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
Chantettes This Land is Your Land Remember.....
November Grief Psychotopsy To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Braineaters Closet Case Planet X
Nihilist Spasm Band Oh Brian Dibb No Record
Northwest Company Get Away From it All Hard to Cry b/w Get Away From it All
Burgundy Ex-Lovin' Man Lady Blue b/w Ex-Lovin' Man
Cyrus Eden Rock You To The Limit First Offense (EP)
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone That's the Way I Like It "Coming Out"
Walter Boudreau Imagination Jazz - Walter Boudreau + 3 = 4
King Beezz She Belongs to Me Gloria b/w She Belongs to Me
Trevor Dandy Is There Any Love? Don't Cry Little Tree
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Breaking Others Hearts Country and Rock & Roll Sound
New Creation The Status Quo Song Troubled
Ellison Strawberry Rain (Vincent Marandola, Richard Arcand) ST
Souls of Inspyration Stranger ST
Trevor Dandy When I Prayed Last Night Don't Cry Little Tree
Grimes Shadout Mapes Geidi Primes
Wes Dakus & the Club 93 Rebels Dog Food Dog Food b/w Surfs U Rite (promo)
Roger Rodier Just fine Upon Velveatur
Garden Bower Lonesome Bill’s Blues Etc. w/ Trains
Billy O'Boie and the Country Jewels Little Rosa I Love My Gal b/w Little Rosa (picture sleeve)
Pat's People Get To-Gether Today
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Angels Hair Mother Love Suite: Intro; Allementry; Plunket Pastoral; Two Buried Texts Part I - Silver Lake Six; Two Buried Texts Part II - Silver Lake Six; A Little Love Poem for Your Lobes to Nibble On; Visitation; Cada Motherlove
Art Snider Sweet Caroline Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Sidewinders Can't You Feel the Fire Flatfoot Hustlin'
Strange Movies (I Can) Feel It Coming (I Can) Feel It Coming b/w What A Drag
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Historical Implications of Turnips Motherlove
Papa Bears Medicine Show O.K. ST
Reign Ghost Ain't it Great Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Jensen Sisters You Lit the Fire (I Want Only You) Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Brad Richards Right Time for Love Right Time for Love
Marty Gillan Raindrops Keep Fallin' Try A Little Kindness
Don And Adrian Lord When I’m Down River Run You Down b/w Lord When I’m Down
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Sunshine "Coming Out"
Derek Scott Markle Livin' Love ST
Lewis Baloue Even Rainbows Turn Blue L'amour
Glenn Dixon Silence (The Cold Hours Come) Reflections
Sheila Graham Straight Life ST
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck One Glass for Wine Home Grown Stuff
Pat's People We Shall Overcome Today
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Rated "X" "Coming Out"
Vicky and the Coins Girl From Ipanema ST
Marty Gillan Sweet Caroline Try A Little Kindness
Spring Fever I Just Want to Make Love to You Woodstock
Bonnie Scots Scotland 'Ra Brave Laugh and Cry
Barbara Gryfe Colours of the Rainbow What the World Needs Now
Ronnie Dove and the Ron-Als Beach Rat Beach Rat b/w I'm Happy
Langley Schools Music Project Band On the Run Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Thunderball James Bond 007
Chantettes Man Come Into Egypt Remember.....
Lewis Baloue Love Showered Me L'amour
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Who You Frontin' For (Remix) Year Zero
Michael-Jon Rosenberg The High ST
Medium I'll Love Everyone at Last ST
Nihilist Spasm Band Destroy the Nations No Record
Glenn Dixon Dreamer Parts 1-3 Reflections
Arcade Fire I'm Sleeping in a Submarine ST
Sound Sett Girl You'll be a Woman Soon (Neil Diamond) 1966-1967
Hank Snow I Don't Hurt Anymore Western Caravan (split with Rosalie Allen and Sons of Pioneers) (EP) (picture sleeve)
Ronney Mitchell I Feel the Earth Move The Five Man Cargo
Ted Daigle Ruby Ruby b/w When You Said You All
Vic Vogel Quiet Nights Montreal Bandleader
November Grief Exit Life (With China White) To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Jeremy Dormouse By the Way Toad
Jack London & the Sparrows Sparrows and Daisies ST
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Wet Wash ST
Strange Movies What A Drag (I Can) Feel It Coming b/w What A Drag
Reign Ghost Breast Stroke Blues Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Gordon Lightfoot Steel Rail Blues Movin' Soundtrack (CN picture sleeve) (split with Jean Pierre Ferland)
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers What Does it Take The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Stonemen Faded Colors In the Evening b/w Faded Colors
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Do You Agree With Me ST (psych cover)
No Exit Do You Wanna Join? ST
Randy Bishop Wonderful Angel I Sing A Soft Song
Plastic Cloud You Don't Care ST
Willie Dunn Ballad of a Metis Who Were The Ones? Parts 11-12
Spring Long Long Way Shine/ It's So Hard b/w Long, Long Way/ You Were Blind
Chantettes There But For Fortune Remember.....
Christmas Jungle Fabulous ST
Joker's Memory A Jokers Memory Part One ST
Jeremy Dormouse hesitation blues Toad Rejects
November Grief T.W.O.D. To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Liska Dagger of the Soul Cry Out Loud
Barbara Gryfe One Child What the World Needs Now
Dutch Mason Lights Are On But Nobody's Home Half Ain't Been Told
Moonstone Focus ST
David Flight of the Egyptian Army ST
Jackie Mittoo Sugar Jar Stepping Tiger
John Greenwood Blessed My Sailboat and Me
Howard & Smith Monotype Limited Symphony #1 In A, B, C, D, etc. The Optic Earful
Rockadrome T.O. Town Royal American 20th Century Blues
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Ardels Georgia On My Mind Rhythm & Blues
Heat Rocking Chair Brighouse b/w Rocking Chair
Ronnie Fray & The Playboys Mean Mama Blues Mean Mama Blues b/w The Vulture
Langley Schools Music Project Wild Fire Wix - Brown Elementary School
November Grief Intro To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Other Half Don't Think Twice ST
Stompin' Tom Connors The Northern Gentleman Northland's Own

Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes

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

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