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
The Hometown Band	Flying	Flying	03:50
D.O.A.	Royal Police	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:14
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
Painted Ship	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld)	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:54
D.O.A.	Disco Sucks	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:39
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
France Joli	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
Reign Ghost	Parable	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	02:13
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Mendelson Joe	Oh Travene	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	03:41
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
Sphex	Time	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:49
Media	Girl I Want You	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	04:20
Anne Murray	I Just Fall in Love Again	New Kind of Feeling	02:49
Plan Nine	I Ain't No Robot	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:36
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
April Wine	Say Hello	Harder.....Faster	02:59
Munks	Long Time Waiting	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:15
Stiffs	21st Century	The Stiffs	02:18
Punkin Machine	I Need You Tonight	I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight	05:38
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:46
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
Underworld	Go Away	Bound b/w Go Away	02:49
Trooper	We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time)	Knock 'em Dead Kid	03:34
Russ Little	Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas)	Deeper and Deeper	03:03
Bruce Cockburn	Sahara Gold	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:34
D.O.A.	Nazi Training Camp	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:50
Modern Minds	Theresa's World	Theresa's World (EP)	01:56
Yvonne Moore	Hit & Run Lover	Hit & Run Lover	00:17
Gale Garnett	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:31
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
Triton Warrior	Satan's Train	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:08
Mingles	I'm Gonna Miss You	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	03:17
The Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
Alanis Obomsawin	Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War)	Indian Songs	02:02
Mike Jones Group	Each and Every Day	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:18
Élan	Penticton Peaches	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:13
Mendelson Joe	The Canada Song	No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song	03:14
Bernie LaBarge	It's Real	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:43
Kilt	Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt	Kilt	04:28
Tiaras	Surprise!	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:25
Seeds of Time	Muskrat Rumble	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:48
Twitch	Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	02:40
Haunted	Eight O'Clock This Morning	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:20
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
Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
Dundas	Bloodshot in Your Eyes	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	02:43
Etulu Etidlouie	Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:51
k.d. lang	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
Triton Warrior	Sealed In a Grave	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:36
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ullulimat (I Think of You Always)	People Of The Ice	01:43
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Stiffs	Everyone Lies	The Stiffs	01:30
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 & Sylvia Tyson	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich)	People Of The Ice	02:37
Expedition to Earth	Time Time Time	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:55
Guess Who	Clock On The Wall	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	03:01
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
Bells	Moody Manitoba Morning	Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning	03:15
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Gratitude	Loving You	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:15
Bureaucrats	Grown Up Age	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:35
A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:51
Twitch	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn)	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	02:58
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Jenny Rock	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
Bruce Cockburn	If a Tree Falls	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	05:44
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Thrills	Party Inside My Mind	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:38
Ronnie Hawkins	Who Do You Love	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:41
The Ugly Ducklings	Nothin'	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	02:35
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
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
Joe Kozak	Hillbilly Rock	Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me	01:48
Trooper	Two for the Show	Two For The Show	04:27
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
Anne Murray	Snowbird	This Way Is My Way	02:12
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
The Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
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
Mike Woods	Alberta	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	03:49
Gratitude	We are Here to Party	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:17
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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Spoons - After the Institution b/w My Job

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Boys Brigade - ST

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Jolly Tambourine Man - Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka

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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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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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