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
Bullrush	I Want To Be Set Free	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	03:14
Russ Little	Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little)	Deeper and Deeper	03:05
The Fringe	Plastic People	Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown	02:12
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Guido Basso	Anna’s Theme	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:47
Élan	Penticton Peaches	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:13
Bonnie Dobson	Morning Dew	ST	03:20
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	King Size	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:12
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Les Tallmud	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
Dick Damron	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Winter)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:53
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
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)	02:36
Copperpenny	Taking My Heart	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:16
Stompin' Tom Connors	I Am the Wind	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	03:35
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Stiffs	Dad's a Pig	The Stiffs	01:31
Dishrags	Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye)	Past Is Past (EP)	01:19
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	06:46
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
Kilt	Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs	Kilt	03:33
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Craig Farraway	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34
The Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
Kilt	The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe	Kilt	03:18
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
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
Bells	Moody Manitoba Morning	Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning	03:15
Bruce Cockburn	If I Had a Rocket Launcher	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:58
Stiffs	Fuck You	Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp	02:23
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Plan Nine	Go	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:03
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Private School	I Wanna Know	Lost in Action (EP)	02:30
Don Jewitt	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let's Get Together	Let Them In	02:04
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin II	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:59
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
France Joli	Playboy	Come to Me // Let Go	08:02
Payola$	Eyes of a Stranger	No Stranger to Danger	04:57
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
Reign Ghost	Parable	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	02:13
Mingles	I'm Gonna Miss You	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	03:17
Mendelson Joe	Growing Pain	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	02:35
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part One)	I'm Alright	03:57
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Viletones	Rebel	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:09
Maurice & The Clichés	It's All Talk	C'est la vie	03:18
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
Viletones	Screaming Fist	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:04
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	02:01
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
Rush	Circumstances	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	03:44
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
Ron Baumber	Duncan and the Devil	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	02:52
A Passing Fancy	A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:37
The Collectors	Lydia Purple	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	02:48
Alan Gerber	Tied On	Tied On b/w Tied On	03:24
Mendelson Joe	The Canada Song	No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song	03:14
Rod Williams & Super 8	War Version	War b/w War Version	03:36
The Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
The Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
Gentle Touch	Visitors Parking Only	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:45
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
Kilt	I Was Made for Loving You	Kilt	03:19
Mantra	Stay	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	02:57
Viletones	Possibilities	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:32
Witness Inc.	Visions of Vanessa	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:39
Bruce Cockburn	Wondering Where the Lions Are	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:42
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back)	People Of The Ice	03:14
Russ Little	I Want to Make it With You (David Gates)	Deeper and Deeper	02:46
Bernie LaBarge	It's Real	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:43
Joni Mitchell	Big Yellow Taxi	Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)	02:15
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
The Ugly Ducklings	Nothin'	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	02:35
The Hometown Band	Flying	Flying	03:50
Painted Ship	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld)	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:54
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Sea Cruise Blues	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	05:32
Élan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
The Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
Klaatu	Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft	3:47 EST	07:17
Kilt	South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel	Kilt	02:46
Sphex	Time	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:49
Yvonne Moore	Hit & Run Lover	Hit & Run Lover	00:17

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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Ron Nigrini - I'm Easy b/w For Someone on the Road

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Susan Jacks (Susan Pesklevits) - Anna Marie b/w Into the Night

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The Immortals - The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)

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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

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