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
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Theresa's World (EP)	01:42
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
Witness Inc.	Visions of Vanessa	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:39
Bonnie Dobson	Morning Dew	ST	03:20
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
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
April Wine	Say Hello	Harder.....Faster	02:59
Élan	Freedom Song	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:41
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Genèse	Je crois en moi	L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi	02:34
Stumpwater	Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	04:06
Nomeansno	Oh Canaduh	Oh Canaduh b/w New Age	01:59
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	07:36
Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:20
D.O.A.	Royal Police	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:14
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Dishrags	Past Is Past	Past Is Past (EP)	02:24
Les Tallmud	Un Autre Ami	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:41
Private School	I Wanna Know	Lost in Action (EP)	02:30
Mary Saxton	Losing Control	Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die	02:04
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
Freedom North	Fat Man	Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)	03:53
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Early Morning Rain	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:52
Mashmakhan	As The Years Go By	As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)	03:04
Gale Garnett	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
Mary Saxton	Sad Eyes	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	03:05
Secret V's	Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold	No Life Like It (EP)	02:33
Willie Thrasher	Eskimo Named Johnny	Spirit Child	02:41
Tim Hus	Hurtin’ Albertan	Huskies & Huskvarnas	08:07
Bells	Stay Awhile	Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom	03:26
Pluton and Humanoids	World Invaders	World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)	06:44
Power of Beckett	Back to Me	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:37
Alanis Obomsawin	Shibi (River of Dreams)	Indian Songs	02:07
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	02:03
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
The Reaction	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
Witness Inc.	Another Side Of Her	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:42
Patti Jannetta	Don't You Want My Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:26
Alanis Obomsawin	Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War)	Indian Songs	02:02
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
Jean Leloup	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	03:19
Copperpenny	You're Still the One	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:29
Alanis Obomsawin	Nookum (Reflections of an Elder)	Indian Songs	01:48
The Reaction	The Kid's Arrived	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	02:32
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Robert Maciag	You Make Me Feel So Good	I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good	03:12
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Kilt	I Was Made for Loving You	Kilt	03:19
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
Joni Mitchell	Help Me	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	03:22
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
Craig Farraway	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
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
Yvonne Moore	Hit & Run Lover	Hit & Run Lover	00:17
United Empire Loyalists	No, No, No	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	02:49
Joni Mitchell	Big Yellow Taxi	Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)	02:15
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers	Mr. Fortune	Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool	02:43
Pointed Sticks	Lies	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:37
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Bureaucrats	Grown Up Age	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:35
Triton Warrior	Sealed In a Grave	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:36
Al Oster	Next Boat	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	02:46
Plan Nine	I Ain't No Robot	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:36
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
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Etulu Etidlouie	Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:51
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Rabble	Golden Girl	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:04
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
Rock and Roll Bitches	Someone Could Lose an Eye	Wild West (EP)	02:24
Marie Hodgins	Dance For The Sun God	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	01:50
Rod Williams & Super 8	War	War b/w War Version	03:16
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
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let's Get Together	Let Them In	02:04
Plan Nine	Go	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:03
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46
Mendelson Joe	Oh Travene	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	03:41
Copperpenny	Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	05:12
Twitch	Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	02:40
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
Jerry Doucette	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
Slow	I Broke The Circle	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:20
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Copperpenny	Taking My Heart	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:16
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Bullrush	You've Sent Me Away	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	04:30
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
United Empire Loyalists	Afraid of the Dark	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	01:59
Ronnie Hawkins	Bo Didley	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:56
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Munks	Long Time Waiting	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:15
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun)	People Of The Ice	02:53
Trooper	The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car	Two For The Show	03:00

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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