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
Monique Leyrac	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
The Hometown Band	Flying	Flying	03:50
Twitch	Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	02:40
D.O.A.	Nazi Training Camp	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:50
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:31
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Bonnie Dobson	Morning Dew	ST	03:20
Willie Dunn	I Pity The Country	I Pity The Country b/w The Carver	02:55
Willie Thrasher	Spirit Child	Spirit Child	04:05
Rush	Fly by Night	Fly By Night	03:22
Secret V's	Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold	No Life Like It (EP)	02:33
Mike Woods	Alberta	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	03:49
Jay Telfer	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
Alanis Obomsawin	Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War)	Indian Songs	02:02
La Révolution Française	Québecois	Québecois	04:46
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Theresa's World (EP)	01:42
Clint Ryan	It Hurts to be Lonely	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	02:40
Evolution Expantion	Blow Up	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	02:39
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ullulimat (I Think of You Always)	People Of The Ice	01:43
The Collectors	Lydia Purple	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	02:48
Dishrags	Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye)	Past Is Past (EP)	01:19
Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17
Bruce Cockburn	If I Had a Rocket Launcher	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:58
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	06:46
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part Two)	I'm Alright	03:43
Rush	The Spirit of Radio	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	04:59
Otis Gayle	We All Need Love	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	03:43
Nite Life	What's On Your Mind	What's On Your Mind b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)	03:46
Copperpenny	Wine Song	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:04
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
Expedition to Earth	Time Time Time	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:55
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
United Empire Loyalists	Afraid of the Dark	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	01:59
Bullrush	You've Sent Me Away	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	04:30
Alanis Obomsawin	Shibi (River of Dreams)	Indian Songs	02:07
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:20
Stiffs	Everyone Lies	The Stiffs	01:30
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	06:17
D.O.A.	Disco Sucks	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:39
Russ Little	Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little)	Deeper and Deeper	03:05
Subhumans	No Productivity	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:08
France Joli	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
April Wine	Say Hello	Harder.....Faster	02:59
Mike Jones Group	Each and Every Day	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:18
Bells	Moody Manitoba Morning	Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning	03:15
Don Jewitt	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
Spirit of the West	The Rocks at Thieves Bay	ST	04:56
Ronnie Hawkins	Bo Didley	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:56
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Twitch	Things	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	03:37
Gratitude	We are Here to Party	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:17
Triton Warrior	Satan's Train	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:08
Anne Murray	Snowbird	This Way Is My Way	02:12
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin'	Switchin'	06:17
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	01:40
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play)	People Of The Ice	02:18
Otis Gayle	Sexy Eyes	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	04:12
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
Jim Ashby	Speed City (Acid Rock)	Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City	02:44
Patti Jannetta	Don't You Want My Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:26
Al Oster	Next Boat	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	02:46
Guess Who	Clock On The Wall	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	03:01
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
Boys Brigade	The Passion of Love	ST	03:40
Thrills	Party Inside My Mind	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:38
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
Ashley MacIsaac	The Devil in the Kitchen	The Devil in the Kitchen b/w What an Idiot He Is (featuring Jale) (picture sleeve, clear blue vinyl)	02:26
Private School	Sci-Fi	Lost in Action (EP)	03:32
Don Norman & the Other Four	Low Man	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	02:15
D.O.A.	Royal Police	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:14
A Passing Fancy	A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:37
Bruce Cockburn	If a Tree Falls	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	05:44
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	03:24
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
Bureaucrats	Grown Up Age	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:35
Trans-X	Living On Video	Living On Video	05:56
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
Etulu Etidlouie	Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:56
222's	La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll)	La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) b/w La poupee qui fait non (version instrumentale)	02:42
Dundas	Bloodshot in Your Eyes	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	02:43
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Rod Williams & Super 8	War Version	War b/w War Version	03:36
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Minotaur	Witch-Hunt	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	04:19
Private School	I Wanna Know	Lost in Action (EP)	02:30

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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Boys Brigade - ST

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

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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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Tim Hus - Huskies & Huskvarnas

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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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