MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

This playlist is a curated journey through Canada's most significant and influential singles, as selected by Robert Williston for the Museum of Canadian Music. Spanning genres, decades, and regions, it showcases the diversity and richness of Canadian music history.

From iconic tracks like Stompin' Tom Connors' "The Hockey Song" to rare gems such as The Media's "Girl I Want You," this collection highlights both celebrated hits and obscure treasures. Each entry reflects a piece of Canada's musical tapestry, offering listeners a comprehensive overview of the nation's sonic heritage.

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Don Jewitt Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Thrills Party Inside My Mind Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Al Oster Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Willie Thrasher Spirit Child Spirit Child
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Yvonne Moore Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Mingles No Train Tonight I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Les Tallmud Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Ron Richardson Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
k.d. lang High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Roots Earth And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Joni Mitchell Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love
Mike Woods Alberta Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Joni Mitchell Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Arthur Scammel R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
The Hometown Band Flying Flying
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Rush Fly by Night Fly By Night
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Guido Basso Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Leonard Cohen Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Dolores Claman The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Guido Basso Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Terry McManus Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Rod Williams & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Stiffs Homesick The Stiffs
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
France Joli Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Otis Gayle Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Bruce Cockburn Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
The Reaction Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Élan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Les Tallmud Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Ian Thomas Time is the Keeper Glider
Stompin' Tom Connors I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Alanis Obomsawin Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Willie Thrasher Forefathers Spirit Child
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
The Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Stompin' Tom Connors The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Ian Thomas Hold On The Runner
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Charlie Russell The Bricklin The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Ray St. Germain Metis ST
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Jay Telfer Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Bruce Cockburn If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Etulu Etidlouie Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
Eddie Spencer You're So Good to Me Baby You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)
Dolores Claman The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Russ Little Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Charlie Russell The Bricklin II The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Guido Basso For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'

You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love

Lady - You're Still The One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love

Flying

Huskies & Huskvarnas

Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow

Lisa Lougheed (3)

Lisa Lougheed (2)

Lisa Lougheed (1)

45-Lisa Lougheed – Run With Us VINYL 02

Switchin'

Diodes' Paul Robinson @ Black Swan, Ottawa March 1978 courtesy Cameron Muir

The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II

Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool

David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges

That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)

Moving Pictures

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

First Impressions (EP)

Genetic Control

1985-02-17_Dead End + Genetic Control_Larry_s (Toronto)_ticket_+

Genetic Control_First Impressions_+

1980-07_DOA_Toronto_flyer

1983-01-03_DOA_Pier (Raleigh, NC)_flyer_+

1984-09-28_DOA + Abrasive Wheels + Battalion Of Saints + Killroy_Olympic Audit (LA, CA)_flyer_+

Rush – Moving Pictures (3)

Rush – Moving Pictures (2)

Rush – Moving Pictures (1)

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