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
Spy's	Underground	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	03:18
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
Trans-X	Living On Video	Living On Video	05:56
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	King Size	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:12
Sidewinders (1)	Cryin' Heartache Misery	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:08
The Reaction	Waiting In Line	East End Rockers	04:51
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
Russ Little	Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little)	Deeper and Deeper	03:05
Collectors	Lydia Purple	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	02:48
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	Work Song	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:14
Patti Jannetta	Don't You Want My Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:26
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Kilt	South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel	Kilt	02:46
Stiffs	Everyone Lies	The Stiffs	01:30
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin'	Switchin'	06:17
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	Sweet Sweet Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:59
Jenny Rock	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Guido Basso	Anna’s Theme	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:47
D.O.A.	Royal Police	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:14
Kilt	Wrecker's Den	Kilt	02:38
Copperpenny	Taking My Heart	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:16
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Ian Thomas	Time is the Keeper	Glider	04:14
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Élan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Lisa Lougheed	Hold Back Tomorrow	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:18
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
Thrills	Telephone	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:57
Clint Ryan	It Hurts to be Lonely	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	02:40
Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Robert Maciag	You Make Me Feel So Good	I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good	03:12
Élan	Penticton Peaches	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:13
Private School	I Wanna Know	Lost in Action (EP)	02:30
Gratitude	Loving You	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:15
Copperpenny	You're Still the One	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:29
Stiffs	Fuck You	Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp	02:23
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Winter)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:53
Clint Ryan	Build Myself Around You	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	03:20
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
France Joli	Playboy	Come to Me // Let Go	08:02
Modern Minds	Theresa's World	Theresa's World (EP)	01:56
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Plan Nine	I Ain't No Robot	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:36
Russ Little	Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas)	Deeper and Deeper	03:03
Private School	Sci-Fi	Lost in Action (EP)	03:32
Jay Telfer	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part One)	I'm Alright	03:57
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Etulu Etidlouie	Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:51
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Opening)	The Hockey Theme	00:56
April Wine	Say Hello	Harder.....Faster	02:59
Winston Hewitt	You're My Boopsie	You're My Boopsy	04:39
Sidewinders (1)	Put The Blame On Me	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:02
Shawne Jackson	Just as Bad as You	Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man	02:33
Rush	Freewill	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	05:24
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
La Révolution Française	Québecois	Québecois	04:46
Pointed Sticks	I'm Numb	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:11
Bullrush	I Want To Be Set Free	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	03:14
Bum	A Promise Is A Promise	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:02
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
Gratitude	We are Here to Party	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:17
Triton Warrior	Satan's Train	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:08
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Don Norman & the Other Four	Low Man	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	02:15
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
Jury	Please Forget Her	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:44
Viletones	Screaming Fist	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:04
Crystal Castles	Love and Caring	Alice Practice	02:18
Punkin Machine	I Need You Tonight	I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight	05:38
Etulu Etidlouie	Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:27
Don Norman & the Other Four	Mustang Sally	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	03:22
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Bad Moon Rising	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	04:01
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	01:56
Alanis Obomsawin	Shibi (River of Dreams)	Indian Songs	02:07
Sugluk	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	05:25
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
Tim Hus	Hurtin’ Albertan	Huskies & Huskvarnas	08:07
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	No Man Like My Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:42
Mantra	San Francisco Morning	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	03:16
Ian Thomas	Long Long Way	Long Long Way	05:00
Bruce Cockburn	Lovers in a Dangerous Time	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:07
Dundas	Bloodshot in Your Eyes	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	02:43
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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Don Jewitt - Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses

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Jury - Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?

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Reign Ghost - Long Day Journey b/w Parable

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Doug And The Slugs - Too Bad b/w The Move

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Checkerlads - Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)

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Bum - A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day

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Diodes - Released

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Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) - Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues

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Don Norman & the Other Four - Low Man b/w Mustang Sally

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