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
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Winston Hewitt You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Shawne Jackson Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
k.d. lang High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Etulu Etidlouie Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Patti Jannetta Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Stompin' Connors Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Ron Baumber Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Rush Freewill Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Joni Mitchell Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Copperpenny You're Still the One Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Reign Ghost Long Day Journey Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
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
Spirit of the West Save This House Save This House
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Rush Limelight Moving Pictures
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Gentle Touch Visitors Parking Only Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Etulu Etidlouie Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Bruce Cockburn If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
France Joli Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Tim Hus Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
Willie Thrasher Forefathers Spirit Child
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
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)
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)
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
The Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Roots Earth And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Marie Hodgins Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Ian Thomas Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Jenny Rock Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Bruce Cockburn Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Joni Mitchell Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
The Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
George Olliver Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Jack Cornell Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Don Norman & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Arthur Scammel R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Wade Hemsworth The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Debbie Myers Strong Enough to Bend Strong Enough to Bend
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
The Reaction The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Jerry Doucette Nobody The Deuce is Loose
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Al Oster Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
L'infonie I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Mike Jones Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
k.d. lang Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Ron Richardson Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Sugluk Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Otis Gayle We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
France Joli Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Alan Gerber Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Russ Little Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Leonard Cohen Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak

Switchin'

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

The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II

Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool

David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges

That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)

Moving Pictures

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

First Impressions (EP)

Genetic Control

1985-02-17_Dead End + Genetic Control_Larry_s (Toronto)_ticket_+

Genetic Control_First Impressions_+

1980-07_DOA_Toronto_flyer

1983-01-03_DOA_Pier (Raleigh, NC)_flyer_+

1984-09-28_DOA + Abrasive Wheels + Battalion Of Saints + Killroy_Olympic Audit (LA, CA)_flyer_+

Rush – Moving Pictures (3)

Rush – Moving Pictures (2)

Rush – Moving Pictures (1)

Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)

Paula Turnhbull - Rush fromt cover model

Rush - Permanent Waves (Dewey Defeats Truman, Coca Cola signs) (5)

Rush - Permanent Waves (Dewey Defeats Truman, Coca Cola signs) (3)

Rush - Permanent Waves (Dewey Defeats Truman, Coca Cola signs) (2)

Rush - Permanent Waves (Dewey Defeats Truman, Coca Cola signs) (1)

Hemispheres

Rush - A Farewell to Kings (3)

Rush - A Farewell to Kings (2)

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