MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

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
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Patti Jannetta Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Sue Hansen Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Jerry Doucette Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Mike Woods Alberta Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Stompin' Tom Connors Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Joni Mitchell Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Bruce Cockburn Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Lisa Lougheed Hold Back Tomorrow Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow
Ian Thomas Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
Alden Diehl Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Theresa's World (EP)
Alden Diehl Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Rush The Trees Hemispheres
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Stompin' Tom Connors The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Bernie LaBarge It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
Winston Hewitt You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Bruce Cockburn Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Rush Closer to the Heart A Farewell to Kings
Willie Thrasher Forefathers Spirit Child
The Reaction Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Etulu Etidlouie Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Russ Little Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Jack Cornell Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Etulu Etidlouie Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Élan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Punkin Machine I Need You Tonight I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight
Bob Williams I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Joni Mitchell Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Al Oster Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Alan Gerber Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
VLA (Vincent V.) We Won't Let Each Other Go (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Robert Maciag You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Monique Leyrac L'hiver Mon pays
Don Jewitt Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
k.d. lang High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Spirit of the West Save This House Save This House
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
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
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Wade Hemsworth The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
The Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Stompin' Tom Connors I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind

Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun

You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love

Lady - You're Still The One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love

Flying

Huskies & Huskvarnas

Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow

Lisa Lougheed (3)

Lisa Lougheed (2)

Lisa Lougheed (1)

45-Lisa Lougheed – Run With Us VINYL 02

Switchin'

Diodes' Paul Robinson @ Black Swan, Ottawa March 1978 courtesy Cameron Muir

The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II

Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool

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

That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)

Moving Pictures

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

First Impressions (EP)

Genetic Control

1985-02-17_Dead End + Genetic Control_Larry_s (Toronto)_ticket_+

Genetic Control_First Impressions_+

1980-07_DOA_Toronto_flyer

1983-01-03_DOA_Pier (Raleigh, NC)_flyer_+

1984-09-28_DOA + Abrasive Wheels + Battalion Of Saints + Killroy_Olympic Audit (LA, CA)_flyer_+

Rush – Moving Pictures (3)

Rush – Moving Pictures (2)

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