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
Klaatu	Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft	3:47 EST	07:17
Roots Earth And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
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
Munks	Long Time Waiting	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:15
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
The Reaction	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
D.O.A.	Nazi Training Camp	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:50
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
Partland Brothers	Soul City	Electric Honey	03:52
Rod Williams & Super 8	War Version	War b/w War Version	03:36
Haunted	Eight O'Clock This Morning	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:20
Willie Thrasher	Silent Inuit	Spirit Child	04:36
Willie Thrasher	Eskimo Named Johnny	Spirit Child	02:41
D.O.A.	Disco Sucks	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:39
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
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
Underworld	Bound	Bound b/w Go Away	03:15
Guido Basso	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Crystal Castles	Dolls	Alice Practice	01:29
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Early Morning Rain	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:52
Dishrags	Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye)	Past Is Past (EP)	01:19
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	King Size	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:12
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
Kilt	Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs	Kilt	03:33
Mighty Pope	Tower of Strength	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	03:01
Stiffs	Everyone Lies	The Stiffs	01:30
Ashley MacIsaac	The Devil in the Kitchen	The Devil in the Kitchen b/w What an Idiot He Is (featuring Jale) (picture sleeve, clear blue vinyl)	02:26
Alanis Obomsawin	NBAW (Hush - Sleep)	Indian Songs	02:14
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Captain Tractor	The Last Saskatchewan Pirate	East of Edson	04:10
Fyre	New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:42
Stompin' Tom Connors	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
Dishrags	Past Is Past	Past Is Past (EP)	02:24
Stiffs	Fuck You	Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp	02:23
Stiffs	No Money	The Stiffs	01:26
Anne Murray	Snowbird	This Way Is My Way	02:12
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Theresa's World (EP)	01:42
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	07:36
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
Kilt	Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt	Kilt	04:28
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:31
Mingles	I'm Gonna Miss You	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	03:17
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
Les Tallmud	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
The Collectors	She (Will-O'-The Wind)	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	03:53
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Secret V's	Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold	No Life Like It (EP)	02:33
Pluton and Humanoids	World Invaders	World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)	06:44
George Olliver	I May Never Get to See You Again	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:38
Trooper	Two for the Show	Two For The Show	04:27
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back)	People Of The Ice	03:14
Mushroom Band	Don't Come Down	Don't Come Down b/w Nobody	02:40
The Reaction	Waiting In Line	East End Rockers	04:51
Plan Nine	Fatal Femme	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:20
Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
Ironhorse	What's Your Hurry Darlin'	Everything is Grey	04:30
Dundas	Bloodshot in Your Eyes	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	02:43
Etulu Etidlouie	Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:56
VLA (Vincent V.)	We Won't Let Each Other Go (Club Extended Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	06:17
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	When I Feel The Need For Love	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	06:33
Trooper	The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car	Two For The Show	03:00
Anne Murray	I Just Fall in Love Again	New Kind of Feeling	02:49
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	No Man Like My Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:42
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
Rough Trade	Highschool Confidential	Avoid Freud	03:14
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
Otis Gayle	We All Need Love	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	03:43
France Joli	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	01:37
Bruce Cockburn	Sahara Gold	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:34
The Ugly Ducklings	Just In Case You Wonder	Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)	02:28
Craig Farraway	After All	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	04:18
Mantra	Stay	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	02:57
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Sugluk	Ballad of the Running Girl	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:11
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Modern Minds	Theresa's World	Theresa's World (EP)	01:56
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Copperpenny	Taking My Heart	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:16
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
Terry McManus	Carolyn (stereo)	Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)	02:40
Bonnie Dobson	Morning Dew	ST	03:20
Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	01:40
Jack Cornell	Like the Clouds	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	03:27
Rush	Freewill	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	05:24
Pursuit of Happiness	She's So Young	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	03:43
Seeds of Time	Muskrat Rumble	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:48

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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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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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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