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
Ian Thomas	Long Long Way	Long Long Way	05:00
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
Mighty Pope	Heaven on the Seventh Floor	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	02:46
Bonnie Dobson	Morning Dew	ST	03:20
Bruce Cockburn	Lovers in a Dangerous Time	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:07
Crystal Castles	Love and Caring	Alice Practice	02:18
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Stompin' Tom Connors	I Am the Wind	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	03:35
Mendelson Joe	Growing Pain	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	02:35
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Mendelson Joe	Oh Travene	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	03:41
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46
Stiffs	Everyone Lies	The Stiffs	01:30
D.O.A.	Nazi Training Camp	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:50
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
George Olliver	I May Never Get to See You Again	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:38
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers	Mr. Fortune	Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool	02:43
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:48
Debbie Myers	Strong Enough to Bend	Strong Enough to Bend	02:44
Sugluk	Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	02:35
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Partland Brothers	Soul City	Electric Honey	03:52
France Joli	Let Go	Come to Me // Let Go	09:26
M.G. & the Escorts	A Someday Fool	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:37
Bullrush	I Want To Be Set Free	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	03:14
Clint Ryan	It Hurts to be Lonely	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	02:40
Guess Who	Clock On The Wall	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	03:01
April Wine	Say Hello	Harder.....Faster	02:59
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
Stompin' Tom Connors	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	02:03
Stiffs	Dad's a Pig	The Stiffs	01:31
Trooper	We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time)	Knock 'em Dead Kid	03:34
Robert Maciag	You Make Me Feel So Good	I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good	03:12
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
Plan Nine	Go	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:03
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
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	06:17
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
Modern Minds	Theresa's World	Theresa's World (EP)	01:56
Guido Basso	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	03:16
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Sea Cruise Blues	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	05:32
Élan	Penticton Peaches	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:13
Sidewinders (1)	Cryin' Heartache Misery	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:08
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
Plan Nine	Fatal Femme	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:20
Alanis Obomsawin	Shibi (River of Dreams)	Indian Songs	02:07
Mingles	No Train Tonight	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	02:28
Alanis Obomsawin	Nookum (Reflections of an Elder)	Indian Songs	01:48
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
222's	La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll)	La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) b/w La poupee qui fait non (version instrumentale)	02:42
The Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Russ Little	Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas)	Deeper and Deeper	03:03
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
Bullrush	You've Sent Me Away	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	04:30
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
Mighty Pope	Tower of Strength	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	03:01
Midnight Angels	(I Wish) In the Moonlight	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	02:17
France Joli	Playboy	Come to Me // Let Go	08:02
Alanis Obomsawin	Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens)	Indian Songs	00:57
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Slow	I Broke The Circle	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:20
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play)	People Of The Ice	02:18
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
Rough Trade	Highschool Confidential	Avoid Freud	03:14
Genèse	Je crois en moi	L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi	02:34
Kilt	Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt	Kilt	04:28
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ullulimat (I Think of You Always)	People Of The Ice	01:43
Al Oster	Next Boat	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	02:46
Ian Thomas	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	03:24
United Empire Loyalists	Afraid of the Dark	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	01:59
Maurice & The Clichés	It's All Talk	C'est la vie	03:18
Private School	I Wanna Know	Lost in Action (EP)	02:30
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
Rod Williams & Super 8	War Version	War b/w War Version	03:36
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
France Joli	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
Gale Garnett	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	01:37
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Summer)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:43
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Monique Leyrac	Pendant que	Mon pays	03:26
Mike Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
Saga	On The Loose	On The Loose b/w Framed	04:12

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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Teenage Head - Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)

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