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
The Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
Stiffs	21st Century	The Stiffs	02:18
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers	Mr. Fortune	Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool	02:43
Eddie Spencer	If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)	You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)	02:48
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
The Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
The Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
Craig Farraway	After All	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	04:18
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
Jerry Doucette	Down The Road	Mama Let Him Play	03:35
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Together	Let Them In	02:50
Crystal Castles	Love and Caring	Alice Practice	02:18
Stiffs	Fuck You	Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp	02:23
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
The Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age	03:20
Thrills	Party Inside My Mind	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:38
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Rough Trade	Highschool Confidential	Avoid Freud	03:14
Ronnie Hawkins	Bo Didley	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:56
D.O.A.	Disco Sucks	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:39
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Secret V's	Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold	No Life Like It (EP)	02:33
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Patti Jannetta	Don't You Want My Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:26
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
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
Pointed Sticks	I'm Numb	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:11
Etulu Etidlouie	Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:56
France Joli	Baby Don't Stop Dancing	Come to Me // Let Go	07:50
Private School	I Wanna Know	Lost in Action (EP)	02:30
Sue Hansen	Sucking Up to You	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:24
Stompin' Tom Connors	Canada Day Up Canada Way	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	02:37
Media	Endless Dream	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	03:19
Mantra	Stay	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	02:57
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:48
Minotaur	Witch-Hunt	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	04:19
Rabble	Golden Girl	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:04
Triton Warrior	Satan's Train	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:08
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Tim Hus	Hurtin’ Albertan	Huskies & Huskvarnas	08:07
Rush	Fly by Night	Fly By Night	03:22
Stumpwater	Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	04:06
222's	La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll)	La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) b/w La poupee qui fait non (version instrumentale)	02:42
Ian Thomas	The Runner	The Runner	03:24
Mendelson Joe	Oh Travene	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	03:41
Bruce Cockburn	If a Tree Falls	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	05:44
Mike Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Mendelson Joe	The Canada Song	No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song	03:14
Anne Murray	Snowbird	This Way Is My Way	02:12
Munks	Long Time Waiting	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:15
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	Baby I Love You	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:22
Otis Gayle	We All Need Love	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	03:43
Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	03:50
A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:51
Winston Hewitt	You're My Boopsie	You're My Boopsy	04:39
Partland Brothers	Soul City	Electric Honey	03:52
Trans-X	Living On Video	Living On Video	05:56
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Opening)	The Hockey Theme	00:56
The Reaction	On The Beach	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	05:58
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
Kilt	Dylan's Ghost	Kilt	02:23
Marie Hodgins	Dance For The Sun God	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	01:50
Copperpenny	Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	05:12
The Reaction	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	02:03
Bells	Moody Manitoba Morning	Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning	03:15
France Joli	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
Bullrush	You've Sent Me Away	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	04:30
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Rod Williams & Super 8	War	War b/w War Version	03:16
Doug And The Slugs	The Move	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:47
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
Monique Leyrac	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56
Rush	Closer to the Heart	A Farewell to Kings	02:56
Stiffs	Dad's a Pig	The Stiffs	01:31
Mike Woods	Alberta	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	03:49
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
Private School	Sci-Fi	Lost in Action (EP)	03:32
M.G. & the Escorts	A Someday Fool	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:37
Etulu Etidlouie	Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:19
Bonnie Dobson	Morning Dew	ST	03:20
Rush	Circumstances	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	03:44

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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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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