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
Gentle Touch	Visitors Parking Only	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:45
The Bureaucrats	Grown Up Age	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age	03:35
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Winston Hewitt	You're My Boopsie	You're My Boopsy	04:39
The Fringe	Plastic People	Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown	02:12
Lady	You're Still the One	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	03:04
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun)	People Of The Ice	02:53
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Copperpenny	Wine Song	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:04
Kilt	Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs	Kilt	03:33
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
Guido Basso	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Joni Mitchell	You turn Me On, I'm a Radio	You turn Me On, I'm a Radio b/w Urge for Going (picture sleeve) (promo)	02:40
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Together	Let Them In	02:50
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
The Munks	Long Time Waiting	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:15
The Modern Minds	Theresa's World	Theresa's World (EP)	01:56
Ironhorse	What's Your Hurry Darlin'	Everything is Grey	04:30
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part Two)	I'm Alright	03:43
Dick Damron	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02
Slow	I Broke The Circle	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:20
Anne-Marie Murray	The Streets of Old St. John's	The Streets of Old St. John's b/w Has Love Gone Out of Style	02:25
Ronnie Hawkins	Bo Didley	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:56
Northern Pikes	Teenland	Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)	04:01
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46
Trooper	Santa Maria	Two For The Show	02:56
Viletones	Screaming Fist	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:04
Midnight Angels	(I Wish) In the Moonlight	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	02:17
The Munks	Heartaches Over My Head	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:26
Anne Murray	Snowbird	This Way Is My Way	02:12
Thrills	Party Inside My Mind	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:38
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Rush	The Trees	Hemispheres	04:43
Terry McManus	Carolyn (stereo)	Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)	02:40
Etulu Etidlouie	Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:56
Kilt	Wrecker's Den	Kilt	02:38
Mendelson Joe	Oh Travene	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	03:41
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	06:46
The Reaction	On The Beach	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	05:58
Stiffs	Everyone Lies	The Stiffs	01:30
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Don Norman & the Other Four	Mustang Sally	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	03:22
The Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play)	People Of The Ice	02:18
Jerry Doucette	Mama Let Him Play	Mama Let Him Play	04:26
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
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	04:32
Private School	I Wanna Know	Lost in Action (EP)	02:30
Russ Little	I Want to Make it With You (David Gates)	Deeper and Deeper	02:46
Media	Endless Dream	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	03:19
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Try a Little Harder	Let Them In	02:42
Stiffs	Dad's a Pig	The Stiffs	01:31
Bruce Cockburn	The Gift	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	06:06
Mushroom Band	Don't Come Down	Don't Come Down b/w Nobody	02:40
Stompin' Tom Connors	I Am the Wind	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	03:35
The Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Anne Murray	I Just Fall in Love Again	New Kind of Feeling	02:49
Copperpenny	Bad Manners	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:05
Nomeansno	Oh Canaduh	Oh Canaduh b/w New Age	01:59
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Mary Saxton	Sad Eyes	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	03:05
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
The Subhumans	No Productivity	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:08
Etulu Etidlouie	Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:42
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
Marie Hodgins	Dance For The Sun God	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	01:50
Lisa Lougheed	Hold Back Tomorrow	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:18
Trans-X	Living On Video	Living On Video	05:56
Élan	Penticton Peaches	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:13
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
Jean Leloup	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	03:19
Craig Farraway	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34
Anne Murray	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
Etulu Etidlouie	Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:19
France Joli	Playboy	Come to Me // Let Go	08:02
United Empire Loyalists	Afraid of the Dark	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	01:59
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
Fyre	David's Song	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:03
The Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
Alanis Obomsawin	NBAW (Hush - Sleep)	Indian Songs	02:14
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	02:03
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	No Man Like My Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:42
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
The Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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Mary Saxton - Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart

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Mary Saxton - Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die

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The Modern Minds - Theresa's World (EP)

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The Collectors - Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)

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Kilt - Kilt

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Chilliwack - Lonesome Mary b/w Ridin'

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Craig Ruhnke - Give Me The Nightime b/w Give Me The Nightime (promo)

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Nomeansno - Oh Canaduh b/w New Age

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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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