MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

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
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
k.d. lang High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Ocean Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Ian & Sylvia Tyson Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Etulu Etidlouie Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Guido Basso Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Guido Basso Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Dick Damron Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Al Oster Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Willie Thrasher Spirit Child Spirit Child
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Mary Saxton Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Russ Little I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
Mike Jones Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
The Reaction Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Alden Diehl Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Rush The Trees Hemispheres
Bruce Cockburn Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Dick Damron Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Mike Jones Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Les Tallmud Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Bernie LaBarge Dream Away Dream Away b/w It's Real
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Bruce Cockburn The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
Lisa Lougheed Hold Back Tomorrow Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Punkin Machine I Need You Tonight I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Jerry Doucette Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Clint Ryan It Hurts to be Lonely It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Guido Basso For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Bob Williams I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Clint Ryan Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Etulu Etidlouie Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Arthur Scammel R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Etulu Etidlouie Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Joni Mitchell Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Ian & Sylvia Tyson Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Nite Life What's On Your Mind ** What's On Your Mind ** b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Rush Limelight Moving Pictures
The Ugly Ducklings That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
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
The 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
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
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
Willie Thrasher Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Charlie Russell The Bricklin The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Alanis Obomsawin Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
Ian Thomas Long Long Way Long Long Way
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)

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Underwhelmed (promo)

Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun

You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love

Lady - You're Still The One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love

Flying

Huskies & Huskvarnas

Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow

Lisa Lougheed (3)

Lisa Lougheed (2)

Lisa Lougheed (1)

45-Lisa Lougheed – Run With Us VINYL 02

Switchin'

Diodes' Paul Robinson @ Black Swan, Ottawa March 1978 courtesy Cameron Muir

The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II

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