MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

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
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Monique Leyrac L'hiver Mon pays
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Alden Diehl Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Dolores Claman The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Winston Hewitt You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Gratitude We are Here to Party Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Trooper The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car Two For The Show
Jack Cornell Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Alden Diehl Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Alanis Obomsawin Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Ian Thomas The Runner The Runner
Bruce Cockburn If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Guido Basso Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Ian Thomas Time is the Keeper Glider
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Arthur Scammel R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
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)
Mary Saxton Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Stompin' Tom Connors Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
The Ugly Ducklings That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Sue Hansen Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
Alanis Obomsawin NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
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
Mary Saxton Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Patti Jannetta Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
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
Bruce Cockburn Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
L'infonie I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel
Guido Basso Anna’s Theme Put Your Hand in the Hand
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Bernie LaBarge Dream Away Dream Away b/w It's Real
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Anne Murray Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Gale Garnett We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
France Joli Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Arthur Scammel R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Élan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Theresa's World (EP)
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Tim Hus Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
Kilt Last Call Kilt
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)
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Mike Jones Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Al Oster Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Dick Damron Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Craig Farraway Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Rough Trade Highschool Confidential Avoid Freud
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Élan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Alanis Obomsawin Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Joni Mitchell Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Jay Telfer Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Bruce Cockburn Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Monique Leyrac Pendant que Mon pays
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Bruce Cockburn The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice

Lady - You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

The Hometown Band - Flying

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Tim Hus - Huskies & Huskvarnas

Nelson, British Columbia → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Lisa Lougheed - Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow

Etobicoke, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Kings - Switchin'

Vancouver, British Columbia; Oakville, Ontario

FEATURED

Charlie Russell - The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II

South Nelson, Miramichi → Woodstock, New Brunswick, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers - Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool

Cheraw, South Carolina, 🇺🇸 → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦 → Durham, North Carolina, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Fyre - David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges

Barrie, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights - That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Rush - Moving Pictures

Willowdale, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Rush - Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)

Willowdale, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Rush - Hemispheres

Willowdale, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Rush - A Farewell to Kings

Willowdale, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Rush - Fly By Night

Willowdale, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Sidewinders (1) - Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery

Zweibrücken, West Germany → Stoney Creek → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Jerry Doucette - The Deuce is Loose

Montréal, Québec → Hamilton → Toronto, Ontario → Vancouver → Tsawwassen, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Jerry Doucette - Mama Let Him Play

Montréal, Québec → Hamilton → Toronto, Ontario → Vancouver → Tsawwassen, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Teenage Head - Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)

Hamilton, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ocean - Put Your Hand in the Hand

London→Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Bob Williams - I'm Alright

Montego Bay, Jamaica → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Guido Basso - Put Your Hand in the Hand

Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

April Wine - Harder.....Faster

Halifax, Nova Scotia - Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Don Jewitt - Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses

Thunder Bay, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Jury - Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?

Winnipeg, Manitoba, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Reign Ghost - Long Day Journey b/w Parable

Oshawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Doug And The Slugs - Too Bad b/w The Move

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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

Regina, Saskatchewan, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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

Victoria, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Diodes - Released

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love

Lady - You're Still The One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love

Flying

Huskies & Huskvarnas

Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow

Lisa Lougheed (3)

Lisa Lougheed (2)

Lisa Lougheed (1)

45-Lisa Lougheed – Run With Us VINYL 02

Switchin'

Diodes' Paul Robinson @ Black Swan, Ottawa March 1978 courtesy Cameron Muir

The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II

Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool

David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges

That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)

Moving Pictures

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

First Impressions (EP)

Genetic Control

1985-02-17_Dead End + Genetic Control_Larry_s (Toronto)_ticket_+

Genetic Control_First Impressions_+

1980-07_DOA_Toronto_flyer

1983-01-03_DOA_Pier (Raleigh, NC)_flyer_+

1984-09-28_DOA + Abrasive Wheels + Battalion Of Saints + Killroy_Olympic Audit (LA, CA)_flyer_+

Rush – Moving Pictures (3)

Rush – Moving Pictures (2)

Rush – Moving Pictures (1)

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