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
Mendelson Joe	Growing Pain	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	02:35
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
Mighty Pope	Tower of Strength	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	03:01
Mary Saxton	Sad Eyes	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	03:05
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
The Ugly Ducklings	Nothin'	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	02:35
Marie Hodgins	Dance For The Sun God	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	01:50
Bruce Cockburn	If a Tree Falls	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	05:44
Bells	Stay Awhile	Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom	03:26
Anne Murray	I Just Fall in Love Again	New Kind of Feeling	02:49
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17
Lady	You're Still the One	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	03:04
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
Rush	The Trees	Hemispheres	04:43
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let Them In	Let Them In	02:33
Dishrags	Tormented	Past Is Past (EP)	01:06
Lisa Lougheed	Run With Us	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:28
Plan Nine	Go	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:03
Stompin' Tom Connors	I Am the Wind	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	03:35
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Stompin' Tom Connors	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	Work Song	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:14
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
Winston Hewitt	You're My Boopsie	You're My Boopsy	04:39
Punkin Machine	I Need You Tonight	I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight	05:38
The Reaction	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Élan	Freedom Song	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:41
Spirit of the West	Save This House	Save This House	02:55
Bruce Cockburn	Maybe the Poet	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:53
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin'	Switchin'	06:17
Wade Hemsworth	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Plan Nine	Fatal Femme	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:20
Midnight Angels	(I Wish) In the Moonlight	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	02:17
Witness Inc.	Visions of Vanessa	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:39
Bells	Moody Manitoba Morning	Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning	03:15
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part Two)	I'm Alright	03:43
Jim Ashby	Speed City (Acid Rock)	Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City	02:44
Ron Baumber	Duncan and the Devil	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	02:52
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let's Get Together	Let Them In	02:04
Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Trooper	Santa Maria	Two For The Show	02:56
Spirit of the West	The Rocks at Thieves Bay	ST	04:56
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
Mantra	Stay	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	02:57
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	Baby I Love You	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:22
Jerry Doucette	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
Trans-X	Living On Video	Living On Video	05:56
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
The Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
Lady	Whatever Happened to the Love	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	02:41
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
Boys Brigade	The Passion of Love	ST	03:40
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
Underworld	Go Away	Bound b/w Go Away	02:49
Copperpenny	Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	05:12
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Alan Gerber	Tied On	Tied On b/w Tied On	03:24
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
The Reaction	Waiting In Line	East End Rockers	04:51
Stompin' Tom Connors	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers	Mr. Fortune	Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool	02:43
Checkerlads	Shake Yourself Down	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:41
Jenny Rock	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
Dundas	Bloodshot in Your Eyes	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	02:43
Monique Leyrac	Mon pays	Mon pays	03:11
Sue Hansen	Sucking Up to You	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:24
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
Twitch	Things	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	03:37
Kilt	South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel	Kilt	02:46
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
Mike Jones Group	Each and Every Day	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:18
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
Pointed Sticks	What Do You Want Me To Do?	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	02:27
Etulu Etidlouie	Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:27
Etulu Etidlouie	Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:56
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
Nomeansno	Oh Canaduh	Oh Canaduh b/w New Age	01:59
Willie Thrasher	Silent Inuit	Spirit Child	04:36
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Willie Dunn	I Pity The Country	I Pity The Country b/w The Carver	02:55
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Willie Thrasher	Wolves Don't Live By The Rules	Spirit Child	02:16
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun)	People Of The Ice	02:53
Secret V's	Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold	No Life Like It (EP)	02:33
Doug And The Slugs	The Move	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:47
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Triton Warrior	Sealed In a Grave	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:36
Fyre	David's Song	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:03
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	01:40

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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Tim Hus - Huskies & Huskvarnas

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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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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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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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