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
Skeptical Eye Tortured From Inside The Devil's Playground
Gentlemen of Horror God Knows you by Name Sterling Death (EP) (alien cover)
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
David Wiffen Slice of Life Live at the Bunkhouse
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre the canada council juree prson is missing Sonic Horses I
Bear Paws Can't You See Kitche-Ogamah
Moonstone Black Blind Light ST
A Joint Effort Horse with No Name Final Effort
Stormbringer Evil Mind The Curse b/w Evil Mind
Neil Young My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) (promo, DJ Label copy only)
Jim Brown Bruce Clarke - Of Spiralling Why The First See Hear
Ted Daigle No One Else Teenage Time
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Moon Raker James Bond 007
Sound Sett Dead Sea (Bruce MacGregor modified) 1966-1967
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Good Morning Blues ST
The Shouter's In The Evening In The Evening b/w Can I Help It
Nina Dunn Stay and Dance If You Want My Love (Do It) b/w Stay and Dance
EQ Let it be Known Swellsville
Bent Wind Touch of Red Sussex
Twice Upon a Never Butterfly of Love Twice Upon a Never
September (1) Blue Lady Blue Lady b/w Celebration
Stefan Gnys Soliloguy English Oaks and Evangeline
Rock-a-tunes Maria Maria b/w You're Some Kind of Nice (picture sleeve)
Brazda Brothers Walking in the Sun ST
Jeremy Dormouse Sometimes You Ain't Got Nothin Boy Toad
Chantettes Gay Hawaiian Melody Remember.....
Bonnie Scots Lizzie Lindsay Laugh and Cry
Bear Paws Kitch-Ogamah Kitche-Ogamah
Sheila Graham Little Green Apples ST
Braineaters Kid Stuff Planet X
Reign Ghost Mother's Got Troubles Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Royal Family Sometimes Sometimes b/w Solitude (picture sleeve)
Barbara Gryfe Evening of Roses What the World Needs Now
Garden Bower Gord’s Dream Etc. w/ Trains
Dolores Claman Western Way Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Pot O' Gold Home Grown Stuff
Golden Earrings My Situation My Situation b/w Nothing Much
Barbara Gryfe Colours of the Rainbow What the World Needs Now
Reign Ghost Enola Gay Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
B.C. Centennial Spots B.C. Centennial Song Cut No. 3 B.C. Centennial Song
Rockadrome T.O. Town Royal American 20th Century Blues
Mantra Dick's Song (Dick Kelder) ST
Athenians of Toronto Make Me Smile San Skoteiniazei
Tyrant Carol Hooked On You b/w Carol
A Joint Effort Bus Song Final Effort
Ronney Mitchell Tonight My Love, Tonight The Five Man Cargo
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre normal is not returning Sonic Horses I
Lucio Agostini Cocktails In New York Once Upon a Hundred Years
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Intermission Poetry Home Grown Stuff
New Creation Eternity Ahead Troubled
Billy Martin Phillie Dog Strawberry Soul
Robert Armes Slipping Away Songs for Icarus
Lewis Baloue Love Showered Me L'amour
Haunted Untie Me ST
Reign Ghost Southern Hemisphere Blues Legacy ST
Grimes Avi Geidi Primes
Jack London & the Sparrows You Don’t Want Me Now ST
Nerve Preludes Penchant b/w Preludes
Langley Schools Music Project God Only Knows Wix - Brown Elementary School
Skeptical Eye My Life Is The Devil's Playground
Ardels Dream Lover Rhythm & Blues
Sweet Somethings The Wedding hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Mantra Hopscotch (Part 1) (Dick Kelder) ST
Benge Money Man Money Man b/w Black Sky Lullaby
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Trevor Dandy It's a Long Journey Don't Cry Little Tree
Lewis Baloue Summer's Moon L'amour
Billy O'Boie and the Country Jewels I Love My Gal I Love My Gal b/w Little Rosa (picture sleeve)
Original Bones The Verses of the Fool ST
Ultimate Image It's a Hard Life It's a Hard Life b/w Rains of Autumn
Don And Adrian River Run You Down River Run You Down b/w Lord When I’m Down
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Someone Think Home Grown Stuff
Nihilist Spasm Band Destroy the Nations No Record
Catseye Images Catseye
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Porno Groove Year Zero
Papa Bears Medicine Show Wait and See ST
Five Man Cargo Memories Memories b/w Why Can't I Get You
Jarvis Street Revue 20 Years Mr. Oil Man
Platinum Blonde Hey Hey You Hey Hey You b/w No Regrets
Vic Vogel Shadow of Your Smile and Yesterday Montreal Bandleader
David Wiffen Don't Think Twice Live at the Bunkhouse
John Greenwood Blessed My Sailboat and Me
Moonstone Cointreau ST
Ray Griff Alberta My Alberta Canada "My Native Land"
Cyrus Eden Horizon First Offense (EP)
Pepper Tree Message Pepper Tree & Penny MacCauley (split with Bobby Arvon)
Rascalz Buggin' to the Boogie Really Livin'
EQ Bring it On Swellsville
Walter Boudreau Synchronisation I Jazz - Walter Boudreau + 3 = 4
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Jazz Widow Waltz Invisible Roots
Michael-Jon Rosenberg Colourless ST
Twice Upon a Never Last Thing On My Mind Twice Upon a Never
Perth County Conspiracy Woman for All Seasons ST
Arcade Fire Old Flame ST
Ronnie Dove and the Ron-Als Beach Rat Beach Rat b/w I'm Happy
Blind Owl Open Your Window ST
Jeremy Dormouse blackberry quadrille Toad Rejects
Liska A Smile Cry Out Loud
Compilation Joe Vassos - Leavin' on a Jet Plane Unselfconsciously Canadian
Five Man Cargo Why Can't I Get You Memories b/w Why Can't I Get You

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

Rehearsal 1985-09

Rehearsal 1985-03-11

Haggath

Haggath / Rehearsal 1985-09 tape

Haggath / Rehearsal 1985-09_tape track list_02

Haggath / Live Rehearsal Ildiko's, Toronto, 1986-02-07_tape cover_02

Haggath / Live Rehearsal Ildiko's, Toronto, 1986-02-07_tape cover_03

Haggath / Rehearsal 1985-03-11 (rehearsal) DE21_tape track list_02

Haggath / Rehearsal 1985-03-11 (rehearsal) DE21_tape

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

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