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
Rock and Roll Bitches	Welders Song	Wild West (EP)	02:34
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	07:36
The Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
Alanis Obomsawin	Shibi (River of Dreams)	Indian Songs	02:07
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
Jury	Please Forget Her	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:44
Partland Brothers	Soul City	Electric Honey	03:52
The Collectors	She (Will-O'-The Wind)	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	03:53
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Ron Baumber	Keep it On the Tracks	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	03:08
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Rush	Circumstances	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	03:44
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Try a Little Harder	Let Them In	02:42
Mantra	Stay	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	02:57
Marie Hodgins	Dance For The Sun God	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	01:50
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
Etulu Etidlouie	Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:51
Mighty Pope	Tower of Strength	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	03:01
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
Willie Thrasher	Spirit Child	Spirit Child	04:05
Payola$	Eyes of a Stranger	No Stranger to Danger	04:57
Freedom North	Fat Man	Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)	03:53
Tiaras	Surprise!	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:25
Crystal Castles	Love and Caring	Alice Practice	02:18
Guido Basso	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Ian Thomas	The Runner	The Runner	03:24
Willie Dunn	I Pity The Country	I Pity The Country b/w The Carver	02:55
Stompin' Tom Connors	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
Kilt	South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel	Kilt	02:46
The Reaction	Waiting In Line	East End Rockers	04:51
VLA (Vincent V.)	I Gave My Heart (Club Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	04:32
Anne Murray	Bidin' my time	This Way Is My Way	02:37
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part One)	I'm Alright	03:57
A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:51
Willie Thrasher	Wolves Don't Live By The Rules	Spirit Child	02:16
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
L'infonie	I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel	Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel	02:00
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
Wade Hemsworth	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
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
Élan	Penticton Peaches	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:13
Kilt	The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe	Kilt	03:18
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
France Joli	Baby Don't Stop Dancing	Come to Me // Let Go	07:50
United Empire Loyalists	Afraid of the Dark	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	01:59
Alanis Obomsawin	NBAW (Hush - Sleep)	Indian Songs	02:14
Slow	I Broke The Circle	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:20
Northern Pikes	Teenland	Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)	04:01
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
Thrills	Telephone	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:57
The Reaction	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)	03:24
Élan	Freedom Song	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:41
Craig Farraway	After All	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	04:18
Len	Steal My Sunshine	You Can't Stop the Bum Rush	04:25
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	Work Song	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:14
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	06:46
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
Dishrags	Past Is Past	Past Is Past (EP)	02:24
Dundas	Bloodshot in Your Eyes	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	02:43
Bernie LaBarge	Dream Away	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:48
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
Bernie LaBarge	Annie	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:52
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back)	People Of The Ice	03:14
Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	03:50
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
Trooper	We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time)	Knock 'em Dead Kid	03:34
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Plan Nine	Fatal Femme	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:20
Rush	Limelight	Moving Pictures	04:19
The Bed Time Story	Feel the Sun	Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun	02:21
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Bruce Cockburn	Maybe the Poet	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:53
D.O.A.	Nazi Training Camp	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:50
Plan Nine	In Sympathy With Poland	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:08
France Joli	Let Go	Come to Me // Let Go	09:26
Stiffs	Dad's a Pig	The Stiffs	01:31
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	02:01
Terry McManus	Carolyn (stereo)	Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)	02:40
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Stompin' Tom Connors	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Stiffs	Homesick	The Stiffs	01:02
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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

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