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
Roots Earth And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
The Bed Time Story	Feel the Sun	Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun	02:21
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
The Reaction	Waiting In Line	East End Rockers	04:51
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
Triton Warrior	Sealed In a Grave	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:36
Gypsy	The Market	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	02:30
Lady	You're Still the One	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	03:04
Kilt	Wrecker's Den	Kilt	02:38
The Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
Kilt	South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel	Kilt	02:46
Lisa Lougheed	Run With Us	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:28
The Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
Stompin' Tom Connors	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
Copperpenny	You're Still the One	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:29
Bernie LaBarge	Annie	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:52
Bruce Cockburn	Sahara Gold	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:34
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:31
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Guido Basso	Anna’s Theme	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:47
Rush	Freewill	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	05:24
Painted Ship	I Told Those Little White Lies	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:39
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Rush	Closer to the Heart	A Farewell to Kings	02:56
Craig Farraway	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
Slow	I Broke The Circle	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:20
Stompin' Tom Connors	Canada Day Up Canada Way	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	02:37
Jay Telfer	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Winter)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:53
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
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
Media	Girl I Want You	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	04:20
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	06:46
Saga	On The Loose	On The Loose b/w Framed	04:12
Pointed Sticks	Somebody's Mom	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	01:38
D.O.A.	Royal Police	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:14
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
Witness Inc.	Another Side Of Her	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:42
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Bum	A Promise Is A Promise	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:02
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
The Reaction	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
Private School	Money Guns and Power	Lost in Action (EP)	03:12
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
Reign Ghost	Parable	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	02:13
Anne Murray	Snowbird	This Way Is My Way	02:12
Crystal Castles	Dolls	Alice Practice	01:29
Partland Brothers	Soul City	Electric Honey	03:52
Spy's	Underground	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	03:18
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
Chilliwack	Ridin'	Lonesome Mary b/w Ridin'	03:02
Dundas	Bloodshot in Your Eyes	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	02:43
Monique Leyrac	Pendant que	Mon pays	03:26
Jerry Doucette	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
Ironhorse	What's Your Hurry Darlin'	Everything is Grey	04:30
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Kilt	I Was Made for Loving You	Kilt	03:19
Bullrush	You've Sent Me Away	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	04:30
France Joli	Playboy	Come to Me // Let Go	08:02
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Mendelson Joe	The Canada Song	No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song	03:14
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
Dishrags	Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye)	Past Is Past (EP)	01:19
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Alanis Obomsawin	Shibi (River of Dreams)	Indian Songs	02:07
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Copperpenny	Where is the Answer	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	04:20
The Collectors	Lydia Purple	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	02:48
Sugluk	Ballad of the Running Girl	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:11
Craig Farraway	After All	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	04:18
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
Spirit of the West	The Rocks at Thieves Bay	ST	04:56
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Etulu Etidlouie	Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:19
Trooper	Santa Maria	Two For The Show	02:56
Stiffs	Homesick	The Stiffs	01:02
Ocean	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
Sidewinders (1)	Put The Blame On Me	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:02
Viletones	Screaming Fist	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:04
Mashmakhan	As The Years Go By	As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)	03:04
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Summer)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:43
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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Mary Saxton - Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart

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

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The Modern Minds - Theresa's World (EP)

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

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Kilt - Kilt

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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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