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
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun)	People Of The Ice	02:53
Shawne Jackson	Just as Bad as You	Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man	02:33
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Winter)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:53
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
Bruce Cockburn	Lovers in a Dangerous Time	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:07
Painted Ship	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld)	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:54
Gentle Touch	Visitors Parking Only	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:45
Rock and Roll Bitches	Someone Could Lose an Eye	Wild West (EP)	02:24
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
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)	02:43
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Opening)	The Hockey Theme	00:56
Munks	Long Time Waiting	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:15
Witness Inc.	Another Side Of Her	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:42
Al Oster	Next Boat	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	02:46
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
Partland Brothers	Soul City	Electric Honey	03:52
Pointed Sticks	Somebody's Mom	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	01:38
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Boys Brigade	The Passion of Love	ST	03:40
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Patti Jannetta	Don't You Want My Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:26
Rush	Fly by Night	Fly By Night	03:22
Etulu Etidlouie	Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:29
Bruce Cockburn	If a Tree Falls	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	05:44
Genèse	Je crois en moi	L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi	02:34
Stumpwater	Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	03:33
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:31
Plan Nine	I Ain't No Robot	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:36
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home)	People Of The Ice	02:36
Patti Jannetta	Rules of Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:46
Bureaucrats	Grown Up Age	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:35
Élan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
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
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
Slow	I Broke The Circle	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:20
Les Tallmud	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
Bullrush	You've Sent Me Away	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	04:30
A Passing Fancy	A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:37
Etulu Etidlouie	Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:51
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
Copperpenny	Where is the Answer	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	04:20
Pursuit of Happiness	She's So Young	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	03:43
Pointed Sticks	What Do You Want Me To Do?	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	02:27
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
Painted Ship	I Told Those Little White Lies	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:39
Seeds of Time	Muskrat Rumble	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:48
Spy's	Underground	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	03:18
Pluton and Humanoids	World Invaders	World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)	06:44
Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
Trooper	The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car	Two For The Show	03:00
Jury	Please Forget Her	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:44
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Willie Thrasher	Eskimo Named Johnny	Spirit Child	02:41
Craig Farraway	After All	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	04:18
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
Wade Hemsworth	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Jean Leloup	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	03:19
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
United Empire Loyalists	No, No, No	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	02:49
Jack Cornell	Like the Clouds	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	03:27
Mantra	San Francisco Morning	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	03:16
Clint Ryan	Build Myself Around You	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	03:20
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
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
Winston Hewitt	You're My Boopsie	You're My Boopsy	04:39
Jerry Doucette	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
Fyre	New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:42
Robert Maciag	You Make Me Feel So Good	I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good	03:12
Subhumans	Firing Squad	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:07
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
The Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
France Joli	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
Alanis Obomsawin	Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens)	Indian Songs	00:57
La Révolution Française	Québecois	Québecois	04:46
Freedom North	Fat Man	Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)	03:53
Modern Minds	Theresa's World	Theresa's World (EP)	01:56
Yvonne Moore	Hit & Run Lover	Hit & Run Lover	00:17
Willie Thrasher	Silent Inuit	Spirit Child	04:36
k.d. lang	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
Al Oster	Midnight Sun Rock	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	01:47
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Don Norman & the Other Four	Low Man	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	02:15
Twitch	Things	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	03:37
Copperpenny	Wine Song	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:04
Etulu Etidlouie	Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:19
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Try a Little Harder	Let Them In	02:42
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	07:36
Roots Earth And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
Tim Hus	Hurtin’ Albertan	Huskies & Huskvarnas	08:07
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)	02:40
L'infonie	Come & Dance The OK LA!	Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel	03:04

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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

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