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
Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	03:50
Willie Thrasher	Spirit Child	Spirit Child	04:05
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Bells	Stay Awhile	Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom	03:26
Thrills	Telephone	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:57
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
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
Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
Russ Little	Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little)	Deeper and Deeper	03:05
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Ron Baumber	Keep it On the Tracks	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	03:08
Jenny Rock	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
Mike Woods	Alberta	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	03:49
Mary Saxton	Sad Eyes	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	03:05
Viletones	Screaming Fist	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:04
Etulu Etidlouie	Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:56
Joe Kozak	Hillbilly Rock	Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me	01:48
Patti Jannetta	Don't You Want My Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:26
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
Gypsy	The Market	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	02:30
Mighty Pope	Heaven on the Seventh Floor	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	02:46
Modern Minds	Theresa's World	Theresa's World (EP)	01:56
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Twitch	Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	02:40
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	02:25
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Reign Ghost	Parable	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	02:13
Ian Thomas	Time is the Keeper	Glider	04:14
Craig Farraway	After All	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	04:18
Freedom North	Fat Man	Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)	03:53
Seeds of Time	Muskrat Rumble	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:48
Anne Murray	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
Kilt	South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel	Kilt	02:46
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Mendelson Joe	The Canada Song	No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song	03:14
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
Willie Dunn	I Pity The Country	I Pity The Country b/w The Carver	02:55
Painted Ship	I Told Those Little White Lies	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:39
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Bad Moon Rising	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	04:01
Pursuit of Happiness	She's So Young	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	03:43
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
Kilt	Dylan's Ghost	Kilt	02:23
Mushroom Band	Don't Come Down	Don't Come Down b/w Nobody	02:40
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	01:40
Munks	Long Time Waiting	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:15
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play)	People Of The Ice	02:18
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
Underworld	Bound	Bound b/w Go Away	03:15
Punkin Machine	I Need You Tonight	I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight	05:38
Bruce Cockburn	Maybe the Poet	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:53
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers	Mr. Fortune	Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool	02:43
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Yvonne Moore	Hit & Run Lover	Hit & Run Lover	00:17
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Guido Basso	Anna’s Theme	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:47
Dishrags	Tormented	Past Is Past (EP)	01:06
Mendelson Joe	Oh Travene	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	03:41
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
Trooper	Santa Maria	Two For The Show	02:56
Etulu Etidlouie	Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:29
Bruce Cockburn	Wondering Where the Lions Are	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:42
Trooper	We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time)	Knock 'em Dead Kid	03:34
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
VLA (Vincent V.)	I Gave My Heart (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	04:46
Sphex	Time	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:49
Pointed Sticks	What Do You Want Me To Do?	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	02:27
Bruce Cockburn	Sahara Gold	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:34
Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Together	Let Them In	02:50
Kilt	I Was Made for Loving You	Kilt	03:19
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
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
Nomeansno	Oh Canaduh	Oh Canaduh b/w New Age	01:59
Tiaras	Foolish Girl	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:34
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
Gentle Touch	Visitors Parking Only	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:45
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
The Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Summer)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:43
Trooper	The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car	Two For The Show	03:00
Ronnie Hawkins	Bo Didley	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:56
Anne Murray	Snowbird	This Way Is My Way	02:12
Monique Leyrac	Pendant que	Mon pays	03:26
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)	02:41
Etulu Etidlouie	Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:42
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Lady	You're Still the One	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	03:04
Ashley MacIsaac	The Devil in the Kitchen	The Devil in the Kitchen b/w What an Idiot He Is (featuring Jale) (picture sleeve, clear blue vinyl)	02:26
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
The Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
Willie Thrasher	Silent Inuit	Spirit Child	04:36

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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Spoons - After the Institution b/w My Job

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Boys Brigade - ST

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Jolly Tambourine Man - Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka

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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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Jerry Doucette - The Deuce is Loose

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Jerry Doucette - Mama Let Him Play

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

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Ocean - Put Your Hand in the Hand

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Bob Williams - I'm Alright

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Guido Basso - Put Your Hand in the Hand

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April Wine - Harder.....Faster

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