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
Otis Gayle	Sexy Eyes	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	04:12
Mantra	San Francisco Morning	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	03:16
Les Tallmud	Un Autre Ami	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:41
Élan	Freedom Song	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:41
Rush	The Trees	Hemispheres	04:43
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
Painted Ship	I Told Those Little White Lies	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:39
Mingles	I'm Gonna Miss You	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	03:17
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Underworld	Go Away	Bound b/w Go Away	02:49
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Craig Farraway	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34
Bruce Cockburn	If I Had a Rocket Launcher	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:58
Sugluk	Ballad of the Running Girl	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:11
Sidewinders (1)	Put The Blame On Me	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:02
Alan Gerber	Tied On	Tied On b/w Tied On	03:24
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	01:40
Stiffs	No Money	The Stiffs	01:26
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17
April Wine	Say Hello	Harder.....Faster	02:59
Midnight Angels	(I Wish) In the Moonlight	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	02:17
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
Pointed Sticks	What Do You Want Me To Do?	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	02:27
Etulu Etidlouie	Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:56
The Ugly Ducklings	Nothin'	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	02:35
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Copperpenny	Where is the Answer	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	04:20
Power of Beckett	Back to Me	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:37
k.d. lang	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
Witness Inc.	Another Side Of Her	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:42
The Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
Bells	Moody Manitoba Morning	Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning	03:15
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	01:56
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Bruce Cockburn	The Gift	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	06:06
Dishrags	Tormented	Past Is Past (EP)	01:06
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
Etulu Etidlouie	Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:19
Willie Thrasher	Silent Inuit	Spirit Child	04:36
Ian Thomas	The Runner	The Runner	03:24
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Ian Thomas	Time is the Keeper	Glider	04:14
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Alanis Obomsawin	NBAW (Hush - Sleep)	Indian Songs	02:14
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	06:46
Rush	Fly by Night	Fly By Night	03:22
Mendelson Joe	Growing Pain	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	02:35
Etulu Etidlouie	Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:42
Otis Gayle	We All Need Love	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	03:43
Spirit of the West	The Rocks at Thieves Bay	ST	04:56
Kilt	Dylan's Ghost	Kilt	02:23
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
Payola$	Eyes of a Stranger	No Stranger to Danger	04:57
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
Bernie LaBarge	It's Real	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:43
Subhumans	Firing Squad	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:07
Freedom North	Fat Man	Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)	03:53
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Guido Basso	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	03:16
Stumpwater	Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	03:33
Robert Maciag	You Make Me Feel So Good	I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good	03:12
United Empire Loyalists	No, No, No	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	02:49
Plan Nine	I Ain't No Robot	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:36
Ashley MacIsaac	The Devil in the Kitchen	The Devil in the Kitchen b/w What an Idiot He Is (featuring Jale) (picture sleeve, clear blue vinyl)	02:26
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
L'infonie	I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel	Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel	02:00
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
Pursuit of Happiness	She's So Young	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	03:43
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Mushroom Band	Don't Come Down	Don't Come Down b/w Nobody	02:40
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home)	People Of The Ice	02:36
Joni Mitchell	Just Like This Train	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	04:24
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
Guess Who	Clock On The Wall	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	03:01
Mary Saxton	Sad Eyes	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	03:05
VLA (Vincent V.)	I Gave My Heart (Club Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	04:32
Ian Thomas	Long Long Way	Long Long Way	05:00
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part One)	I'm Alright	03:57
Subhumans	No Productivity	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:08
The Reaction	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Alanis Obomsawin	Shibi (River of Dreams)	Indian Songs	02:07
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
Copperpenny	Wine Song	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:04
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Jury	Please Forget Her	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:44
Wade Hemsworth	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Rush	Closer to the Heart	A Farewell to Kings	02:56
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
Dishrags	Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye)	Past Is Past (EP)	01:19
Patti Jannetta	Rules of Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:46
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Stiffs	Everyone Lies	The Stiffs	01:30
Don Jewitt	Northern Wind	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	03:06

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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Don Jewitt - Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses

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Jury - Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?

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Reign Ghost - Long Day Journey b/w Parable

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Doug And The Slugs - Too Bad b/w The Move

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Checkerlads - Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)

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Bum - A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day

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Diodes - Released

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Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) - Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues

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Don Norman & the Other Four - Low Man b/w Mustang Sally

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Slow - I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)

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Private School - Lost in Action (EP)

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