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
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Early Morning Rain	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:52
Northern Pikes	Teenland	Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)	04:01
Rush	Limelight	Moving Pictures	04:19
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
Alanis Obomsawin	Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War)	Indian Songs	02:02
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
Fyre	New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:42
Private School	Money Guns and Power	Lost in Action (EP)	03:12
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let Them In	Let Them In	02:33
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
Spy's	Underground	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	03:18
Stompin' Tom Connors	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Bells	Moody Manitoba Morning	Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning	03:15
The Reaction	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Mashmakhan	As The Years Go By	As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)	03:04
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
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
Gypsy	The Market	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	02:30
The Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin'	Switchin'	06:17
Joni Mitchell	Big Yellow Taxi	Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)	02:15
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
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
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
Pointed Sticks	I'm Numb	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:11
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Dick Damron	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02
Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	03:50
Sphex	Time	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:49
Robert Maciag	You Make Me Feel So Good	I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good	03:15
Anne Murray	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
The Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Don Jewitt	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
The Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
Ian Thomas	Painted Ladies	ST	03:31
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Theresa's World (EP)	01:42
Stiffs	Dad's a Pig	The Stiffs	01:31
Monique Leyrac	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56
The Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age	03:20
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
Ian Thomas	Time is the Keeper	Glider	04:14
Payola$	Eyes of a Stranger	No Stranger to Danger	04:57
Gentle Touch	Visitors Parking Only	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:45
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
The Munks	Heartaches Over My Head	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:26
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
Private School	I Wanna Know	Lost in Action (EP)	02:30
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	No Man Like My Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:42
Mendelson Joe	Growing Pain	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	02:35
M.G. & the Escorts	Remembering	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:33
Sugluk	Ballad of the Running Girl	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:11
Élan	Penticton Peaches	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:13
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Lady	Whatever Happened to the Love	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	02:41
April Wine	Say Hello	Harder.....Faster	02:59
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	Work Song	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:14
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	Sweet Sweet Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:59
Ronnie Hawkins	Who Do You Love	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:41
Kilt	I Was Made for Loving You	Kilt	03:19
Patti Jannetta	Rules of Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:46
Rough Trade	Highschool Confidential	Avoid Freud	03:14
Bells	Stay Awhile	Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom	03:26
Thrills	Telephone	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:57
The Reaction	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
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
Modern Minds	Theresa's World	Theresa's World (EP)	01:56
Mushroom Band	Don't Come Down	Don't Come Down b/w Nobody	02:40
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	07:36
Copperpenny	Wine Song	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:04
Twitch	Things	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	03:37
Sidewinders (1)	Cryin' Heartache Misery	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:08
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Joni Mitchell	You Turn Me On I'm a Radio	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	02:39
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17
Gale Garnett	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
Mendelson Joe	Oh Travene	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	03:41
Rock and Roll Bitches	Welders Song	Wild West (EP)	02:34
Lisa Lougheed	Hold Back Tomorrow	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:18
Ronnie Hawkins	Bo Didley	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:56
Lisa Lougheed	Run With Us	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:28
George Olliver	I May Never Get to See You Again	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:38
Len	Steal My Sunshine	You Can't Stop the Bum Rush	04:25
Craig Farraway	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34
Bruce Cockburn	Lovers in a Dangerous Time	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:07
Ian Thomas	The Runner	The Runner	03:24
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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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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