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
David Fromager	Innocent Times	If What You Said Was True	02:47
Lucio Agostini	Cocktails In New York	Once Upon a Hundred Years	01:09
Lewis Baloue	Bon Voyage	Romantic Times	04:25
Strange Movies	(I Can) Feel It Coming	(I Can) Feel It Coming b/w What A Drag	03:11
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre	an ode to d a levy	Awake in th Red Desert	01:25
Dutch Mason	Mannish Boy	Half Ain't Been Told	05:22
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra	Diamonds Are Forever	James Bond 007	02:54
Ted Daigle	When You Said You All	Ruby b/w When You Said You All	03:22
David	Lovely Lady	ST	03:30
Reign Ghost	Eyes Knows, So Does Ears	ST	09:11
Papa Bears Medicine Show	Baroque	ST	02:50
May Run	Anastasia	Days Into Years	03:56
A Joint Effort	Greed for Gold	Final Effort	04:26
Marty Gillan	Lalena	Try A Little Kindness	03:42
New Reality	Here He Goes	Demo Tape	04:40
EQ	Swellsville	Swellsville	04:01
Souls of Inspyration	Stranger	ST	03:02
Bonnie Scots	The Billy and the Sally	Laugh and Cry	01:36
Stephanie Taylor	I Don't Know Where I Stand (Joni Mitchell)	"I Don't Know Where I Stand"	03:32
David Wiffen	Mule Skinner Blues	Live at the Bunkhouse	02:16
Stompin' Tom Connors	The Flyin' C.P.R.	Northland's Own	02:38
Jensen Sisters	I Want to Give You My Love	Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze	02:53
Riverson	Can't Live Without You (Franki Hart)	ST	03:07
Art Snider	Sweet Caroline	Corny Songs I Play on My Organ	02:17
Billy Martin	Stax	Strawberry Soul	03:09
VXN	Illusion of the Heart	ST	04:50
Mike Harris	Country Waltz	Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)	02:24
Bent Wind	Hate	Sussex	05:22
Langley Schools Music Project	Mandy	Wix - Brown Elementary School	02:40
Sound Sett	Just a Little (Ron Elliott & Bob Durand, The Breau Brummels)	1966-1967	02:47
Hugh Dixon	Hot Pants (Dixon)	The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)	03:54
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre	and th green wind	Awake in th Red Desert	01:50
Reign Ghost	Reaching	ST	09:12
King Herbert And the Knights	Ode to Billy Joe	With Jack Harden	04:15
Stompin' Tom Connors	May, The Millright's Daughter	Northland's Own	02:42
Two Tones	Lord I'm So Weary	Live at the Village Corner	03:00
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry)	Porno Groove	Year Zero	00:58
Roger Rodier	The Key	Upon Velveatur	04:01
Grimes	Beast Infection	Geidi Primes	02:21
David Wiffen	Courtin' in the Kitchen	Live at the Bunkhouse	02:55
Caribou	Le blues sale	ST	07:10
Medium	The Mouse	ST	05:06
Billy Martin	Phillie Dog	Strawberry Soul	02:14
Dis Band	Dead Brezhnevs Intro to I'm Not in Love	Gone Dead Out	00:20
Skeptical Eye	Universal Call - The Message	The Devil's Playground	08:50
Compilation	Myrna Lawrence - I've Grown Accustomed to His Face	Unselfconsciously Canadian	02:28
EQ	Let it be Known	Swellsville	03:41
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers	Comin' Home	Hell Bent: A Collection of Hard Instrumentals (Split with King Herbert & the Knights)	05:22
Royal Family	Solitude	Sometimes b/w Solitude (picture sleeve)	02:06
Sacrifice	DE01_Sacrifice_Larry_s Hideaway (Toronto)_1985-03-25	Interviews 1985 + First Live Show	46:51
Two Tones	Sinnerman	Live at the Village Corner	02:52
Lewis Baloue	It's a New Day	Romantic Times	04:11
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre	yu sing	Awake in th Red Desert	01:10
Vicky and the Coins	Bill Bailey	ST	02:15
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry)	A Mic In A Fist	Year Zero	02:14
Hugh Dixon	Hugh's Hangout (Dixon)	The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)	02:10
Lucio Agostini	Skiing in Québec	Once Upon a Hundred Years	01:30
Pepper Tree	Man of Gold	Pepper Tree & Penny MacCauley (split with Bobby Arvon)	03:06
British North American Act	All the World is In Your Eyes	In the Beginning	02:13
Lewis Baloue	We Danced All Night	Romantic Times	03:35
Plastic Cloud	Dainty General Rides	ST	04:14
Canadian Beadles	Lonely Blue Boy	Three Faces North	02:39
Ray Griff	Maple Leaf	Canada "My Native Land"	03:41
Moosetracks	Sophie	ST	02:05
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	14:29
Blind Owl	Roads	ST	05:11
David Wiffen	Don't Think Twice	Live at the Bunkhouse	02:49
Alanis Morissette	Fate Stay With Me	Fate Stay With Me (picture disc)	03:00
Bear Paws	All for the Love a Girl	Kitche-Ogamah	03:11
Trevor Dandy	Have You Ever Wondered?	Don't Cry Little Tree	04:12
Lucio Agostini	Up, Up and a Bull	Once Upon a Hundred Years	02:22
Jeremy Dormouse	Who Do You Love	Toad	03:22
Nick Ayoub Quintet	Report from Cairo	The Montreal Scene	05:31
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry)	Here Is	Year Zero	01:08
Sacrifice	The Four Horsemen	Turn In Your Grave (demo)	07:16
Cargo	Alisa	Front Side, Back Side	03:50
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding	What Child is This	Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding	03:11
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding	Go Tell it On the Mountain	Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding	02:25
Bonnie Scots	Scotland 'Ra Brave	Laugh and Cry	01:38
Original Bones	Sit Down	ST	03:24
Marty Gillan	Sweet Caroline	Try A Little Kindness	04:08
British North American Act	Only a Dream	In the Beginning	02:56
Canadian Beadles	I Just Don't Think it's Fair	Three Faces North	02:15
Sound Sett	I've Been Loving You Too Long (Otis Redding & Jerry Butler)	1966-1967	03:15
Two Tones	The Fox	Live at the Village Corner	02:32
Jack London & the Sparrows	If You Don't Want My Love	ST	02:01
Echoes and a Dream	Sweet Dreams (Jethro Tull)	Echoes and a Dream	04:31
New Creation	New Creation	Troubled	02:01
Minutes From Downtown	Minutes From Downtown	Minutes From Downtown '82	03:49
David Wiffen	Four in the Mornin'	Live at the Bunkhouse	03:43
The Haunted	Searching For My Baby	ST	03:03
The Other Half	Evil Ways	ST	04:30
Matlows	If You Were Mine	If You Were Mine // Only You	02:17
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre	yu seem to be apeering to follo sum distant star	Sonic Horses I	04:14
Robert Armes	Lying Close Together	Songs for Icarus	06:23
John Greenwood	My Sailboat and Me	My Sailboat and Me	04:41
Jim Brown	Lionel Kearns - The Woman Who	The First See Hear	03:11
Hugh Dixon	Chopin's Nocturne	The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)	03:33
Souls of Inspyration	Pursuit	ST	02:45
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia	Rainbow	ST	03:32

Rarest Canadian Music

Tracks

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Dis Band - Gone Dead Out

Neil Young - My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) (promo, DJ Label copy only)

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Ellison - ST

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Clockwork - Cybernaut b/w Mean Lady

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Hi Octane Band - Shakey Ground b/w Feelings

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Something Evil - Die Children Die b/w The Great Winnipeg Riot

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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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