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
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
Gentle Touch	Visitors Parking Only	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:45
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	No Man Like My Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:42
Copperpenny	Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	05:12
Painted Ship	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld)	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:54
Rough Trade	Highschool Confidential	Avoid Freud	03:14
The Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Pointed Sticks	I'm Numb	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:11
Ron Baumber	Keep it On the Tracks	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	03:08
Monique Leyrac	Mon pays	Mon pays	03:11
Clint Ryan	It Hurts to be Lonely	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	02:40
Sphex	Time	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:49
Nomeansno	Oh Canaduh	Oh Canaduh b/w New Age	01:59
Sugluk	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	05:25
D.O.A.	Nazi Training Camp	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:50
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:48
France Joli	Playboy	Come to Me // Let Go	08:02
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Don Jewitt	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
Kilt	The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe	Kilt	03:18
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
France Joli	Baby Don't Stop Dancing	Come to Me // Let Go	07:50
Willie Thrasher	Spirit Child	Spirit Child	04:05
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Tim Hus	Hurtin’ Albertan	Huskies & Huskvarnas	08:07
Mighty Pope	Tower of Strength	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	03:01
Robert Maciag	You Make Me Feel So Good	I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good	03:15
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
Stompin' Tom Connors	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Copperpenny	Get Away	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:17
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Jerry Doucette	Down The Road	Mama Let Him Play	03:35
Bullrush	You've Sent Me Away	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	04:30
The 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
The Fringe	Plastic People	Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown	02:12
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)	03:24
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
Stompin' Tom Connors	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Ronnie Hawkins	Bo Didley	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:56
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Saga	On The Loose	On The Loose b/w Framed	04:12
Don Norman & the Other Four	Mustang Sally	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	03:22
Bonnie Dobson	Morning Dew	ST	03:20
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
Northern Pikes	Teenland	Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)	04:01
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin'	Switchin'	06:17
Spirit of the West	Save This House	Save This House	02:55
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
The Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
Rush	The Trees	Hemispheres	04:43
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
Marie Hodgins	Dance For The Sun God	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	01:50
Kilt	Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs	Kilt	03:33
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Viletones	Rebel	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:09
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
Shawne Jackson	Just as Bad as You	Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man	02:33
Trooper	Two for the Show	Two For The Show	04:27
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Terry McManus	Carolyn (stereo)	Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)	02:40
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play)	People Of The Ice	02:18
Mingles	I'm Gonna Miss You	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	03:17
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
Slow	I Broke The Circle	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:20
The Bureaucrats	Grown Up Age	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age	03:35
Guido Basso	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Etulu Etidlouie	Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:27
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
Joe Kozak	Hillbilly Rock	Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me	01:48
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17
Lady	You're Still the One	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	03:04
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
k.d. lang	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
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
Stumpwater	Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	04:06
The Munks	Long Time Waiting	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:15
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Twitch	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn)	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	02:58
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
Triton Warrior	Satan's Train	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:08
France Joli	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
Sue Hansen	Sucking Up to You	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:24
Plan Nine	In Sympathy With Poland	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:08
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Private School	Sci-Fi	Lost in Action (EP)	03:32
Bernie LaBarge	Annie	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:52
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Copperpenny	Wine Song	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:04
Rush	Freewill	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	05:24
Bruce Cockburn	Sahara Gold	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:34
Gratitude	Loving You	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:15

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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Nomeansno - Oh Canaduh b/w New Age

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Russ Little - Deeper and Deeper

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Plan Nine - I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)

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222's - La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) b/w La poupee qui fait non (version instrumentale)

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Robert Maciag - I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good

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Tim Hus - Huskies & Huskvarnas

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The Munks - Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head

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

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Len - You Can't Stop the Bum Rush

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Maurice & The Clichés - C'est la vie

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The Bureaucrats - Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age

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Jolly Tambourine Man - Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka

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Jerry Doucette - The Deuce is Loose

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Jerry Doucette - Mama Let Him Play

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Spoons - After the Institution b/w My Job

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Boys Brigade - ST

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The Gruesomes - Hey!

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Dolores Claman - The Hockey Theme

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Sloan - Underwhelmed (promo)

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The Bed Time Story - Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun

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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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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