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
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17
Bum	A Promise Is A Promise	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:02
Boys Brigade	The Passion of Love	ST	03:40
Mighty Pope	Heaven on the Seventh Floor	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	02:46
Mike Jones Group	Each and Every Day	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:18
Ocean	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Northern Pikes	Teenland	Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)	04:01
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
The Reaction	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:48
Mike Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
k.d. lang	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let Them In	Let Them In	02:33
Mushroom Band	Don't Come Down	Don't Come Down b/w Nobody	02:40
Mingles	No Train Tonight	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	02:28
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
Shawne Jackson	Just as Bad as You	Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man	02:33
Private School	Money Guns and Power	Lost in Action (EP)	03:12
Bruce Cockburn	If a Tree Falls	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	05:44
The Subhumans	Firing Squad	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:07
Bullrush	I Want To Be Set Free	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	03:14
Bruce Cockburn	Incandescent Blue	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	04:38
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
Plan Nine	Go	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:03
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
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Copperpenny	Wine Song	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:04
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	02:01
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
Rabble	Golden Girl	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:04
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Jack Cornell	Like the Clouds	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	03:27
Willie Thrasher	Eskimo Named Johnny	Spirit Child	02:41
Jean Leloup	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	03:19
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin'	Switchin'	06:17
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
Élan	Freedom Song	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:41
Alan Gerber	Tied On	Tied On b/w Tied On	03:24
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
Joni Mitchell	Just Like This Train	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	04:24
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
Twitch	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn)	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	02:58
Bruce Cockburn	Wondering Where the Lions Are	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:42
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Summer)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:43
Midnight Angels	(I Wish) In the Moonlight	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	02:17
Pluton and Humanoids	World Invaders	World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)	06:44
Stumpwater	Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	04:06
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
Gratitude	We are Here to Party	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:17
Jay Telfer	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
Tim Hus	Hurtin’ Albertan	Huskies & Huskvarnas	08:07
Debbie Myers	Strong Enough to Bend	Strong Enough to Bend	02:44
Monique Leyrac	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56
The Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
The Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
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
Craig Farraway	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34
The Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Gentle Touch	One Way Ride	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:46
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
Pointed Sticks	What Do You Want Me To Do?	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	02:27
Freedom North	Fat Man	Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)	03:53
United Empire Loyalists	Afraid of the Dark	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	01:59
Reign Ghost	Parable	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	02:13
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let's Get Together	Let Them In	02:04
Jenny Rock	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Bernie LaBarge	Dream Away	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:48
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Try a Little Harder	Let Them In	02:42
k.d. lang	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	01:40
Trooper	Two for the Show	Two For The Show	04:27
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
Plan Nine	In Sympathy With Poland	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:08
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
Etulu Etidlouie	Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:19
Russ Little	I Want to Make it With You (David Gates)	Deeper and Deeper	02:46
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
D.O.A.	Royal Police	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:14
Anne Murray	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	06:46
Triton Warrior	Satan's Train	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:08
Payola$	Eyes of a Stranger	No Stranger to Danger	04:57
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Otis Gayle	We All Need Love	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	03:43
The Reaction	The Kid's Arrived	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	02:32
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
George Olliver	Shine	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:13
Dishrags	Tormented	Past Is Past (EP)	01:06

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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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)

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