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
Marie Hodgins	Yesterday’s Dreams	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	02:38
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ullulimat (I Think of You Always)	People Of The Ice	01:43
Alanis Obomsawin	NBAW (Hush - Sleep)	Indian Songs	02:14
Mingles	I'm Gonna Miss You	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	03:17
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Gratitude	We are Here to Party	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:17
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Jim Ashby	Speed City (Acid Rock)	Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City	02:44
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
Triton Warrior	Sealed In a Grave	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:36
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Spirit of the West	The Rocks at Thieves Bay	ST	04:56
Underworld	Go Away	Bound b/w Go Away	02:49
k.d. lang	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
Bonnie Dobson	Morning Dew	ST	03:20
Monique Leyrac	Pendant que	Mon pays	03:26
Alan Gerber	Tied On	Tied On b/w Tied On	03:24
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
Dishrags	Past Is Past	Past Is Past (EP)	02:24
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
France Joli	Baby Don't Stop Dancing	Come to Me // Let Go	07:50
A Passing Fancy	A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:37
Fyre	New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:42
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
Ron Baumber	Keep it On the Tracks	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	03:08
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Minotaur	Witch-Hunt	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	04:19
Bruce Cockburn	The Gift	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	06:06
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
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
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
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
Clint Ryan	Build Myself Around You	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	03:20
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
Twitch	Things	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	03:37
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun)	People Of The Ice	02:53
Ian Thomas	Painted Ladies	ST	03:31
Rod Williams & Super 8	War	War b/w War Version	03:16
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	02:01
Patti Jannetta	Rules of Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:46
The Ugly Ducklings	That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind	Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)	02:43
Mary Saxton	Sad Eyes	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	03:05
Clint Ryan	It Hurts to be Lonely	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	02:40
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	When I Feel The Need For Love	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	06:33
Joni Mitchell	Big Yellow Taxi	Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)	02:15
Bernie LaBarge	Annie	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:52
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
Willie Thrasher	Spirit Child	Spirit Child	04:05
Winston Hewitt	You're My Boopsie	You're My Boopsy	04:39
The Reaction	The Kid's Arrived	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	02:32
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
Bruce Cockburn	Wondering Where the Lions Are	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:42
Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:31
VLA (Vincent V.)	I Gave My Heart (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	04:46
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Trooper	Two for the Show	Two For The Show	04:27
Rush	The Trees	Hemispheres	04:43
Stumpwater	Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	03:33
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
Bed Time Story	Feel the Sun	Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun	02:21
Klaatu	Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft	3:47 EST	07:17
D.O.A.	Disco Sucks	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:39
Joni Mitchell	Just Like This Train	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	04:24
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	01:40
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back)	People Of The Ice	03:14
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
Tiaras	Foolish Girl	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:34
Jerry Doucette	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
Rush	Fly by Night	Fly By Night	03:22
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Pointed Sticks	Somebody's Mom	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	01:38
Saga	On The Loose	On The Loose b/w Framed	04:12
Bruce Cockburn	Maybe the Poet	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:53
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	02:03
Freedom North	Fat Man	Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)	03:53
The Reaction	Waiting In Line	East End Rockers	04:51
Genèse	Je crois en moi	L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi	02:34
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
Anne Murray	Snowbird	This Way Is My Way	02:12
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Bureaucrats	Grown Up Age	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:35
Etulu Etidlouie	Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:42
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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Poppy Family - Which Way You Goin' Billy?

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