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
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ullulimat (I Think of You Always)	People Of The Ice	01:43
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Alanis Obomsawin	Shibi (River of Dreams)	Indian Songs	02:07
Etulu Etidlouie	Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:51
Stiffs	Dad's a Pig	The Stiffs	01:31
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
Alanis Obomsawin	Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens)	Indian Songs	00:57
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Try a Little Harder	Let Them In	02:42
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
The Fringe	Plastic People	Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown	02:12
Bullrush	You've Sent Me Away	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	04:30
D.O.A.	Royal Police	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:14
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
Underworld	Go Away	Bound b/w Go Away	02:49
Dick Damron	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02
Patti Jannetta	Rules of Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:46
Joni Mitchell	Help Me	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	03:22
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let's Get Together	Let Them In	02:04
Willie Thrasher	Silent Inuit	Spirit Child	04:36
Bruce Cockburn	Sahara Gold	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:34
Secret V's	Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold	No Life Like It (EP)	02:33
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
Kilt	Fisherman's Blues	Kilt	03:50
Stompin' Tom Connors	I Am the Wind	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	03:35
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
Craig Farraway	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34
Bullrush	I Want To Be Set Free	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	03:14
Thrills	Party Inside My Mind	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:38
Robert Maciag	You Make Me Feel So Good	I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good	03:12
Clint Ryan	Build Myself Around You	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	03:20
Bruce Cockburn	If I Had a Rocket Launcher	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:58
Viletones	Possibilities	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:32
Monique Leyrac	Pendant que	Mon pays	03:26
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
k.d. lang	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back)	People Of The Ice	03:14
Subhumans	No Productivity	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:08
Witness Inc.	Visions of Vanessa	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:39
Plan Nine	In Sympathy With Poland	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:08
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin II	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:59
Freedom North	Fat Man	Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)	03:53
Fyre	New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:42
Bruce Cockburn	Incandescent Blue	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	04:38
Kilt	Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs	Kilt	03:33
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Trooper	Two for the Show	Two For The Show	04:27
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Bad Moon Rising	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	04:01
Triton Warrior	Sealed In a Grave	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:36
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
Jerry Doucette	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
George Olliver	I May Never Get to See You Again	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:38
Bruce Cockburn	Lovers in a Dangerous Time	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:07
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
Bruce Cockburn	The Gift	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	06:06
Crystal Castles	Dolls	Alice Practice	01:29
M.G. & the Escorts	Remembering	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:33
Kilt	Wrecker's Den	Kilt	02:38
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Mighty Pope	Tower of Strength	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	03:01
Twitch	Things	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	03:37
Copperpenny	You're Still the One	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:29
Dishrags	Tormented	Past Is Past (EP)	01:06
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Gratitude	We are Here to Party	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:17
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
k.d. lang	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
Pluton and Humanoids	World Invaders	World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)	06:44
Alanis Obomsawin	Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War)	Indian Songs	02:02
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
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
Bernie LaBarge	Dream Away	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:48
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	03:24
George Olliver	Shine	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:13
Lisa Lougheed	Run With Us	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:28
Craig Farraway	After All	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	04:18
Gypsy	The Market	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	02:30
Ironhorse	What's Your Hurry Darlin'	Everything is Grey	04:30
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	No Man Like My Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:42
Jack Cornell	Like the Clouds	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	03:27
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	When I Feel The Need For Love	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	06:33
Ian Thomas	Painted Ladies	ST	03:31
Painted Ship	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld)	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:54
Élan	Freedom Song	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:41
Plan Nine	Fatal Femme	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:20
Reign Ghost	Parable	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	02:13
Genèse	Je crois en moi	L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi	02:34
Lady	Whatever Happened to the Love	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	02:41
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
Bum	A Promise Is A Promise	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:02
Plan Nine	Go	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:03

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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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