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
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
The Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
Secret V's	Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold	No Life Like It (EP)	02:33
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
Pointed Sticks	I'm Numb	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:11
Stompin' Tom Connors	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	Baby I Love You	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:22
Mike Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
Mingles	I'm Gonna Miss You	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	03:17
Copperpenny	Taking My Heart	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:16
Saga	On The Loose	On The Loose b/w Framed	04:12
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back)	People Of The Ice	03:14
The Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age	03:20
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46
Trooper	Santa Maria	Two For The Show	02:56
Stiffs	Everyone Lies	The Stiffs	01:30
United Empire Loyalists	Afraid of the Dark	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	01:59
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Ironhorse	What's Your Hurry Darlin'	Everything is Grey	04:30
Anne Murray	Snowbird	This Way Is My Way	02:12
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
George Olliver	Shine	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:13
The Bureaucrats	Grown Up Age	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age	03:35
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Don Norman & the Other Four	Mustang Sally	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	03:22
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Ocean	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Élan	Penticton Peaches	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:13
Jerry Doucette	Mama Let Him Play	Mama Let Him Play	04:26
Lisa Lougheed	Hold Back Tomorrow	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:18
The Reaction	The Kid's Arrived	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	02:32
Willie Dunn	I Pity The Country	I Pity The Country b/w The Carver	02:55
Stiffs	No Money	The Stiffs	01:26
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
Pointed Sticks	Lies	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:37
Seeds of Time	Muskrat Rumble	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:48
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Yvonne Moore	Hit & Run Lover	Hit & Run Lover	00:17
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part Two)	I'm Alright	03:43
The Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
Wade Hemsworth	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Subhumans	No Productivity	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:08
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
Bruce Cockburn	The Gift	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	06:06
Rush	The Trees	Hemispheres	04:43
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Private School	Sci-Fi	Lost in Action (EP)	03:32
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	02:01
Élan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
Tiaras	Surprise!	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:25
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
Guess Who	Clock On The Wall	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	03:01
Craig Farraway	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34
Thrills	Party Inside My Mind	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:38
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Together	Let Them In	02:50
Painted Ship	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld)	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:54
Private School	I Wanna Know	Lost in Action (EP)	02:30
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Gratitude	We are Here to Party	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:17
Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
Willie Thrasher	Spirit Child	Spirit Child	04:05
Freedom North	Fat Man	Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)	03:53
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
Stiffs	21st Century	The Stiffs	02:18
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
Monique Leyrac	Pendant que	Mon pays	03:26
Stompin' Tom Connors	Canada Day Up Canada Way	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	02:37
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
Pursuit of Happiness	She's So Young	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	03:43
United Empire Loyalists	No, No, No	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	02:49
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Media	Girl I Want You	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	04:20
Alanis Obomsawin	NBAW (Hush - Sleep)	Indian Songs	02:14
Terry McManus	Carolyn (stereo)	Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)	02:40
Joni Mitchell	Just Like This Train	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	04:24
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ullulimat (I Think of You Always)	People Of The Ice	01:43
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
La Révolution Française	Québecois	Québecois	04:46
Trooper	The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car	Two For The Show	03:00
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Minotaur	Witch-Hunt	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	04:19
The Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Lady	Whatever Happened to the Love	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	02:41
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Stumpwater	Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	04:06
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
Jerry Doucette	Down The Road	Mama Let Him Play	03:35
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Bad Moon Rising	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	04:01
The Reaction	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
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

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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)

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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