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
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
Ocean	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	Sweet Sweet Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:59
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
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:48
Private School	Money Guns and Power	Lost in Action (EP)	03:12
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun)	People Of The Ice	02:53
Punkin Machine	I Need You Tonight	I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight	05:38
Partland Brothers	Soul City	Electric Honey	03:52
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Try a Little Harder	Let Them In	02:42
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)	03:24
Bernie LaBarge	Dream Away	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:48
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
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
Clint Ryan	Build Myself Around You	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	03:20
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Lisa Lougheed	Hold Back Tomorrow	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:18
Twitch	Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	02:40
Rush	Limelight	Moving Pictures	04:19
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
Stompin' Tom Connors	I Am the Wind	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	03:35
Plan Nine	I Ain't No Robot	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:36
Lisa Lougheed	Run With Us	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:28
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
Don Jewitt	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
Trooper	The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car	Two For The Show	03:00
The Collectors	She (Will-O'-The Wind)	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	03:53
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Pluton and Humanoids	World Invaders	World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)	06:44
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
Willie Thrasher	Eskimo Named Johnny	Spirit Child	02:41
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Opening)	The Hockey Theme	00:56
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
Sphex	Time	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:49
George Olliver	Shine	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:13
The Ugly Ducklings	Nothin'	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	02:35
Joni Mitchell	Just Like This Train	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	04:24
Etulu Etidlouie	Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:19
Reign Ghost	Parable	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	02:13
Checkerlads	Shake Yourself Down	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:41
Bells	Stay Awhile	Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom	03:26
Pointed Sticks	Lies	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:37
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
Gentle Touch	One Way Ride	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:46
The Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
Rock and Roll Bitches	Someone Could Lose an Eye	Wild West (EP)	02:24
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
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
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
Mingles	No Train Tonight	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	02:28
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back)	People Of The Ice	03:14
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play)	People Of The Ice	02:18
Power of Beckett	Back to Me	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:37
Trooper	Two for the Show	Two For The Show	04:27
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
The Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
Jerry Doucette	Mama Let Him Play	Mama Let Him Play	04:26
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Jenny Rock	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
Tim Hus	Hurtin’ Albertan	Huskies & Huskvarnas	08:07
Monique Leyrac	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Alanis Obomsawin	Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War)	Indian Songs	02:02
Maurice & The Clichés	It's All Talk	C'est la vie	03:18
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
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
Marie Hodgins	Yesterday’s Dreams	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	02:38
Captain Tractor	The Last Saskatchewan Pirate	East of Edson	04:10
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
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
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
Sue Hansen	Sucking Up to You	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:24
Stiffs	Dad's a Pig	The Stiffs	01:31
Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:31
Pointed Sticks	Somebody's Mom	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	01:38
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
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
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	02:01
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
The Reaction	On The Beach	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	05:58
Bernie LaBarge	Can't Hold On Forever	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:24
Sugluk	Ballad of the Running Girl	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:11
Bullrush	I Want To Be Set Free	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	03:14
Stiffs	21st Century	The Stiffs	02:18
Willie Thrasher	Spirit Child	Spirit Child	04:05
D.O.A.	Nazi Training Camp	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:50
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
Minotaur	Witch-Hunt	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	04:19

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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

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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