MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

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
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Copperpenny Taking My Heart Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Al Oster Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Dolores Claman The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March) The Hockey Theme
The Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Mary Saxton Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Alanis Obomsawin Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War) Indian Songs
Mendelson Joe Oh Travene Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
France Joli Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Viletones Screaming Fist Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Saga On The Loose On The Loose b/w Framed
Bruce Cockburn If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Otis Gayle We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
The Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Willie Thrasher Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Ian Thomas The Runner The Runner
Marie Hodgins Dance For The Sun God Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Don Norman & the Other Four Low Man Low Man b/w Mustang Sally
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Leonard Cohen Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Bernie LaBarge Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
Ron Baumber Duncan and the Devil Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Dick Damron Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Rush Limelight Moving Pictures
Kilt Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt Kilt
Rough Trade Highschool Confidential Avoid Freud
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
France Joli Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
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)
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
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)
Super 8 Corporation Free Version Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Mike Jones Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights Work Song That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
Etulu Etidlouie Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Monique Leyrac Pendant que Mon pays
Toulouse What Would My Mama Say What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Alanis Obomsawin NBAW (Hush - Sleep) Indian Songs
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Guido Basso Anna’s Theme Put Your Hand in the Hand
Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Media Girl I Want You Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Bruce Cockburn Sahara Gold Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
France Joli Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Élan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Dick Damron Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Russ Little Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
George Olliver Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Joni Mitchell Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Arthur Scammel R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Painted Ship I Told Those Little White Lies Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Ray St. Germain Metis ST
Anne Murray I Just Fall in Love Again New Kind of Feeling
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Jim Ashby Speed City (Acid Rock) Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Les Tallmud Un Autre Ami Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Bruce Cockburn Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Doug And The Slugs The Move Too Bad b/w The Move

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Underwhelmed (promo)

Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun

You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love

Lady - You're Still The One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love

Flying

Huskies & Huskvarnas

Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow

Lisa Lougheed (3)

Lisa Lougheed (2)

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45-Lisa Lougheed – Run With Us VINYL 02

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