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
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Anne Murray I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Rush Closer to the Heart A Farewell to Kings
The Reaction On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Gentle Touch Visitors Parking Only Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Etulu Etidlouie Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Ian & Sylvia Tyson Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Joni Mitchell Help Me Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
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)
k.d. lang High Time for a Detour Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Bruce Cockburn Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Anne Murray Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Don Jewitt Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
The Reaction Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Stompin' Tom Connors Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
France Joli Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
The Collectors She (Will-O'-The Wind) Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Jean Leloup L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
The Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Craig Farraway Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
Russ Little I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
Ron Baumber Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Guido Basso Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Willie Thrasher Forefathers Spirit Child
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Monique Leyrac Pendant que Mon pays
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Bruce Cockburn Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
The Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Crack of Dawn The Key The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Stompin' Tom Connors Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
VLA (Vincent V.) We Won't Let Each Other Go (Club Extended Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Élan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Nite Life What's On Your Mind ** What's On Your Mind ** b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)
Rush Freewill Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)
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)
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Together Let Them In
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Mary Saxton Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Ian Thomas Hold On The Runner
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Élan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
Clint Ryan Build Myself Around You It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
George Olliver I May Never Get to See You Again I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Stompin' Tom Connors I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
The Hometown Band Flying Flying
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Spy's Machine Shop Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
France Joli Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Suspects Raining Over France Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Gypsy The Market Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Jenny Rock Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Don Norman & the Other Four Mustang Sally Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Russ Little Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Dundas Can't You Hear Me Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Jack Cornell Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Mike Jones Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Monique Leyrac L'hiver Mon pays
Bernie LaBarge Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Otis Gayle Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love

The Munks

The Munks

The Munks

Freedom North

Freedom North

Freedom North

Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head

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

You Can't Stop the Bum Rush

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Maurice & the Cliches

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Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age

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