Greatest Canadian Album Covers

Greatest Canadian Album Covers

This room celebrates the bold, bizarre, beautiful, and iconic artwork that has graced the front of Canada’s finest records. Greatest Canadian Album Covers is a visual tribute to the designers, illustrators, photographers, and artists who helped define eras and genres with a single image. From psychedelic masterpieces to DIY punk collages, sleek modernism to outsider oddities—these covers are more than packaging; they’re part of the story. Flip through the sleeves of Canadian music history, one unforgettable image at a time.

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Compilation Gettysbyrg Address - Baby True Winnipeg Vol 1
Evaporators United Empire Loyalists United Empire Loyalists
Houston Fast Thinkin' Sam ST
Jean Fortier La Reine Araignée ST
British North American Act Only a Dream In the Beginning
CBC Folk Arts Orchestra Fuoco Del Sud (Italian) Presents Canadians All: A Musical Mosaic of Canadian Folk Songs & Dances from the Prairies: Directed by Dick Seaborn
Robert Charlebois Doux sauvage ST
Aut'chose Les pays d'en haut Le Couchemar américain
Canada Pops The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down Did You Know?
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) STHNLA Motherlove
Houston Mucho Gusto ST
Plume Latraverse (Michel Proulx) Stella Daily Breakfeast Blues Le Vieux Show Son Sale
CBC Folk Arts Orchestra Hopak (Ukrainian) Presents Canadians All: A Musical Mosaic of Canadian Folk Songs & Dances from the Prairies: Directed by Dick Seaborn
Ivan Daines Mr. Radio Man Ivan
Erica Pomerance Koanisphere You Used To Think
British North American Act Joe Cool In the Beginning
Houston All My Life ST
Peter & Mary (Peter Jansen & Mary Kingsley) Fernando (Abba) Peter & Mary And Friends
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of) Holding Out ST
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Angels Hair Mother Love Suite: Intro; Allementry; Plunket Pastoral; Two Buried Texts Part I - Silver Lake Six; Two Buried Texts Part II - Silver Lake Six; A Little Love Poem for Your Lobes to Nibble On; Visitation; Cada Motherlove
Compilation Sugar 'N Spice - The Cruel War Winnipeg Vol 1
Compilation Myrna Lawrence - Here, There and Everywhere Unselfconsciously Canadian
Compilation Lucy Amarualik & Mary Sivuarapik - Sound of a Cooking Seal Flipper ᐊᕐᓇᐄᑦ ᐳᕕᕐᓂᑐᒥᐆᑦ ᑲᑐᑦᔭᑐᑦ ᐊᒪᓗ ᕐᑲᓂᕐᐸᓗᑐᑦ Inuit Throat And Harp Songs: Eskimo Women's Music Of Povungnituk
Robert Charlebois Complainte de presqu’Amérique ST
Erica Pomerance Julius You Used To Think
Heads in the Sky Three Isle My Land ST
Compilation Nellie Nungak & Mary Sivuarapik - People From Different Places Singing ᐊᕐᓇᐄᑦ ᐳᕕᕐᓂᑐᒥᐆᑦ ᑲᑐᑦᔭᑐᑦ ᐊᒪᓗ ᕐᑲᓂᕐᐸᓗᑐᑦ Inuit Throat And Harp Songs: Eskimo Women's Music Of Povungnituk
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of) Sing With Soul ST
Plume Latraverse (Michel Proulx) Adiadyll Le Vieux Show Son Sale
The Mutual Understanding You Fascinate Me In Wonderland
Compilation James McLennon Band - I Think I'm Gonna Say Goodbye Homegrown Album Eighty
Compilation Electric Jug & Blues Band - The Family Breakdown Winnipeg Vol 1
Houston Fly ST
Heads in the Sky On My Way to Freedom ST
Compilation Nellie Nungak & Mary Sivuarapik - Planing the Runners of a Kamutik ᐊᕐᓇᐄᑦ ᐳᕕᕐᓂᑐᒥᐆᑦ ᑲᑐᑦᔭᑐᑦ ᐊᒪᓗ ᕐᑲᓂᕐᐸᓗᑐᑦ Inuit Throat And Harp Songs: Eskimo Women's Music Of Povungnituk
Evaporators It's My Pride (Randy Bachman) United Empire Loyalists
Bunchofuckingoofs Coke - The Real Thing for Real Assholes Carnival of Chaos + Carnage
Bunchofuckingoofs Conflict Carnival of Chaos + Carnage
Ivan Daines Take Me Back Ivan
Compilation Dave Wright - You Were Gone Homegrown Album Eighty
British Modbeats Love's Just a Broken Heart Mod Is
Evaporators I'm Going to France United Empire Loyalists
Peter & Mary (Peter Jansen & Mary Kingsley) Listen to the Rain (Peter Jansen) Peter & Mary And Friends
British Modbeats Ain't Nobody Home But Me Mod Is
Moses Comin' On Strong End of the Line
Jean Fortier La Marche À Pieds ST
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Compilation Black Eyes Major - Blue Blood, Black Eyes Homegrown Album Eighty
Wankin Family Fuck the Commonwealth We Did It For the Kids
La Révolution Française La Famille Québecois
Jean Fortier La Paix Soit Avec Nous ST
CBC Folk Arts Orchestra Kujawiak (Polish Highland Dance) Presents Canadians All: A Musical Mosaic of Canadian Folk Songs & Dances from the Prairies: Directed by Dick Seaborn
Les Dales Hawerchuk J'monte au lac ST
Melchior Alias Triste Narcisse ST
Tudjaat Kajusita (My Ship Comes In) ST
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of) Show Me Some Slack ST
Islanders Two Knocking On Heaven's Door Personally Yours
Compilation Instructions - D-6 The Circuit
Ivan Daines A Cowboy's Way Of Life Ivan
Joey Gregorash Jodie North Country Funk
Compilation The Mongrels - Heartaches Winnipeg Vol 1
Canada Pops Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft Did You Know?
Compilation Joe Vassos - New World Unselfconsciously Canadian
CBC Folk Arts Orchestra Olafu Og Alfamoer (Icelandic) Presents Canadians All: A Musical Mosaic of Canadian Folk Songs & Dances from the Prairies: Directed by Dick Seaborn
Erica Pomerance Anything Goes You Used To Think
Melchior Alias L’espace d’un ete ST
Erica Pomerance Burn Baby Burn You Used To Think
Bunchofuckingoofs Da BFG Cee Carnival of Chaos + Carnage
Compilation Alasi Alasuak - Look Where Somebody Slept ᐊᕐᓇᐄᑦ ᐳᕕᕐᓂᑐᒥᐆᑦ ᑲᑐᑦᔭᑐᑦ ᐊᒪᓗ ᕐᑲᓂᕐᐸᓗᑐᑦ Inuit Throat And Harp Songs: Eskimo Women's Music Of Povungnituk
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of) Second Lady ST
Diane Dufresne La marche nuptiale des condamnes a mort À part de d'ça, j'me sens ben / Opéra cirque
Diane Dufresne Rock pour un gars d'bicyc À part de d'ça, j'me sens ben / Opéra cirque
Melchior Alias Camping ST
Les Dales Hawerchuk Me case es su casa ST
Moses I Need You End of the Line
Peter & Mary (Peter Jansen & Mary Kingsley) Back in Bermuda (Peter Jansen) Peter & Mary And Friends
Wankin Family No Way to Live We Did It For the Kids
Bunchofuckingoofs CMD Carnival of Chaos + Carnage
Bunchofuckingoofs Thanx But No Thanx Carnival of Chaos + Carnage
British North American Act Give Yourself a Ride In the Beginning
Canada Pops Up Where We Belong Did You Know?
La Révolution Française Isabelle Québecois
L'infonie Toutes les Affaires s'en vont sur toutes les cotes en meme temps, tout l'temps Vol 3
Compilation Alasi Alasuak, Nellie Nungak, Mary Sivuarapik & Alaci Tulaugak - Song About the World ᐊᕐᓇᐄᑦ ᐳᕕᕐᓂᑐᒥᐆᑦ ᑲᑐᑦᔭᑐᑦ ᐊᒪᓗ ᕐᑲᓂᕐᐸᓗᑐᑦ Inuit Throat And Harp Songs: Eskimo Women's Music Of Povungnituk
British Modbeats Try to Understand Mod Is
CBC Folk Arts Orchestra Reiterwinkler Plattier (German) Presents Canadians All: A Musical Mosaic of Canadian Folk Songs & Dances from the Prairies: Directed by Dick Seaborn
Bunchofuckingoofs Profit Margin Carnival of Chaos + Carnage
Bunchofuckingoofs Molded Carnival of Chaos + Carnage
Robert Charlebois 50,000,000 d'hommes ST
Erica Pomerance The French Revolution You Used To Think
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of) Ridin' High ST
Heads in the Sky Heads in the Sky ST
Joey Gregorash Bye Bye Baby North Country Funk
Compilation The Triad - The Only Way to Fly Winnipeg Vol 1
Aut'chose 24 heures par jour Le Couchemar américain
Les Dales Hawerchuk Ya! ST
Vini Vidi Vici with Princess Demeny Club Stuff Vini Vidi Vici
Moses Between the Places End of the Line
The Mutual Understanding When The World Was Young In Wonderland
L'infonie L'affaire Vol 3

Motherlove

À part de d'ça, j'me sens ben / Opéra cirque

Dufresne, Diane - À part de d'ça, j'me sens ben Opéra cirque LABEL 02

Dufresne, Diane - À part de d'ça, j'me sens ben Opéra cirque LABEL 01

Diane Dufresne - A Part De D'Ça J'Me Sens Ben INSERT SIDE 04

Diane Dufresne - A Part De D'Ça J'Me Sens Ben INSERT SIDE 02

Diane Dufresne - A Part De D'Ça J'Me Sens Ben INSERT SIDE 03

Diane Dufresne - A Part De D'Ça J'Me Sens Ben INSERT SIDE 01

Homegrown Album Eighty

VA HOMEGROWN EIGHTY BACK LABELS

VA HOMEGROWN EIGHTY BACK

Compilation

ST

Jean Fortier

Jean Fortier - ST LABEL 02

Jean Fortier - ST LABEL 01

Jean Fortier - ST BACK

The Circuit

VA The Circuit LABEL 02

VA The Circuit LABEL 01

VA The Circuit - INSERT SINGLE-SIDED

VA The Circuit - BACK

Robert Charlebois-ST HELMET HEAD LABEL 02

Robert Charlebois-ST HELMET HEAD LABEL 01

Robert Charlebois-ST HELMET HEAD BACK

Mutual Understanding

In Wonderland

Carnival of Chaos + Carnage

CrazySteveGoof1988

Bunchofuckingoofs

Comments

Anonymous

A few other incredible covers: Harmonium (Les cinq saisons), Spirit of Christmas (Lies to Live By) and Jarvis Street Revue (Mr. Oilman). Not only do these covers stand alone as incredible artwork, they also capture perfectly the spirit of the music they represent - vk