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
Joni Mitchell	You turn Me On, I'm a Radio	You turn Me On, I'm a Radio b/w Urge for Going (picture sleeve) (promo)	02:40
Mushroom Band	Don't Come Down	Don't Come Down b/w Nobody	02:40
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
Terry McManus	Carolyn (stereo)	Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)	02:40
Sphex	Time	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:49
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
Bells	Moody Manitoba Morning	Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning	03:15
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Copperpenny	Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	05:12
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Viletones	Screaming Fist	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:04
Munks	Long Time Waiting	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:15
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	Work Song	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:14
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
Bullrush	I Want To Be Set Free	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	03:14
Bruce Cockburn	Lovers in a Dangerous Time	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:07
Clint Ryan	Build Myself Around You	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	03:20
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Ian Thomas	Time is the Keeper	Glider	04:14
Bruce Cockburn	Maybe the Poet	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:53
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
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Media	Girl I Want You	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	04:20
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Alanis Obomsawin	Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War)	Indian Songs	02:02
Copperpenny	Taking My Heart	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:16
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
The Ugly Ducklings	That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind	Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)	02:43
Payola$	Eyes of a Stranger	No Stranger to Danger	04:57
Les Tallmud	Un Autre Ami	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:41
The Reaction	Waiting In Line	East End Rockers	04:51
Nomeansno	Oh Canaduh	Oh Canaduh b/w New Age	01:59
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
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
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:46
Shawne Jackson	Just as Bad as You	Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man	02:33
Crystal Castles	Dolls	Alice Practice	01:29
The Reaction	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
Pointed Sticks	I'm Numb	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:11
Mashmakhan	As The Years Go By	As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)	03:04
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Sea Cruise Blues	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	05:32
Mike Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
Stompin' Tom Connors	Canada Day Up Canada Way	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	02:37
Kilt	Dylan's Ghost	Kilt	02:23
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
The Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
Pursuit of Happiness	She's So Young	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	03:43
Rod Williams & Super 8	War	War b/w War Version	03:16
Lady	Whatever Happened to the Love	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	02:41
L'infonie	Come & Dance The OK LA!	Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel	03:04
The Reaction	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
D.O.A.	Nazi Training Camp	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:50
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Spirit of the West	Save This House	Save This House	02:55
Rush	Closer to the Heart	A Farewell to Kings	02:56
Painted Ship	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld)	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:54
United Empire Loyalists	No, No, No	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	02:49
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Kilt	Wrecker's Den	Kilt	02:38
Debbie Myers	Strong Enough to Bend	Strong Enough to Bend	02:44
Sugluk	Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	02:35
Reign Ghost	Parable	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	02:13
Stumpwater	Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	03:33
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
Jerry Doucette	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
Private School	I Wanna Know	Lost in Action (EP)	02:30
Saga	On The Loose	On The Loose b/w Framed	04:12
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
Rod Williams & Super 8	War Version	War b/w War Version	03:36
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Summer)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:43
Bruce Cockburn	Sahara Gold	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:34
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
Rush	Freewill	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	05:24
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
Al Oster	Midnight Sun Rock	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	01:47
Bureaucrats	Grown Up Age	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:35
Eddie Spencer	If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)	You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)	02:48
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Guido Basso	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Gratitude	Loving You	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:15
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Gypsy	The Market	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	02:30
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Élan	Freedom Song	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:41

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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Don Jewitt - Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses

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Jury - Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?

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Reign Ghost - Long Day Journey b/w Parable

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Doug And The Slugs - Too Bad b/w The Move

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