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
Spirit of the West	The Rocks at Thieves Bay	ST	04:56
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	04:43
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Private School	Sci-Fi	Lost in Action (EP)	03:32
Dishrags	Past Is Past	Past Is Past (EP)	02:24
Jack Cornell	Like the Clouds	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	03:27
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Theresa's World (EP)	01:42
Rush	Circumstances	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	03:44
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
Etulu Etidlouie	Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:56
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
Gypsy	The Market	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	02:30
Boys Brigade	The Passion Of Love	ST	03:40
Élan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
Gratitude	Loving You	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:15
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
Media	Girl I Want You	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	04:20
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Bernie LaBarge	Annie	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:52
Joe Kozak	Hillbilly Rock	Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me	01:48
Jerry Doucette	Down The Road	Mama Let Him Play	03:35
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
Mike Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Rod Williams & Super 8	War Version	War b/w War Version	03:36
Bells	Stay Awhile	Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom	03:26
Stiffs	Everyone Lies	The Stiffs	01:30
Stiffs	No Money	The Stiffs	01:26
A Passing Fancy	A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:37
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
Seeds of Time	Muskrat Rumble	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:48
Copperpenny	Get Away	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:17
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46
Stumpwater	Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	04:06
Collectors	She (Will-O'-The Wind)	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	03:53
Don Jewitt	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
Jay Telfer	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Ian Thomas	The Runner	The Runner	03:24
Mantra	Stay	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	02:57
Joni Mitchell	Big Yellow Taxi	Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)	02:15
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
Expedition to Earth	Time Time Time	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:55
Mighty Pope	Tower of Strength	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	03:01
Bernie LaBarge	Dream Away	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:48
Rabble	Golden Girl	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:04
Rush	Limelight	Moving Pictures	04:19
Jury	Please Forget Her	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:44
Trooper	Two for the Show	Two For The Show	04:27
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
The Fringe	Plastic People	Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown	02:12
Trans-X	Living On Video	Living On Video	05:56
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	Work Song	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:14
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)	02:40
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
Guess Who	Clock On The Wall	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	03:01
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)	03:24
Jerry Doucette	Mama Let Him Play	Mama Let Him Play	04:26
The Reaction	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
Don Norman & the Other Four	Low Man	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	02:15
Stiffs	Dad's a Pig	The Stiffs	01:31
Ocean	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Kilt	The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe	Kilt	03:18
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Summer)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:43
Witness Inc.	Another Side Of Her	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:42
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Underworld	Go Away	Bound b/w Go Away	02:49
Crystal Castles	Dolls	Alice Practice	01:29
Freedom North	Fat Man	Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)	03:53
Sugluk	Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	02:35
Wade Hemsworth	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part One)	I'm Alright	03:57
Anne Murray	I Just Fall in Love Again	New Kind of Feeling	02:49
Plan Nine	I Ain't No Robot	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:36
Copperpenny	Bad Manners	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:05
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Ron Baumber	Duncan and the Devil	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	02:52
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Rush	Freewill	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	05:24
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let's Get Together	Let Them In	02:04
Pointed Sticks	Lies	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:37
Ashley MacIsaac	The Devil in the Kitchen	The Devil in the Kitchen b/w What an Idiot He Is (featuring Jale) (picture sleeve, clear blue vinyl)	02:26
Alanis Obomsawin	Shibi (River of Dreams)	Indian Songs	02:07
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	01:37
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
Witness Inc.	Visions of Vanessa	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:39
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
Plan Nine	Fatal Femme	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:20

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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Private School - Lost in Action (EP)

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