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
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
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
Witness Inc.	Another Side Of Her	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:42
Stompin' Connors Tom	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Russ Little	Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little)	Deeper and Deeper	03:05
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
Don Jewitt	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
Dundas	Bloodshot in Your Eyes	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	02:43
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	01:37
Private School	Sci-Fi	Lost in Action (EP)	03:32
Pointed Sticks	I'm Numb	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:11
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Gypsy	The Market	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	02:30
Bernie LaBarge	Dream Away	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:48
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
Sidewinders (1)	Cryin' Heartache Misery	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:08
Bruce Cockburn	The Gift	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	06:06
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
Gratitude	We are Here to Party	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:17
Bruce Cockburn	If a Tree Falls	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	05:44
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
Élan	Freedom Song	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:41
Craig Farraway	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	01:40
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
Ron Baumber	Duncan and the Devil	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	02:52
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
Alanis Obomsawin	NBAW (Hush - Sleep)	Indian Songs	02:14
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Yvonne Moore	Hit & Run Lover	Hit & Run Lover	00:17
Pointed Sticks	Somebody's Mom	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	01:38
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
D.O.A.	Disco Sucks	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:39
Ocean	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Fyre	David's Song	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:03
Alan Gerber	Tied On	Tied On b/w Tied On	03:24
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ullulimat (I Think of You Always)	People Of The Ice	01:43
Tiaras	Foolish Girl	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:34
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Crystal Castles	Dolls	Alice Practice	01:29
Bruce Cockburn	Lovers in a Dangerous Time	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:07
Willie Thrasher	Silent Inuit	Spirit Child	04:36
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Jenny Rock	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Midnight Angels	(I Wish) In the Moonlight	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	02:17
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
Bruce Cockburn	Maybe the Poet	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:53
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
D.O.A.	Nazi Training Camp	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:50
Trans-X	Living On Video	Living On Video	05:56
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Sue Hansen	Sucking Up to You	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:24
Bruce Cockburn	If I Had a Rocket Launcher	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:58
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
Al Oster	Midnight Sun Rock	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	01:47
Viletones	Screaming Fist	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:04
Wade Hemsworth	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Anne Murray	I Just Fall in Love Again	New Kind of Feeling	02:49
George Olliver	Shine	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:13
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
Etulu Etidlouie	Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:19
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:46
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Stiffs	Dad's a Pig	The Stiffs	01:31
Private School	Money Guns and Power	Lost in Action (EP)	03:12
Munks	Heartaches Over My Head	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:26
Spirit of the West	The Rocks at Thieves Bay	ST	04:56
Kilt	Wrecker's Den	Kilt	02:38
Mushroom Band	Don't Come Down	Don't Come Down b/w Nobody	02:40
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Bullrush	I Want To Be Set Free	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	03:14
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	02:01
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Anne Murray	Bidin' my time	This Way Is My Way	02:37
Jim Ashby	Speed City (Acid Rock)	Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City	02:44
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
Patti Jannetta	Don't You Want My Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:26
The Ugly Ducklings	Nothin'	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	02:35
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	01:56
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
Otis Gayle	Sexy Eyes	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	04:12
Monique Leyrac	Pendant que	Mon pays	03:26
The Reaction	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Gale Garnett	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
Fyre	New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:42

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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Checkerlads - Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)

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Bum - A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day

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Diodes - Released

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Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) - Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues

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Don Norman & the Other Four - Low Man b/w Mustang Sally

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Slow - I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)

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Private School - Lost in Action (EP)

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