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
Les Dales Hawerchuk Salive salée ST
Les Dales Hawerchuk Crocodile ST
Bunchofuckingoofs Left Nut - Side Pocket Carnival of Chaos + Carnage
Les Dales Hawerchuk Le king du triple swing ST
Compilation Alasi Alasuak - Look Where Somebody Slept ᐊᕐᓇᐄᑦ ᐳᕕᕐᓂᑐᒥᐆᑦ ᑲᑐᑦᔭᑐᑦ ᐊᒪᓗ ᕐᑲᓂᕐᐸᓗᑐᑦ Inuit Throat And Harp Songs: Eskimo Women's Music Of Povungnituk
Lewis Baloue Love Showered Me L'amour
Joey Gregorash Dollar Bill North Country Funk
British Modbeats Try to Understand Mod Is
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
Wankin Family We Are The Wankin Family We Did It For the Kids
Lewis Baloue My Whole Life L'amour
Iron Gypsy Hell 'n' Back ST
Black Knight Aaraigathor (Metal Anthem) Master of Disaster (EP)
Michel Pagliaro Magic Moments Pagliaro
Glenn Dixon Bathtub Bravery Cardboard Heroes
L'infonie Solo Vol 3
Compilation Alasi Alasuak - She Thinks She is the Only Daughter ᐊᕐᓇᐄᑦ ᐳᕕᕐᓂᑐᒥᐆᑦ ᑲᑐᑦᔭᑐᑦ ᐊᒪᓗ ᕐᑲᓂᕐᐸᓗᑐᑦ Inuit Throat And Harp Songs: Eskimo Women's Music Of Povungnituk
British North American Act Give Yourself a Ride In the Beginning
Plume Latraverse (Michel Proulx) Stella Daily Breakfeast Blues Le Vieux Show Son Sale
Houston Pretty Millie ST
Erica Pomerance Koanisphere You Used To Think
Compilation Buddy Victor - Didn’t' We Unselfconsciously Canadian
Compilation Lucy Amarualik & Alaci Tulaugak - Song of Sea Shore ᐊᕐᓇᐄᑦ ᐳᕕᕐᓂᑐᒥᐆᑦ ᑲᑐᑦᔭᑐᑦ ᐊᒪᓗ ᕐᑲᓂᕐᐸᓗᑐᑦ Inuit Throat And Harp Songs: Eskimo Women's Music Of Povungnituk
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) STHNLA Motherlove
Jean Fortier Prends Ton Temps ST
Compilation Good Fortune - Ring in His Nose Winnipeg Vol 1
Compilation Alaci Tulaugak & Nellie Nungak - Sound of Wind ᐊᕐᓇᐄᑦ ᐳᕕᕐᓂᑐᒥᐆᑦ ᑲᑐᑦᔭᑐᑦ ᐊᒪᓗ ᕐᑲᓂᕐᐸᓗᑐᑦ Inuit Throat And Harp Songs: Eskimo Women's Music Of Povungnituk
British North American Act Joe Cool In the Beginning
La Révolution Française Shoo doo be doo Québecois
CBC Folk Arts Orchestra Jukas Jarvi (Finnish) Presents Canadians All: A Musical Mosaic of Canadian Folk Songs & Dances from the Prairies: Directed by Dick Seaborn
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
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) M.L.’s Dream Motherlove
L'infonie She's Leaving Home Vol 3
Wankin Family I Left My Heart in Iran (Forgotten Rebels) We Did It For the Kids
Houston Hairy One ST
Peter & Mary (Peter Jansen & Mary Kingsley) My Elusive Dreams (Putman & Cherrill Tree Music) Peter & Mary And Friends
Trevor Dandy Have You Ever Wondered? Don't Cry Little Tree
Evaporators Dan Quayle vs. Nardwuar United Empire Loyalists
Trevor Dandy Overture and Judgement Morning Don't Cry Little Tree
Les Dales Hawerchuk Dale Hawerchuk ST
Compilation Alasi Alasuak & Nellie Nungak - Story of a Goose ᐊᕐᓇᐄᑦ ᐳᕕᕐᓂᑐᒥᐆᑦ ᑲᑐᑦᔭᑐᑦ ᐊᒪᓗ ᕐᑲᓂᕐᐸᓗᑐᑦ Inuit Throat And Harp Songs: Eskimo Women's Music Of Povungnituk
Lewis Baloue Even Rainbows Turn Blue L'amour
Lewis Baloue Things Just Happen That Way L'amour
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Dada Lama Motherlove
Erica Pomerance We Came Via You Used To Think
Robert Charlebois Complainte de presqu’Amérique ST
CBC Folk Arts Orchestra Vlajincia Dance (Serbian) Presents Canadians All: A Musical Mosaic of Canadian Folk Songs & Dances from the Prairies: Directed by Dick Seaborn
Compilation Lucy Amarualik & Alaci Tulaugak - Sound of Panting Dogs ᐊᕐᓇᐄᑦ ᐳᕕᕐᓂᑐᒥᐆᑦ ᑲᑐᑦᔭᑐᑦ ᐊᒪᓗ ᕐᑲᓂᕐᐸᓗᑐᑦ Inuit Throat And Harp Songs: Eskimo Women's Music Of Povungnituk
British North American Act Just How You Feel In the Beginning
Moses Nobody End of the Line
Melchior Alias Totor Melchior ST
Wankin Family Imaginary Lines We Did It For the Kids
The Mutual Understanding Out of This World In Wonderland
Compilation The Mongrels - Heartaches Winnipeg Vol 1
Compilation Myrna Lawrence - Here, There and Everywhere Unselfconsciously Canadian
Plume Latraverse (Michel Proulx) Rat qui roule… Le Vieux Show Son Sale
Compilation Electric Jug & Blues Band - The Family Breakdown Winnipeg Vol 1
Ivan Daines A Rodeo Is a Rodeo Ivan
Joey Gregorash Freedom Means Love North Country Funk
Plume Latraverse (Michel Proulx) Bobépine Le Vieux Show Son Sale
Aut'chose Hollywood en plywood Le Couchemar américain
Joey Gregorash Night Ride to Memphis North Country Funk
British Modbeats More Love Mod Is
Tudjaat Qiugaviit ST
Les Dales Hawerchuk J'monte au lac ST
Moses I'm Onto You End of the Line
Evaporators Your Instrument Does Not Affect Me United Empire Loyalists
Ivan Daines Calgary Stampede Ivan
Vini Vidi Vici with Princess Demeny New York Grief Vini Vidi Vici
Canada Pops Up Where We Belong Did You Know?
CBC Folk Arts Orchestra Oh Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie - Skip to My Lou (American Traditional) Presents Canadians All: A Musical Mosaic of Canadian Folk Songs & Dances from the Prairies: Directed by Dick Seaborn
Bunchofuckingoofs Later Carnival of Chaos + Carnage
Compilation Alasi Alasuak, Nellie Nungak, Mary Sivuarapik & Alaci Tulaugak - Song of a Little Girl ᐊᕐᓇᐄᑦ ᐳᕕᕐᓂᑐᒥᐆᑦ ᑲᑐᑦᔭᑐᑦ ᐊᒪᓗ ᕐᑲᓂᕐᐸᓗᑐᑦ Inuit Throat And Harp Songs: Eskimo Women's Music Of Povungnituk
Ivan Daines Rodeo Capital of Canada Ivan
Peter & Mary (Peter Jansen & Mary Kingsley) Turn On the Sun (Murray - Callender; Intune) Peter & Mary And Friends
Canada Pops Beer Barrel Polka Did You Know?
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
Compilation Sugar 'N Spice - The Cruel War Winnipeg Vol 1
Diane Dufresne Attention la terre À part de d'ça, j'me sens ben / Opéra cirque
Iron Gypsy Streetwize ST
Diane Dufresne Le signal final À part de d'ça, j'me sens ben / Opéra cirque
Bunchofuckingoofs Destroy All Automobiles Carnival of Chaos + Carnage
Islanders Two In The Ghetto Personally Yours
Robert Charlebois C’est pour ça ST
Wankin Family Fuck the Commonwealth We Did It For the Kids
Islanders Two Highway Driving Personally Yours
Diane Dufresne La marche nuptiale des condamnes a mort À part de d'ça, j'me sens ben / Opéra cirque
Bunchofuckingoofs Profit Margin Carnival of Chaos + Carnage
Evaporators Busy Body (Robert Johnson) United Empire Loyalists
British North American Act Baby Jane Days and Nights In the Beginning
Heads in the Sky Three Isle My Land ST
Joey Gregorash The Key North Country Funk
Vini Vidi Vici with Princess Demeny Club Stuff Vini Vidi Vici
Compilation Alasi Alasuak - Song About a Thumb ᐊᕐᓇᐄᑦ ᐳᕕᕐᓂᑐᒥᐆᑦ ᑲᑐᑦᔭᑐᑦ ᐊᒪᓗ ᕐᑲᓂᕐᐸᓗᑐᑦ Inuit Throat And Harp Songs: Eskimo Women's Music Of Povungnituk
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
L'infonie Desafinado Vol 3
Trevor Dandy Sometimes Don't Cry Little Tree
CBC Folk Arts Orchestra Hopak (Ukrainian) Presents Canadians All: A Musical Mosaic of Canadian Folk Songs & Dances from the Prairies: Directed by Dick Seaborn
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) A Hum for Stevie Winwood Motherlove
Compilation Chopping Block - Goin' Back Home Winnipeg Vol 1

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

CD-Bunchoffuckinggoofs - Carnival of Chaos CD

CD-Bunchoffuckinggoofs - Carnival of Chaos INSIDE FOLDOUT

CD-Bunchoffuckinggoofs - Carnival of Chaos BACK

CD-Bunchoffuckinggoofs - Carnival of Chaos INLAY

Pagliaro

Pagliaro, Michel

Révolution Française - Québecois LABEL 02

Révolution Française - Québecois LABEL 01

Révolution Française - Québecois BACK

Le N'hockey

ST

Dandy, Trevor

Don't Cry Little Tree

Trevor Dandy - Don't Cry Little Tree

Trevor Dandy - Don't Cry Little Tree

Trevor Dandy - Don't Cry Little Tree

ST Face B

ST Face A

ST Back cover

Dufresne, Diane

Aut'chose

La Révolution Française

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