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
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
Les Tallmud	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
Genèse	Je crois en moi	L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi	02:34
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
Saga	On The Loose	On The Loose b/w Framed	04:12
Élan	Freedom Song	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:41
Clint Ryan	Build Myself Around You	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	03:20
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
Jay Telfer	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
Mushroom Band	Don't Come Down	Don't Come Down b/w Nobody	02:40
La Révolution Française	Québecois	Québecois	04:46
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
France Joli	Playboy	Come to Me // Let Go	08:02
Rock and Roll Bitches	Welders Song	Wild West (EP)	02:34
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)	03:24
Rush	Freewill	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	05:24
Sue Hansen	Sucking Up to You	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:24
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
Dundas	Bloodshot in Your Eyes	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	02:43
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Viletones	Rebel	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:09
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
Thrills	Party Inside My Mind	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:38
The Reaction	The Kid's Arrived	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	02:32
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Demics	New York City	New York City b/w Blue Boy	04:32
Trans-X	Living On Video	Living On Video	05:56
Bernie LaBarge	Can't Hold On Forever	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:24
The Reaction	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Lady	Whatever Happened to the Love	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	02:41
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Etulu Etidlouie	Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:19
Tiaras	Foolish Girl	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:34
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let Them In	Let Them In	02:33
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
Stompin' Tom Connors	Canada Day Up Canada Way	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	02:37
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Rush	Closer to the Heart	A Farewell to Kings	02:56
Jerry Doucette	Mama Let Him Play	Mama Let Him Play	04:26
Twitch	Things	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	03:37
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Spirit of the West	The Rocks at Thieves Bay	ST	04:56
Etulu Etidlouie	Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:29
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Mike Jones Group	Each and Every Day	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:18
Mashmakhan	As The Years Go By	As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)	03:04
Lady	You're Still the One	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	03:04
The Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	01:56
Ian Thomas	Painted Ladies	ST	03:31
Sidewinders (1)	Cryin' Heartache Misery	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:08
Dishrags	Tormented	Past Is Past (EP)	01:06
VLA (Vincent V.)	I Gave My Heart (Club Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	04:32
The Reaction	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Pointed Sticks	Somebody's Mom	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	01:38
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Gentle Touch	Visitors Parking Only	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:45
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home)	People Of The Ice	02:36
Stiffs	No Money	The Stiffs	01:26
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	01:40
Bruce Cockburn	Incandescent Blue	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	04:38
Élan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
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
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Summer)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:43
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
Mingles	No Train Tonight	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	02:28
Mendelson Joe	Growing Pain	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	02:35
The Ugly Ducklings	Nothin'	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	02:35
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Early Morning Rain	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:52
Viletones	Possibilities	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:32
M.G. & the Escorts	A Someday Fool	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:37
Don Norman & the Other Four	Low Man	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	02:15
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
Joni Mitchell	Just Like This Train	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	04:24
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
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
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
Mary Saxton	Losing Control	Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die	02:04
Rock and Roll Bitches	Someone Could Lose an Eye	Wild West (EP)	02:24
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Copperpenny	Get Away	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:17
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Rabble	Golden Girl	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:04
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
Joe Kozak	Hillbilly Rock	Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me	01:48
Pointed Sticks	I'm Numb	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:11

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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

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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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)

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