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
Sugluk	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	05:25
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Painted Ship	I Told Those Little White Lies	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:39
Les Tallmud	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
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
Sugluk	Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	02:41
Dishrags	Tormented	Past Is Past (EP)	01:06
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let's Get Together	Let Them In	02:04
The Ugly Ducklings	That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind	Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)	02:43
Private School	I Wanna Know	Lost in Action (EP)	02:30
Trooper	The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car	Two For The Show	03:00
Joni Mitchell	Just Like This Train	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	04:24
Bullrush	I Want To Be Set Free	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	03:14
The Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Theresa's World (EP)	01:42
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Rush	Freewill	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	05:24
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Joe Kozak	Hillbilly Rock	Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me	01:48
Eddie Spencer	If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)	You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)	02:48
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	02:01
Crystal Castles	Dolls	Alice Practice	01:29
La Révolution Française	Québecois	Québecois	04:46
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
The Reaction	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
Monique Leyrac	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56
Mighty Pope	Heaven on the Seventh Floor	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	02:46
Mingles	No Train Tonight	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	02:28
Bruce Cockburn	If a Tree Falls	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	05:44
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	07:36
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
The Reaction	The Kid's Arrived	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	02:32
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
Rush	The Trees	Hemispheres	04:43
Fyre	New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:42
Anne Murray	Snowbird	This Way Is My Way	02:12
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
Ian Thomas	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
Rock and Roll Bitches	Someone Could Lose an Eye	Wild West (EP)	02:24
Rush	Fly by Night	Fly By Night	03:22
The Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age	03:20
Dundas	Can't You Hear Me	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	06:01
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
Susan Jacks (Susan Pesklevits)	Anna Marie	Anna Marie b/w Into the Night	03:54
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
Power of Beckett	Back to Me	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:37
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
M.G. & the Escorts	A Someday Fool	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:37
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
Gypsy	The Market	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	02:30
Bruce Cockburn	Incandescent Blue	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	04:38
Mantra	San Francisco Morning	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	03:16
Witness Inc.	Visions of Vanessa	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:39
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
Bullrush	You've Sent Me Away	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	04:30
Wade Hemsworth	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Anne Murray	Bidin' my time	This Way Is My Way	02:37
Gentle Touch	Visitors Parking Only	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:45
Jerry Doucette	Down The Road	Mama Let Him Play	03:35
Viletones	Rebel	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:09
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
Jenny Rock	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
Ronnie Hawkins	Who Do You Love	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:41
Stompin' Tom Connors	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Lady	Whatever Happened to the Love	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	02:41
Ian Thomas	The Runner	The Runner	03:24
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
Gale Garnett	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
Mary Saxton	Sad Eyes	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	03:05
Bells	Stay Awhile	Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom	03:26
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
Kilt	South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel	Kilt	02:46
D.O.A.	Nazi Training Camp	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:50
Mike Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Patti Jannetta	Rules of Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:46
The Ugly Ducklings	Nothin'	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	02:35
Captain Tractor	The Last Saskatchewan Pirate	East of Edson	04:10
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Together	Let Them In	02:50
Pointed Sticks	Somebody's Mom	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	01:38
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
The Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Trooper	Two for the Show	Two For The Show	04:27
Thrills	Party Inside My Mind	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:38
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers	Mr. Fortune	Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool	02:43
Mendelson Joe	Oh Travene	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	03:41
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
Mary Saxton	Losing Control	Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die	02:04

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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Ron Nigrini - I'm Easy b/w For Someone on the Road

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Susan Jacks (Susan Pesklevits) - Anna Marie b/w Into the Night

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The Immortals - The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)

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Mary Saxton - Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart

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Mary Saxton - Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die

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The Modern Minds - Theresa's World (EP)

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The Collectors - Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)

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Kilt - Kilt

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Chilliwack - Lonesome Mary b/w Ridin'

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Craig Ruhnke - Give Me The Nightime b/w Give Me The Nightime (promo)

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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

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