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
Mary Saxton	Losing Control	Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die	02:04
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Punkin Machine	I Need You Tonight	I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight	05:38
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Rush	Freewill	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	05:24
Bruce Cockburn	Maybe the Poet	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:53
Ian Thomas	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
Anne Murray	I Just Fall in Love Again	New Kind of Feeling	02:49
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
D.O.A.	Disco Sucks	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:39
Yvonne Moore	Hit & Run Lover	Hit & Run Lover	00:17
Mushroom Band	Don't Come Down	Don't Come Down b/w Nobody	02:40
Élan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
Bureaucrats	Grown Up Age	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:35
Bells	Stay Awhile	Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom	03:26
Nite Life	What's On Your Mind	What's On Your Mind b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)	03:46
Willie Thrasher	Silent Inuit	Spirit Child	04:36
Guido Basso	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	03:16
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Try a Little Harder	Let Them In	02:42
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46
Willie Thrasher	Wolves Don't Live By The Rules	Spirit Child	02:16
Plan Nine	Fatal Femme	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:20
Pursuit of Happiness	She's So Young	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	03:43
Willie Dunn	I Pity The Country	I Pity The Country b/w The Carver	02:55
Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Trooper	We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time)	Knock 'em Dead Kid	03:34
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	03:04
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
Witness Inc.	Another Side Of Her	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:42
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
France Joli	Playboy	Come to Me // Let Go	08:02
Dundas	Can't You Hear Me	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	06:01
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)	05:25
April Wine	Say Hello	Harder.....Faster	02:59
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:51
Mingles	No Train Tonight	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	02:28
Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
Stiffs	Everyone Lies	The Stiffs	01:30
Lady	You're Still the One	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	03:04
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Fyre	New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:42
Triton Warrior	Sealed In a Grave	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:36
Ian Thomas	Long Long Way	Long Long Way	05:00
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Stumpwater	Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	04:06
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
Alan Gerber	Tied On	Tied On b/w Tied On	03:24
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Spy's	Underground	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	03:18
Private School	I Wanna Know	Lost in Action (EP)	02:30
Stiffs	Fuck You	Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp	02:23
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
Rabble	Golden Girl	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:04
Al Oster	Midnight Sun Rock	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	01:47
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
The Hometown Band	Flying	Flying	03:50
Bruce Cockburn	Incandescent Blue	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	04:38
M.G. & the Escorts	Remembering	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:33
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
Mantra	San Francisco Morning	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	03:16
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
Jean Leloup	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	03:19
Otis Gayle	Sexy Eyes	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	04:12
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Ian Thomas	Time is the Keeper	Glider	04:14
Guido Basso	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
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
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
Copperpenny	Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	05:12
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play)	People Of The Ice	02:18
The Fringe	Plastic People	Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown	02:12
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
Willie Thrasher	Eskimo Named Johnny	Spirit Child	02:41
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Theresa's World (EP)	01:42
Tim Hus	Hurtin’ Albertan	Huskies & Huskvarnas	08:07
Sidewinders (1)	Cryin' Heartache Misery	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:08
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
k.d. lang	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
Bruce Cockburn	If I Had a Rocket Launcher	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:58
Stompin' Tom Connors	Canada Day Up Canada Way	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	02:37
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let's Get Together	Let Them In	02:04
France Joli	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
The Reaction	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Bullrush	I Want To Be Set Free	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	03:14
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
Painted Ship	I Told Those Little White Lies	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:39
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
Marie Hodgins	Yesterday’s Dreams	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	02:38

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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Jolly Tambourine Man - Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka

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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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Tim Hus - Huskies & Huskvarnas

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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)

Rush - Moving Pictures

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Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

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Rush - Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)

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Rush - Hemispheres

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Rush - A Farewell to Kings

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Rush - Fly By Night

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Sidewinders (1) - Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery

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Teenage Head - Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)

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Ocean - Put Your Hand in the Hand

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Bob Williams - I'm Alright

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Guido Basso - Put Your Hand in the Hand

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April Wine - Harder.....Faster

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