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
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)
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Bonnie Dobson Morning Dew ST
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Ian & Sylvia Tyson Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Mingles I'm Gonna Miss You I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Anne Murray I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Rush The Trees Hemispheres
Ian Thomas Time is the Keeper Glider
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Don Jewitt Northern Wind Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Les Tallmud Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Craig Farraway Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Guido Basso Anna’s Theme Put Your Hand in the Hand
Willie Thrasher Forefathers Spirit Child
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
k.d. lang Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Ian & Sylvia Tyson Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Élan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Don Norman & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Stompin' Connors Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Élan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Wade Hemsworth The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Willie Thrasher Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Rough Trade Highschool Confidential Avoid Freud
The Reaction Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
k.d. lang High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Patti Jannetta Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Dolores Claman The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Etulu Etidlouie Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Stiffs Homesick The Stiffs
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Jay Telfer Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Joe Kozak Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Clint Ryan It Hurts to be Lonely It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Etulu Etidlouie Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Kilt Fisherman's Blues Kilt
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Shawne Jackson Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
Russ Little Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Mary Saxton Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Rush Tom Sawyer Moving Pictures
Alanis Obomsawin NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
Mike Jones Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Jack Cornell Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Rush Freewill Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)
Lisa Lougheed Hold Back Tomorrow Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Russ Little Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
The Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Charlie Russell The Bricklin II The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II
Alden Diehl Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In

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)

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

Paula Turnhbull - Rush fromt cover model

Rush - Permanent Waves (Dewey Defeats Truman, Coca Cola signs) (5)

Rush - Permanent Waves (Dewey Defeats Truman, Coca Cola signs) (3)

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