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.

Neil Young - After the Gold Rush (red text label)

Toronto, Ontario - Winnipeg, Manitoba

FEATURED

Brazda Brothers - ST

Slovakia → Galt, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre - Sonic Horses I

Halifax, Nova Scotia - Vancouver, British Columbia

FEATURED

R. Taylor Dean - My Lady Bug Stay Away From That Beatle Bug b/w Poor Girl (unreleased)

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Hugh Dixon - Guitar Solo (acetate)

Lachine, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Five Man Cargo - Memories b/w Why Can't I Get You

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

Dennis Walton - Sweeter Love

Toronto, Ontario

Jim Morrison - Ready to Rock b/w (split with Gerry Fiander)

Vancouver, British Columbia

FEATURED

Stompin' Connors Tom - Little Wawa b/w The Northern Gentleman

Saint John, New Brunswick - Skinner's Pond, Prince Edward Island, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Sugluk - Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)

Sugluk, Québec

FEATURED

Jensen Sisters - Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze

🇨🇦 - Covina, California, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Hi-Fives - Fujikami The Warrior b/w Mo-Shun

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle - ST

Bois-Des-Filion, Québec

FEATURED

Reign Ghost - ST

Oshawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Brad Richards - Right Time for Love

Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

Jack London & the Sparrows - ST

Oshawa, Ontario

FEATURED

The Fringe - Canada's Next Number One Recording Group (EP) promo

Toronto, Ontario

FEATURED

New Day - They're Callin' Me Back Home b/w Gotta Spread Some Love Around

Victoria, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

Raphaels - Someday b/w I Change My Mind

Ottawa, Ontario

FEATURED

Jeff Moore & Friends - The Youngest Son

Toronto, Ontario

FEATURED

Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck - Home Grown Stuff

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Sunshyne - The Raven (EP)

Vancouver, British Columbia

FEATURED

Sheila Graham - ST

Montréal, Québec

FEATURED

Nihilist Spasm Band - No Record

London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Triton Warrior - Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train (acetate)

Toronto, Ontario

Joni Mitchell - Wild Things Run Fast (test pressing)

Fort MacLeod, Alberta - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Ladykiller - Still Madly in Love b/w Ice Woman

Toronto, Ontario

Genèse - L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi

Montréal, Québec

Mystique - Black Rider

Hamilton, Ontario

FEATURED

Arcade Fire - ST

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

Bent Wind - Sussex - Vinyl Side 2

bpNichol - Motherlove vinyl side 2

Reaction

Black Knight - Master of Disaster

George Cook - Why Have You Left Me the Way I Am // On the Trail of Sunset Valley

Rockadrome - Royal American 20th Century Blues BACK

Moonstone - ST

Sweet Somethings - hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'

Siggy Magic & the Hey Ho Band - Commercials For Free (EP)

Frankie

Stephanie Taylor - "I Don't Know Where I Stand"

Gentlemen of Horror - 5 song 45 (Sterling Death) (EP) skull cover

Gentlemen of Horror - 5 song 45 (Sterling Death) (EP) skull cover

David

Original Bones Liner Notes SIDE 02

Bob Bryden

Plastic Cloud - ST

Les 409 acetate label one-of-a-kind garage artifact

Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone - Coming Out

Joker's Memory - ST

Ablaze - Psychopath b/w Sadistic Dream

Hank Snow - Western Caravan (split with Rosalie Allen and Sons of Pioneers) (EP) (picture sleeve)

Phillip Werren - Electronic Music (1968-1971)

Squires - The Sultan b/w Aurora

Natalie Pollock & John Turner

Michel & the French Canadians - Cause I Believe b/w Comfort Him (picture sleeve)

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre fading era Sonic Horses I
Medium Stars ST
Jerry Palmer Love's Come to Me String of Hits
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Who You Frontin' For (Remix) Year Zero
Barbara Gryfe Who Am I What the World Needs Now
Reign Ghost Solar Nice Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Jeff Moore & Friends Blind Man (Christina Becker) The Youngest Son
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre leevin th electrik citee (2) Sonic Horses I
Pat's People Less of Me Today
Lewis Baloue Like To See You Again L'amour
Art Snider Edelweiss Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Arcade Fire The Woodland National Anthem ST
Nihilist Spasm Band Destroy the Nations No Record
C.B. & The Klassic Rockers What'd I Say Roll Over Beethoven b/w What'd I Say
Original Bones Friend of the Devil ST
Intersystems Orange Juice & Velvet Underwear Number One
David Fromager Chains If What You Said Was True
Spade Nielsen Fuddle Duddle Fuddle Duddle b/w What's Happening (radio station advance copy)
Happy Dolls Misty Blue Show Album No. 1
Jeremy Dormouse October Morning Toad
Twice Upon a Never California Dreamin' Twice Upon a Never
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Modigliani ST
Rascalz Just Bein' Blunt Really Livin'
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Moon Raker James Bond 007
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Do You Agree With Me ST (psych cover)
Compilation Judy Singh - Emily Unselfconsciously Canadian
Compilation Buddy Victor - The More I See You Unselfconsciously Canadian
Huckle Wild Night Wild Blue Yonder
Ted Daigle Ballad of a Teenage Queen Teenage Time
Arcade Fire No Cars Go ST
Original Bones Lady Anne ST
Stompin' Connors Tom Movin' On To Rouyn Movin' On To Rouyn b/w Carolyne
EQ Hostile Swellsville
Black Knight Warlords Wrath Master of Disaster (EP)
The Fringe I Don't Want To Live Canada's Next Number One Recording Group (EP) promo
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Riverside Waltz Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Spring You Were Blind Shine/ It's So Hard b/w Long, Long Way/ You Were Blind
Brégent Dieu est nègre Poussière Des Regrets
A Joint Effort Tequilla Sunrise Final Effort
The Organization Out in the Country ST
Jerry Palmer Celebration Day String of Hits
David Wiffen You Don't Know My Mind Live at the Bunkhouse
Jensen Sisters You Walked Into My Life Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Lucio Agostini Skiing in Québec Once Upon a Hundred Years
David Fromager Concrete City Life If What You Said Was True
Athenians of Toronto Everybody's Everything San Skoteiniazei
EQ Bring it On Swellsville
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra The Spy Who Loved Me James Bond 007
Lord Ryur Heroes After Heroes Pact With The Sinner b/w Heroes After Heroes
Ray Griff Canada Canada "My Native Land"
No Exit Energy Crisis ST
Adanac Reply What Would It Be Like? What Would It Be Like? b/w The Other One
November Grief T.W.O.D. To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
John Greenwood Jig My Sailboat and Me
Pat's People Get To-Gether Today
Two Tones Fast Freight Live at the Village Corner
Bear Paws Lady of the Nite Kitche-Ogamah
Ted Daigle Red Hen Hop Teenage Time
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre yu seem to be apeering to follo sum distant star Sonic Horses I
Gargoyle Ian Young - A Childhood in South Africa: The Veld Near Ladybrand ST
Phillip Werren Dance Music I Electronic Music (1968-1971)
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) You Know The Science Year Zero
Guess Who American Woman American Woman (split with Christie, Cliff Richards & Arlene Harden)
Joe Kozak Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Art Snider Nasty Arthur Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Dutch Mason Baby Please Don't Go Half Ain't Been Told
Mock Duck My Time Test Record
Stompin' Connors Tom Little Wawa Little Wawa b/w The Northern Gentleman
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Free to be Free ST (psych cover)
Liska Rose Cry Out Loud
Bent Wind The Lions Sussex
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Chiliwack Year Zero
Robert Armes Requiem Songs for Icarus
Two Tones We Come Here to Sing Live at the Village Corner
Cyrus Eden Wasteland First Offense (EP)
Emtidi Touch The Sun Saat
Humble Sponge Lady Is Love Lady Is Love b/w Barabbas
Christmas Jungle Fabulous ST
Barbara Gryfe One Child What the World Needs Now
Triaxe Persecution Chain of Superstition b/w Persecution
Plastic Cloud Bridge Under the Sky ST
Sound Sett You're a Better Man Than I (Mike & Brian Hugg) 1966-1967
Brazda Brothers Walking in the Sun ST
Langley Schools Music Project Space Oddity Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Art Snider "Travellin Man" (Theme from the Tommy Hunter Show) Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
John Palmer Return Shorelines
New Creation Sodom and Gomorrah Troubled
Stefan Gnys The Pleasant Land of Counterpane English Oaks and Evangeline
Braineaters Screw You Planet X
Moosetracks Happily Day Is Done ST
King Herbert And the Knights Chicken Strut With Jack Harden
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre arbutus garden apartments 6 p m Awake in th Red Desert
Mantra Hopscotch (Part 2) (Dick Kelder) ST
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Someone Think Home Grown Stuff
Billy Martin Stax Strawberry Soul
Mike Harris Norwegian Waltz Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Bent Wind Touch of Red Sussex
Don Carrington Trio Make Me Smile Makin' It Happen
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers You Got the Green Light The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
John Palmer The Wheel Shorelines

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