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
Debbie Myers	Strong Enough to Bend	Strong Enough to Bend	02:44
The Collectors	She (Will-O'-The Wind)	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	03:53
Viletones	Screaming Fist	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:04
United Empire Loyalists	Afraid of the Dark	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	01:59
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Gypsy	The Market	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	02:30
Joni Mitchell	Help Me	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	03:22
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Try a Little Harder	Let Them In	02:42
Rough Trade	Highschool Confidential	Avoid Freud	03:14
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Pursuit of Happiness	She's So Young	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	03:43
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Sea Cruise Blues	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	05:32
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Painted Ship	I Told Those Little White Lies	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:39
k.d. lang	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
Demics	New York City	New York City b/w Blue Boy	04:32
Dishrags	Tormented	Past Is Past (EP)	01:06
France Joli	Playboy	Come to Me // Let Go	08:02
Evolution Expantion	Blow Up	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	02:39
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	07:36
Don Norman & the Other Four	Mustang Sally	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	03:22
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ullulimat (I Think of You Always)	People Of The Ice	01:43
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
Bells	Stay Awhile	Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom	03:26
Power of Beckett	Back to Me	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:37
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
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	04:43
Checkerlads	Shake Yourself Down	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:41
Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:20
Anne Murray	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Bureaucrats	Grown Up Age	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:35
Partland Brothers	Soul City	Electric Honey	03:52
Anne Murray	I Just Fall in Love Again	New Kind of Feeling	02:49
Kilt	I Was Made for Loving You	Kilt	03:19
Spirit of the West	The Rocks at Thieves Bay	ST	04:56
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Ian Thomas	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
Robert Maciag	You Make Me Feel So Good	I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good	03:12
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play)	People Of The Ice	02:18
Copperpenny	Taking My Heart	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:16
Monique Leyrac	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers	Mr. Fortune	Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool	02:43
Alanis Obomsawin	Nookum (Reflections of an Elder)	Indian Songs	01:48
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
Dundas	Can't You Hear Me	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	06:01
Copperpenny	Where is the Answer	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	04:20
Joni Mitchell	Big Yellow Taxi	Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)	02:15
Bruce Cockburn	Incandescent Blue	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	04:38
Captain Tractor	The Last Saskatchewan Pirate	East of Edson	04:10
Willie Dunn	I Pity The Country	I Pity The Country b/w The Carver	02:55
Mantra	Stay	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	02:57
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Clint Ryan	Build Myself Around You	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	03:20
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Triton Warrior	Satan's Train	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:08
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
Payola$	Eyes of a Stranger	No Stranger to Danger	04:57
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Theresa's World (EP)	01:42
M.G. & the Escorts	A Someday Fool	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:37
Willie Thrasher	Wolves Don't Live By The Rules	Spirit Child	02:16
Rush	The Spirit of Radio	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	04:59
Mike Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
Jerry Doucette	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
Viletones	Possibilities	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:32
Marie Hodgins	Dance For The Sun God	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	01:50
Plan Nine	In Sympathy With Poland	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:08
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
Ironhorse	What's Your Hurry Darlin'	Everything is Grey	04:30
Élan	Penticton Peaches	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:13
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Subhumans	Firing Squad	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:07
Jury	Please Forget Her	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:44
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Opening)	The Hockey Theme	00:56
Thrills	Telephone	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:57
Witness Inc.	Another Side Of Her	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:42
Ron Baumber	Keep it On the Tracks	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	03:08
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	01:40
Mendelson Joe	The Canada Song	No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song	03:14
Saga	On The Loose	On The Loose b/w Framed	04:12
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
Bonnie Dobson	Morning Dew	ST	03:20
Willie Thrasher	Spirit Child	Spirit Child	04:05
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
Rush	Closer to the Heart	A Farewell to Kings	02:56
Alanis Obomsawin	Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks)	Indian Songs	01:58

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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