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
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Joni Mitchell	Big Yellow Taxi	Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)	02:15
Modern Minds	Theresa's World	Theresa's World (EP)	01:56
Subhumans	No Productivity	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:08
Bruce Cockburn	Lovers in a Dangerous Time	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:07
Pointed Sticks	I'm Numb	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:11
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Early Morning Rain	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:52
Jay Telfer	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	06:46
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
France Joli	Baby Don't Stop Dancing	Come to Me // Let Go	07:50
Stompin' Tom Connors	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Mary Saxton	Sad Eyes	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	03:05
Craig Farraway	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Freedom North	Fat Man	Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)	03:53
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Tiaras	Surprise!	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:25
Craig Farraway	After All	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	04:18
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
The Reaction	Waiting In Line	East End Rockers	04:51
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
Trooper	The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car	Two For The Show	03:00
Rod Williams & Super 8	War	War b/w War Version	03:16
Underworld	Bound	Bound b/w Go Away	03:15
Joni Mitchell	You Turn Me On I'm a Radio	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	02:39
Bruce Cockburn	If a Tree Falls	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	05:44
Mantra	San Francisco Morning	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	03:16
Rush	Closer to the Heart	A Farewell to Kings	02:56
Mendelson Joe	The Canada Song	No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song	03:14
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
Bonnie Dobson	Morning Dew	ST	03:20
Rush	Fly by Night	Fly By Night	03:22
Russ Little	Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas)	Deeper and Deeper	03:03
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Opening)	The Hockey Theme	00:56
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Anne Murray	Bidin' my time	This Way Is My Way	02:37
Mike Woods	Alberta	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	03:49
Debbie Myers	Strong Enough to Bend	Strong Enough to Bend	02:44
Dishrags	Tormented	Past Is Past (EP)	01:06
Lady	Whatever Happened to the Love	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	02:41
Willie Dunn	I Pity The Country	I Pity The Country b/w The Carver	02:55
Gentle Touch	One Way Ride	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:46
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	01:40
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
Copperpenny	Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	05:12
Nomeansno	Oh Canaduh	Oh Canaduh b/w New Age	01:59
Kilt	Fisherman's Blues	Kilt	03:50
Alanis Obomsawin	Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks)	Indian Songs	01:58
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
D.O.A.	Nazi Training Camp	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:50
Shawne Jackson	Just as Bad as You	Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man	02:33
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
Munks	Long Time Waiting	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:15
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Ian Thomas	Painted Ladies	ST	03:31
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
Pointed Sticks	Lies	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:37
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
The Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
Mighty Pope	Tower of Strength	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	03:01
Plan Nine	I Ain't No Robot	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:36
Midnight Angels	(I Wish) In the Moonlight	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	02:17
Copperpenny	Bad Manners	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:05
Mingles	No Train Tonight	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	02:28
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
Punkin Machine	I Need You Tonight	I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight	05:38
Stompin' Tom Connors	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
The Bed Time Story	Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott)	Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun	03:00
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
Witness Inc.	Visions of Vanessa	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:39
Anne Murray	Snowbird	This Way Is My Way	02:12
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
The Collectors	Lydia Purple	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	02:48
Media	Girl I Want You	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	04:20
Jerry Doucette	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
The Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age	03:20
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Theresa's World (EP)	01:42
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Guess Who	Clock On The Wall	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	03:01
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Evolution Expantion	Blow Up	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	02:39
Painted Ship	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld)	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:54
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back)	People Of The Ice	03:14
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	01:56
Willie Thrasher	Wolves Don't Live By The Rules	Spirit Child	02:16
Bernie LaBarge	It's Real	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:43

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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Tim Hus - Huskies & Huskvarnas

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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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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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