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
Mendelson Joe	The Canada Song	No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song	03:14
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Bullrush	I Want To Be Set Free	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	03:14
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
The Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
Rod Williams & Super 8	War	War b/w War Version	03:16
Gale Garnett	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
Trooper	We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time)	Knock 'em Dead Kid	03:34
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
France Joli	Baby Don't Stop Dancing	Come to Me // Let Go	07:50
Terry McManus	Carolyn (stereo)	Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)	02:40
Dishrags	Tormented	Past Is Past (EP)	01:06
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
Ocean	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Willie Thrasher	Silent Inuit	Spirit Child	04:36
Thrills	Telephone	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:57
Stompin' Tom Connors	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Private School	Money Guns and Power	Lost in Action (EP)	03:12
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Sea Cruise Blues	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	05:32
The Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
Ian Thomas	Time is the Keeper	Glider	04:14
Roots Earth And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	Sweet Sweet Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:59
Dishrags	Past Is Past	Past Is Past (EP)	02:24
The Collectors	Lydia Purple	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	02:48
Joni Mitchell	Help Me	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	03:22
Alanis Obomsawin	Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War)	Indian Songs	02:02
Ian Thomas	Painted Ladies	ST	03:31
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play)	People Of The Ice	02:18
Bernie LaBarge	Can't Hold On Forever	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:24
Stiffs	Fuck You	Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp	02:23
Etulu Etidlouie	Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:56
Patti Jannetta	Rules of Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:46
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
The Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
Gentle Touch	Visitors Parking Only	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:45
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
Spirit of the West	Save This House	Save This House	02:55
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
The Subhumans	No Productivity	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:08
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
Wade Hemsworth	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Gratitude	We are Here to Party	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:17
Gratitude	Loving You	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:15
Triton Warrior	Sealed In a Grave	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:36
Jay Telfer	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
The Reaction	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
Bruce Cockburn	If I Had a Rocket Launcher	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:58
Expedition to Earth	Time Time Time	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:55
Gentle Touch	One Way Ride	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:46
Tim Hus	Hurtin’ Albertan	Huskies & Huskvarnas	08:07
Joni Mitchell	You Turn Me On I'm a Radio	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	02:39
The Fringe	Plastic People	Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown	02:12
Copperpenny	Where is the Answer	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	04:20
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
Dishrags	Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye)	Past Is Past (EP)	01:19
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
Lisa Lougheed	Hold Back Tomorrow	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:18
Mighty Pope	Heaven on the Seventh Floor	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	02:46
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
M.G. & the Escorts	A Someday Fool	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:37
Payola$	Eyes of a Stranger	No Stranger to Danger	04:57
Dick Damron	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02
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	Try a Little Harder	Let Them In	02:42
The Subhumans	Firing Squad	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:07
Bernie LaBarge	Dream Away	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:48
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
Copperpenny	Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	05:12
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	Work Song	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:14
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Al Oster	Next Boat	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	02:46
Jerry Doucette	Down The Road	Mama Let Him Play	03:35
Slow	I Broke The Circle	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:20
Bernie LaBarge	Annie	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:52
Rush	Fly by Night	Fly By Night	03:22
Clint Ryan	Build Myself Around You	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	03:20
Don Norman & the Other Four	Mustang Sally	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	03:22
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
Sue Hansen	Sucking Up to You	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:24
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Bonnie Dobson	Morning Dew	ST	03:20
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
The Reaction	On The Beach	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	05:58
Spy's	Underground	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	03:18
Pursuit of Happiness	She's So Young	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	03:43

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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The Collectors - Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)

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Kilt - Kilt

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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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