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
The Reaction Trials In Error East End Rockers
Bernie LaBarge It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Bob Williams I'm Alright (Part Two) I'm Alright
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Wine Song Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
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)
Sue Hansen Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Terry McManus Carolyn (stereo) Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Alanis Obomsawin Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Alanis Obomsawin Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War) Indian Songs
Guido Basso For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Rod Williams & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Kilt Last Call Kilt
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)
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
k.d. lang High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Bruce Cockburn If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Willie Thrasher Silent Inuit Spirit Child
The Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Anne Murray Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Ron Baumber Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Alanis Obomsawin NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
The Hometown Band Flying Flying
Lisa Lougheed Hold Back Tomorrow Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
The Fringe Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Etulu Etidlouie Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Ian Thomas Pilot Glider
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Alanis Obomsawin Shibi (River of Dreams) Indian Songs
Sidewinders (1) Cryin' Heartache Misery Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery
Clint Ryan It Hurts to be Lonely It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Roots Earth And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Northern Haze Qaina ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq
Les Tallmud Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Mike Jones Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Anne Murray I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Clint Ryan Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Yvonne Moore Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Joni Mitchell Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Charlie Russell The Bricklin II The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Rock and Roll Bitches Broad Daylight Wild West (EP)
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Spirit of the West The Rocks at Thieves Bay ST
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Don Norman & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Dolores Claman The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Ocean Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Jerry Doucette Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Wade Hemsworth The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods

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Underwhelmed (promo)

Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun

You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love

Lady - You're Still The One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love

Flying

Huskies & Huskvarnas

Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow

Lisa Lougheed (3)

Lisa Lougheed (2)

Lisa Lougheed (1)

45-Lisa Lougheed – Run With Us VINYL 02

Switchin'

Diodes' Paul Robinson @ Black Swan, Ottawa March 1978 courtesy Cameron Muir

The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II

Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool

David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges

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