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
Copperpenny	Where is the Answer	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	04:20
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Ironhorse	What's Your Hurry Darlin'	Everything is Grey	04:30
Willie Thrasher	Wolves Don't Live By The Rules	Spirit Child	02:16
Al Oster	Next Boat	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	02:46
Jean Leloup	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	03:19
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
Patti Jannetta	Don't You Want My Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:26
Al Oster	Midnight Sun Rock	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	01:47
Witness Inc.	Another Side Of Her	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:42
Nite Life	What's On Your Mind	What's On Your Mind b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)	03:46
Punkin Machine	I Need You Tonight	I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight	05:38
Joni Mitchell	Big Yellow Taxi	Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)	02:15
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
Don Norman & the Other Four	Mustang Sally	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	03:22
Alanis Obomsawin	Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens)	Indian Songs	00:57
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Winter)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:53
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
Etulu Etidlouie	Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:19
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Mike Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
Fyre	David's Song	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:03
Expedition to Earth	Time Time Time	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:55
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Reign Ghost	Parable	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	02:13
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
Trans-X	Living On Video	Living On Video	05:56
Joni Mitchell	You turn Me On, I'm a Radio	You turn Me On, I'm a Radio b/w Urge for Going (picture sleeve) (promo)	02:40
Anne Murray	I Just Fall in Love Again	New Kind of Feeling	02:49
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Gypsy	The Market	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	02:30
France Joli	Playboy	Come to Me // Let Go	08:02
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
Terry McManus	Carolyn (stereo)	Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)	02:40
k.d. lang	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
Painted Ship	I Told Those Little White Lies	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:39
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun)	People Of The Ice	02:53
Rush	Fly by Night	Fly By Night	03:22
The Reaction	On The Beach	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	05:58
Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
The Collectors	Lydia Purple	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	02:48
Checkerlads	Shake Yourself Down	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:41
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
Alan Gerber	Tied On	Tied On b/w Tied On	03:24
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	06:46
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
Monique Leyrac	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	02:01
Mantra	Stay	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	02:57
A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:51
Private School	I Wanna Know	Lost in Action (EP)	02:30
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
Underworld	Bound	Bound b/w Go Away	03:15
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Les Tallmud	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
Mighty Pope	Heaven on the Seventh Floor	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	02:46
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
Pointed Sticks	Lies	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:37
Rush	The Spirit of Radio	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	04:59
Gentle Touch	One Way Ride	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:46
Bernie LaBarge	Can't Hold On Forever	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:24
Twitch	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn)	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	02:58
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Ron Baumber	Keep it On the Tracks	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	03:08
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
Gratitude	We are Here to Party	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:17
Genèse	Je crois en moi	L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi	02:34
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	01:56
Dishrags	Tormented	Past Is Past (EP)	01:06
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Spy's	Underground	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	03:18
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
Winston Hewitt	You're My Boopsie	You're My Boopsy	04:39
Stumpwater	Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	04:06
Bernie LaBarge	It's Real	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:43
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Mike Jones Group	Each and Every Day	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:18
Guido Basso	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Pursuit of Happiness	She's So Young	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	03:43
Ronnie Hawkins	Bo Didley	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:56
George Olliver	Shine	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:13
Les Tallmud	Un Autre Ami	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:41
Monique Leyrac	Pendant que	Mon pays	03:26
M.G. & the Escorts	Remembering	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:33
Jay Telfer	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
Stompin' Tom Connors	I Am the Wind	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	03:35
Don Jewitt	Northern Wind	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	03:06
Marie Hodgins	Dance For The Sun God	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	01:50
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
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
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
D.O.A.	Disco Sucks	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:39

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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