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.

Captain Tractor - East of Edson

Reaction

Bureacrats - Feel the Pain b/w Grown Up Age

Nomeansno - Oh Canaduh b/w New Age

Arthur Scammel - Squid Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2

Frankie

Private School - Lost in Action (EP)

Second and longest-lasting lineup, l-r: Ed Clynton, Dave Tupper, Kenny Shields, Allen Ayers and Les Bateman (kneeling)

Witness ad

The Fringe - Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown

Elan - Penticton Peaches (insert)

Joni Mitchell - Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)

Leonard Cohen - Suzanne b/w The Partisan

Pelicans - Pelicans b/w New Wave insert

Kings - Switchin' to Glide b/w My Habit (promo)

Rabble - You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl

k.d. lang - Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)

Natalie Pollock & John Turner

Guess Who - Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)

Bob Williams - I'm Alright (Part One) b/w I'm Alright (Part Two)

Rick Buckthorp

The Fringe

The Fringe

'Stompin' Tom Connors - Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail

MG & the Escorts 1967 promo from RPM Magazine November 11, 1967

Rock and Roll Bitches Kenny MacKay at Edmonton Library gig Jan 17, 1981. photo courtesy Rose Kapp

Slow - I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)

Skarecrow - (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Telfer, Jay Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Subhumans No Productivity Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
Damron, Dick Gonna Have a Party Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Ugly Ducklings Nothin' Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Ms. Dolly Gilmore Sweet Sweet Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) When I Feel The Need For Love When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Cockburn, Bruce If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Thrasher, Willie Eskimo Named Johnny Spirit Child
Jackson, Shawne Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
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)
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Etidlouie, Etulu Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part Two) I'm Alright
Dunn, Willie I Pity The Country I Pity The Country b/w The Carver
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Copperpenny Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Joli, France Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Pursuit of Happiness She's So Young I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Copperpenny Get Away Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Private School Fuck You Lost in Action (EP)
Basso, Guido Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Dad's a Pig The Stiffs
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Copperpenny Thinking of You Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Connors, Stompin' Tom The Hockey Song And the Hockey Song
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Saxton, Mary Losing Control Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Hus, Tim Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
Obomsawin, Alanis Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Williams, Bob I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Diodes Tired of Waking Up Tired Released
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Cockburn, Bruce Sahara Gold Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Baumber, Ron Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Reaction, The The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Obomsawin, Alanis Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Thrasher, Willie Spirit Child Spirit Child
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Punkin Machine I Need You Tonight I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Thomas, Ian Time is the Keeper Glider

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