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
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Copperpenny	Taking My Heart	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:16
Rush	The Spirit of Radio	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	04:59
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Viletones	Screaming Fist	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:04
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin II	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:59
Fyre	New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:42
Sugluk	Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	02:41
Anne Murray	I Just Fall in Love Again	New Kind of Feeling	02:49
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	06:46
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
Willie Thrasher	Spirit Child	Spirit Child	04:05
Clint Ryan	Build Myself Around You	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	03:20
Viletones	Possibilities	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:32
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back)	People Of The Ice	03:14
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
Stompin' Connors Tom	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Guido Basso	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	03:16
Bruce Cockburn	Lovers in a Dangerous Time	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:07
Dick Damron	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02
Spirit of the West	Save This House	Save This House	02:55
Craig Farraway	After All	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	04:18
k.d. lang	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
Witness Inc.	Visions of Vanessa	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:39
Secret V's	Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold	No Life Like It (EP)	02:33
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
Jim Ashby	Speed City (Acid Rock)	Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City	02:44
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Rush	Limelight	Moving Pictures	04:19
Stiffs	Fuck You	Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp	02:23
Kilt	Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs	Kilt	03:33
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part Two)	I'm Alright	03:43
Don Jewitt	Northern Wind	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	03:06
Monique Leyrac	Mon pays	Mon pays	03:11
Ronnie Hawkins	Bo Didley	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:56
Gratitude	Loving You	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:15
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Slow	I Broke The Circle	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:20
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
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
Bruce Cockburn	Maybe the Poet	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:53
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Sea Cruise Blues	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	05:32
Boys Brigade	The Passion Of Love	ST	03:40
Ron Baumber	Keep it On the Tracks	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	03:08
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Stiffs	Dad's a Pig	The Stiffs	01:31
Fyre	David's Song	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:03
Copperpenny	You're Still the One	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:29
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Bad Moon Rising	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	04:01
France Joli	Let Go	Come to Me // Let Go	09:26
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Lady	You're Still the One	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love	03:04
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
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
Sphex	Time	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:49
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	When I Feel The Need For Love	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	06:33
The Reaction	Waiting In Line	East End Rockers	04:51
Bruce Cockburn	Sahara Gold	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:34
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	01:37
Underworld	Go Away	Bound b/w Go Away	02:49
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
Copperpenny	Bad Manners	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:05
Jean Leloup	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	03:19
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Together	Let Them In	02:50
Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
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
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
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Les Tallmud	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Stiffs	21st Century	The Stiffs	02:18
Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
Spirit of the West	The Rocks at Thieves Bay	ST	04:56
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
A Passing Fancy	A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:37
Gypsy	The Market	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	02:30
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
Collectors	She (Will-O'-The Wind)	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	03:53
Thrills	Party Inside My Mind	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:38
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin'	Switchin'	06:17
Bruce Cockburn	The Gift	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	06:06
Private School	I Wanna Know	Lost in Action (EP)	02:30
Twitch	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn)	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	02:58
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Rock and Roll Bitches	Someone Could Lose an Eye	Wild West (EP)	02:24
Kilt	I Was Made for Loving You	Kilt	03:19

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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Private School - Lost in Action (EP)

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