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
Dishrags	Tormented	Past Is Past (EP)	01:06
Joni Mitchell	Big Yellow Taxi	Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)	02:15
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
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Triton Warrior	Sealed In a Grave	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:36
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ullulimat (I Think of You Always)	People Of The Ice	01:43
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
Sugluk	Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	02:35
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Rabble	Golden Girl	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:04
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play)	People Of The Ice	02:18
Genèse	Je crois en moi	L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi	02:34
D.O.A.	Disco Sucks	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:39
Kilt	Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs	Kilt	03:33
Modern Minds	Theresa's World	Theresa's World (EP)	01:56
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
Trooper	The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car	Two For The Show	03:00
Pointed Sticks	Somebody's Mom	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	01:38
Gale Garnett	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
Stiffs	No Money	The Stiffs	01:26
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	Work Song	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:14
Pointed Sticks	Lies	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:37
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
Slow	I Broke The Circle	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:20
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
M.G. & the Escorts	A Someday Fool	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:37
Boys Brigade	The Passion Of Love	ST	03:40
Craig Farraway	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34
France Joli	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
Élan	Freedom Song	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:41
Bruce Cockburn	If I Had a Rocket Launcher	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:58
Bells	Stay Awhile	Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom	03:26
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
Stompin' Tom Connors	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Les Tallmud	Un Autre Ami	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:41
Jenny Rock	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
Sugluk	Ballad of the Running Girl	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:11
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back)	People Of The Ice	03:14
Bureaucrats	Grown Up Age	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:35
Sidewinders (1)	Put The Blame On Me	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:02
Spy's	Underground	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	03:18
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Sea Cruise Blues	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	05:32
Partland Brothers	Soul City	Electric Honey	03:52
Willie Thrasher	Spirit Child	Spirit Child	04:05
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
Ian Thomas	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
Al Oster	Next Boat	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	02:46
Clint Ryan	It Hurts to be Lonely	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	02:40
Anne Murray	I Just Fall in Love Again	New Kind of Feeling	02:49
Etulu Etidlouie	Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:27
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:46
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	04:32
Bruce Cockburn	Lovers in a Dangerous Time	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:07
Monique Leyrac	Pendant que	Mon pays	03:26
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Rock and Roll Bitches	Welders Song	Wild West (EP)	02:34
Fyre	New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:42
Stumpwater	Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	03:33
Joni Mitchell	Help Me	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	03:22
Russ Little	Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas)	Deeper and Deeper	03:03
Roots Earth And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
Guido Basso	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	03:16
Willie Thrasher	Eskimo Named Johnny	Spirit Child	02:41
Ian Thomas	Time is the Keeper	Glider	04:14
The Collectors	She (Will-O'-The Wind)	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	03:53
Stiffs	21st Century	The Stiffs	02:18
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
The Reaction	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Stiffs	Homesick	The Stiffs	01:02
Plan Nine	I Ain't No Robot	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:36
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Alanis Obomsawin	NBAW (Hush - Sleep)	Indian Songs	02:14
Etulu Etidlouie	Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:51
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Opening)	The Hockey Theme	00:56
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
Rock and Roll Bitches	Someone Could Lose an Eye	Wild West (EP)	02:24
Joe Kozak	Hillbilly Rock	Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me	01:48
The Collectors	Lydia Purple	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	02:48
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
Don Norman & the Other Four	Low Man	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	02:15
Evolution Expantion	Blow Up	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	02:39
Alanis Obomsawin	Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks)	Indian Songs	01:58
Bernie LaBarge	It's Real	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:43
Crystal Castles	Dolls	Alice Practice	01:29

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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Jerry Doucette - The Deuce is Loose

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Jerry Doucette - Mama Let Him Play

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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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Don Jewitt - Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses

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Jury - Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?

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Reign Ghost - Long Day Journey b/w Parable

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Doug And The Slugs - Too Bad b/w The Move

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Checkerlads - Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)

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Bum - A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day

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Diodes - Released

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