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
Jean Leloup	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	03:19
Kilt	Fisherman's Blues	Kilt	03:50
M.G. & the Escorts	A Someday Fool	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:37
Bureaucrats	Grown Up Age	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:35
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Copperpenny	Taking My Heart	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:16
Alanis Obomsawin	Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War)	Indian Songs	02:02
A Passing Fancy	A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:37
Monique Leyrac	Mon pays	Mon pays	03:11
Stompin' Connors Tom	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Subhumans	Firing Squad	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:07
Genèse	Je crois en moi	L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi	02:34
Pointed Sticks	What Do You Want Me To Do?	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	02:27
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Mashmakhan	As The Years Go By	As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)	03:04
La Révolution Française	Québecois	Québecois	04:46
Ian Thomas	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
Lisa Lougheed	Run With Us	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:28
Triton Warrior	Sealed In a Grave	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:36
Gale Garnett	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
Stiffs	Fuck You	Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp	02:23
Crystal Castles	Love and Caring	Alice Practice	02:18
Private School	Sci-Fi	Lost in Action (EP)	03:32
Sphex	Time	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:49
Northern Pikes	Teenland	Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)	04:01
Boys Brigade	The Passion Of Love	ST	03:40
Ronnie Hawkins	Bo Didley	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:56
Mingles	No Train Tonight	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	02:28
Etulu Etidlouie	Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:27
Eddie Spencer	If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)	You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)	02:48
The Reaction	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Painted Ship	I Told Those Little White Lies	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:39
Russ Little	Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little)	Deeper and Deeper	03:05
Mendelson Joe	Oh Travene	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	03:41
Anne-Marie Murray	The Streets of Old St. John's	The Streets of Old St. John's b/w Has Love Gone Out of Style	02:25
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	01:40
Kilt	Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow	Kilt	03:34
Underworld	Go Away	Bound b/w Go Away	02:49
Klaatu	Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft	3:47 EST	07:17
Élan	Freedom Song	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:41
Al Oster	Midnight Sun Rock	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	01:47
Spirit of the West	Save This House	Save This House	02:55
Bells	Stay Awhile	Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom	03:26
George Olliver	Shine	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:13
Ian Thomas	Painted Ladies	ST	03:31
Tiaras	Foolish Girl	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:34
Willie Thrasher	Spirit Child	Spirit Child	04:05
Mendelson Joe	Growing Pain	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	02:35
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	No Man Like My Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:42
Willie Thrasher	Silent Inuit	Spirit Child	04:36
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
D.O.A.	Nazi Training Camp	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:50
M.G. & the Escorts	Remembering	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:33
Joni Mitchell	Just Like This Train	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	04:24
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
Viletones	Rebel	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:09
Underworld	Bound	Bound b/w Go Away	03:15
Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
Private School	I Wanna Know	Lost in Action (EP)	02:30
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Mighty Pope	Tower of Strength	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	03:01
Joni Mitchell	You Turn Me On I'm a Radio	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	02:39
Sidewinders (1)	Cryin' Heartache Misery	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:08
Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Trooper	We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time)	Knock 'em Dead Kid	03:34
Trooper	Santa Maria	Two For The Show	02:56
Stumpwater	Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	04:06
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
Rush	Closer to the Heart	A Farewell to Kings	02:56
Plan Nine	In Sympathy With Poland	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:08
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home)	People Of The Ice	02:36
Rush	Freewill	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	05:24
Reign Ghost	Parable	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	02:13
Private School	Money Guns and Power	Lost in Action (EP)	03:12
Seeds of Time	Muskrat Rumble	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:48
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
Mary Saxton	Sad Eyes	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	03:05
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
Bruce Cockburn	Wondering Where the Lions Are	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:42
Robert Maciag	You Make Me Feel So Good	I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good	03:12
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
Fyre	David's Song	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:03
Clint Ryan	Build Myself Around You	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	03:20
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
Sugluk	Ballad of the Running Girl	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:11
Guido Basso	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Jerry Doucette	Mama Let Him Play	Mama Let Him Play	04:26
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Nomeansno	Oh Canaduh	Oh Canaduh b/w New Age	01:59
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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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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