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
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
Ron Baumber	Keep it On the Tracks	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	03:08
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
The Reaction	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Alanis Obomsawin	Nookum (Reflections of an Elder)	Indian Songs	01:48
Slow	I Broke The Circle	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:20
Kilt	Dylan's Ghost	Kilt	02:23
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Copperpenny	Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	05:12
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Klaatu	Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft	3:47 EST	07:17
The Ugly Ducklings	Nothin'	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	02:35
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	King Size	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:12
Pluton and Humanoids	World Invaders	World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)	06:44
Ocean	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Twitch	Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	02:40
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin'	Switchin'	06:17
Willie Thrasher	Spirit Child	Spirit Child	04:05
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	Work Song	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:14
Mike Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
Viletones	Screaming Fist	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:04
Gentle Touch	Visitors Parking Only	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:45
Stiffs	Homesick	The Stiffs	01:02
Patti Jannetta	Rules of Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:46
Viletones	Rebel	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:09
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Evolution Expantion	Blow Up	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	02:39
Mantra	San Francisco Morning	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	03:16
Dishrags	Tormented	Past Is Past (EP)	01:06
Rod Williams & Super 8	War Version	War b/w War Version	03:36
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Otis Gayle	Sexy Eyes	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	04:12
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	When I Feel The Need For Love	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	06:33
The Reaction	The Kid's Arrived	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	02:32
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Mike Woods	Alberta	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	03:49
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Opening)	The Hockey Theme	00:56
Mendelson Joe	The Canada Song	No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song	03:14
Dick Damron	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02
Trans-X	Living On Video	Living On Video	05:56
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:20
Rush	Closer to the Heart	A Farewell to Kings	02:56
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
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
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
Stiffs	No Money	The Stiffs	01:26
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Ironhorse	What's Your Hurry Darlin'	Everything is Grey	04:30
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
Ronnie Hawkins	Bo Didley	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:56
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
Thrills	Telephone	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:57
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
Bruce Cockburn	Incandescent Blue	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	04:38
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let's Get Together	Let Them In	02:04
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	02:03
Twitch	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn)	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	02:58
Pointed Sticks	What Do You Want Me To Do?	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	02:27
Etulu Etidlouie	Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:51
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Willie Thrasher	Eskimo Named Johnny	Spirit Child	02:41
Anne Murray	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
Winston Hewitt	You're My Boopsie	You're My Boopsy	04:39
Jack Cornell	Like the Clouds	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	03:27
Guido Basso	Anna’s Theme	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:47
Plan Nine	Fatal Femme	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:20
Stiffs	Fuck You	Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp	02:23
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
Mendelson Joe	Growing Pain	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	02:35
Don Jewitt	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
Guido Basso	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	03:16
Viletones	Possibilities	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:32
Lady	You're Still the One	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love	03:04
Stompin' Connors Tom	Canada Day Up Canada Way	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	02:37
France Joli	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
Triton Warrior	Sealed In a Grave	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:36
Monique Leyrac	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56
Dundas	Bloodshot in Your Eyes	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	02:43
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
Private School	Money Guns and Power	Lost in Action (EP)	03:12
Guess Who	Clock On The Wall	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	03:01
Private School	Sci-Fi	Lost in Action (EP)	03:32
Rush	Freewill	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	05:24
Anne Murray	Bidin' my time	This Way Is My Way	02:37
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Rock and Roll Bitches	Someone Could Lose an Eye	Wild West (EP)	02:24
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06

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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