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
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
Genèse	Je crois en moi	L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi	02:34
Kilt	Wrecker's Den	Kilt	02:38
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:46
Plan Nine	I Ain't No Robot	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:36
Viletones	Screaming Fist	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:04
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Stompin' Connors Tom	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Stumpwater	Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	04:06
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Jack Cornell	Like the Clouds	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	03:27
Etulu Etidlouie	Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:29
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
France Joli	Let Go	Come to Me // Let Go	09:26
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Underworld	Bound	Bound b/w Go Away	03:15
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
Russ Little	I Want to Make it With You (David Gates)	Deeper and Deeper	02:46
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
Willie Thrasher	Spirit Child	Spirit Child	04:05
Bruce Cockburn	The Gift	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	06:06
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	01:37
Rock and Roll Bitches	Someone Could Lose an Eye	Wild West (EP)	02:24
Rough Trade	Highschool Confidential	Avoid Freud	03:14
Mingles	I'm Gonna Miss You	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	03:17
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home)	People Of The Ice	02:36
George Olliver	I May Never Get to See You Again	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:38
Twitch	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn)	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	02:58
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Winter)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:53
Mary Saxton	Losing Control	Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die	02:04
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	07:36
The Reaction	On The Beach	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	05:58
Rush	Closer to the Heart	A Farewell to Kings	02:56
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
Patti Jannetta	Don't You Want My Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:26
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Etulu Etidlouie	Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:51
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Alan Gerber	Tied On	Tied On b/w Tied On	03:24
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Les Tallmud	Un Autre Ami	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:41
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Rush	Circumstances	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	03:44
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Gypsy	The Market	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	02:30
Twitch	Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	02:40
Mushroom Band	Don't Come Down	Don't Come Down b/w Nobody	02:40
Modern Minds	Theresa's World	Theresa's World (EP)	01:56
Nite Life	What's On Your Mind	What's On Your Mind b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)	03:46
Ian Thomas	Long Long Way	Long Long Way	05:00
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
Witness Inc.	Another Side Of Her	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:42
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Bullrush	I Want To Be Set Free	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	03:14
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play)	People Of The Ice	02:18
Jim Ashby	Speed City (Acid Rock)	Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City	02:44
Mendelson Joe	Oh Travene	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	03:41
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	01:56
Collectors	Lydia Purple	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	02:48
Spy's	Underground	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	03:18
Jerry Doucette	Mama Let Him Play	Mama Let Him Play	04:26
The Reaction	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Stiffs	Fuck You	Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp	02:23
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
The Ugly Ducklings	Nothin'	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	02:35
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
Thrills	Party Inside My Mind	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:38
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	King Size	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:12
Marie Hodgins	Dance For The Sun God	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	01:50
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin II	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:59
D.O.A.	Nazi Training Camp	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:50
Don Jewitt	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
Guido Basso	Anna’s Theme	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:47
Demics	New York City	New York City b/w Blue Boy	04:32
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
Ian Thomas	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
Willie Thrasher	Eskimo Named Johnny	Spirit Child	02:41
Jerry Doucette	Down The Road	Mama Let Him Play	03:35
Stiffs	Everyone Lies	The Stiffs	01:30
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
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
Bonnie Dobson	Morning Dew	ST	03:20
Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:20
Bruce Cockburn	If a Tree Falls	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	05:44
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part One)	I'm Alright	03:57
Tiaras	Surprise!	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:25
Willie Thrasher	Wolves Don't Live By The Rules	Spirit Child	02:16
Anne Murray	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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)

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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