MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

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
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
The Reaction Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Russ Little Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Etulu Etidlouie Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
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)
Craig Farraway After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Willie Thrasher Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Willie Thrasher Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Anne Murray Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
k.d. lang Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Alanis Obomsawin Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War) Indian Songs
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Jay Telfer Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Willie Thrasher Forefathers Spirit Child
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Minotaur Witch-Hunt Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Don Jewitt Northern Wind Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Alanis Obomsawin Nookum (Reflections of an Elder) Indian Songs
Mike Woods Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Ian & Sylvia Tyson Early Morning Rain Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Roots Earth And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Willie Dunn I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Craig Farraway Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
The Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Rod Williams & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Jack Cornell Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Ian Thomas Painted Ladies ST
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Seeds of Time Muskrat Rumble My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Alanis Obomsawin Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
Dolores Claman The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Alanis Obomsawin Shibi (River of Dreams) Indian Songs
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Anne Murray I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Trooper The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car Two For The Show
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Let Them In Let Them In
Charlie Russell The Bricklin II The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II
Spirit of the West Save This House Save This House
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Mike Jones Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Gale Garnett We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Thrills Telephone Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone
Minotaur Burner Burner b/w Witch-Hunt
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Reign Ghost Long Day Journey Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Bed Time Story Feel the Sun Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
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)
Jack Cornell Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Etulu Etidlouie Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Ron Richardson Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
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)
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Bruce Cockburn If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
The Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Sugluk Little Boy Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Mary Saxton Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
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
L'infonie Come & Dance The OK LA! Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel
Rush The Trees The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Bells Stay Awhile Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom

You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love

Lady - You're Still The One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love

Flying

Huskies & Huskvarnas

Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow

Lisa Lougheed (3)

Lisa Lougheed (2)

Lisa Lougheed (1)

45-Lisa Lougheed – Run With Us VINYL 02

Switchin'

Diodes' Paul Robinson @ Black Swan, Ottawa March 1978 courtesy Cameron Muir

The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II

Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool

David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges

That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)

Moving Pictures

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

First Impressions (EP)

Genetic Control

1985-02-17_Dead End + Genetic Control_Larry_s (Toronto)_ticket_+

Genetic Control_First Impressions_+

1980-07_DOA_Toronto_flyer

1983-01-03_DOA_Pier (Raleigh, NC)_flyer_+

1984-09-28_DOA + Abrasive Wheels + Battalion Of Saints + Killroy_Olympic Audit (LA, CA)_flyer_+

Rush – Moving Pictures (3)

Rush – Moving Pictures (2)

Rush – Moving Pictures (1)

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