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
Ian Thomas	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
Bruce Cockburn	If I Had a Rocket Launcher	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:58
Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	03:50
France Joli	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun)	People Of The Ice	02:53
Rock and Roll Bitches	Welders Song	Wild West (EP)	02:34
Crystal Castles	Love and Caring	Alice Practice	02:18
Willie Thrasher	Wolves Don't Live By The Rules	Spirit Child	02:16
Ian Thomas	Time is the Keeper	Glider	04:14
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
Pointed Sticks	Somebody's Mom	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	01:38
Kilt	Dylan's Ghost	Kilt	02:23
Russ Little	Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas)	Deeper and Deeper	03:03
Bells	Stay Awhile	Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom	03:26
Joni Mitchell	Just Like This Train	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	04:24
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Together	Let Them In	02:50
Stiffs	Homesick	The Stiffs	01:02
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Mighty Pope	Tower of Strength	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	03:01
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Winston Hewitt	You're My Boopsie	You're My Boopsy	04:39
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
Dick Damron	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
Alanis Obomsawin	Shibi (River of Dreams)	Indian Songs	02:07
Subhumans	No Productivity	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:08
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Pointed Sticks	Lies	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:37
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Russ Little	Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little)	Deeper and Deeper	03:05
Slow	I Broke The Circle	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:20
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
April Wine	Say Hello	Harder.....Faster	02:59
k.d. lang	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
Expedition to Earth	Time Time Time	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:55
Stiffs	Fuck You	Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp	02:23
Alanis Obomsawin	Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks)	Indian Songs	01:58
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play)	People Of The Ice	02:18
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Sea Cruise Blues	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	05:32
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
United Empire Loyalists	Afraid of the Dark	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	01:59
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
Tiaras	Foolish Girl	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:34
Bernie LaBarge	It's Real	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:43
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
Rock and Roll Bitches	Someone Could Lose an Eye	Wild West (EP)	02:24
Craig Farraway	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
The Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
Gentle Touch	One Way Ride	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:46
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Winter)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:53
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
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
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
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin II	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:59
Bruce Cockburn	Maybe the Poet	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:53
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	When I Feel The Need For Love	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	06:33
Stompin' Tom Connors	Canada Day Up Canada Way	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	02:37
Bruce Cockburn	Lovers in a Dangerous Time	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:07
France Joli	Let Go	Come to Me // Let Go	09:26
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Private School	Money Guns and Power	Lost in Action (EP)	03:12
Debbie Myers	Strong Enough to Bend	Strong Enough to Bend	02:44
Mushroom Band	Don't Come Down	Don't Come Down b/w Nobody	02:40
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
Bernie LaBarge	Dream Away	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:48
Copperpenny	You're Still the One	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:29
Jay Telfer	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
Jerry Doucette	Down The Road	Mama Let Him Play	03:35
D.O.A.	Royal Police	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:14
Guido Basso	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Al Oster	Midnight Sun Rock	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	01:47
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
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
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Nomeansno	Oh Canaduh	Oh Canaduh b/w New Age	01:59
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Gale Garnett	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
Stiffs	21st Century	The Stiffs	02:18
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin'	Switchin'	06:17
Anne Murray	Snowbird	This Way Is My Way	02:12
Captain Tractor	The Last Saskatchewan Pirate	East of Edson	04:10
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	No Man Like My Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:42
Rabble	Golden Girl	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:04
Kilt	The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe	Kilt	03:18
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
Boys Brigade	The Passion of Love	ST	03:40
Saga	On The Loose	On The Loose b/w Framed	04:12
A Passing Fancy	A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:37
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
The Ugly Ducklings	Nothin'	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	02:35

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

FEATURED

Spoons - After the Institution b/w My Job

FEATURED

Boys Brigade - ST

FEATURED

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

FEATURED

The Gruesomes - Hey!

FEATURED

Dolores Claman - The Hockey Theme

FEATURED

Sloan - Underwhelmed (promo)

FEATURED

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

FEATURED

The Hometown Band - Flying

FEATURED

Tim Hus - Huskies & Huskvarnas

FEATURED

Lisa Lougheed - Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow

FEATURED

Kings - Switchin'

FEATURED

Charlie Russell - The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II

FEATURED

Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers - Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool

FEATURED

Fyre - David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges

FEATURED

Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights - That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)

Rush - Moving Pictures

FEATURED

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

FEATURED

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

FEATURED

Rush - Hemispheres

FEATURED

Rush - A Farewell to Kings

FEATURED

Rush - Fly By Night

FEATURED

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

FEATURED

Jerry Doucette - The Deuce is Loose

FEATURED

Jerry Doucette - Mama Let Him Play

FEATURED

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

FEATURED

Ocean - Put Your Hand in the Hand

FEATURED

Bob Williams - I'm Alright

FEATURED

Guido Basso - Put Your Hand in the Hand

FEATURED

April Wine - Harder.....Faster

Comments