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
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Al Oster	Midnight Sun Rock	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	01:47
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	01:37
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Painted Ship	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld)	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:54
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
Roots Earth And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
Anne Murray	Bidin' my time	This Way Is My Way	02:37
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Bruce Cockburn	The Gift	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	06:06
Russ Little	Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas)	Deeper and Deeper	03:03
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	06:46
Punkin Machine	I Need You Tonight	I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight	05:38
Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
France Joli	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
Munks	Heartaches Over My Head	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:26
Copperpenny	Wine Song	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:04
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play)	People Of The Ice	02:18
Sphex	Time	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:49
Ironhorse	What's Your Hurry Darlin'	Everything is Grey	04:30
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:31
Bullrush	I Want To Be Set Free	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	03:14
Lady	Whatever Happened to the Love	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love	02:41
Etulu Etidlouie	Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:27
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ullulimat (I Think of You Always)	People Of The Ice	01:43
Pointed Sticks	What Do You Want Me To Do?	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	02:27
The Fringe	Plastic People	Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown	02:12
Gratitude	Loving You	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:15
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
France Joli	Baby Don't Stop Dancing	Come to Me // Let Go	07:50
Russ Little	Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little)	Deeper and Deeper	03:05
Copperpenny	Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	05:12
D.O.A.	Nazi Training Camp	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:50
Ronnie Hawkins	Bo Didley	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:56
Rush	Circumstances	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	03:44
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
Private School	Money Guns and Power	Lost in Action (EP)	03:12
Plan Nine	Fatal Femme	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:20
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Secret V's	Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold	No Life Like It (EP)	02:33
Etulu Etidlouie	Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:51
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home)	People Of The Ice	02:36
Twitch	Things	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	03:37
Expedition to Earth	Time Time Time	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:55
Reign Ghost	Parable	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	02:13
Willie Thrasher	Wolves Don't Live By The Rules	Spirit Child	02:16
The Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
Élan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
M.G. & the Escorts	A Someday Fool	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:37
Sugluk	Ballad of the Running Girl	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:11
Subhumans	No Productivity	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:08
Ron Baumber	Duncan and the Devil	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	02:52
Alan Gerber	Tied On	Tied On b/w Tied On	03:24
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
Guido Basso	Anna’s Theme	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:47
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Slow	I Broke The Circle	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:20
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
Mike Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
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
Dick Damron	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46
Kilt	Dylan's Ghost	Kilt	02:23
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Mighty Pope	Heaven on the Seventh Floor	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	02:46
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
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
Twitch	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn)	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	02:58
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	03:50
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
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
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
VLA (Vincent V.)	We Won't Let Each Other Go (Club Extended Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	06:17
Midnight Angels	(I Wish) In the Moonlight	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	02:17
United Empire Loyalists	No, No, No	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	02:49
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
Rush	Fly by Night	Fly By Night	03:22
Trooper	Santa Maria	Two For The Show	02:56
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
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
Evolution Expantion	Blow Up	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	02:39
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
Stompin' Connors Tom	I Am the Wind	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	03:35

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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