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
Northern Pikes	Teenland	Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)	04:01
Plan Nine	In Sympathy With Poland	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:08
k.d. lang	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	When I Feel The Need For Love	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	06:33
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Bad Moon Rising	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	04:01
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
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
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	03:50
Alanis Obomsawin	Nookum (Reflections of an Elder)	Indian Songs	01:48
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
Don Norman & the Other Four	Mustang Sally	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	03:22
Viletones	Rebel	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:09
D.O.A.	Disco Sucks	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:39
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
George Olliver	I May Never Get to See You Again	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:38
Rod Williams & Super 8	War	War b/w War Version	03:16
A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:51
Bruce Cockburn	Sahara Gold	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:34
Fyre	New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:42
The Munks	Long Time Waiting	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:15
United Empire Loyalists	No, No, No	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	02:49
Mingles	I'm Gonna Miss You	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	03:17
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
Les Tallmud	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Payola$	Eyes of a Stranger	No Stranger to Danger	04:57
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Sea Cruise Blues	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	05:32
Willie Dunn	I Pity The Country	I Pity The Country b/w The Carver	02:55
Mary Saxton	Sad Eyes	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	03:05
Anne Murray	I Just Fall in Love Again	New Kind of Feeling	02:49
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	07:36
Gratitude	Loving You	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:15
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Don Norman & the Other Four	Low Man	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	02:15
Nomeansno	Oh Canaduh	Oh Canaduh b/w New Age	01:59
Media	Girl I Want You	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	04:20
Gentle Touch	One Way Ride	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:46
Spy's	Underground	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	03:18
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Opening)	The Hockey Theme	00:56
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
The Collectors	Lydia Purple	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	02:48
Lisa Lougheed	Run With Us	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:28
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part Two)	I'm Alright	03:43
Monique Leyrac	Pendant que	Mon pays	03:26
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Subhumans	No Productivity	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:08
Kilt	Dylan's Ghost	Kilt	02:23
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
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
Crystal Castles	Dolls	Alice Practice	01:29
The Reaction	Waiting In Line	East End Rockers	04:51
Bernie LaBarge	Annie	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:52
Jerry Doucette	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back)	People Of The Ice	03:14
Slow	I Broke The Circle	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:20
Tiaras	Foolish Girl	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:34
Mary Saxton	Losing Control	Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die	02:04
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
Dishrags	Tormented	Past Is Past (EP)	01:06
Kilt	The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe	Kilt	03:18
Bullrush	I Want To Be Set Free	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	03:14
k.d. lang	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
Spirit of the West	Save This House	Save This House	02:55
Jury	Please Forget Her	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:44
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Russ Little	I Want to Make it With You (David Gates)	Deeper and Deeper	02:46
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Early Morning Rain	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:52
Plan Nine	I Ain't No Robot	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:36
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Copperpenny	Bad Manners	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:05
Stiffs	21st Century	The Stiffs	02:18
Saga	On The Loose	On The Loose b/w Framed	04:12
Bruce Cockburn	Incandescent Blue	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	04:38
VLA (Vincent V.)	We Won't Let Each Other Go (Club Extended Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	06:17
Mendelson Joe	The Canada Song	No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song	03:14
Monique Leyrac	Mon pays	Mon pays	03:11
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	01:37
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	03:04
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Doug And The Slugs	The Move	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:47
Anne Murray	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
Pointed Sticks	Somebody's Mom	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	01:38
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
Willie Thrasher	Eskimo Named Johnny	Spirit Child	02:41
Roots Earth And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Theresa's World (EP)	01:42
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	No Man Like My Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:42
Ian Thomas	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
Craig Farraway	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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Russ Little - Deeper and Deeper

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Plan Nine - I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)

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222's - La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) b/w La poupee qui fait non (version instrumentale)

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Robert Maciag - I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good

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Tim Hus - Huskies & Huskvarnas

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The Munks - Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head

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The Haunted - 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning

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Len - You Can't Stop the Bum Rush

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Maurice & The Clichés - C'est la vie

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The Bureaucrats - Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age

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Jolly Tambourine Man - Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka

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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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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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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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