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
Etulu Etidlouie Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Monique Leyrac Pendant que Mon pays
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Monique Leyrac L'hiver Mon pays
Lisa Lougheed Run With Us Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Clint Ryan It Hurts to be Lonely It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
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
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Etulu Etidlouie Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Bruce Cockburn Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Ronnie Hawkins Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Munks Long Time Waiting Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Bruce Cockburn Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Charlie Russell The Bricklin II The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II
Alanis Obomsawin Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
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
Eddie Spencer If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely) You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)
Joni Mitchell You turn Me On, I'm a Radio You turn Me On, I'm a Radio b/w Urge for Going (picture sleeve) (promo)
The Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
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)
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Arthur Scammel R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Stiffs Homesick The Stiffs
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Bruce Cockburn Sahara Gold Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Ian Thomas Hold On The Runner
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Bruce Cockburn Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Ian Thomas Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
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)
Patti Jannetta Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Trooper The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car Two For The Show
Willie Thrasher Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Jack J Looking Forward to You Looking Forward to You
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Russ Little Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Anne Murray Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Jay Telfer Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
The Reaction Trials In Error East End Rockers
Bernie LaBarge Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Rush Limelight Moving Pictures
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Roots Earth And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Bonnie Dobson Morning Dew ST
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Etulu Etidlouie Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Bruce Cockburn Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Willie Thrasher Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
The Reaction On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
The Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Monique Leyrac Mon pays Mon pays
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
k.d. lang High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)

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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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