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
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
Rock and Roll Bitches	Someone Could Lose an Eye	Wild West (EP)	02:24
United Empire Loyalists	Afraid of the Dark	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	01:59
Trooper	Two for the Show	Two For The Show	04:27
Gratitude	We are Here to Party	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:17
Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
Viletones	Possibilities	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:32
Mary Saxton	Losing Control	Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die	02:04
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let Them In	Let Them In	02:33
Willie Thrasher	Silent Inuit	Spirit Child	04:36
Bureaucrats	Grown Up Age	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:35
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
Clint Ryan	Build Myself Around You	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	03:20
The Fringe	Plastic People	Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown	02:12
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Pointed Sticks	Somebody's Mom	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	01:38
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Gypsy	The Market	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	02:30
Rabble	Golden Girl	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:04
Trooper	Santa Maria	Two For The Show	02:56
Boys Brigade	The Passion Of Love	ST	03:40
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
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
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Bruce Cockburn	Incandescent Blue	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	04:38
Bruce Cockburn	If a Tree Falls	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	05:44
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
Otis Gayle	We All Need Love	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	03:43
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
Russ Little	Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little)	Deeper and Deeper	03:05
Stiffs	21st Century	The Stiffs	02:18
Collectors	She (Will-O'-The Wind)	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	03:53
Stompin' Connors Tom	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Don Jewitt	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Willie Dunn	I Pity The Country	I Pity The Country b/w The Carver	02:55
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
Rod Williams & Super 8	War	War b/w War Version	03:16
Spirit of the West	The Rocks at Thieves Bay	ST	04:56
Pointed Sticks	I'm Numb	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:11
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	01:56
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
Russ Little	I Want to Make it With You (David Gates)	Deeper and Deeper	02:46
Ron Baumber	Duncan and the Devil	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	02:52
Guess Who	Clock On The Wall	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	03:01
Copperpenny	You're Still the One	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:29
Mary Saxton	Sad Eyes	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	03:05
M.G. & the Escorts	A Someday Fool	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:37
Triton Warrior	Sealed In a Grave	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:36
Nite Life	What's On Your Mind	What's On Your Mind b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)	03:46
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:46
Expedition to Earth	Time Time Time	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:55
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
France Joli	Baby Don't Stop Dancing	Come to Me // Let Go	07:50
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
Rock and Roll Bitches	Welders Song	Wild West (EP)	02:34
Mike Woods	Alberta	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	03:49
Kilt	Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow	Kilt	03:34
Anne Murray	Bidin' my time	This Way Is My Way	02:37
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
Alanis Obomsawin	Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens)	Indian Songs	00:57
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Try a Little Harder	Let Them In	02:42
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	Baby I Love You	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:22
D.O.A.	Royal Police	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:14
Genèse	Je crois en moi	L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi	02:34
VLA (Vincent V.)	I Gave My Heart (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	04:46
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
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
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
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
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Patti Jannetta	Don't You Want My Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:26
Craig Farraway	After All	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	04:18
Eddie Spencer	You're So Good to Me Baby	You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)	02:36
Clint Ryan	It Hurts to be Lonely	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	02:40
Midnight Angels	(I Wish) In the Moonlight	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	02:17
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	No Man Like My Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:42
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Opening)	The Hockey Theme	00:56
Nomeansno	Oh Canaduh	Oh Canaduh b/w New Age	01:59
Les Tallmud	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
Copperpenny	Get Away	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:17
Al Oster	Midnight Sun Rock	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	01:47
Plan Nine	In Sympathy With Poland	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:08
Stiffs	No Money	The Stiffs	01:26
Spirit of the West	Save This House	Save This House	02:55
Evolution Expantion	Blow Up	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	02:39
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Pointed Sticks	Lies	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:37
Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	03:50
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Sidewinders (1)	Put The Blame On Me	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:02
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Dick Damron	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02

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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