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
Don Jewitt	Northern Wind	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	03:06
The Bureaucrats	Grown Up Age	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age	03:35
Rabble	Golden Girl	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:04
Chilliwack	Ridin'	Lonesome Mary b/w Ridin'	03:02
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
Anne Murray	Bidin' my time	This Way Is My Way	02:37
Les Tallmud	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
The Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Genèse	Je crois en moi	L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi	02:34
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
Stompin' Tom Connors	Canada Day Up Canada Way	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	02:37
France Joli	Let Go	Come to Me // Let Go	09:26
Spy's	Underground	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	03:18
k.d. lang	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
Copperpenny	Get Away	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:17
Stiffs	No Money	The Stiffs	01:26
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Bruce Cockburn	The Gift	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	06:06
Marie Hodgins	Dance For The Sun God	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	01:50
Stompin' Tom Connors	I Am the Wind	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	03:35
Rock and Roll Bitches	Welders Song	Wild West (EP)	02:34
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
The Reaction	On The Beach	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	05:58
Gentle Touch	Visitors Parking Only	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:45
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
Rush	Freewill	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	05:24
La Révolution Française	Québecois	Québecois	04:46
Viletones	Possibilities	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:32
George Olliver	Shine	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:13
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part One)	I'm Alright	03:57
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
The Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
Copperpenny	Taking My Heart	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:16
Northern Pikes	Teenland	Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)	04:01
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Sea Cruise Blues	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	05:32
Slow	I Broke The Circle	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:20
Midnight Angels	(I Wish) In the Moonlight	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	02:17
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Rough Trade	Highschool Confidential	Avoid Freud	03:14
Otis Gayle	Sexy Eyes	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	04:12
Ironhorse	What's Your Hurry Darlin'	Everything is Grey	04:30
Ocean	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Theresa's World (EP)	01:42
A Passing Fancy	A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:37
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Bells	Stay Awhile	Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom	03:26
Mashmakhan	As The Years Go By	As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)	03:04
Wade Hemsworth	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
M.G. & the Escorts	A Someday Fool	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:37
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
Tiaras	Surprise!	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:25
Ian Thomas	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
Kilt	Dylan's Ghost	Kilt	02:23
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home)	People Of The Ice	02:36
Stiffs	Fuck You	Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp	02:23
United Empire Loyalists	Afraid of the Dark	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	01:59
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
Sugluk	Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	02:41
Alanis Obomsawin	Nookum (Reflections of an Elder)	Indian Songs	01:48
The Fringe	Plastic People	Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown	02:12
Rush	Limelight	Moving Pictures	04:19
Ian Thomas	Painted Ladies	ST	03:31
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Bruce Cockburn	If I Had a Rocket Launcher	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:58
Eddie Spencer	You're So Good to Me Baby	You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)	02:36
Terry McManus	Carolyn (stereo)	Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)	02:40
Kilt	Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs	Kilt	03:33
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
Plan Nine	In Sympathy With Poland	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:08
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
Alanis Obomsawin	Shibi (River of Dreams)	Indian Songs	02:07
Monique Leyrac	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56
Bernie LaBarge	Dream Away	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:48
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
Bonnie Dobson	Morning Dew	ST	03:20
Bernie LaBarge	Annie	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:52
Thrills	Telephone	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:57
Don Jewitt	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
Élan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
The Ugly Ducklings	Nothin'	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	02:35
Sugluk	Ballad of the Running Girl	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:11
Ron Baumber	Keep it On the Tracks	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	03:08
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	03:24
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
Rush	Closer to the Heart	A Farewell to Kings	02:56
The Subhumans	No Productivity	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:08
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let Them In	Let Them In	02:33

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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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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