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
Alanis Obomsawin	Shibi (River of Dreams)	Indian Songs	02:07
The Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
Stumpwater	Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	04:06
Bruce Cockburn	Incandescent Blue	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	04:38
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Stiffs	21st Century	The Stiffs	02:18
Jerry Doucette	Mama Let Him Play	Mama Let Him Play	04:26
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Copperpenny	You're Still the One	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:29
L'infonie	Come & Dance The OK LA!	Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel	03:04
D.O.A.	Disco Sucks	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:39
Ian Thomas	Long Long Way	Long Long Way	05:00
Willie Thrasher	Spirit Child	Spirit Child	04:05
Mendelson Joe	Oh Travene	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	03:41
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Private School	I Wanna Know	Lost in Action (EP)	02:30
April Wine	Say Hello	Harder.....Faster	02:59
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
Anne Murray	Snowbird	This Way Is My Way	02:12
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back)	People Of The Ice	03:14
Kilt	I Was Made for Loving You	Kilt	03:19
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	02:01
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Jean Leloup	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	03:19
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
Bruce Cockburn	If I Had a Rocket Launcher	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:58
The Fringe	Plastic People	Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown	02:12
Roots Earth And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	King Size	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:12
The Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	06:46
Painted Ship	I Told Those Little White Lies	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:39
Bullrush	You've Sent Me Away	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	04:30
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
Viletones	Possibilities	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:32
The Hometown Band	Flying	Flying	03:50
Rush	The Spirit of Radio	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	04:59
Northern Pikes	Teenland	Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)	04:01
Secret V's	Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold	No Life Like It (EP)	02:33
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Private School	Money Guns and Power	Lost in Action (EP)	03:12
Tiaras	Foolish Girl	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:34
Willie Dunn	I Pity The Country	I Pity The Country b/w The Carver	02:55
Bruce Cockburn	Sahara Gold	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:34
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:46
Doug And The Slugs	The Move	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:47
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:51
k.d. lang	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
Stompin' Tom Connors	Canada Day Up Canada Way	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	02:37
Rush	The Trees	Hemispheres	04:43
Stiffs	Dad's a Pig	The Stiffs	01:31
Boys Brigade	The Passion of Love	ST	03:40
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
Ronnie Hawkins	Who Do You Love	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:41
France Joli	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
Wade Hemsworth	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
Dishrags	Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye)	Past Is Past (EP)	01:19
Trooper	Santa Maria	Two For The Show	02:56
Rush	Circumstances	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	03:44
Stompin' Tom Connors	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Anne-Marie Murray	The Streets of Old St. John's	The Streets of Old St. John's b/w Has Love Gone Out of Style	02:25
Russ Little	Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little)	Deeper and Deeper	03:05
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
Otis Gayle	We All Need Love	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	03:43
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Spirit of the West	Save This House	Save This House	02:55
Kilt	South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel	Kilt	02:46
The Ugly Ducklings	Just In Case You Wonder	Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)	02:28
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
Expedition to Earth	Time Time Time	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:55
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Alanis Obomsawin	Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens)	Indian Songs	00:57
Triton Warrior	Satan's Train	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:08
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
Mike Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Summer)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:43
Guido Basso	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Plan Nine	In Sympathy With Poland	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:08
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	Baby I Love You	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:22
Ian Thomas	Painted Ladies	ST	03:31
Mighty Pope	Tower of Strength	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	03:01
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Freedom North	Fat Man	Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)	03:53
k.d. lang	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
Bonnie Dobson	Morning Dew	ST	03:20
Alanis Obomsawin	Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks)	Indian Songs	01:58
Dundas	Bloodshot in Your Eyes	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	02:43
Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:31
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Pointed Sticks	What Do You Want Me To Do?	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	02:27

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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