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
Boys Brigade	The Passion of Love	ST	03:40
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Pointed Sticks	What Do You Want Me To Do?	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	02:27
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Etulu Etidlouie	Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:27
Stiffs	Homesick	The Stiffs	01:02
Mary Saxton	Losing Control	Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die	02:04
Lisa Lougheed	Run With Us	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:28
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ullulimat (I Think of You Always)	People Of The Ice	01:43
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
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
Mike Woods	Alberta	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	03:49
Patti Jannetta	Don't You Want My Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:26
Midnight Angels	(I Wish) In the Moonlight	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	02:17
Underworld	Bound	Bound b/w Go Away	03:15
Mendelson Joe	Oh Travene	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	03:41
The Reaction	The Kid's Arrived	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	02:32
Spy's	Underground	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	03:18
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Summer)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:43
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
Plan Nine	Go	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:03
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	No Man Like My Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:42
Anne Murray	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
Wade Hemsworth	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Willie Dunn	I Pity The Country	I Pity The Country b/w The Carver	02:55
Willie Thrasher	Silent Inuit	Spirit Child	04:36
D.O.A.	Nazi Training Camp	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:50
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
M.G. & the Escorts	Remembering	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:33
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
Élan	Penticton Peaches	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:13
Demics	New York City	New York City b/w Blue Boy	04:32
Pointed Sticks	Lies	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:37
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
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
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Monique Leyrac	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56
Painted Ship	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld)	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:54
April Wine	Say Hello	Harder.....Faster	02:59
Jerry Doucette	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Try a Little Harder	Let Them In	02:42
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
The Reaction	On The Beach	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	05:58
Sue Hansen	Sucking Up to You	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:24
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
The Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
Dishrags	Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye)	Past Is Past (EP)	01:19
Reign Ghost	Parable	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	02:13
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Mushroom Band	Don't Come Down	Don't Come Down b/w Nobody	02:40
A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:51
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Jerry Doucette	Down The Road	Mama Let Him Play	03:35
Freedom North	Fat Man	Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)	03:53
Joni Mitchell	Help Me	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	03:22
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
Stompin' Tom Connors	Canada Day Up Canada Way	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	02:37
Mendelson Joe	Growing Pain	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	02:35
Copperpenny	Where is the Answer	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	04:20
Punkin Machine	I Need You Tonight	I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight	05:38
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Rod Williams & Super 8	War Version	War b/w War Version	03:36
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
The Munks	Heartaches Over My Head	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:26
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Theresa's World (EP)	01:42
George Olliver	I May Never Get to See You Again	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:38
Rush	Closer to the Heart	A Farewell to Kings	02:56
Don Jewitt	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
Tiaras	Foolish Girl	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:34
Stompin' Tom Connors	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Don Jewitt	Northern Wind	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	03:06
Underworld	Go Away	Bound b/w Go Away	02:49
Media	Endless Dream	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	03:19
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
Guido Basso	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Stumpwater	Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	04:06
Saga	On The Loose	On The Loose b/w Framed	04:12
Private School	I Wanna Know	Lost in Action (EP)	02:30
Plan Nine	Fatal Femme	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:20
The Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
The Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
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
Ian Thomas	The Runner	The Runner	03:24
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
Plan Nine	I Ain't No Robot	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:36
Private School	Money Guns and Power	Lost in Action (EP)	03:12
Klaatu	Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft	3:47 EST	07:17
Tiaras	Surprise!	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:25
Power of Beckett	Back to Me	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:37
Payola$	Eyes of a Stranger	No Stranger to Danger	04:57
Stompin' Tom Connors	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Ronnie Hawkins	Who Do You Love	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:41
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Craig Farraway	After All	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	04:18

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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Kilt - Kilt

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Chilliwack - Lonesome Mary b/w Ridin'

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Craig Ruhnke - Give Me The Nightime b/w Give Me The Nightime (promo)

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Nomeansno - Oh Canaduh b/w New Age

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Russ Little - Deeper and Deeper

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Plan Nine - I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)

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222's - La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) b/w La poupee qui fait non (version instrumentale)

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Robert Maciag - I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good

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Tim Hus - Huskies & Huskvarnas

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The Munks - Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head

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The Haunted - 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning

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Len - You Can't Stop the Bum Rush

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Maurice & The Clichés - C'est la vie

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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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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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