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
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Theresa's World (EP)	01:42
Don Jewitt	Northern Wind	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	03:06
United Empire Loyalists	No, No, No	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	02:49
Les Tallmud	Un Autre Ami	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:41
Mighty Pope	Heaven on the Seventh Floor	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	02:46
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
The Reaction	The Kid's Arrived	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	02:32
Doug And The Slugs	The Move	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:47
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Bruce Cockburn	Sahara Gold	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:34
Monique Leyrac	Pendant que	Mon pays	03:26
Mantra	Stay	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	02:57
Expedition to Earth	Time Time Time	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:55
Crystal Castles	Dolls	Alice Practice	01:29
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
D.O.A.	Royal Police	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:14
Winston Hewitt	You're My Boopsie	You're My Boopsy	04:39
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Try a Little Harder	Let Them In	02:42
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let Them In	Let Them In	02:33
Crystal Castles	Love and Caring	Alice Practice	02:18
Russ Little	Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas)	Deeper and Deeper	03:03
Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
The Reaction	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
Northern Pikes	Teenland	Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)	04:01
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
Demics	New York City	New York City b/w Blue Boy	04:32
Rush	Closer to the Heart	A Farewell to Kings	02:56
Mingles	I'm Gonna Miss You	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	03:17
Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
Minotaur	Witch-Hunt	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	04:19
Ashley MacIsaac	The Devil in the Kitchen	The Devil in the Kitchen b/w What an Idiot He Is (featuring Jale) (picture sleeve, clear blue vinyl)	02:26
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
Mike Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
Gale Garnett	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
M.G. & the Escorts	Remembering	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:33
Alanis Obomsawin	Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens)	Indian Songs	00:57
Dishrags	Tormented	Past Is Past (EP)	01:06
Gentle Touch	Visitors Parking Only	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:45
Patti Jannetta	Rules of Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:46
Don Norman & the Other Four	Mustang Sally	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	03:22
Dundas	Can't You Hear Me	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	06:01
Kilt	The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe	Kilt	03:18
Lady	Whatever Happened to the Love	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love	02:41
Subhumans	Firing Squad	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:07
France Joli	Playboy	Come to Me // Let Go	08:02
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
Willie Thrasher	Wolves Don't Live By The Rules	Spirit Child	02:16
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin'	Switchin'	06:17
Yvonne Moore	Hit & Run Lover	Hit & Run Lover	00:17
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
Twitch	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn)	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	02:58
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
222's	La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll)	La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) b/w La poupee qui fait non (version instrumentale)	02:42
Alanis Obomsawin	Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War)	Indian Songs	02:02
Plan Nine	Go	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:03
Al Oster	Next Boat	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	02:46
Spirit of the West	The Rocks at Thieves Bay	ST	04:56
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
Rush	Fly by Night	Fly By Night	03:22
k.d. lang	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
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
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	When I Feel The Need For Love	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	06:33
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
M.G. & the Escorts	A Someday Fool	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:37
Trooper	The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car	Two For The Show	03:00
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Marie Hodgins	Yesterday’s Dreams	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	02:38
Rod Williams & Super 8	War Version	War b/w War Version	03:36
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Media	Endless Dream	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	03:19
Dishrags	Past Is Past	Past Is Past (EP)	02:24
Tim Hus	Hurtin’ Albertan	Huskies & Huskvarnas	08:07
Underworld	Bound	Bound b/w Go Away	03:15
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Summer)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:43
Nite Life	What's On Your Mind	What's On Your Mind b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)	03:46
Kilt	Wrecker's Den	Kilt	02:38
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	01:56
Mendelson Joe	The Canada Song	No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song	03:14
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Stiffs	Everyone Lies	The Stiffs	01:30
Bruce Cockburn	Maybe the Poet	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:53
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
Spirit of the West	Save This House	Save This House	02:55
k.d. lang	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
Stompin' Connors Tom	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	03:50
Genèse	Je crois en moi	L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi	02:34
Mantra	San Francisco Morning	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	03:16

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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Private School - Lost in Action (EP)

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Poppy Family - Which Way You Goin' Billy?

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