert & the Knights)	03:33
EQ	Inner Thoughts	Swellsville	02:50
Brazda Brothers	Nature	ST	03:04
Platinum Blonde	Hey Hey You	Hey Hey You b/w No Regrets	02:36
Rockadrome	Ain't It a Shame	Royal American 20th Century Blues	03:14
Art Snider	Something Stupid - Tea for Two	Corny Songs I Play on My Organ	04:00
Barry Ennis	School Days	Mountain of Ice b/w School Days	02:17
Chantettes	Come and Go With Me	Remember.....	02:32
Gargoyle	Ian Young - Child of the Sea	ST	01:21
Christmas	Sorry I Bore You Victoria	ST	02:58

Rarest Canadian Music

Tracks

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Hagood Hardy & the Montage - The Garden Path b/w Won't You Step Into My Life

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The Other Half - ST

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The Haunted - ST

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Minutes From Downtown - Minutes From Downtown '82

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Jolly Tambourine Man - Wheeeee! Demo

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Reign Ghost - Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires

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Reign Ghost - ST

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Christmas - ST

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Lorne Ranger - French Fried Freedom

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Caribou - ST

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Laurie Ingalls - Cheap Champagne

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Sacrifice - Interviews 1985 + First Live Show

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Sacrifice - The Exorcism

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Sacrifice - Turn In Your Grave (demo)

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Dimitroff, Burgess and Friends - Dimitroff, Burgess and Friends

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Ablaze - Psychopath

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May Run - Days Into Years

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Gerry Fiander - So Long, Goodbye (split with Jim Morrison)

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Moonstone - ST

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bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) - Motherlove

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New Creation - Troubled

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Boys Brigade - Live Off-The-Floor Demo

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Boys Brigade - Mannequin Demo

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Haggath - Rehearsal Ildiko's, Toronto, 1986-02-07

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Haggath - Rehearsal 1985-09

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Haggath - Rehearsal 1985-03-11

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Dolores Claman - Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes

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Billy Martin - Strawberry Soul

Jimmy Apostle & the Willows - I Love Ya Honey b/w Lost Love

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Ellison - ST

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