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
Viletones	Screaming Fist	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:04
The Fringe	Plastic People	Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown	02:12
Saga	On The Loose	On The Loose b/w Framed	04:12
Lady	Whatever Happened to the Love	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	02:41
The Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
Ron Baumber	Keep it On the Tracks	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	03:08
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
Sugluk	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	05:25
Klaatu	Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft	3:47 EST	07:17
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
Copperpenny	Get Away	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:17
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Rod Williams & Super 8	War Version	War b/w War Version	03:36
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
Clint Ryan	It Hurts to be Lonely	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	02:40
Kilt	South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel	Kilt	02:46
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	Work Song	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:14
The Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
Rush	Freewill	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	05:24
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Anne Murray	I Just Fall in Love Again	New Kind of Feeling	02:49
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let Them In	Let Them In	02:33
Roots Earth And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Try a Little Harder	Let Them In	02:42
Alan Gerber	Tied On	Tied On b/w Tied On	03:24
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
Debbie Myers	Strong Enough to Bend	Strong Enough to Bend	02:44
Alanis Obomsawin	NBAW (Hush - Sleep)	Indian Songs	02:14
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
Pluton and Humanoids	World Invaders	World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)	06:44
Rod Williams & Super 8	War	War b/w War Version	03:16
Mike Woods	Alberta	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	03:49
Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	03:50
Plan Nine	I Ain't No Robot	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:36
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
Secret V's	Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold	No Life Like It (EP)	02:33
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
L'infonie	Come & Dance The OK LA!	Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel	03:04
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Mendelson Joe	Oh Travene	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	03:41
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
Willie Thrasher	Spirit Child	Spirit Child	04:05
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
Mantra	San Francisco Morning	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	03:16
Mantra	Stay	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	02:57
Payola$	Eyes of a Stranger	No Stranger to Danger	04:57
Ian Thomas	Time is the Keeper	Glider	04:14
k.d. lang	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
Rock and Roll Bitches	Welders Song	Wild West (EP)	02:34
Etulu Etidlouie	Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:19
Kilt	Fisherman's Blues	Kilt	03:50
Mingles	No Train Tonight	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	02:28
Bruce Cockburn	If a Tree Falls	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	05:44
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
Dishrags	Tormented	Past Is Past (EP)	01:06
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
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)	02:28
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
Plan Nine	Fatal Femme	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:20
Triton Warrior	Satan's Train	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:08
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
Ronnie Hawkins	Who Do You Love	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:41
Stiffs	Dad's a Pig	The Stiffs	01:31
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Spy's	Underground	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	03:18
Craig Farraway	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:51
Ian Thomas	Painted Ladies	ST	03:31
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	02:01
Monique Leyrac	Mon pays	Mon pays	03:11
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Fyre	David's Song	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:03
The Reaction	Waiting In Line	East End Rockers	04:51
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Opening)	The Hockey Theme	00:56
Bum	A Promise Is A Promise	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:02
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)	03:24
Viletones	Rebel	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:09
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Etulu Etidlouie	Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:27
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
Rush	Circumstances	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	03:44
Mushroom Band	Don't Come Down	Don't Come Down b/w Nobody	02:40
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun)	People Of The Ice	02:53
Ian Thomas	Long Long Way	Long Long Way	05:00
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
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
M.G. & the Escorts	Remembering	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:33

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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The Haunted - 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning

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Len - You Can't Stop the Bum Rush

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Maurice & The Clichés - C'est la vie

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The Bureaucrats - Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age

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Jolly Tambourine Man - Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka

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Jerry Doucette - The Deuce is Loose

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Jerry Doucette - Mama Let Him Play

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Spoons - After the Institution b/w My Job

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Boys Brigade - ST

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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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Teenage Head - Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)

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