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
Debbie Myers	Strong Enough to Bend	Strong Enough to Bend	02:44
Copperpenny	Bad Manners	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:05
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Copperpenny	Where is the Answer	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	04:20
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
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
The Reaction	Waiting In Line	East End Rockers	04:51
VLA (Vincent V.)	I Gave My Heart (Club Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	04:32
Stiffs	21st Century	The Stiffs	02:18
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46
Dick Damron	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
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
Élan	Freedom Song	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:41
Evolution Expantion	Blow Up	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	02:39
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
Mike Woods	Alberta	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	03:49
George Olliver	I May Never Get to See You Again	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:38
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part Two)	I'm Alright	03:43
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Rush	Freewill	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	05:24
Punkin Machine	I Need You Tonight	I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight	05:38
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Kilt	The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe	Kilt	03:18
Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Bernie LaBarge	Can't Hold On Forever	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:24
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ullulimat (I Think of You Always)	People Of The Ice	01:43
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Lisa Lougheed	Hold Back Tomorrow	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:18
Etulu Etidlouie	Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:19
Jay Telfer	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
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)	02:48
Ocean	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	No Man Like My Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:42
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Les Tallmud	Un Autre Ami	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:41
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Spirit of the West	Save This House	Save This House	02:55
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
The Reaction	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Pointed Sticks	Somebody's Mom	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	01:38
Etulu Etidlouie	Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:51
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	Baby I Love You	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:22
Underworld	Go Away	Bound b/w Go Away	02:49
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
Modern Minds	Theresa's World	Theresa's World (EP)	01:56
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
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers	Mr. Fortune	Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool	02:43
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Craig Farraway	After All	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	04:18
Kilt	Fisherman's Blues	Kilt	03:50
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
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
M.G. & the Escorts	Remembering	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:33
Gratitude	We are Here to Party	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:17
The Collectors	Lydia Purple	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	02:48
Don Norman & the Other Four	Low Man	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	02:15
Gentle Touch	Visitors Parking Only	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:45
Boys Brigade	The Passion of Love	ST	03:40
Stiffs	Everyone Lies	The Stiffs	01:30
Rock and Roll Bitches	Welders Song	Wild West (EP)	02:34
The Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Joni Mitchell	Help Me	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	03:22
Fyre	David's Song	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:03
Mendelson Joe	Oh Travene	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	03:41
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	03:24
Lady	You're Still the One	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	03:04
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
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Trooper	The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car	Two For The Show	03:00
Ian Thomas	Painted Ladies	ST	03:31
Triton Warrior	Sealed In a Grave	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:36
Pluton and Humanoids	World Invaders	World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)	06:44
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Early Morning Rain	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:52
Alanis Obomsawin	NBAW (Hush - Sleep)	Indian Songs	02:14
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Rush	Closer to the Heart	A Farewell to Kings	02:56
Trooper	Two for the Show	Two For The Show	04:27
Alanis Obomsawin	Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War)	Indian Songs	02:02
United Empire Loyalists	No, No, No	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	02:49
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let Them In	Let Them In	02:33
Plan Nine	Go	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:03
Stompin' Tom Connors	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Captain Tractor	The Last Saskatchewan Pirate	East of Edson	04:10
Copperpenny	Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	05:12
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	02:03
Media	Endless Dream	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	03:19
Stompin' Tom Connors	Canada Day Up Canada Way	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	02:37
Willie Dunn	I Pity The Country	I Pity The Country b/w The Carver	02:55
Dundas	Bloodshot in Your Eyes	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	02:43

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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