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
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Rabble	Golden Girl	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:04
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Monique Leyrac	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56
Craig Farraway	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34
Mendelson Joe	The Canada Song	No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song	03:14
D.O.A.	Nazi Training Camp	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:50
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	03:24
Etulu Etidlouie	Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:19
The Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
k.d. lang	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
Partland Brothers	Soul City	Electric Honey	03:52
Klaatu	Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft	3:47 EST	07:17
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
Alanis Obomsawin	Nookum (Reflections of an Elder)	Indian Songs	01:48
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
Rod Williams & Super 8	War	War b/w War Version	03:16
Ironhorse	What's Your Hurry Darlin'	Everything is Grey	04:30
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Sphex	Time	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:49
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
Thrills	Telephone	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:57
Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Private School	Sci-Fi	Lost in Action (EP)	03:32
Bullrush	I Want To Be Set Free	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	03:14
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Bad Moon Rising	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	04:01
Clint Ryan	Build Myself Around You	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	03:20
Anne-Marie Murray	The Streets of Old St. John's	The Streets of Old St. John's b/w Has Love Gone Out of Style	02:25
D.O.A.	Disco Sucks	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:39
Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Try a Little Harder	Let Them In	02:42
Rod Williams & Super 8	War Version	War b/w War Version	03:36
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
Jenny Rock	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	02:01
Haunted	Eight O'Clock This Morning	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:20
The Reaction	On The Beach	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	05:58
A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:51
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Winter)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:53
Anne Murray	Snowbird	This Way Is My Way	02:12
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
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Ronnie Hawkins	Who Do You Love	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:41
Bullrush	You've Sent Me Away	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	04:30
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	King Size	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:12
Stiffs	Homesick	The Stiffs	01:02
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
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	Playboy	Come to Me // Let Go	08:02
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
Mashmakhan	As The Years Go By	As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)	03:04
Pointed Sticks	I'm Numb	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:11
Guido Basso	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	03:16
Monique Leyrac	Mon pays	Mon pays	03:11
Dishrags	Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye)	Past Is Past (EP)	01:19
Copperpenny	Taking My Heart	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:16
Viletones	Possibilities	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:32
Alanis Obomsawin	Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War)	Indian Songs	02:02
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Willie Thrasher	Eskimo Named Johnny	Spirit Child	02:41
Mighty Pope	Heaven on the Seventh Floor	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	02:46
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin II	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:59
Don Norman & the Other Four	Mustang Sally	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	03:22
Trooper	Santa Maria	Two For The Show	02:56
The Collectors	Lydia Purple	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	02:48
Viletones	Rebel	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:09
Rush	Closer to the Heart	A Farewell to Kings	02:56
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ullulimat (I Think of You Always)	People Of The Ice	01:43
Mushroom Band	Don't Come Down	Don't Come Down b/w Nobody	02:40
Ashley MacIsaac	The Devil in the Kitchen	The Devil in the Kitchen b/w What an Idiot He Is (featuring Jale) (picture sleeve, clear blue vinyl)	02:26
Winston Hewitt	You're My Boopsie	You're My Boopsy	04:39
United Empire Loyalists	No, No, No	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	02:49
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers	Mr. Fortune	Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool	02:43
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
Mendelson Joe	Oh Travene	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	03:41
Midnight Angels	(I Wish) In the Moonlight	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	02:17
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Freedom North	Fat Man	Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)	03:53
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)	02:41
Mike Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46
Stiffs	No Money	The Stiffs	01:26
Willie Thrasher	Wolves Don't Live By The Rules	Spirit Child	02:16
The 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
The Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Patti Jannetta	Rules of Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:46
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part Two)	I'm Alright	03:43

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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