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
Bear Paws Kitch-Ogamah Kitche-Ogamah
Roger Rodier You don't know what it's like Upon Velveatur
Mock Duck My Time Test Record
Lewis Baloue Where Did My Love Go Away Romantic Times
Cargo Only My Best Friends Can Tell Front Side, Back Side
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra From Russia With Love James Bond 007
Joe College & the Rulers Working Class Hero It Ain't Allright (With Me) b/w Working Class Hero
Langley Schools Music Project Sweet Caroline Wix - Brown Elementary School
Ted Daigle Legend of Chaleur Bay Teenage Time
Plastic Cloud Epistle to Paradise ST
Ray Griff The Last of the Winfield Amateurs Canada "My Native Land"
Perth County Conspiracy So Many Things ST
Ultimate Image It's a Hard Life It's a Hard Life b/w Rains of Autumn
Twice Upon a Never Leavin' On a Jet Plane Twice Upon a Never
John Greenwood Jig My Sailboat and Me
Riverson Clear Night (Rayburn Blake) ST
Bent Wind Mystify Sussex
Moonstone Black Blind Light ST
Ronnie Fray & The Playboys Mean Mama Blues Mean Mama Blues b/w The Vulture
Robert Armes Song for Icarus Songs for Icarus
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre gold minrs Sonic Horses I
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Never Mind My Job ST (psych cover)
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone That's the Way I Like It "Coming Out"
Stompin' Connors Tom Carolyne Movin' On To Rouyn b/w Carolyne
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre fading era Sonic Horses I
Billy Martin One More Time Strawberry Soul
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Rascalz Perfect Check Up Really Livin'
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau I'm Not Guilty ST (psych cover)
British North American Act If You're Looking for Honey In the Beginning
Robert Armes Fallen Star Songs for Icarus
Huckle Get Down Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Barbara Gryfe People (Lovers) Such As What the World Needs Now
Joe College & the Rulers It Ain't Allright (With Me) It Ain't Allright (With Me) b/w Working Class Hero
Rockadrome Ain't It a Shame Royal American 20th Century Blues
Cyrus Eden Wasteland First Offense (EP)
Mike Harris Rippling Water Jig Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Mantra Drifter (D'arcy Draper) ST
Shagnasty Ringing in My Ear Ringing in My Ear b/w All My Teachers
C.B. & The Klassic Rockers Roll Over Beethoven Roll Over Beethoven b/w What'd I Say
Jim Brown Al Neil Trio - Lombardo The First See Hear
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Jeremy Dormouse Suzanne Toad
Grimes Avi Geidi Primes
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Funny Feeling Home Grown Stuff
Athenians of Toronto 26 or 6 to 4 San Skoteiniazei
Bent Wind Goin' to the City Sussex
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Air I Breathe "Coming Out"
Athenians of Toronto San Skoteiniazei San Skoteiniazei
Other Half Don't Think Twice ST
Sound Sett Just a Little (Ron Elliott & Bob Durand, The Breau Brummels) 1966-1967
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Destroy the Nihilistic Picnic Invisible Roots
Lord Ryur Heroes After Heroes Pact With The Sinner b/w Heroes After Heroes
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Speak Of The Devil Year Zero
Langley Schools Music Project The Long and Winding Road Wix - Brown Elementary School
Souls of Inspyration Seasons of Change ST
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Porno Groove Year Zero
Opposite Oh Mamy Blue Help Us Make It
Phillip Werren Dance Music I Electronic Music (1968-1971)
The Shouter's In The Evening In The Evening b/w Can I Help It
Medium New Thing ST
VXN Putting Love Aside ST
Ray Griff Garrington Canada "My Native Land"
EQ Help a Bruva Out Swellsville
Roger Rodier Listen to these chords I play (Celeste) Upon Velveatur
Barbara Gryfe Who Am I What the World Needs Now
Hugh Dixon Hugh's Hangout (Dixon) The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Platinum Blonde No Regrets Hey Hey You b/w No Regrets
Stephanie Taylor Suzanne (Leonard Cohen) "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Liska You Make Me Smile Again Cry Out Loud
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Brazda Brothers Soldier in a Battleground ST
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Country Four Blues Country and Rock & Roll Sound
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Spring Long Long Way Shine/ It's So Hard b/w Long, Long Way/ You Were Blind
Sound Sett Harlem Nocturne (Earle Hagen) 1966-1967
High Park Sewer Side Let Go the Lifeline b/w Sewer Side
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Dada Lama Motherlove
Lucio Agostini Cocktails In New York Once Upon a Hundred Years
Huckle Flowers Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Glenn Dixon Waiting for the Dreams to Come Reflections
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre now, according to paragraph C Awake in th Red Desert
Neil Young My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) (promo, DJ Label copy only)
Gargoyle Barry Hunter - I Got That Feeling ST
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Let it Be The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Langley Schools Music Project You're so Good to Me Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Ladykiller Ice Woman Still Madly in Love b/w Ice Woman
Dutch Mason Baby Please Don't Go Half Ain't Been Told
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Braineaters Modern Man Pt 2 Planet X
British North American Act Just How You Feel In the Beginning
Sheila Graham Gentle On My Mind ST
Black Knight Warlords Wrath Master of Disaster (EP)
Pat's People Richman's Spiritual Today
Athenians of Toronto Light My Fire San Skoteiniazei
Black Knight Aaraigathor (Metal Anthem) Master of Disaster (EP)
Matlows If You Were Mine If You Were Mine // Only You
Jeremy Dormouse Believe Me Toad
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Song From Beads 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

ST

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

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