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
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Mike Jones Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Maurice & The Clichés It's All Talk C'est la vie
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)
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Ian Thomas The Runner The Runner
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
k.d. lang High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Guido Basso Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Viletones Rebel Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Rush Freewill Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)
Alanis Obomsawin NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Joe Kozak Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Wade Hemsworth The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Willie Thrasher Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Jack J Looking Forward to You Looking Forward to You
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Etulu Etidlouie Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
The Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Guido Basso For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Alanis Obomsawin Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War) Indian Songs
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Al Oster Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Anne Murray Snowbird This Way Is My Way
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
Dolores Claman The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Stompin' Tom Connors The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Don Norman & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Bernie LaBarge It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
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)
Robert Maciag You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Anne Murray Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
Monique Leyrac Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
The Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
The Bed Time Story Feel the Sun Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Winston Hewitt You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Ron Baumber Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Bernie LaBarge Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
The Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Willie Thrasher Forefathers Spirit Child
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)
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Kilt Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow Kilt
Ian & Sylvia Tyson Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Chilliwack Lonesome Mary Lonesome Mary b/w Ridin'
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Bonnie Dobson Morning Dew ST
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Ronnie Hawkins Bo Didley Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Marie Hodgins Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Ray St. Germain Metis ST
The Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
k.d. lang Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Jay Telfer Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
Mike Woods Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice

I'm Easy b/w For Someone on the Road

45-Ron Nigrini I'm Easy b/w For Someone on the Road VINYL 02

Anna Marie b/w Into the Night

45-Susan Jacks - Anna Marie VINYL 02

The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)

Immortals The Ultimate Warlord LABEL 02

Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart

Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die

Modern Minds - Theresa's World (EP)

Modern Minds - Theresa's World (EP)

Theresa's World (EP)

Modern Minds - Theresa's World (EP)

Modern Minds - Theresa's World (EP)

Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)

Kilt

Lonesome Mary b/w Ridin'

45-Chilliwack - Lonesome Mary VINYL 02

Give Me The Nightime b/w Give Me The Nightime (promo)

Oh Canaduh b/w New Age

Deeper and Deeper

I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)

La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) b/w La poupee qui fait non (version instrumentale)

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I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good

Tim Hus (2)

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Tim Hus (7)

Tim Hus (6)

Tim Hus (5)

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