Rheos' legacy confirms their top-ranking
A newly released tally of the top 100 Canadian albums was topped by Neil Young and included the work of Cancon stalwarts like Joni Mitchell, the Band, Gordon Lightfoot and the Tragically Hip, plus our own Rheostatics.
Nearly 600 music fans and critics, artists, retailers and other members of the industry submitted their votes for author and journalist Bob Mersereau's new book, The Top 100 Canadian Albums, released October 18, 2007.
Based on the input of the people Mersereau consulted, Canada's top 20 albums are:
- Harvest, Neil Young (1972)
- Blue, Joni Mitchell (1970)
- After the Gold Rush, Neil Young (1970)
- Music From Big Pink, the Band (1968)
- Fully Completely, the Tragically Hip (1992)
- Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette (1995)
- The Band, the Band (1969)
- Funeral, Arcade Fire (2004)
- Moving Pictures, Rush (1981)
- American Woman, the Guess Who (1970)
- Songs of Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen (1967)
- Reckless, Bryan Adams (1984)
- Five Days in July, Blue Rodeo (1993)
- Twice Removed, Sloan (1994)
- Up To Here, the Tragically Hip (1989)
- Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, Neil Young with Crazy Horse (1969)
- 2112, Rush (1976)
- Court and Spark, Joni Mitchell (1974)
- Whale Music, Rheostatics (1992)
- Acadie, Daniel Lanois (1989)