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
Winston Hewitt You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Jack Cornell Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Dolores Claman The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
Bruce Cockburn Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
Boys Brigade The Passion of Love ST
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
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
Joni Mitchell Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Len Steal My Sunshine You Can't Stop the Bum Rush
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
The Reaction Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Rough Trade Highschool Confidential Avoid Freud
Joni Mitchell Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Joe Kozak Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Willie Dunn I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Guido Basso For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Rush The Trees Hemispheres
Rush Freewill Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)
Arthur Scammel R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
The Reaction Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Mary Saxton Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Ian Thomas Pilot Glider
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Chokolit Affair Chokolit Groove Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Copperpenny Boogie Woogie Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Rod Williams & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
VLA (Vincent V.) We Won't Let Each Other Go (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Arthur Scammel R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Ted Daigle Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Rock and Roll Bitches Welders Song Wild West (EP)
Don Norman & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Spirit of the West Save This House Save This House
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Punkin Machine I Need You Tonight I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Ocean Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Etulu Etidlouie Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Bonnie Dobson Morning Dew ST
Bruce Cockburn Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
The Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Trooper The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car Two For The Show
The Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Ian Thomas Long Long Way Long Long Way
Mike Woods Alberta Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
The Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning

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

You Can't Stop the Bum Rush

C'est la vie

Maurice & the Cliches

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Maurice & The Cliches - Cest la vie BACK

Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age

The Bureaucrats

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Bureacrats - Feel the Pain b/w Grown Up Age

The Bureaucrats / Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)

The Bureaucrats / Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)

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Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka

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