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
Nomeansno	Oh Canaduh	Oh Canaduh b/w New Age	01:59
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
The Reaction	The Kid's Arrived	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	02:32
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
The Bureaucrats	Grown Up Age	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age	03:35
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Wade Hemsworth	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let Them In	Let Them In	02:33
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	01:40
D.O.A.	Royal Police	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:14
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
Nite Life	What's On Your Mind	What's On Your Mind b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)	03:46
Twitch	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn)	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	02:58
Sidewinders (1)	Cryin' Heartache Misery	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:08
Bruce Cockburn	Maybe the Poet	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:53
Spirit of the West	Save This House	Save This House	02:55
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Stiffs	Everyone Lies	The Stiffs	01:30
The Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
Mike Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
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
Ian Thomas	Painted Ladies	ST	03:31
Anne Murray	Bidin' my time	This Way Is My Way	02:37
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
k.d. lang	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
France Joli	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
Ian Thomas	Time is the Keeper	Glider	04:14
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	King Size	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:12
Rush	The Trees	Hemispheres	04:43
The Reaction	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Rod Williams & Super 8	War Version	War b/w War Version	03:36
France Joli	Baby Don't Stop Dancing	Come to Me // Let Go	07:50
Don Jewitt	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
Sugluk	Ballad of the Running Girl	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:11
Willie Thrasher	Wolves Don't Live By The Rules	Spirit Child	02:16
Kilt	Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs	Kilt	03:33
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Opening)	The Hockey Theme	00:56
Plan Nine	I Ain't No Robot	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:36
Willie Thrasher	Eskimo Named Johnny	Spirit Child	02:41
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)	03:24
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Rush	Limelight	Moving Pictures	04:19
k.d. lang	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
Freedom North	Fat Man	Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)	03:53
Guido Basso	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	03:16
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Payola$	Eyes of a Stranger	No Stranger to Danger	04:57
Kilt	Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt	Kilt	04:28
Bernie LaBarge	It's Real	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:43
Rock and Roll Bitches	Someone Could Lose an Eye	Wild West (EP)	02:24
Ian Thomas	Long Long Way	Long Long Way	05:00
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Witness Inc.	Visions of Vanessa	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:39
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
Etulu Etidlouie	Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:27
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
The Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age	03:20
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Chilliwack	Lonesome Mary	Lonesome Mary b/w Ridin'	03:04
Bruce Cockburn	Wondering Where the Lions Are	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:42
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back)	People Of The Ice	03:14
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin'	Switchin'	06:17
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
Lisa Lougheed	Run With Us	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:28
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
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
Pluton and Humanoids	World Invaders	World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)	06:44
Underworld	Go Away	Bound b/w Go Away	02:49
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
Roots Earth And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
Al Oster	Midnight Sun Rock	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	01:47
Ronnie Hawkins	Who Do You Love	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:41
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
Mingles	I'm Gonna Miss You	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	03:17
Maurice & The Clichés	It's All Talk	C'est la vie	03:18
Viletones	Possibilities	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:32
Evolution Expantion	Blow Up	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	02:39
Stompin' Tom Connors	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
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
France Joli	Playboy	Come to Me // Let Go	08:02
Gratitude	Loving You	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:15
Bells	Stay Awhile	Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom	03:26
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
Jury	Please Forget Her	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:44
Jean Leloup	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	03:19
Joni Mitchell	Just Like This Train	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	04:24
Mushroom Band	Don't Come Down	Don't Come Down b/w Nobody	02:40

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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Mary Saxton - Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart

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Mary Saxton - Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die

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The Modern Minds - Theresa's World (EP)

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The Collectors - Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)

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Kilt - Kilt

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Chilliwack - Lonesome Mary b/w Ridin'

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Craig Ruhnke - Give Me The Nightime b/w Give Me The Nightime (promo)

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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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