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
Pointed Sticks	Lies	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:37
Stumpwater	Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	04:06
Expedition to Earth	Time Time Time	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:55
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
Joni Mitchell	Just Like This Train	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	04:24
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
Viletones	Possibilities	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:32
Lady	You're Still the One	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love	03:04
Mashmakhan	As The Years Go By	As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)	03:04
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	No Man Like My Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:42
Dick Damron	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
Patti Jannetta	Don't You Want My Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:26
Alanis Obomsawin	Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War)	Indian Songs	02:02
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Trooper	Santa Maria	Two For The Show	02:56
Ocean	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Stiffs	No Money	The Stiffs	01:26
Ian Thomas	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
Rush	The Trees	Hemispheres	04:43
Don Jewitt	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
Mike Jones Group	Each and Every Day	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:18
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Sugluk	Ballad of the Running Girl	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:11
Jenny Rock	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
Power of Beckett	Back to Me	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:37
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	Work Song	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:14
Fyre	New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:42
Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Twitch	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn)	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	02:58
Private School	I Wanna Know	Lost in Action (EP)	02:30
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Élan	Penticton Peaches	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:13
Rush	The Spirit of Radio	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	04:59
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Otis Gayle	We All Need Love	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	03:43
Spy's	Underground	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	03:18
Trooper	We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time)	Knock 'em Dead Kid	03:34
Gypsy	The Market	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	02:30
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:46
Mighty Pope	Heaven on the Seventh Floor	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	02:46
Subhumans	No Productivity	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:08
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Checkerlads	Shake Yourself Down	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:41
A Passing Fancy	A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:37
Munks	Heartaches Over My Head	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:26
L'infonie	I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel	Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel	02:00
Bernie LaBarge	It's Real	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:43
Kilt	Wrecker's Den	Kilt	02:38
Debbie Myers	Strong Enough to Bend	Strong Enough to Bend	02:44
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
Don Jewitt	Northern Wind	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	03:06
Jerry Doucette	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
Ironhorse	What's Your Hurry Darlin'	Everything is Grey	04:30
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home)	People Of The Ice	02:36
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
The Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
The Reaction	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
k.d. lang	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
Stompin' Connors Tom	I Am the Wind	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	03:35
The Fringe	Plastic People	Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown	02:12
Dishrags	Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye)	Past Is Past (EP)	01:19
Rush	Circumstances	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	03:44
Ron Baumber	Keep it On the Tracks	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	03:08
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers	Mr. Fortune	Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool	02:43
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Early Morning Rain	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:52
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
Alanis Obomsawin	NBAW (Hush - Sleep)	Indian Songs	02:14
Nomeansno	Oh Canaduh	Oh Canaduh b/w New Age	01:59
Stiffs	21st Century	The Stiffs	02:18
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
Anne Murray	I Just Fall in Love Again	New Kind of Feeling	02:49
Willie Thrasher	Spirit Child	Spirit Child	04:05
Sidewinders (1)	Cryin' Heartache Misery	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:08
Robert Maciag	You Make Me Feel So Good	I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good	03:12
Gratitude	Loving You	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:15
Kilt	Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow	Kilt	03:34
Sugluk	Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	02:35
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
The Reaction	Waiting In Line	East End Rockers	04:51
Guido Basso	Anna’s Theme	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:47
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
Bruce Cockburn	Lovers in a Dangerous Time	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:07
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	King Size	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:12

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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Don Jewitt - Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses

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Jury - Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?

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Reign Ghost - Long Day Journey b/w Parable

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Doug And The Slugs - Too Bad b/w The Move

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Checkerlads - Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)

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Bum - A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day

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Diodes - Released

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Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) - Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues

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Don Norman & the Other Four - Low Man b/w Mustang Sally

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Slow - I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)

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