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
Partland Brothers	Soul City	Electric Honey	03:52
Gypsy	The Market	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	02:30
Russ Little	I Want to Make it With You (David Gates)	Deeper and Deeper	02:46
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
Alan Gerber	Tied On	Tied On b/w Tied On	03:24
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Trooper	Two for the Show	Two For The Show	04:27
Lisa Lougheed	Run With Us	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:28
Pluton and Humanoids	World Invaders	World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)	06:44
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
Jerry Doucette	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Private School	Money Guns and Power	Lost in Action (EP)	03:12
Ron Baumber	Keep it On the Tracks	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	03:08
Lady	You're Still the One	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	03:04
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
Viletones	Possibilities	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:32
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Rabble	Golden Girl	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:04
Rush	The Trees	Hemispheres	04:43
Pursuit of Happiness	She's So Young	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	03:43
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	02:01
Ronnie Hawkins	Who Do You Love	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:41
Copperpenny	Get Away	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:17
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Fyre	David's Song	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:03
Ian Thomas	Long Long Way	Long Long Way	05:00
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Stompin' Tom Connors	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Roots Earth And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
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
Copperpenny	Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	05:12
Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	03:50
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
Power of Beckett	Back to Me	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:37
Mantra	Stay	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	02:57
Bruce Cockburn	If I Had a Rocket Launcher	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:58
Viletones	Rebel	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:09
Mingles	I'm Gonna Miss You	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	03:17
The Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Early Morning Rain	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:52
Witness Inc.	Another Side Of Her	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:42
Media	Girl I Want You	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	04:20
La Révolution Française	Québecois	Québecois	04:46
Etulu Etidlouie	Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:19
Ron Baumber	Duncan and the Devil	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	02:52
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Kilt	South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel	Kilt	02:46
Clint Ryan	It Hurts to be Lonely	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	02:40
Alanis Obomsawin	Shibi (River of Dreams)	Indian Songs	02:07
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
Stiffs	Dad's a Pig	The Stiffs	01:31
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Opening)	The Hockey Theme	00:56
Media	Endless Dream	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	03:19
Twitch	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn)	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	02:58
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
Kilt	I Was Made for Loving You	Kilt	03:19
The Ugly Ducklings	Nothin'	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	02:35
Marie Hodgins	Dance For The Sun God	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	01:50
Midnight Angels	(I Wish) In the Moonlight	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	02:17
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let Them In	Let Them In	02:33
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
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
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	Sweet Sweet Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:59
Monique Leyrac	Mon pays	Mon pays	03:11
Willie Thrasher	Silent Inuit	Spirit Child	04:36
Al Oster	Midnight Sun Rock	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	01:47
Subhumans	No Productivity	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:08
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
Stiffs	Homesick	The Stiffs	01:02
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Spirit of the West	Save This House	Save This House	02:55
Painted Ship	I Told Those Little White Lies	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:39
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
Winston Hewitt	You're My Boopsie	You're My Boopsy	04:39
France Joli	Let Go	Come to Me // Let Go	09:26
Stiffs	No Money	The Stiffs	01:26
Ian Thomas	Time is the Keeper	Glider	04:14
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
Bernie LaBarge	Can't Hold On Forever	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:24
k.d. lang	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
Sugluk	Ballad of the Running Girl	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:11
Northern Pikes	Teenland	Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)	04:01
Spy's	Underground	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	03:18
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
Secret V's	Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold	No Life Like It (EP)	02:33
Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:31
Kilt	Dylan's Ghost	Kilt	02:23
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
The Munks	Long Time Waiting	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:15

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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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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