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
Tim Hus	Hurtin’ Albertan	Huskies & Huskvarnas	08:07
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Marie Hodgins	Dance For The Sun God	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	01:50
Anne Murray	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
Mushroom Band	Don't Come Down	Don't Come Down b/w Nobody	02:40
Stiffs	Dad's a Pig	The Stiffs	01:31
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
Northern Pikes	Teenland	Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)	04:01
Painted Ship	I Told Those Little White Lies	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:39
Triton Warrior	Sealed In a Grave	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:36
France Joli	Let Go	Come to Me // Let Go	09:26
Crystal Castles	Dolls	Alice Practice	01:29
Secret V's	Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold	No Life Like It (EP)	02:33
Modern Minds	Theresa's World	Theresa's World (EP)	01:56
Nite Life	What's On Your Mind	What's On Your Mind b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)	03:46
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
Rock and Roll Bitches	Welders Song	Wild West (EP)	02:34
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	Baby I Love You	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:22
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
A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:51
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Rush	Circumstances	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	03:44
Copperpenny	Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	05:12
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
Alanis Obomsawin	Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War)	Indian Songs	02:02
Haunted	Eight O'Clock This Morning	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:20
Etulu Etidlouie	Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:29
Ian Thomas	Time is the Keeper	Glider	04:14
Rush	The Spirit of Radio	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	04:59
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich)	People Of The Ice	02:37
George Olliver	Shine	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:13
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	02:01
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
Bruce Cockburn	If I Had a Rocket Launcher	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:58
Klaatu	Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft	3:47 EST	07:17
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	06:46
Plan Nine	Fatal Femme	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:20
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
Copperpenny	Taking My Heart	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:16
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
Don Norman & the Other Four	Low Man	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	02:15
D.O.A.	Disco Sucks	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:39
Collectors	She (Will-O'-The Wind)	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	03:53
Mashmakhan	As The Years Go By	As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)	03:04
United Empire Loyalists	No, No, No	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	02:49
L'infonie	I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel	Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel	02:00
Gratitude	Loving You	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:15
Stumpwater	Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	03:33
Stompin' Connors Tom	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Early Morning Rain	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:52
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Underworld	Go Away	Bound b/w Go Away	02:49
Etulu Etidlouie	Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:27
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
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
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
France Joli	Playboy	Come to Me // Let Go	08:02
Willie Thrasher	Wolves Don't Live By The Rules	Spirit Child	02:16
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
D.O.A.	Nazi Training Camp	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:50
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
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
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	Work Song	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:14
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Try a Little Harder	Let Them In	02:42
United Empire Loyalists	Afraid of the Dark	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	01:59
Russ Little	I Want to Make it With You (David Gates)	Deeper and Deeper	02:46
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	07:36
Anne Murray	I Just Fall in Love Again	New Kind of Feeling	02:49
Joni Mitchell	You Turn Me On I'm a Radio	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	02:39
Dundas	Bloodshot in Your Eyes	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	02:43
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play)	People Of The Ice	02:18
Pluton and Humanoids	World Invaders	World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)	06:44
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
Al Oster	Next Boat	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	02:46
Trans-X	Living On Video	Living On Video	05:56
Stumpwater	Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	04:06
k.d. lang	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	01:56
Les Tallmud	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
Kilt	Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt	Kilt	04:28
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
A Passing Fancy	A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:37
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Jack Cornell	Like the Clouds	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	03:27
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
Otis Gayle	We All Need Love	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	03:43
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Bad Moon Rising	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	04:01
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
Guess Who	Clock On The Wall	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	03:01

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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Slow - I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)

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Private School - Lost in Action (EP)

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