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
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
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Twitch	Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	02:40
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Theresa's World (EP)	01:42
Willie Thrasher	Silent Inuit	Spirit Child	04:36
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Private School	Sci-Fi	Lost in Action (EP)	03:32
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	02:03
Robert Maciag	You Make Me Feel So Good	I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good	03:15
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Wade Hemsworth	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Saga	On The Loose	On The Loose b/w Framed	04:12
Copperpenny	Wine Song	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:04
Les Tallmud	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
Crystal Castles	Dolls	Alice Practice	01:29
Rush	Limelight	Moving Pictures	04:19
Ian Thomas	Long Long Way	Long Long Way	05:00
Mendelson Joe	The Canada Song	No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song	03:14
Alanis Obomsawin	Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens)	Indian Songs	00:57
Alanis Obomsawin	NBAW (Hush - Sleep)	Indian Songs	02:14
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Sidewinders (1)	Put The Blame On Me	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:02
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Triton Warrior	Sealed In a Grave	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:36
Alanis Obomsawin	Shibi (River of Dreams)	Indian Songs	02:07
Les Tallmud	Un Autre Ami	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:41
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	01:37
Bullrush	You've Sent Me Away	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	04:30
Thrills	Party Inside My Mind	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:38
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
Mary Saxton	Losing Control	Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die	02:04
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	Baby I Love You	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:22
Otis Gayle	We All Need Love	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	03:43
Rush	The Trees	Hemispheres	04:43
Joe Kozak	Hillbilly Rock	Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me	01:48
Bruce Cockburn	Sahara Gold	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:34
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Kilt	Wrecker's Den	Kilt	02:38
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Bruce Cockburn	Maybe the Poet	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:53
Seeds of Time	Muskrat Rumble	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:48
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
Patti Jannetta	Don't You Want My Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:26
Guido Basso	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	03:16
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
Ocean	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Don Norman & the Other Four	Low Man	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	02:15
Eddie Spencer	If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)	You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)	02:48
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
April Wine	Say Hello	Harder.....Faster	02:59
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Guess Who	Clock On The Wall	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	03:01
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
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Mushroom Band	Don't Come Down	Don't Come Down b/w Nobody	02:40
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ullulimat (I Think of You Always)	People Of The Ice	01:43
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
The Collectors	Lydia Purple	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	02:48
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
Fyre	New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:42
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	01:56
France Joli	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
Underworld	Bound	Bound b/w Go Away	03:15
Minotaur	Witch-Hunt	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	04:19
The Collectors	She (Will-O'-The Wind)	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	03:53
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
Copperpenny	Bad Manners	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:05
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
Doug And The Slugs	The Move	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:47
The Reaction	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
Secret V's	Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold	No Life Like It (EP)	02:33
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Anne Murray	Snowbird	This Way Is My Way	02:12
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Debbie Myers	Strong Enough to Bend	Strong Enough to Bend	02:44
Spy's	Underground	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	03:18
Stiffs	Fuck You	Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp	02:23
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Etulu Etidlouie	Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:29
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
Trans-X	Living On Video	Living On Video	05:56
Bruce Cockburn	Wondering Where the Lions Are	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:42
Fyre	David's Song	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:03
Joni Mitchell	Just Like This Train	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	04:24
Northern Pikes	Teenland	Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)	04:01
The Reaction	The Kid's Arrived	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	02:32
Midnight Angels	(I Wish) In the Moonlight	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	02:17
Kilt	I Was Made for Loving You	Kilt	03:19
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Try a Little Harder	Let Them In	02:42
Pluton and Humanoids	World Invaders	World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)	06:44
Sugluk	Ballad of the Running Girl	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:11
Ian Thomas	Painted Ladies	ST	03:31
Yvonne Moore	Hit & Run Lover	Hit & Run Lover	00:17
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

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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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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