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
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers	Mr. Fortune	Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool	02:43
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
Alanis Obomsawin	Shibi (River of Dreams)	Indian Songs	02:07
Monique Leyrac	Mon pays	Mon pays	03:11
Private School	Money Guns and Power	Lost in Action (EP)	03:12
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
Alanis Obomsawin	Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks)	Indian Songs	01:58
The Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Dick Damron	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Joe Kozak	Hillbilly Rock	Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me	01:48
Winston Hewitt	You're My Boopsie	You're My Boopsy	04:39
Stiffs	No Money	The Stiffs	01:26
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
Les Tallmud	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
Stiffs	21st Century	The Stiffs	02:18
Otis Gayle	Sexy Eyes	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	04:12
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
The Reaction	Waiting In Line	East End Rockers	04:51
Expedition to Earth	Time Time Time	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:55
Copperpenny	Bad Manners	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:05
Gale Garnett	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
Dundas	Can't You Hear Me	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	06:01
The Ugly Ducklings	Nothin'	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	02:35
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	No Man Like My Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:42
Etulu Etidlouie	Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:51
Dishrags	Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye)	Past Is Past (EP)	01:19
Checkerlads	Shake Yourself Down	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:41
Mike Woods	Alberta	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	03:49
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Demics	New York City	New York City b/w Blue Boy	04:32
Lady	You're Still the One	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	03:04
France Joli	Let Go	Come to Me // Let Go	09:26
United Empire Loyalists	No, No, No	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	02:49
Copperpenny	Taking My Heart	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:16
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home)	People Of The Ice	02:36
Plan Nine	In Sympathy With Poland	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:08
Kilt	Dylan's Ghost	Kilt	02:23
Bruce Cockburn	If a Tree Falls	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	05:44
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
The Fringe	Plastic People	Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown	02:12
Lisa Lougheed	Hold Back Tomorrow	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:18
Stompin' Tom Connors	I Am the Wind	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	03:35
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
Don Jewitt	Northern Wind	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	03:06
Stiffs	Fuck You	Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp	02:23
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Try a Little Harder	Let Them In	02:42
Chilliwack	Ridin'	Lonesome Mary b/w Ridin'	03:02
Willie Thrasher	Silent Inuit	Spirit Child	04:36
Bells	Stay Awhile	Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom	03:26
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	01:40
Gratitude	We are Here to Party	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:17
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Chilliwack	Lonesome Mary	Lonesome Mary b/w Ridin'	03:04
Rush	Closer to the Heart	A Farewell to Kings	02:56
Pointed Sticks	Lies	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:37
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let Them In	Let Them In	02:33
Ian Thomas	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
Plan Nine	Fatal Femme	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:20
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	Sweet Sweet Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:59
George Olliver	Shine	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:13
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
Rod Williams & Super 8	War Version	War b/w War Version	03:36
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
Genèse	Je crois en moi	L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi	02:34
Tiaras	Surprise!	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:25
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
Stumpwater	Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	04:06
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Northern Pikes	Teenland	Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)	04:01
The Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age	03:20
Tim Hus	Hurtin’ Albertan	Huskies & Huskvarnas	08:07
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Élan	Penticton Peaches	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:13
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
VLA (Vincent V.)	We Won't Let Each Other Go (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	04:43
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	King Size	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:12
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
Bernie LaBarge	Annie	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:52
Russ Little	Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little)	Deeper and Deeper	03:05
The Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Mendelson Joe	Growing Pain	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	02:35
Stiffs	Dad's a Pig	The Stiffs	01:31
Dundas	Bloodshot in Your Eyes	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	02:43

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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Chilliwack - Lonesome Mary b/w Ridin'

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Craig Ruhnke - Give Me The Nightime b/w Give Me The Nightime (promo)

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Nomeansno - Oh Canaduh b/w New Age

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Russ Little - Deeper and Deeper

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Plan Nine - I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)

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

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

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Tim Hus - Huskies & Huskvarnas

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The Munks - Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head

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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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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)

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