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	Length
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
The Reaction	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Sugluk	Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	02:35
Stumpwater	Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	03:33
Élan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
Guido Basso	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Try a Little Harder	Let Them In	02:42
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	06:46
Anne Murray	Bidin' my time	This Way Is My Way	02:37
Stiffs	Fuck You	Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp	02:23
Willie Thrasher	Spirit Child	Spirit Child	04:05
George Olliver	Shine	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:13
Willie Dunn	I Pity The Country	I Pity The Country b/w The Carver	02:55
The Bed Time Story	Feel the Sun	Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun	02:21
Painted Ship	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld)	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:54
Twitch	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn)	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	02:58
Ronnie Hawkins	Bo Didley	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:56
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
Copperpenny	Taking My Heart	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:16
Winston Hewitt	You're My Boopsie	You're My Boopsy	04:39
The Fringe	Plastic People	Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown	02:12
Anne Murray	Snowbird	This Way Is My Way	02:12
Sue Hansen	Sucking Up to You	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:24
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	02:01
Alanis Obomsawin	Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War)	Indian Songs	02:02
Mendelson Joe	The Canada Song	No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song	03:14
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
Seeds of Time	Muskrat Rumble	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:48
Tiaras	Surprise!	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:25
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin'	Switchin'	06:17
Mushroom Band	Don't Come Down	Don't Come Down b/w Nobody	02:40
Jim Ashby	Speed City (Acid Rock)	Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City	02:44
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	Work Song	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:14
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
Alanis Obomsawin	Shibi (River of Dreams)	Indian Songs	02:07
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Fyre	New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:42
Pointed Sticks	I'm Numb	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:11
Pointed Sticks	Somebody's Mom	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	01:38
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Payola$	Eyes of a Stranger	No Stranger to Danger	04:57
Rock and Roll Bitches	Welders Song	Wild West (EP)	02:34
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Alanis Obomsawin	Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens)	Indian Songs	00:57
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Kilt	Wrecker's Den	Kilt	02:38
Bernie LaBarge	Dream Away	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:48
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Ron Baumber	Duncan and the Devil	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	02:52
Stumpwater	Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	04:06
Guido Basso	Anna’s Theme	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:47
Joni Mitchell	Help Me	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	03:22
Bruce Cockburn	Maybe the Poet	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:53
The Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part Two)	I'm Alright	03:43
The Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin II	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:59
Bruce Cockburn	If I Had a Rocket Launcher	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:58
France Joli	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
Mantra	San Francisco Morning	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	03:16
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
Shawne Jackson	Just as Bad as You	Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man	02:33
Dundas	Bloodshot in Your Eyes	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	02:43
Mashmakhan	As The Years Go By	As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)	03:04
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Anne Murray	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part One)	I'm Alright	03:57
United Empire Loyalists	No, No, No	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	02:49
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	When I Feel The Need For Love	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	06:33
Trooper	The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car	Two For The Show	03:00
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Sea Cruise Blues	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	05:32
Twitch	Things	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	03:37
Mingles	I'm Gonna Miss You	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	03:17
Private School	Sci-Fi	Lost in Action (EP)	03:32
The Collectors	She (Will-O'-The Wind)	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	03:53
Doug And The Slugs	The Move	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:47
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Winter)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:53
A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:51
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Together	Let Them In	02:50
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Rush	The Spirit of Radio	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	04:59
Gentle Touch	Visitors Parking Only	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:45
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:48
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Terry McManus	Carolyn (stereo)	Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)	02:40
Private School	I Wanna Know	Lost in Action (EP)	02:30
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Reign Ghost	Parable	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	02:13
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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Nomeansno - Oh Canaduh b/w New Age

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Russ Little - Deeper and Deeper

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Plan Nine - I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)

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222's - La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) b/w La poupee qui fait non (version instrumentale)

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Robert Maciag - I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good

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Tim Hus - Huskies & Huskvarnas

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The Munks - Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head

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The Haunted - 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning

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Len - You Can't Stop the Bum Rush

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Maurice & The Clichés - C'est la vie

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The Bureaucrats - Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age

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Jolly Tambourine Man - Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka

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Jerry Doucette - The Deuce is Loose

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Jerry Doucette - Mama Let Him Play

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Spoons - After the Institution b/w My Job

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Boys Brigade - ST

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The Gruesomes - Hey!

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Dolores Claman - The Hockey Theme

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Sloan - Underwhelmed (promo)

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The Bed Time Story - Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun

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

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The Hometown Band - Flying

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Lisa Lougheed - Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow

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Kings - Switchin'

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Charlie Russell - The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II

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Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers - Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool

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

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Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights - That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)

Rush - Moving Pictures

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Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

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