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
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back)	People Of The Ice	03:14
Dundas	Can't You Hear Me	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	06:01
Mike Jones Group	Each and Every Day	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:18
Jay Telfer	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Mushroom Band	Don't Come Down	Don't Come Down b/w Nobody	02:40
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
Otis Gayle	We All Need Love	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	03:43
The Haunted	Eight O'Clock This Morning	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:20
France Joli	Baby Don't Stop Dancing	Come to Me // Let Go	07:50
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
Jenny Rock	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Kilt	Dylan's Ghost	Kilt	02:23
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
Plan Nine	Fatal Femme	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:20
Jerry Doucette	Mama Let Him Play	Mama Let Him Play	04:26
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Willie Thrasher	Eskimo Named Johnny	Spirit Child	02:41
Ironhorse	What's Your Hurry Darlin'	Everything is Grey	04:30
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
Élan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
Marie Hodgins	Yesterday’s Dreams	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	02:38
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
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	02:03
Ian Thomas	Painted Ladies	ST	03:31
Robert Maciag	You Make Me Feel So Good	I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good	03:15
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
France Joli	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Demics	New York City	New York City b/w Blue Boy	04:32
Etulu Etidlouie	Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:19
Guido Basso	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	03:16
Wade Hemsworth	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Willie Dunn	I Pity The Country	I Pity The Country b/w The Carver	02:55
Etulu Etidlouie	Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:56
Plan Nine	I Ain't No Robot	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:36
Élan	Freedom Song	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:41
Nite Life	What's On Your Mind	What's On Your Mind b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)	03:46
Chilliwack	Ridin'	Lonesome Mary b/w Ridin'	03:02
Mendelson Joe	Growing Pain	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	02:35
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part One)	I'm Alright	03:57
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Thrills	Party Inside My Mind	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:38
The Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age	03:20
Dishrags	Past Is Past	Past Is Past (EP)	02:24
The Ugly Ducklings	Just In Case You Wonder	Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)	02:28
Don Jewitt	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
Trooper	Two for the Show	Two For The Show	04:27
Pointed Sticks	I'm Numb	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:11
Bernie LaBarge	Dream Away	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:48
Stiffs	Dad's a Pig	The Stiffs	01:31
The Reaction	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Stiffs	Everyone Lies	The Stiffs	01:30
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
Rush	Fly by Night	Fly By Night	03:22
Bonnie Dobson	Morning Dew	ST	03:20
Pluton and Humanoids	World Invaders	World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)	06:44
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
Secret V's	Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold	No Life Like It (EP)	02:33
Alanis Obomsawin	Nookum (Reflections of an Elder)	Indian Songs	01:48
Trooper	Santa Maria	Two For The Show	02:56
Minotaur	Witch-Hunt	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	04:19
k.d. lang	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
Bullrush	I Want To Be Set Free	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	03:14
Viletones	Screaming Fist	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:04
Clint Ryan	It Hurts to be Lonely	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	02:40
L'infonie	Come & Dance The OK LA!	Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel	03:04
Guido Basso	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	No Man Like My Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:42
Plan Nine	Go	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:03
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Winter)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:53
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
Payola$	Eyes of a Stranger	No Stranger to Danger	04:57
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
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
Tim Hus	Hurtin’ Albertan	Huskies & Huskvarnas	08:07
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
Ian Thomas	Time is the Keeper	Glider	04:14
Don Norman & the Other Four	Mustang Sally	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	03:22
Power of Beckett	Back to Me	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:37
Stompin' Tom Connors	I Am the Wind	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	03:35
Copperpenny	Wine Song	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:04
Viletones	Possibilities	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:32
Crystal Castles	Love and Caring	Alice Practice	02:18
Stiffs	No Money	The Stiffs	01:26
Spy's	Underground	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	03:18
Etulu Etidlouie	Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:51
Ian Thomas	The Runner	The Runner	03:24
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
Joe Kozak	Hillbilly Rock	Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me	01:48
The Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Copperpenny	Get Away	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:17

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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

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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