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.

Captain Tractor - East of Edson

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Bureacrats - Feel the Pain b/w Grown Up Age

Nomeansno - Oh Canaduh b/w New Age

Arthur Scammel - Squid Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2

Frankie

Private School - Lost in Action (EP)

Second and longest-lasting lineup, l-r: Ed Clynton, Dave Tupper, Kenny Shields, Allen Ayers and Les Bateman (kneeling)

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The Fringe - Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown

Elan - Penticton Peaches (insert)

Joni Mitchell - Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)

Leonard Cohen - Suzanne b/w The Partisan

Pelicans - Pelicans b/w New Wave insert

Kings - Switchin' to Glide b/w My Habit (promo)

Rabble - You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl

k.d. lang - Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)

Natalie Pollock & John Turner

Guess Who - Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)

Bob Williams - I'm Alright (Part One) b/w I'm Alright (Part Two)

Rick Buckthorp

The Fringe

The Fringe

'Stompin' Tom Connors - Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail

MG & the Escorts 1967 promo from RPM Magazine November 11, 1967

Slow - I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)

Rock and Roll Bitches Kenny MacKay at Edmonton Library gig Jan 17, 1981. photo courtesy Rose Kapp

Skarecrow - (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Pointed Sticks Somebody's Mom What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
Mitchell, Joni Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Rough Trade Highschool Confidential Avoid Freud
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
MacIsaac, Ashley The Devil in the Kitchen The Devil in the Kitchen b/w What an Idiot He Is (featuring Jale) (picture sleeve, clear blue vinyl)
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Thomas, Ian Long Long Way Long Long Way
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
April Wine Say Hello Harder.....Faster
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Garnett, Gale We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Bed Time Story Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Little, Russ Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Elan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Basso, Guido For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Elan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Ironhorse What's Your Hurry Darlin' Everything is Grey
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Genetic Control Urban Cowboy First Impressions (EP)
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Punkin Machine I Need You Tonight I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
VLA (Vincent V.) I Gave My Heart (Club Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Pointed Sticks What Do You Want Me To Do? What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Twitch Things Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Dobson, Bonnie Morning Dew ST
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Partland Brothers Soul City Electric Honey
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
lang, k.d. Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Mitchell, Joni You Turn Me On I'm a Radio Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Farraway, Craig After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Sugluk Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Thomas, Ian Pilot Glider
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Lady Whatever Happened to the Love You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Leyrac, Monique Pendant que Mon pays
Cockburn, Bruce Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
April Wine I Like To Rock Harder.....Faster
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?

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