Mar*Star Great Canadian Albums – 1992

Twenty-five years ago, the Mar*Star – a small, family newsletter that I edited – decided to poll its readers and some people in the business to determine Canada's greatest songs and albums, as a celebration of Canada's 125th birthday.

Here are the albums that were selected in 1992:

  1. Band – The Band
  2. Bruce Cockburn – Stealing Fire
  3. Cowboy Junkies – The Trinity Session
  4. Band – Music from Big Pink
  5. Robbie Robertson – Robbie Robertson
  6. Leonard Cohen – Songs of Leonard Cohen
  7. Joni Mitchell – Court and Spark
  8. Blue Rodeo – Outskirts
  9. Guess Who – Share the Land
  10. Gordon Lightfoot – Summertime Dream
  11. Leonard Cohen – I'm Your Man
  12. Spirit of the West – Save This House
  13. Crash Test Dummies – The Ghosts that Haunt Me
  14. Neil Young – After the Gold Rush
  15. Neil Young – Rust Never Sleeps
  16. Payola$ – Hammer on a Drum
  17. Gordon Lightfoot – Lightfoot!
  18. Gordon Lightfoot – Did She Mention My Name?
  19. Bruce Cockburn – High Winds White Sky
  20. Gordon Lightfoot – Sit Down Young Stranger
  21. Andrew Cash – Boomtown
  22. Kate and Anna McGarrigle – Kate and Anna McGarrigle
  23. K.D. Lang – Angel with a Lariat
  24. Joni Mitchell – Blue
  25. Murray McLauchlan – Sweeping the Spotlight Away
  26. Blue Rodeo – Diamond Mine
  27. Neil Young – Harvest
  28. Leslie Spit TreeO – Don't Cry Too Hard
  29. Bruce Cockburn – Waiting for a Miracle
  30. Daniel Lanois – Acadie
  31. Band – The Last Waltz
  32. Four the Moment – We're Still Standing
  33. Mary Margaret O'Hara – Miss America
  34. Guess Who – Wheatfield Soul
  35. Bruce Cockburn – Night Vision
  36. Neil Young – Tonight's the Night
  37. Bourne & McLeod – Dance & Celebrate
  38. Jesse Winchester – Jesse Winchester
  39. Bob Dylan and the Band – Basement Tapes
  40. Neil Young – Comes a Time
  41. Blood, Sweat & Tears – Blood, Sweat & Tears
  42. Robert Charlebois – Robert Charlebois
  43. K.D. Lang – Shadowland
  44. Gordon Lightfoot – Don Quixote
  45. Cowboy Junkies – The Caution Horses
  46. Valdy – Family Gathering
  47. Rough Trade – Avoid Freud
  48. Hugh Marsh – Shaking the Pumpkin
  49. Jane Siberry – Bound by the Beauty
  50. Holly Cole – Girl Talk
  51. Valdy – Landscapes
  52. Murray McLauchlan – Whispering Rain
  53. Gordon Lightfoot – Gord's Gold
  54. Northern Pikes – Big Blue Sky
  55. Figgy Duff – Weather Out the Storm
  56. Tragically Hip – Road Apples
  57. Michel Pagliaro – Aujord'hui
  58. Ronnie Hawkins – The Hawk
  59. Gordon Lightfoot – The Way I Feel
  60. Joni Mitchell – Clouds
  61. Neil Young – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
  62. Crosby Stills Nash & Young – Déjà Vu
  63. Anne Murray – Honey, Wheat and Laughter
  64. Ian & Sylvia – Great Speckled Bird
  65. Band – Northern Lights-Southern Cross
  66. Leonard Cohen – The Best of Leonard Cohen
  67. Trooper – Knock 'Em Dead Kid
  68. Neil Young – Decade
  69. Bruce Cockburn – Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws
  70. Bruce Cockburn – Humans
  71. Red Rider – Neruda
  72. Liona Boyd – Personna
  73. Stan Rogers – Fogarty's Cove
  74. Jennifer Warnes – Famous Blue Raincoat
  75. Loreena McKennitt – Parallel Dreams
  76. 54-40 – Show Me
  77. Jeff Healey – See the Light
  78. Barney Bentall – Barney Bentall & the Legendary Hearts
  79. Loreena McKennitt – Elemental
  80. Barney Bentall – Lonely Avenue
  81. Grapes of Wrath – These Days
  82. Bruce Cockburn – Bruce Cockburn
  83. Bachman-Turner Overdrive – Not Fragile
  84. Bruce Cockburn – Joy Will Find a Way
  85. Heart – Dreamboat Annie
  86. Oscar Peterson – Live at the Blue Note
  87. Murray McLauchlan – Hard Rock Town
  88. Big Miller – Live at Athabasca College
  89. various – Jesus of Montreal (original soundtrack)
  90. Figgy Duff – Figgy Duff
  91. Grievous Angels – One Job Town
  92. Loreena McKennitt – To Drive the Cold Winter Away
  93. Stompin' Tom Connors – Live at the Horseshoe
  94. Spirit of the West – Go Figure
  95. Beau Dommage – Beau Dommage
  96. Harmonium – L'heptade
  97. Oscar Peterson – Night Train
  98. Joni Mitchell – Joni Mitchell
  99. Leonard Cohen – Songs of Love and Hate
  100. Procol Harum with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra – In Concert
  101. Bruce Cockburn – Sunwheel Dance
  102. Crosby Stills Nash & Young – So Far
  103. Murray McLauchlan – Greatest Hits
  104. Andre Gagnon – Neiges
  105. Burton Cummings – Burton Cummings
  106. Joni Mitchell – Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
  107. Stompin' Tom Connors – A Proud Canadian
  108. Dan Hill – Longer Fuse
  109. Rush – A Farewell to Kings
  110. Rough Trade – Rough Trade Live!
  111. Doug & the Slugs – Cognac & Bolgna
  112. Loverboy – Loverboy
  113. Doug & the Slugs – Music for the Hard of Thinking
  114. Bryan Adams – You Want It-You Got It
  115. Neil Young – Old Ways
  116. Rush – Presto
  117. Tom Cochrane & Red Rider – Victory Day
  118. Crash Vegas – Red Earth
  119. Mae Moore – Oceanview Motel
  120. Figgy Duff – After the Tempest
  121. Bruce Cockburn – Nothing But a Burning Light
  122. Tom Cochrane – Mad Mad World
  123. Paul Anka – 21 Golden Hits
  124. Ian & Sylvia – Four Strong Winds
  125. Paupers – Magic People
  126. Kensington Market – Avenue Road

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