MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

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
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Pierre Perpall World Invaders Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Don Norman & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Robert Maciag You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Skarecrow (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Gale Garnett We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Alanis Obomsawin Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
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)
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
The Reaction Trials In Error East End Rockers
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Alanis Obomsawin Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War) Indian Songs
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Mike Jones Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Yvonne Moore Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Sidewinders (1) Cryin' Heartache Misery Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
The Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Élan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
Anne Murray Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Etulu Etidlouie Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Stiffs Homesick The Stiffs
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
The Reaction Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
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
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)
Les Tallmud Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Etulu Etidlouie Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Etulu Etidlouie Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
The Ugly Ducklings Just In Case You Wonder Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Trooper The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car Two For The Show
Jenny Rock Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Ian Thomas Painted Ladies ST
Jerry Doucette Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Alanis Obomsawin Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Otis Gayle We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Ronnie Hawkins Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Ron Richardson Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Joni Mitchell Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Anne Murray I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Élan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Al Oster Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Trooper Oh, Pretty Lady Knock 'em Dead Kid
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
George Olliver Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Rush Closer to the Heart A Farewell to Kings
Rush Fly by Night Fly By Night
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
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)
Ian Thomas Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Russ Little I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
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
Arthur Scammel R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Bruce Cockburn Wondering Where the Lions Are Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Amazon Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising

Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age

The Bureaucrats

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Bureacrats - Feel the Pain b/w Grown Up Age

The Bureaucrats / Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)

The Bureaucrats / Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)

45-Jolly Tambourine Man - Apple Streudel Man VINYL 02

45-Jolly Tambourine Man - Apple Streudel Man VINYL 01

45-Jolly Tambourine Man - Apple Streudel Man BACK

Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka

Reign Ghost

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Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

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Reign Ghost

The Deuce is Loose

Mama Let Him Play

Teenage Head (8)

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