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
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Winter)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:53
A Passing Fancy	A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:37
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Early Morning Rain	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:52
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
Expedition to Earth	Time Time Time	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:55
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
Sugluk	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	05:25
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Mary Saxton	Sad Eyes	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	03:05
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
Wade Hemsworth	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Bruce Cockburn	Maybe the Poet	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:53
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
The Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	06:46
Media	Endless Dream	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	03:19
Otis Gayle	We All Need Love	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	03:43
Mike Woods	Alberta	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	03:49
Rock and Roll Bitches	Welders Song	Wild West (EP)	02:34
Crystal Castles	Love and Caring	Alice Practice	02:18
Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let Them In	Let Them In	02:33
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
Don Norman & the Other Four	Mustang Sally	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	03:22
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Stiffs	21st Century	The Stiffs	02:18
Mantra	San Francisco Morning	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	03:16
Jerry Doucette	Mama Let Him Play	Mama Let Him Play	04:26
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
Spy's	Underground	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	03:18
Marie Hodgins	Yesterday’s Dreams	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	02:38
The Collectors	She (Will-O'-The Wind)	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	03:53
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	01:37
Mighty Pope	Tower of Strength	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	03:01
Trooper	The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car	Two For The Show	03:00
Painted Ship	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld)	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:54
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
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
Monique Leyrac	Pendant que	Mon pays	03:26
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
Sugluk	Ballad of the Running Girl	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:11
Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:20
Saga	On The Loose	On The Loose b/w Framed	04:12
Tiaras	Surprise!	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:25
Twitch	Things	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	03:37
Copperpenny	Taking My Heart	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:16
Anne Murray	I Just Fall in Love Again	New Kind of Feeling	02:49
Craig Farraway	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34
Lisa Lougheed	Hold Back Tomorrow	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:18
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Spirit of the West	The Rocks at Thieves Bay	ST	04:56
Alanis Obomsawin	Nookum (Reflections of an Elder)	Indian Songs	01:48
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back)	People Of The Ice	03:14
Jerry Doucette	Down The Road	Mama Let Him Play	03:35
Bernie LaBarge	It's Real	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:43
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
Kilt	Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt	Kilt	04:28
Pointed Sticks	Somebody's Mom	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	01:38
Élan	Penticton Peaches	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:13
Mingles	No Train Tonight	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	02:28
Ian Thomas	The Runner	The Runner	03:24
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	02:01
Witness Inc.	Visions of Vanessa	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:39
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Private School	Money Guns and Power	Lost in Action (EP)	03:12
Jury	Please Forget Her	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:44
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
k.d. lang	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
Gale Garnett	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Trooper	Santa Maria	Two For The Show	02:56
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Kilt	South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel	Kilt	02:46
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
Minotaur	Witch-Hunt	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	04:19
Ian Thomas	Painted Ladies	ST	03:31
Twitch	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn)	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	02:58
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Lady	Whatever Happened to the Love	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	02:41
Seeds of Time	Muskrat Rumble	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:48
Rush	Limelight	Moving Pictures	04:19
Gentle Touch	Visitors Parking Only	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:45
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Anne Murray	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
The Reaction	Waiting In Line	East End Rockers	04:51
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Together	Let Them In	02:50
Northern Pikes	Teenland	Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)	04:01
Bells	Stay Awhile	Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom	03:26

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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Spoons - After the Institution b/w My Job

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Boys Brigade - ST

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Jolly Tambourine Man - Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka

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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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Jerry Doucette - The Deuce is Loose

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Jerry Doucette - Mama Let Him Play

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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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April Wine - Harder.....Faster

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