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
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Opening)	The Hockey Theme	00:56
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
Etulu Etidlouie	Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:29
Kilt	Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt	Kilt	04:28
Ironhorse	What's Your Hurry Darlin'	Everything is Grey	04:30
Mantra	San Francisco Morning	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	03:16
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Stompin' Connors Tom	I Am the Wind	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	03:35
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	When I Feel The Need For Love	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	06:33
Pointed Sticks	I'm Numb	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:11
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
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
A Passing Fancy	A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:37
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
The Ugly Ducklings	Nothin'	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	02:35
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Don Jewitt	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
The Reaction	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
Collectors	Lydia Purple	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	02:48
Debbie Myers	Strong Enough to Bend	Strong Enough to Bend	02:44
Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:20
VLA (Vincent V.)	I Gave My Heart (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	04:46
Viletones	Rebel	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:09
Plan Nine	In Sympathy With Poland	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:08
Copperpenny	You're Still the One	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:29
Eddie Spencer	You're So Good to Me Baby	You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)	02:36
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
Ian Thomas	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
Joe Kozak	Hillbilly Rock	Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me	01:48
Twitch	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn)	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	02:58
Bruce Cockburn	Incandescent Blue	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	04:38
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
Northern Pikes	Teenland	Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)	04:01
Painted Ship	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld)	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:54
Pointed Sticks	Somebody's Mom	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	01:38
Roots Earth And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
Jay Telfer	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
April Wine	Say Hello	Harder.....Faster	02:59
Russ Little	I Want to Make it With You (David Gates)	Deeper and Deeper	02:46
Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
Bureaucrats	Grown Up Age	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:35
Rush	Limelight	Moving Pictures	04:19
Twitch	Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	02:40
Gratitude	Loving You	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:15
Midnight Angels	(I Wish) In the Moonlight	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	02:17
La Révolution Française	Québecois	Québecois	04:46
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Russ Little	Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little)	Deeper and Deeper	03:05
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
Yvonne Moore	Hit & Run Lover	Hit & Run Lover	00:17
Mighty Pope	Tower of Strength	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	03:01
Rush	Fly by Night	Fly By Night	03:22
Haunted	Eight O'Clock This Morning	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:20
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
Stompin' Connors Tom	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
Plan Nine	Fatal Femme	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:20
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Etulu Etidlouie	Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:19
Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	03:50
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
Jury	Please Forget Her	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:44
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
The Ugly Ducklings	Just In Case You Wonder	Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)	02:28
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
Joni Mitchell	Just Like This Train	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	04:24
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	07:36
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	01:56
Joni Mitchell	Big Yellow Taxi	Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)	02:15
Don Norman & the Other Four	Low Man	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	02:15
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
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
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Together	Let Them In	02:50
United Empire Loyalists	No, No, No	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	02:49
Guess Who	Clock On The Wall	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	03:01
Bruce Cockburn	Sahara Gold	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:34
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back)	People Of The Ice	03:14
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
Jean Leloup	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	03:19
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun)	People Of The Ice	02:53
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
Willie Thrasher	Silent Inuit	Spirit Child	04:36
Sphex	Time	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:49
Spirit of the West	Save This House	Save This House	02:55
Mike Jones Group	Each and Every Day	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:18
Rush	The Trees	Hemispheres	04:43
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
Kilt	South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel	Kilt	02:46
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin II	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:59
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Willie Thrasher	Eskimo Named Johnny	Spirit Child	02:41

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) - Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues

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Don Norman & the Other Four - Low Man b/w Mustang Sally

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

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Private School - Lost in Action (EP)

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Poppy Family - Which Way You Goin' Billy?

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