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.

Captain Tractor - East of Edson

Reaction

Bureacrats - Feel the Pain b/w Grown Up Age

Nomeansno - Oh Canaduh b/w New Age

Arthur Scammel - Squid Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2

Frankie

Private School - Lost in Action (EP)

Second and longest-lasting lineup, l-r: Ed Clynton, Dave Tupper, Kenny Shields, Allen Ayers and Les Bateman (kneeling)

Witness ad

The Fringe - Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown

Elan - Penticton Peaches (insert)

Joni Mitchell - Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)

Leonard Cohen - Suzanne b/w The Partisan

Pelicans - Pelicans b/w New Wave insert

Kings - Switchin' to Glide b/w My Habit (promo)

Rabble - You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl

k.d. lang - Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)

Natalie Pollock & John Turner

Guess Who - Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)

Bob Williams - I'm Alright (Part One) b/w I'm Alright (Part Two)

Rick Buckthorp

The Fringe

The Fringe

'Stompin' Tom Connors - Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail

MG & the Escorts 1967 promo from RPM Magazine November 11, 1967

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

Rock and Roll Bitches Kenny MacKay at Edmonton Library gig Jan 17, 1981. photo courtesy Rose Kapp

Skarecrow - (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Cockburn, Bruce Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
Etidlouie, Etulu Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Mingles I'm Gonna Miss You I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Claman, Dolores The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Cockburn, Bruce Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Bed Time Story Feel the Sun Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Little, Russ Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Klaatu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft 3:47 EST
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Ocean Put Your Hand In The Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
VLA (Vincent V.) We Won't Let Each Other Go (Club Extended Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Jackson, Shawne Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Stiffs Homesick The Stiffs
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Hewitt, Winston You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
VLA (Vincent V.) We Won't Let Each Other Go (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
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)
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Bed Time Story Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Trooper The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car Two For The Show
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Mingles No Train Tonight I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Kilt Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt Kilt
Obomsawin, Alanis Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Thomas, Ian Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Baumber, Ron Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Cornell, Jack Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
LaBarge, Bernie Dream Away Dream Away b/w It's Real
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine

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