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
Sidewinders A Voyage Flatfoot Hustlin'
Skeptical Eye Concealed Truth The Devil's Playground
Huckle Gather The Children Wild Blue Yonder
Jeremy Dormouse Baby Blue Toad
David Fromager Concrete City Life If What You Said Was True
Reign Ghost Enola Gay Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre she's a very good cook Awake in th Red Desert
Catseye Days Gone By Catseye
Ladykiller Ice Woman Still Madly in Love b/w Ice Woman
Moosetracks Airplane Over the Rockies ST
Christmas Oasis ST
Mantra Midnigh Train (D'arcy Draper) ST
Ted Daigle Ballad of a Teenage Queen Teenage Time
Garden Bower This Woman (live) Etc. w/ Trains
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
EQ Let it be Known Swellsville
Haunted Out of Time ST
David Fromager Chains If What You Said Was True
King Herbert And the Knights Let's Get Together With Jack Harden
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
The Mix Maybe (Face To The Wall) Break Up Shake Up (EP) (picture sleeve)
Athenians of Toronto San Skoteiniazei San Skoteiniazei
Joni Mitchell Be Cool Wild Things Run Fast (test pressing)
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding Little Toy Trains Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Jack London & the Sparrows Dream on Dreamer ST
Stonemen In the Evening In the Evening b/w Faded Colors
Spring Fever Watch Yourself Woodstock
Nerve Odd Fellows - Mr. Handshake (1982) (unreleased) Penchant b/w Preludes
Stompin' Connors Tom The World Goes Round (Expo 67 Montreal) Northland's Own
B.C. Centennial Spots B.C. Centennial Song Cut No. 4 B.C. Centennial Song
Other Half Evil Ways ST
Marty Gillan Lalena Try A Little Kindness
Brégent Je t'Aime Poussière Des Regrets
Barbara Gryfe I'll Never Fall in Love Again What the World Needs Now
Sweet Somethings Will You Love Me Tomorrow hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Matlows Only You If You Were Mine // Only You
Ted Daigle When You Said You All Ruby b/w When You Said You All
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Rainbow ST
Reign Ghost Breast Stroke Blues Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Joe College & the Rulers It Ain't Allright (With Me) It Ain't Allright (With Me) b/w Working Class Hero
Langley Schools Music Project Venus and Mars Wix - Brown Elementary School
Original Bones The Verses of the Fool ST
No Exit Do You Wanna Join? ST
Emtidi Saat Saat
New Creation All is Well Troubled
No Exit Bureaucracy ST
British North American Act Baby Jane Days and Nights In the Beginning
Sound Sett Mustang Sally (Mack Rice) 1966-1967
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre th ride to th place uv meditaysyun Sonic Horses I
Spring Fever She Moves Me Woodstock
Stephanie Taylor Windmills of Your Mind "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
The Stonefield Morning Hours Deep Shades of Blue b/w Morning Hours
Two Tones Calypso Baby Live at the Village Corner
David Because I'm Black ST
Walter Boudreau Imagination Jazz - Walter Boudreau + 3 = 4
David Fromager If What You Said Was True If What You Said Was True
Opposite Help Us Make it Through the Night Help Us Make It
Mike Harris Orange Blossom Special Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Derek Scott Markle Livin' Love ST
Grimes Rosa Geidi Primes
Story Structure I Told You (7" Single Mix) I Told You
Original Bones Itchy Blues ST
Huckle April Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Walter Boudreau Synchronisation I Jazz - Walter Boudreau + 3 = 4
Sheila Graham Without You ST
Rogues I Can't Hold Out Much Longer I Can't Hold Out Much Longer b/w I'll Make It Up To You
David Wiffen Driving Wheel Camp Fortune (split with Tex Lecor)
Billy Martin Moon Ride Strawberry Soul
Jim Brown Lionel Kearns - Transport The First See Hear
Huckle She's Coming Home Wild Blue Yonder
Garden Bower O Pretty Angela Pretty Angela Etc. w/ Trains
Ray Griff Curley Canada "My Native Land"
Randy Bishop Felicitas I Sing A Soft Song
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre whn i first came to vancouvr Sonic Horses I
Two Tones Dark as a Dungeon Live at the Village Corner
Spring Fever She Taught My Katie Woodstock
Compilation Jim Wheeler and the Spokes - Secret Spy International Master Discovery Records
Hugh Dixon Blues Stay Away From Me The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Jack London & the Sparrows It's Been One of Those Days ST
Art Snider Sweet Caroline Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Sweet Somethings He's My Soul Baby hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Barbara Gryfe What the World Needs Now What the World Needs Now
Black Knight Aaraigathor (Metal Anthem) Master of Disaster (EP)
Nick Ayoub Quintet Pillsville The Montreal Scene
Compilation Judy Singh - My Name is Love Unselfconsciously Canadian
Stompin' Connors Tom Algoma Central No. 69 Northland's Own
Reign Ghost Eyes Knows, So Does Ears ST
Papa Bears Medicine Show Baroque ST
Bonnie Scots Coulter's Candy Laugh and Cry
Intersystems Orange Juice & Velvet Underwear Number One
Jeremy Dormouse Portrait for Marianne Toad
Riverson Can't Live Without You (Franki Hart) ST
Jerry Palmer Walking Home String of Hits
Stephanie Taylor Suzanne (Leonard Cohen) "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Joy Ready to Move Ready to Move b/w Tears to be Cried
Jeremy Dormouse Just to Hear the Bells Toad
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau God Bless ST (psych cover)
Marty Gillan Sweet Caroline Try A Little Kindness
Brégent La mélancolie Poussière Des Regrets
The Fringe I Don't Want To Live Canada's Next Number One Recording Group (EP) promo

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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

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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

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ST

Glenn-Copeland, Beverly

Sussex

Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

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