The best albums in Canada’s history. Click on those that have links to find their respective reviews. Hit control-f to search for any specific year or album. If you are interested in reviewing an album, or feel like one or more should be added, let us know via email, songforawintersnight@gmail.com
2013
- Classified – Classified
2012
- Mechanics Of Emotion – Elsiane
- Cabin Fever – Corb Lund & The Hurtin’ Albertans
- Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! – Godspeed You! Black Emperor
- Bag of Waters – Expwy
- Seismic – Sons Of Otis
- Freak Heat Waves -Freak Heat Waves
- Provincial – John K. Samson
- Adam – EmAy
- Gate and Glitch – Starpilot
- Barchords – Bahamas
- Jiaolong – Daphni
- Secret Rituals – Terror Bird
- Boarding Gate – Ines Talbi
- Celebration Rock – Japandroids
- The Great Alton Fire – Ryan Master
- Epicloud – Devin Townsend Project
- Bring Me The Head Of… – Kyle Bobby Dunn
- III – Crystal Castles
- Dark Days – Cygnets
- Affectionate EP – Venetian Snares
- Shrines – Purity Ring
- Small Fame – Bend Sinister
- Visions – Grimes
- esp.beat – Cybernetic Orchestra
- I Had A Dream – White Poppy
- Tiger Talk – Yukon Blonde
- Death Dreams – PS I Love You
- Ma vie banale avant-garde – AIDS Wolf
- All Of Us, Together – Teen Daze
2011
- House of Balloons – The Weeknd
- Azari & III – Azari & III
- Venerable – KEN Mode
- Vision EP – Huckleberry Friends
- Rien n’est Moins Grave – Les Nitrates de Madame Mimieux
- Omma Cobba – Omma Cobba
- It’s All True – Junior Boys
- New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges – Colin Stetson
- Impossible Spaces – Sandro Perri
- Feral Children – Feral Children
- Choke Hits – Krang
- Feel It Break – Austra
- Kaputt – Destroyer
- Namers – Matthew A. Wilkinson
- Human Culture – Terror Bird
- Living With The Ancients – Blood Ceremony
- David Comes To Life – Fucked Up
- Creep On Creepin’ On – Timber Timbre
- Take Care – Drake
- Lamps Not Amps – Microdot
- The Place I Left Behind – The Deep Dark Woods
- Days Into Years – Elliott Brood
- Ways Of Meaning – Kyle Bobby Dunn
- Diaper Island – Chad VanGaalen
- Keep Away the Dead – Siskiyou
- Heteropias – Chevalier Avant Garde
- Echoes of Silence – The Weeknd
- The Double Cross – Sloan
- Fry Cook on Venus – Noah23
- Jive With The Killer Instinct – Brazilian Money
- Sing In My Meadow – Cowboy Junkies
- Metals – Feist
- Long Player Late Bloomer – Ron Sexsmith
- Thursday – The Weeknd
- Dance Dance Rebellion – DJ Finish Him
- Demons – Cowboy Junkies
- Dagger Mouth – Swollen Members
- Juggernaut of Justice – Anvil
2010
- The Suburbs – Arcade Fire
- Thank Me Later – Drake
- Co-Op Mode – Royal Canoe
- What The F (The Mixtape) – The 6th Letter
- Tidal – Battle Lava
- A Young Person’s Guide To… – Kyle Bobby Dunn
- Crystal Castles II – Crystal Castles
- Annihilator – Annihilator
- Special Affections – Diamond Rings
- Public Strain – Women
- All Out Little Bones – Jenny Omnichord
- Heartland – Owen Pallett
- March To The Sea – AIDS Wolf
- All Red – Winter Gloves
- Together – The New Pornographers
- Expo 86 – Wolf Parade
- Business Casual – Chromeo
- Siskiyou – Siskiyou
- Forgiveness Rock Record – Broken Social Scene
- Meat – Hawksley Workman
- Paul’s Tomb: A Triumph – Frog Eyes
- The Golden Age of Daredevils – Sheavy
- All Days Are Night: Songs for Lulu – Rufus Wainwright
- Renmin Park – Cowboy Junkies
- Milk – Hawksley Workman
- Disfigurine – Sheavy
- All In Good Time – Barenaked Ladies
2009
- Pink Noise – Sean MacDonald
- The Green Wood Symphony – Courtney Lynn
- Poler Bear – Poler Bear
- Losin’ Lately Gambler – Corb Lund and the Hurtin’ Albertans
- For Lack of a Better Name – Deadmau5
- Outside In – Julie Fader
- Cast Out of Heaven – Blasphemy Reborn
- Self Explanatory – Classified
- Winter Hours – The Deep Dark Woods
- Brave – Melissa Bel
- Runners In The Night – Chad Kichula
- Spiritual Angel – Kälter
- Supporting Caste – Propagandhi
- A Quiet Evil – LeE HARVeY OsMOND
- Exiled – Sons of Otis
- Other Truths – Do Make Say Think
- Infini – Voivod
- Timber Timbre – Timber Timbre
- From The Water – Colin Linden
- The Things We Left Behind – Blue Rodeo
- Armed to the Teeth – Swollen Members
- Mi Plan – Nelly Furtado
- Milwaukee at Last!!! – Rufus Wainwright
- Enemy Mine – Swan Lake
- The Black Book – Jully Black
- Billy Talent III – Billy Talent
2008
- The Chemistry of Common Life – Fucked Up
- Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles
- Women – Women
- Guilty Victims – Dialog
- About A Girl – Winter Gloves
- Resilience – Annabelle Chvostek
- Bedroom Madness – Hexes & Ohs
- Mennonite – KEN Mode
- Stories of Brothers, Tales of Lovers – Bend Sinister
- Avalanche To Wandering Bear – Valery Gore
- Mountain Meadows – Elliott Brood
- Not For Sale – Kardinal Offishall
- Kensington Heights – Constantines
- At Mount Zoomer – Wolf Parade
- Rock Paper Scissors – Noah23
- Something for All of Us – Brenda Canning
- Same Ole Moon – The Buicks
- Travelling In Curves – Robert McFadden
- Between the Beautifuls – Hawksley Workman
- Raincoast – The Four Coast Project: Vol. 2 – Ian Tamblyn
- Upside Down Bluejay – Noah23
- Soft Airplane – Chad VanGaalen
- Trouble In Dreams – Destroyer
- Cities of Glass – AIDS Wolf
- Los Manlicious – Hawksley Workman
- Parallel Play – Sloan
- Extra Strategy of the Soul – Ron Sexsmith
- Snacktime! – Barenaked Ladies
2007
- Plague Park – Handsome Furs
- Plays – Secret Mommy
- Tiny Mirrors – Sandro Perri
- Hybrid – Elsiane
- You, You’re A History In Rust – Do Make Say Think
- Revival – Jully Black
- Tears of the Valedictorian – Frog Eyes
- Neon Bible – Arcade Fire
- The Reminder – Feist
- Clash of the Life Force Warriors – AIDS Wolf vs. Athletic Automaton
- Spirit If… – Kevin Drew
- Hang Me, Oh Hang Me – The Deep Dark Woods
- Standing On A Hummingbird – Mark Templeton
- Challengers – The New Pornographers
- Fancy Footwork – Chromeo
- In Our Bedroom after the War – Stars
- Reunion Tour – The Weakerthans
- A Pretty Decent Cape In My Closet – Shane Koyczan and the Short Story Long
- Small Miracles – Blue Rodeo
- Superior: Spirit and Light – The Four Coast Project: Vol. 1 – Ian Tamblyn
- Liquidate Paris! – Blood Meridian
- Situation – Buck 65
- Barenaked Ladies Are Men – Barenaked Ladies
- Horse Soldier! Horse Soldier! – Corb Lund and the Hurtin’ Albertans
- Metal – Annihilator
- Shine – Joni Mitchell
- At The End of Paths Taken – Cowboy Junkies
- This is Thirteen – Anvil
- The Machine That Won The War – Sheavy
- Snakes & Arrows -Rush
- Release The Stars – Rufus Wainwright
2006
- Chemical City – Sam Roberts
- Ol’ Sparky’s Revenge EP – Muffler Crunch
- Loose – Nelly Furtado
- Reprisal – KEN Mode
- Knives Don’t Have Your Back – Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton
- He Poos Clouds – Final Fantasy
- So This Is Goodbye – Junior Boys
- The Red Tree – Moneen
- Destroyers Rubies – Destroyer
- Skellicollection – Chad VanGaalen
- Barenaked Ladies Are Me – Barenaked Ladies
- The Lovvers – AIDS Wolf
- Rebekah Higgs – Rebekah Higgs
- Kick Up the Dust – Blood Meridian
- The Deep Dark Woods – The Deep Dark Woods
- Clout – Noah23
- Wintersong – Sarah McLachlan
- Shoebomb Hurricane – Fanny
- Hidden World – Fucked Up
- These Are The Days – Gino Vannelli
- Hello Love – The Be Good Tanyas
- Treeful of Starling – Hawksley Workman
- New Dark Age Parade – The Subhumans
- The Buicks – The Buicks
- Easin’ Back to Tennessee – Colin Linden
- Black Magic – Swollen Members
- Katorz – Voivod
- Strong Arm – Buck 65
- Never Hear The End Of It – Sloan
- The New Black – Strapping Young Lad
- The Future is Inter-Disciplinary or Not At All – Frog Eyes
- Beast Moans – Swan Lake
- Billy Talent II – Billy Talent
- Kerheb – John Akpata
- Time Being – Ron Sexsmith
2005
- Porcella – The Deadly Snakes
- Apologies To The Queen Mary – Wolf Parade
- The Ambient Void – Iszoloscope
- Set Yourself On Fire – Stars
- Machine Works – Ian Tamblyn
- Secret House Against The World – Buck 65
- I’m A Mountain – Sarah Harmer
- Twin Cinema – The New Pornographers
- Hair In My Eyes Like A Highland Steer – Corb Lund and the Hurtin’ Albertans
- Ambassador – Elliott Brood
- Lotus – Jordi Rosen
- Sinaa – Tagaq
- Arson Followed Me Home – Eleven Minutes Away
- Recording A Tape The Colour Of The Light – Bell Orchestre
- Through The Broken City – Bend Sinister
- Fire and Glory – Kardinal Offishall
- Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett – Venetian Snares
- Tournament of Hearts – Constantines
- Kerheb – John Akpata
- X – Sons of Otis
- Broken Social Scene – Broken Social Scene
- Southern Jumbo – Colin Linden
- The Burnt Rubber Lung – Flipkuma
- Cruel Cruel World – Prozzäk
- Alien – Strapping Young Lad
- Schizo Deluxe – Annihilator
- Are You Ready – Blue Rodeo
- Potemkin City Limits – Propagandhi
- Has A Good Home – Final Fantasy
- Destination Unknown – Ron Sexsmith
- This Is Me – Jully Black
- Republic? – Sheavy
- Early 21st Century Blues – Cowboy Junkies
- The Diary of the Madmen – Len
2004
- Funeral – Arcade Fire
- Last Exit – Junior Boys
- Let It Die – Feist
- Strange Planes Spray Cancers On Winnipeg – Fanny
- Deux Hot Dogs Moutarde Chou – Les Georges Leningrad
- Infiniheart – Chad VanGaalen
- Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding – Venetian Snares
- You’re A Woman, I’m A Machine – Death From Above 1979
- Favourite Colours – The Sadies
- Jupiter Sajitarius – Noah23
- N’écoutez pas – Fly Pan Am
- We Were Born In A Flame – Sam Roberts
- We Almost Made It Home – Blood Meridian
- 2067 – Rheostatics
- Your Blues – Destroyer
- The Folded Palm – Frog Eyes
- The Train Rawbers – The Train Rawbers
- Joyful Rebellion – k-os
- Poorfolk – Poorfolk
- What It Is – Ray Robinson
- She’s In Control – Chromeo
- Angel’s Share – Ian Tamblyn
- Hymns of the 49th Parallel – k.d. lang
- Mitochondrial Blues – Noah23
- Retriever – Ron Sexsmith
- Before We Were Security Guards – Hawksley Workman
- Martyrs for Monuments – Che: Chapter 127
- Want Two – Rufus Wainwright
- All for You – Annihilator
- Dear Heather – Leonard Cohen
- Egg Scriptor – Frog Eyes
- Sigma Octantis – Noah23
- Holy Shiite – Dayglo Abortions
- Back to Basics – Anvil
- One Soul Now – Cowboy Junkies
- If Liberty Isn’t Given, It Should Be Taken – GFK
- Destroy All Codes – King Cobb Steelie
2003
- Shine A Light – The Constantines
- Like Hearts Swelling – Polmo Polpo
- Accelerated Evolution – Devin Townsend
- Music For Inclement Weather – Jeremy Latta
- Strapping Young Lad – Strapping Young Lad
- Oh Susanna – Oh Susanna
- Winter Hymn County Hymn Secret Hymn – Do Make Say Think
- Ode To Joy – The Deadly Snakes
- Talkin’ Honkey Blues – Buck 65
- Mongrel – KEN Mode
- Voivod – Voivod
- Heart – Stars
- Lover/Fighter – Hawksley Workman
- The Golden River – Frog Eyes
- Water – Annabelle Chvostek
- Bright Occasion – The Special Interest Group
- Reconstruction Site – The Weakerthans
- Fefe Dobson – Fefe Dobson
- Electric Version – The New Pornographers
- Emboldened Navigator – Frog Eyes
- Folklore – Nelly Furtado
- Chinatown – The Be Good Tanyas
- Love Energy – The Superfriendz
- Want One – Rufus Wainwright
- Heavy – Swollen Members
- The Bridge – Shaye
- Action Pact – Sloan
- Hanging Songs – Grievous Angels
- Billy Talent – Billy Talent
- Canto – Gino Vannelli
- Everything to Everyone – Barenaked Ladies
2002
- Quicksand – Noah23
- You Forgot It In People – Broken Social Scene
- Five Dollar Bill – Corb Lund and the Hurtin’ Albertans
- This Night – Destroyer
- Terrible Hostess – Carolyn Mark
- Square – Buck 65
- Hanging The Battle Scarred Pinata – NQ Arbuckle
- No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls – Simple Plan
- The Science of Breathe – Polmo Polpo
- Music For Medication – Kyle Bobby Dunn
- Under Rug Swept – Alanis Morissettee
- Yanqui U.X.O – Godspeed You! Black Emperor
- Sea Of No Cares – Great Big Sea
- Cobblestone Runway – Ron Sexsmith
- In Defense of Politics – GFK
- Impressionistic – Ferron
- Synchronized – Sheavy
- The Bloody Hand – Frog Eyes
- Ceux qui inventent n’ont jamais vécu (?) – Fly Pan Am
- Waking the Fury – Annihilator
- The Coastaline Fire – Chore
- Tau Ceti – Noah 23
- & Yet & Yet – Do Make Say Think
- Palace of Gold – Blue Rodeo
- Still Going Strong – Anvil
- Profit Prophet – Che: Chapter 127
- Vapour Trails – Rush
2001
- Hangedup – Hangedup
- Songs About My Cats – Venetian Snares
- Down at the Khyber – Joel Plaskett Emergency
- I’m Not Your Soldier Anymore – The Deadly Snakes
- Constantines – Constantines
- Bad Dreams – Swollen Members
- All Killer, No Filler – Sum 41
- Start Breaking My Heart – Manitoba
- Good Morning Beautiful – By Divine Right
- Voice In The Wilderness – Ian Tamblyn
- (Last Night We Were) The Delicious Wolves – Hawksley Workman
- Neophyte Phenotype – Noah23
- Madame Xavier – Jordi Rosen
- The Occasionals – Jim Bryson & The Occasionals
- Feel Good Lost – Broken Social Scene
- Poses – Rufus Wainwright
- Synesthesia – Buck 65
- Streethawk: A Seduction – Destroyer
- The Sound of the Colour of the Sun – SIANspheric
- Pretty Together – Sloan
- Quest for Fire: Firestarter Vol. 1 – Kardinal Offishall
- Carnival Diablos – Annihilator
- This Is It Here We Go – Local Rabbits
- Ten New Songs – Leonard Cohen
- Big Mouth – Colin Linden
- Today’s Empires, Tomorrow’s Ashes – Propagandhi
- Ray Charles Kind of Party – The Dinner Is Ruined
- Songs for Worship – Sons of Otis
- Blue Boy – Ron Sexsmith
- Fight to Win! – Bakunin’s Bum
- Open – Cowboy Junkies
- Plenty of Power – Anvil
2000
- List Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven – Godspeed You! Black Emperor
- Celestial Hi-Fi – Sheavy
- Mass Romantic – The New Pornographers
- Left and Leaving – The Weakerthans
- Full Stop – Annabelle Chvostek
- The Teaches Of Peaches – Peaches
- You Were Here – Sarah Harmer
- Bellaclava – Limblifter
- Thief – Destroyer
- Physicist – Devin Townsend
- Chrome Reflection – Bird
- …And Then You’ll Beg – Cryptopsy
- Dear Hip Hop – Dan-e-o
- Shalabi Effect – Shalabi Effect
- Black Toy – Flangers
- Blue Horse – The Be Good Tanyas
- Whoa, Nelly! – Nelly Furtado
- Motel Capri – Les Cowboys Fringants
- Sustainer – Starling
- Maroon – Barenaked Ladies
- Goodbye Enemy Airship the Landlord is Dead – Do Make Say Think
- Anthems for the Could’ve Bin Pills – KC Accidental
- Vancouver Nights – Vancouver Nights
- Space and Time – Orange Alabaster Mushroom
- Constance – southpacific
- Effector – Download
- Saturday People – Prozzäk
- Mayday – King Cobb Steelie
- The Days in Between – Blue Rodeo
- The Social Responsibility Theory – GFK
1999
- Templeball – Sons Of Otis
- For Him and the Girls – Hawksley Workman
- Clayton Park – Thrush Hermit
- Man Overboard – Buck 65
- Adventures in the Kingdom of Blurtonia – Blurtonia
- Fighting Pig Learns Judo Tricks – Knifehandchop
- Passage Through Time – Da Grassroots
- Greg Hates Car Culture EP – Venetian Snares
- To The Goddess Electricity – Rational Youth
- Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada EP – Godspeed You Black Emperor!
- Johnstown – Oh Susanna
- Take My Mask and Breathe – Chore
- Love Undone – The Deadly Snakes
- Fly Pan Am – Fly Pan Am
- Monarch (Lay Your Jewelled Head Down) – Feist
- Every Monday Night – Nihilist Spasm Band
- Time To Fly – Dunk
- My Dear Little Angle – The Smalls
- Bless This Mess – By Divine Right
- A Maggot In Their Heads – The Dinner Is Ruined
- The Underground Tapes – Saukrates
- Balance – Swollen Members
- Death Race 2000 – Dayglo Abortions
- You Can’t Stop the Bum Rush – Len
- Between The Bridges – Sloan
- Unforgiving Mistress – Corb Lund and the Hurtin’ Albertans
- 22 Trailer Park – Grievous Angels
- Whereabouts – Ron Sexsmith
- The Christmas Album – The Barra MacNeils
- Criteria for a Black Widow – Annihilator
- Cytoplasm Pixel – Noah23
- Colour Moving and Still – Chantal Kreviazuk
- Speed of Sound – Anvil
- Turn – Great Big Sea
1998
- Subversive Paradigm – Officer Down
- Ghetto Concept – Ghetto Concept
- The Psyche Intangible – Sixtoo
- UV – Frankenstein
- Rufus Wainwright – Rufus Wainwright
- Hot Shot – Prozzäk
- Navy Blues – Sloan
- Do Make Say Think – Do Make Say Think
- Captured Anthems for an Empty Bathtub – KC Accidental
- Basic Concept – Local Rabbits
- Wood – Moxy Früvous
- There’s Always Some Place You’d Rather Be – SIANspheric
- City of Daughters – Destroyer
- Whisper Supremacy – Cryptopsy
- Stupid World, Stupid Songs – Dayglo Abortions
- Clear – Danny Michel
- Slow Love – Gino Vannelli
- Miles From Our Home – Cowboy Junkies
- Taming The Tiger – Joni Mitchell
- Stunt – Barenaked Ladies
- The Electric Sleep – Sheavy
1997
- III – Download
- City – Strapping Young Lad
- All Hammed Up – Five Knuckle Chuckle
- In Loving Memory Of… – Big Wreck
- Stress – Anonymus
- La Nuit Où J’ai Dit Non – Martin Tétreault
- Desmond’s Hip City – Skydiggers
- Fallow – The Weakerthans
- Surfacing – Sarah McLachlan
- Sold For A Smile – The Gandharvas
- 1am To 5am – Annabelle Chvostek
- Vertex – Buck 65
- Raised By Wolves – Colin Linden
- Sweet Homewrecker – Thrush Hermit
- All Hail Discordia – By Divine Right
- F♯ A♯ ∞ – Godspeed You! Black Emperor
- Ocean Machine: Biomech – Devin Townsend
- Before The World Was Round – Danny Michel
- Eye & I – Kardinal Offishall
- Come On Over – Shania Twain
- Another Plebeian – Chore
- Heartstrings – Willie P. Bennett
- Play – Great Big Sea
- Fuzz – Junkhouse
- Clumsy – Our Lady Peace
- Junior Relaxer – King Cobb Steelie
- Other Songs – Ron Sexsmith
- Glee – Bran Van 3000
- Underdogs – Matthew Good Band
- Elevator Music for Non-Claustrophobic People
- Remains – Annihilator
- Tremolo – Blue Rodeo
- Face To The Gale – Ron Hynes
- Absolutely No Alternative – Anvil
- Phobos – Voivod
- Come On Over – Shania Twain
1996
- Mental Reverse / Spiritual Rebirth – Supreme Being Unit
- None So Vile – Cryptopsy
- Parts 1-3 – Elevator To Hell
- One Eyed God Prophecy – One Eyed God Prophecy
- Dan Bryk, Asshole – Dan Bryk
- Beach Music – Starkicker
- Waiting for the Cage – Grievous Angels
- Cold Snap – Weeping Tile
- Purple Blue – Eric’s Trip
- Essential Mental Nutrients – Social Deviantz
- The Blue Hysteria – Rheostatics
- Nest – The Odds
- So Wound – Jale
- Forever… – Quo Vadis
- Ice Cream, Drugs, Rubber Gods – The Dinner Is Ruined
- Generation Six-Pack – Pure
- Blue Sky Mind – Sheavy
- The Eyes of Stanley Pain – Download
- Language Arts – Buck 65
- Slide Show – The Superfriendz
- Refresh the Demon – Annihilator
- One Chord To Another – Sloan
- Rock Spectacle – Barenaked Ladies
- Spacejumbofudge – Sons of Otis
- Redeemer – The Wheat Chiefs
- Land of the Lost – Hip Club Groove
- Charlie’s Family – Download
- We’ll Build Them A Golden Bridge – Destroyer
- The Wonderful World of The Pursuit of Happiness – The Pursuit of Happiness
- Get Your Legs Broke – Len
- Turn Me On – Doughboys
- Corporate Whores – Dayglo Abortions
- Lay It Down – Cowboy Junkies
- Plugged In Permanent – Anvil
- Less Talk, More Rock – Propagandhi
- Test for Echo – Rush
- Born on a Pirate Ship – Barenaked Ladies
1995
- The Code – The Code
- Waste and Tragedy – The Smalls
- East Of Edson – Captain Tractor
- Jagged Little Pill – Alanis Morissette
- Everything I Long For – Hayden
- Mock Up, Scale Down – The Superfriendz
- Charliee Horse – Five Knuckle Chuckle
- Birthday Boy – Junkhouse
- Somebody Spoke – Hardship Post
- Somnium – SIANspheric
- Ron Sexsmith – Ron Sexsmith
- The Woman In Me – Shania Twain
- Deborah Cox – Deborah Cox
- Road Radio – Skydiggers
- Modern Pain – Corb Lund and the Hurtin’ Albertans
- Cool Way to Feel – Pluto
- Superstar – Len
- Up – Great Big Sea
- You Can’t Touch This – Local Rabbits
- Heavy As A Really Heavy Thing – Strapping Young Lad
- Through The Storm, Through The Night – Colin Linden
- Bonavista – Kim Stockwood
- Simple Little Wish – Jr. Gone Wild
- Nowhere to Here – Blue Rodeo
- Little Man in the Canoe – Dayglo Abortions
- What The Fresh Hell Is This? – Art Bergmann
- Look What The Rookie Did – Zumpano
- Where’s The Bone? – The Pursuit of Happiness
- Negatron – Voivod
- Yonder Tree – Gino Vannelli
- Furnace – Download
1994
- Twice Removed – Sloan
- L’ivresse De La Vitesse – Paul Dolden
- Forever Again – Eric’s Trip
- A Taste Of Honey – Viletones
- Project Twinkle – King Cobb Steelie
- Auto Body Crusher – Shallow North Dakota
- Kombinator – The Inbreds
- Arhoolie – Al Tuck
- Day For Night – The Tragically Hip
- Blasphemy Made Flesh – Cryptopsy
- Every Little Girl’s Dream – Lisa Brokop
- Ni vu, ni connu – Anonymus
- Introducing Happiness – Rheostatics
- Dreamcake – Jale
- Breaking Point – Lori Yates
- Trailer Park Hip Hop EP – Hip Club Groove
- King of the Kill – Annihilator
- Antarctica – Ian Tamblyn
- Naveed – Our Lady Peace
- Sticktoitiveness – The Superfriendz
- Brave Last Days – Al Tuck
- Paid to Suffer – Sons of Otis
- Worm Pickers Brawl – The Dinner Is Ruined
- Silver – Moist
- Living Under June – Jann Arden
- Maybe You Should Drive – Barenaked Ladies
- Music for the Motion Picture Whale Music – Rheostatics
- Turbulent Indigo – Joni Mitchell
1993
- Five Days In July – Blue Rodeo
- Shakespeare My Butt – Lowest Of The Low
- Bedbugs – The Odds
- Fumbling Towards Ecstacy – Sarah McLachlan
- Watershed – Grevious Angels
- How To Clean Everything – Propagandhi
- Apocalypse Inside – Sacrifice
- Crush – Doughboys
- South at Eight, North at Nine – Colin Linden
- Pale Sun, Crescent Moon – Cowboy Junkies
- Perpetual Motion Machine – 13 Engines
- Strays – Junkhouse
- Love Tara – Eric`s Trip
- Just Over This Mountain – Skydiggers
- Cool Beans – Hip Club Groove
- Pictures of Health – The Headstones
- For The Beauty Of Wynona – Daniel Lanois
- Love Songs from the Lubritorium – The Dinner Is Ruined
- The Outer Limits – Voivod
- King Cobb Steelie – King Cobb Steelie
- Neon Bible – 39 Steps
- Great Big Sea – Great Big Sea
- Dig – I Mother Earth
- The Downward Road – The Pursuit of Happiness
- Take My Own Advice – Willie P. Bennett
- Set the World on Fire – Annihilator
- Counterparts – Rush
- Edge of Excess – Triumph
1992
- Whale Music – Rheostatics
- Smile – Change Of Heart
- Fully Completely – The Tragically Hip
- What About Me? – Nihilist Spasm Band
- Harvest Moon – Neil Young
- Purefunalia – Pure
- Gordon – Barenaked Ladies
- To Each A Zone – The Smalls
- Restless – Skydiggers
- Lost Together – Blue Rodeo
- Pull The Goalie – Jr. Gone Wild
- Ingénue – k.d. lang
- Rust Never Sleeps – Neil Young
- Smeared – Sloan
- Worth the Weight – Anvil
- Black Eyed Man – Cowboy Junkies
- The Future – Leonard Cohen
1991
- Melville – Rheostatics
- Solace – Sarah McLachlan
- Angel Rat – Voivod
- Automat Hi-Life – Fat
- And Now, The Legacy Begins – Dream Warriors
- My Love – Lisa Brokop
- Burn Your Dashiki – The Dinner Is Ruined
- Dim The Lights, Chill The Ham – Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet
- Road Apples – The Tragically Hip
- Art Bergmann – Art Bergmann
- Angel Food For Though – Meryn Cadell
- The Ghosts That Haunt Me – Crash Test Dummies
- Two Dogs Fucking – Deux Chiens Fourrent – Dayglo Abortions
- Soldiers of Misfortune – Sacrifice
- Skydiggers – Skydiggers
- Grand Opera Lane – Ron Sexsmith
- Mad Mad World – Tom Cochrane
- Night Ride Home – Joni Mitchell
- Roll The Bones – Rush
1990
- Magnetic North – Ian Tamblyn
- Too Dumb To Quit – Jr. Gone Wild
- © – Copyright
- Casino – Blue Rodeo
- Never, Neverland – Annihilator
- Save This House – Spirit Of The West
- Blue Angel – Patricia Conroy
- One Job Town – Grievous Angels
- Courage – National Velvet
- The Smalls – The Smalls
- Ragged Glory – Neil Young
- Sexual Roulette – Art Bergmann
- Happy Accidents! – Doughboys
- One Sided Story – The Pursuit of Happiness
- The Caution Horses – Cowboy Junkies
- Inconsolable Man – Gino Vannelli
1989
- Wrong – NoMeansNo
- Up To Here – The Tragically Hip
- Cyborgs Revisted – Simply Saucer
- Nothingface – Voivod
- Symphony In Effect – Maestro Fresh Wes
- Now And Again – The Grapes Of Wrath
- Acadie – Daniel Lanois
- Bound By Beauty – Jane Siberry
- Plunderphonics – John Oswald
- Diamond Mine – Blue Rodeo
- Toute la Gang – Grievous Angels
- Rabies – Skinny Puppy
- Soapbox – Change Of Heart
- Freedom – Neil Young
- Touch – Sarah McLachlan
- Plunderphonics – John Oswald
- Absolutely Torch and Twang – k.d. lang
- Boomtown – Andrew Cash
- Alice In Hell – Annihilator
- Presto – Rush
- In Her Dream: Bob Wiseman Sings Wrench Tuttle – Bob Wiseman
- Home Again – Doughboys
1988
- VIVISectVI – Skinny Puppy
- Savvy Show Stoppers – Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet
- The Trinity Sessions – Cowboy Junkies
- Delusions – Corpusse
- I`m Your Man – Leonard Cohen
- Love Junk – The Pursuit Of Happiness
- Dimension Hatröss – Voivod
- Sons Of Freedom – Sons Of Freedom
- Miss America – Mary Margaret O`Hara
- National Velvet – National Velvet
- Gotta Go For It! – Carlyle Williams
- Surfin’ On Heroin – Forgotten Rebels
- Glow – The Plasterscene Replicas
- Better Than a Stick In the Eye – S.N.F.U.
- Crawl With Me – Art Bergmann
- The Spell – Images in Vogue
- Vertigo Tango – The Spoons
- The Promise – Matt Minglewood
- Time and Place – Andrew Cash
- Small Parts Isolated and Destroyed – NoMeansNo
- When The Spirit Comes – Colin Linden
- Exciter (O.T.T.) – Exciter
- This Note’s For You – Neil Young
- Chalk Mark In A Rainstorm – Joni Mitchell
- Pound for Pound – Anvil
1987
- The Ballad Of Handsome Ned – Handsome Ned
- The Walking – Jane Siberry
- Turn It On – Tapps
- Outskirts – Blue Rodeo
- Slip into the Crowd – 39 Steps
- Cleanse, Fold and Manipulate – Skinny Puppy
- Whatever – Doughboys
- Greatest Hits – Rheostatics
- The Nils – The Nils
- Killing Technology – Voivod
- Mending Wall – Chalk Circle
- Robbie Robertson – Robbie Robertson
- Strength of Steel – Anvil
- Battle Hymn of the Apartment – Jerry Jerry & The Sons of Rhythm Orchestra
- Here Today, Guano Tomorrow – Dayglo Abortions
- Forward To Termination – Sacrifice
- Life – Neil Young
- Surveillance – Triumph
- Rock the World – Kick Axe
- Hold Your Fire – Rush
- Big Dreamers Never Sleep – Gino Vannelli
1986
- Feed Us A Fetus – Dayglo Abortions
- Me And The Boys – Matt Minglewood
- Sex Mad – NoMeansNo
- The Immortals – Colin Linden
- Sticks and Stones – L’Etranger
- Cowboyography – Ian Tyson
- Dead In Love – Disappointed A Few People
- Streetniks – Shuffle Demons
- Unveiling The Wicked – Exciter
- Whites Off Earth Now!! – Cowboy Junkies
- If You Swear You’ll Catch No Fish – S.N.F.U.
- Bridgers Over Borders – The Spoons
- Less Art, More Pop – Jr. Gone Wild
- The Sport of Kings – Triumph
- World of Wonders – Bruce Cockburn
- Rrröööaaarrr – Voivod
- Landing On Water – Neil Young
1985
- Bites – Skinny Puppy
- Against The Glass EP – Slow
- 54-40 (The Green Album) – 54-40
- Long Live The Loud – Exciter
- In The House – Images In Vogue
- Sell Out Young – The Nils
- Contemporary World – Asexuals
- The Lucky Ones – Willie P. Bennett
- Torment In Fire – Sacrifice
- The World Is A Ball – Martha and the Muffins
- Welcome to the Club – Kick Axe
- Born Too Soon – S.C.U.M.
- Power Windows – Rush
- ¬x~x=x – Nihilist Spasm Band
- Be What You Want – Asexuals
- Mumbo Jumbo – Condition
- Heredity – Rational Youth
- Old Ways – Neil Young
- Black Cars – Gino Vannelli
- Dog Eat Dog – Joni Mitchell
1984
- …And No One Else Wanted To Play – S.N.F.U.
- Casse-Tete Musique Concrete – Bernard Bonnier
- Shattered Silence – The Unwanted
- Vices – Kick Axe
- Reckless – Bryan Adams
- Remember – Gino Soccio
- What D’Ya See – The Stretch Marks
- Remission – Skinny Puppy
- Violence & Force – Exciter
- No Borders Here – Jane Siberry
- Listen to the City – Gordon Deppe with Spoons
- O Tempora! O Mores! – Rough Trade
- Stealing Fire – Bruce Cockburn
- The Box – The Box
- Mystery Walk – Martha and the Muffins
- 1984 – Nihilist Spasm Band
- Honeymoon Suite – Honeymoon Suite
- War and Pain – Voivod
- Grace Under Pressure – Rush
- Thunder Seven – Triumph
- Various Positions – Leonard Cohen
1983
- Creatures For A While – Personality Crisis
- Falling – Blue Peter
- Danseparc – Martha and the Muffins
- Forged In Fire – Anvil
- Weapons – Rough Trade
- Heads or Tales – Saga
- Heavy Metal Maniac – Exciter
- Fast Emotion – Uzeb
- Living On Video – Trans-x
- Tears – Paul Bley
- Talkback – The Spoons
- Dance Me Outside – Ian Tamblyn
- Cuts Like A Knife – Bryan Adams
- The Trouble With Normal – Bruce Cockburn
- Never Surrender – Triumph
- Everybody’s Rockin’ – Neil Young
1982
- Heliograms – Jean Piché
- Cold War Night Life – Rational Youth
- Arias & Symphonies – The Spoons
- Metal on Metal – Anvil
- Worlds Away – Strange Advance
- War On 45 – D.O.A.
- Signals – Rush
- Shaking The Foundations – Rough Trade
- Mama – NoMeansNo
- Opus X – Chilliwack
- Face To Face – Gino Soccio
- Wild Things Run Fast – Joni Mitchell
- Streetheart – Streetheart
- Love Over and Over – Kate and Anna McGarrigle
- Boule Noire Reggae – Boule Noire
- Trans – Neil Young
1981
- This Is The Ice Age – Martha and the Muffins
- For Those Who Think Young – Rough Trade
- Stick Figure Neighbourhood – The Spoons
- Worlds Apart – Saga
- Hardcore ’81 – D.O.A.
- Inner City Front – Bruce Cockburn
- Moving Pictures – Rush
- Flights of Fantasy – Garfield
- Allied Forces – Triumph
- In A Place Like This – Payola$
- Magentalane – Klaatu
- Livraison par en arrière – Plume Latraverse
- Hard ‘n’ Heavy – Anvil
- Pretty Bad Boys – Goddo
- Out of the Womb – Dayglo Abortions
- Closer – Gino Soccio
- Nightwalker – Gino Vannelli
- Wanna Be A Star – Chilliwack
- Amazon Beach – The Kings
- Re-ac-tor – Neil Young
1980
- Frantic City – Teenage Head
- Perfect Youth – Pointed Sticks
- Voggue – Voggue
- En Fleche – Diane Tell
- Entre Lajeunesse et la sagesse – Kate and Anna McGarrigle
- Avoid Freud – Rough Trade
- All Grown Up – Ranee Lee
- Radio Silence – Blue Peter
- The Demics – The Demics
- The Kings Are Here – The Kings
- Movin’ – The Minglewood Band
- Something Better Change – D.O.A.
- Humans – Bruce Cockburn
- Trance and Dance – Martha and the Muffins
- Wrap It! – Doug and the Slugs
- Progressions of Power – Triumph
- Incorrect Thoughts – The Subhumans
- S-Beat – Gino Soccio
- When Will I See You Again – Ian Tamblyn
- Permanent Waves – Rush
- Drugstore Dancer – Streetheart
- Lookin’ For Trouble – Toronto
- In Love With The System – Forgotten Rebels
- Endangered Species – Klaatu
- Dream Street Rose – Gordon Lightfoot
- Quicksand Shoes – Streetheart
- Hawks & Doves – Neil Young
1979
- Metro Music – Martha and the Muffins
- Chirurgie plastique – Plume Latraverse
- Dancing In The Dragons Jaws – Bruce Cockburn
- Outline – Gino Soccio
- Just a Game – Triumph
- Blackie and the Rodeo King – Willie P. Bennett
- Bob-A-Rela – Bob-A-Rela
- Rust Never Sleeps – Neil Young
- Good To Me – THP
- Teenage Head – Teenage Head
- Armageddon – Prism
- Reason to Be – Garfield
- Under Heaven Over Hell – Streetheart
- Cognac and Bologna – Doug and the Slugs
- An Act Of Goddo – Goddo
- Recent Songs – Leonard Cohen
- Vol. 2 – Nihilist Spasm Band
- Hot Shots – Trooper
- Mingus – Joni Mitchell
- Breakdown In Paradise – Chilliwack
1978
- Haackula – Bruce Haack
- The Last Waltz – The Band
- If Indeed It’s Lonely At The Top…WHO CARES… It’s Lonely At The Bottom Too! – Goddo
- Meanwhile Back In Paris – Streetheart
- Brother to Brother – Gino Vanelli
- Necropolis – Bob Bell
- Closer To Home – Ian Tamblyn
- Lights From The Valley – Chilliwack
- Comes A Time – Neil Young
- Alexander Zonjic – Alexander Zonjic
- All Dressed – Plume Latraverse
- #2 Tender Is The Night – The THP Orchestra
- Hemispheres – Rush
- Sir Army Suit – Klaatu
- Endless Wire – Gordon Lightfoot
- Pronto Monto – Kate and Anna McGarrigle
- Further Adventures Of – Bruce Cockburn
1977
- The Solitude Trilogy – Glenn Gould
- Mighty Pope – Mighty Pope
- Two Hot For Love – The THP Orchestra
- A Farewell to Kings -Rush
- High Class In Borrowed Shoes – Max Webster
- Hobo’s Taunt – Willie P. Bennett
- The Diodes – The Diodes
- Hope – Klaatu
- Dancer With Bruised Knees – Kate and Anna McGarrigle
- Ferron – Ferron
- Dreams, Dreams, Dreams – Chilliwack
- Les Annees Passent – Boule Noire
- Rock and Roll Machine – Triumph
- Goddo – Goddo
- Out There Tonight – Garfield
- Death of a Ladies’ Man – Leonard Cohen
- A Pauper In Paradies – Gino Vanelli
- Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter – Joni Mitchell
- American Stars ‘N Bars – Neil Young
1976
- L’Heptade – Harmonium
- Max Webster – Max Webster
- The Jazz Album – Rob McConnell’s Boss Brass
- Hejira – Joni Mitchell
- Live! – Rough Trade
- 3:47 EST – Klaatu
- Boule Noire – Boule Noire
- Blues & Sentimental – Jackie Washington
- In The Falling Dark – Bruce Cockburn
- Ian Tamblyn – Ian Tamblyn
- Summertime Dream – Gordon Lightfoot
- Triumph – Triumph
- 2112 – Rush
- Dionysos – Dionysos
- Fogarty’s Cove – Stan Rogers
- Early Riser – The THP Orchestra
- Fresh Tracks – Bob Ruzicka
- À Deux Faces – Plume Latraverse
- The Minglewood Band – The Minglewood Band
- Strange Streets – Garfield
- The Gist of the Gemini – Gino Vannelli
1975
- Pommes De Route – Plume Latraverse
- Kate and Anna McGarrigle – Kate and Anna McGarrigle
- Lewis Furey – Lewis Furey
- La marche des hommes – Morse Code
- Atlantic Suite – Phil Nimmons
- Tonight`s The Night – Neil Young
- Si on avait besoin d’une cinquième saison – Harmonium
- On The Track – Leon Redbone
- The Hissing Of Summer Lawns – Joni Mitchell
- Cold On The Shoulder – Gordon Lightfoot
- Trying to Start Out Clean – Willie P. Bennett
- Fly By Night – Rush
- Rockerbox – Chilliwack
- Zuma – Neil Young
- Le Vieux Show Son Sale – Plume Latraverse
- Joy Will Find A Way – Bruce Cockburn
- Caress of Steel – Rush
- Storm At Sunup – Gino Vannelli
1974
- Sundown – Gordon Lightfoot
- The Youngest Son – Jeff Moore & Friends
- Court And Spark – Joni Mitchell
- La bourse ou la vie – Contraction
- All Around Us – A Foot In Coldwater
- Not Fragile – BTO
- Harmonium – Harmonium
- On The Beach – Neil Young
- Vol. 3333 – L’Infonie
- New Skin for the Old Ceremony – Leonard Cohen
- Salt, Sun and Time – Bruce Cockburn
- Plume Pou digne – Plume Latraverse
- Riding High – Chilliwack
- Solar Explorations – Moe Koffman
- Powerful People – Gino Vannelli
- Rush – Rush
- Dream – Susan Jacks
1973
- The Brazda Brothers – The Brazda Brothers
- The Trio – The Oscar Peterson Trio
- Svengali – Gil Evans
- En Route – Suzanne Stevens
- Cantata Canada – Privilege
- The Second Foot In Coldwater – A Foot In Coldwater
- Electric Jewels – April Wine
- I Thought Of You Again… – Susan Jacks
- Night Vision – Bruce Cockburn
1972
- Harvest – Neil Young
- Dimension “M” – Frank Devrieux
- Aaron Space – Aaron Space
- On The People’s Side – HORN
- Vol. 333 – L’Infonie
- Don Quixote – Gordon Lightfoot
- Open, to Love – Paul Bley
- Dr. Music – Dr. Music
- Moonstone – Moonstone
- Fraser & Debolt with Ian Guenther – Fraser & Debolt
- For The Roses – Joni Mitchell
- A Foot In Coldwater – A Foot In Coldwater
- Le Prince Croule – Dionysos
- Coming of Age – Five Man Electrical Band
- Dance To The Music – Bruce Haack
- What The World’s All About – Bob Ruzicka
- Heavy Duty – Crowbar
- Sweet Paradise – Five Man Electrical Band
- Old Dan’s Records – Gordon Lightfoot
- Sunwheel Dance – Bruce Cockburn
- Crazy Life – Gino Vannelli
- All Over You – Chilliwack
1971
- Blue – Joni Mitchell
- La Sainte Trinité – La Sainte Trinité
- Everyday People – Everyday People
- Moose Tracks – Ian Tamblyn
- Songs Of Love and Hate – Leonard Cohen
- Le Grand Jeu – Dionysos
- One Fine Morning – Lighthouse
- Bad Manors – Crowbar
- Edward Bear – Edward Bear
- Long Lost Relatives – Syrinx
- Stay Awhile – The Bells
- Poppy Seeds – The Poppy Family
- Summer Side of Life – Gordon Lightfoot
- You’re My People – Pepper Tree
- High Winds, White Sky – Bruce Cockburn
1970
- Heritage – Christmas
- After The Gold Rush – Neil Young
- Jaune – Jean-Pierre Ferland
- Wayne McGhie & The Sounds Of Joy – Wayne McGhie & The Sounds Of Joy
- Electric Lucifer – Bruce Haack
- It’s All Meat – It’s All Meat
- The Hitch-Hikers – The Hitch-Hikers
- Sit Down Young Stranger/If You Could Read My Mind – Gordon Lightfoot
- Street Corner Preacher – Gene MacLellan
- Syrinx – Syrinx
- Bruce Cockburn – Bruce Cockburn
- Beautiful Second Hand Man – Ginetto Reno
- Reign Ghost Ft. Lynda Squires – Reign Ghost
- Official Music – King Biscuit Boy with Crowbar
- American Women – The Guess Who
- Eclipse – Edward Bear
- For You To Know Me – Allan J. Ryan
- Good-byes and Butterflies – Five Man Electrical Band
- The Perth County Conspiracy (Does Not Exist) – The Perth County Conspiracy (Does Not Exist)
- Vol. 33/Mantra – L’Infonie
- Chilliwack – Chilliwack
- Starting A New Day – Mother Tucker’s Yellow Duck
- Ladies of the Canyon – Joni Mitchell
- It’s Countrytime – Myrna Lorrie
- Share The Land – The Guess Who
1969
- Illuminations – Buffy Sainte Marie
- Sussex – Bent Wind
- Oar – Alexander ‘Skip’ Spence
- When I Die – Motherlode
- In The Beginning… – The British North America Act
- The Band – The Band
- Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere – Neil Young
- Great Speckled Bird – Great Speckled Bird
- 49th Parallel – 49th Parallel
- Reign Ghost – Reign Ghost
- Stink – McKenna Mendelson Mainline
- Blues In Orbit – Gil Evans
- Clouds – Joni Mitchell
- Aardvark – Kensington Market
- Mushroom Music – The Perth County Conspiracy (Does Not Exist)
- The Five Man Electrical Band – The Five Man Electrical Band
- Send Me No Flowers – The Churls
- Which Way You Goin’ Billy? – The Poppy Family
- Grass & Wild Strawberries – The Collectors
- Home Grown Stuff – Mother Tucker’s Yellow Duck
- Songs from a Room – Leonard Cohen
- Lighthouse – Lighthouse
- Sings Bud The Spud and Other Favourites – Stompin` Tom Connors
- Nucleus – Nucleus
- L’Infonie – L’Infonie
1968
- Music From Big Pink – The Band
- David – David
- No Record – Nihilist Spasm Band
- Did She Mention My Name? – Gordon Lightfoot
- Le Quatuor de jazz libre du Québec – Le Quatuor de jazz libre du Québec
- The Plastic Cloud – The Plastic Cloud
- Free Psychedelic Poster Inside – Intersystems
- Wheatfield Soul – The Guess Who
- Ellis Island – The Paupers
- Avenue Road – Kensington Market
- Steppenwolf – Steppenwolf
- The Collectors – The Collectors
- Neil Young – Neil Young
- The Churls – The Churls
- Song To A Seagull – Joni Mitchell
- Christopher’s Movie Matinee – 3′s a Crowd
- Back Here On Earth – Gordon Lightfoot
1967
- Songs Of Leonard Cohen – Leonard Cohen
- Magic People – The Paupers
- Peachy – Intersystems
- A Passing Fancy – A Passing Fancy
- A Wild Pair – Staccatos
- The Way I Feel – Gordon Lightfoot
1966
- Somewhere Outside – The Ugly Ducklings
- Georges Dor – Georges Dor
- Number One – Intersystems
- Little Wheel Spin and Spin – Buffy Ste. Marie
- Lightfoot! – Gordon Lightfoot
- Ridin’ High – Maynard Ferguson
1965 and Earlier
- Night Train – The Oscar Peterson Trio
- Tabuh-Tabuhan – Colin McPhee
- Bach: The Goldberg Variations – Glenn Gould
- The Twin Pianos – Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians
- Gil Evans & Ten – Gil Evans
- Canadiana Suite – Oscar Peterson
- Introducing The Esquires – The Esquires
- Maynard Ferguson and his Birdland Dream Band – Maynard Ferguson
- Closer – Paul Bley
- The Beau Marks – The Beau Marks
- Oscar Peterson Trio + One – The Oscar Peterson Trio
- Wilf Carter/Montana Slim – Wilf Carter
- Newport Suite – Maynard Ferguson
- High Flying Beau Marks – The Beau Marks
Great list! I am showing my age, but some of these really take me back (’92, ’93). “Shakespeare My Butt” – what a great album. I’ll have to dig that one out and have a listen again.
How about an all-time greatest list?
Agreed, I hadn’t listened to Shakespeare My Butt in a while myself. Have you ever listened to Nothing Short of a Bullet? I hear it is excellent as well, but I haven’t gotten around to listening to it yet.
I still need to listen to a bit more before I can give a legit all time list, but one day!