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
Al Oster	Midnight Sun Rock	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	01:47
Partland Brothers	Soul City	Electric Honey	03:52
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
Clint Ryan	Build Myself Around You	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	03:20
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Patti Jannetta	Rules of Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:46
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
Fyre	New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:42
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
Bum	A Promise Is A Promise	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:02
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
La Révolution Française	Québecois	Québecois	04:46
Jack Cornell	Like the Clouds	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	03:27
Mendelson Joe	The Canada Song	No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song	03:14
Genèse	Je crois en moi	L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi	02:34
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
Guido Basso	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	03:16
Guido Basso	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
Modern Minds	Theresa's World	Theresa's World (EP)	01:56
Twitch	Things	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	03:37
Copperpenny	Where is the Answer	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	04:20
Monique Leyrac	Mon pays	Mon pays	03:11
Gypsy	The Market	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	02:30
Anne-Marie Murray	The Streets of Old St. John's	The Streets of Old St. John's b/w Has Love Gone Out of Style	02:25
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part One)	I'm Alright	03:57
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Alanis Obomsawin	Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens)	Indian Songs	00:57
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
Dishrags	Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye)	Past Is Past (EP)	01:19
Patti Jannetta	Don't You Want My Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:26
Joni Mitchell	Help Me	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	03:22
Northern Pikes	Teenland	Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)	04:01
A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:51
Bruce Cockburn	If I Had a Rocket Launcher	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:58
Monique Leyrac	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56
Twitch	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn)	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	02:58
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Joe Kozak	Hillbilly Rock	Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me	01:48
Rod Williams & Super 8	War	War b/w War Version	03:16
Stiffs	Homesick	The Stiffs	01:02
Yvonne Moore	Hit & Run Lover	Hit & Run Lover	00:17
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)	03:24
Underworld	Go Away	Bound b/w Go Away	02:49
Expedition to Earth	Time Time Time	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:55
Mike Jones Group	Each and Every Day	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:18
Private School	I Wanna Know	Lost in Action (EP)	02:30
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
Gentle Touch	Visitors Parking Only	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:45
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
The Collectors	Lydia Purple	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	02:48
France Joli	Let Go	Come to Me // Let Go	09:26
Rabble	Golden Girl	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:04
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
Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Alanis Obomsawin	Nookum (Reflections of an Elder)	Indian Songs	01:48
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Bullrush	You've Sent Me Away	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	04:30
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Bernie LaBarge	Can't Hold On Forever	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:24
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Mantra	San Francisco Morning	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	03:16
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
Ian Thomas	Time is the Keeper	Glider	04:14
VLA (Vincent V.)	I Gave My Heart (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	04:46
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
The Reaction	The Kid's Arrived	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	02:32
Midnight Angels	(I Wish) In the Moonlight	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	02:17
Stiffs	Fuck You	Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp	02:23
Gale Garnett	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
222's	La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll)	La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) b/w La poupee qui fait non (version instrumentale)	02:42
France Joli	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
Ian Thomas	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
Mike Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
Rough Trade	Highschool Confidential	Avoid Freud	03:14
Joni Mitchell	You turn Me On, I'm a Radio	You turn Me On, I'm a Radio b/w Urge for Going (picture sleeve) (promo)	02:40
Terry McManus	Carolyn (stereo)	Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)	02:40
Don Jewitt	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
Gratitude	We are Here to Party	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:17
The Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Ronnie Hawkins	Bo Didley	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:56
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46
Seeds of Time	Muskrat Rumble	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:48

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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Spoons - After the Institution b/w My Job

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Boys Brigade - ST

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

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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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Tim Hus - Huskies & Huskvarnas

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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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Rush - Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)

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Rush - Hemispheres

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Rush - A Farewell to Kings

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Rush - Fly By Night

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Sidewinders (1) - Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery

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Jerry Doucette - The Deuce is Loose

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Jerry Doucette - Mama Let Him Play

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Teenage Head - Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)

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Ocean - Put Your Hand in the Hand

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Bob Williams - I'm Alright

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Guido Basso - Put Your Hand in the Hand

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April Wine - Harder.....Faster

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