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	Pendant que	Mon pays	03:26
Nomeansno	Oh Canaduh	Oh Canaduh b/w New Age	01:59
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Chilliwack	Ridin'	Lonesome Mary b/w Ridin'	03:02
Mighty Pope	Heaven on the Seventh Floor	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	02:46
Partland Brothers	Soul City	Electric Honey	03:52
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
Robert Maciag	You Make Me Feel So Good	I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good	03:15
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Russ Little	I Want to Make it With You (David Gates)	Deeper and Deeper	02:46
Tim Hus	Hurtin’ Albertan	Huskies & Huskvarnas	08:07
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Winter)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:53
Ron Baumber	Duncan and the Devil	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	02:52
Fyre	New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:42
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Rod Williams & Super 8	War	War b/w War Version	03:16
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
Chilliwack	Lonesome Mary	Lonesome Mary b/w Ridin'	03:04
VLA (Vincent V.)	I Gave My Heart (Club Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	04:32
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
Bruce Cockburn	Lovers in a Dangerous Time	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:07
Plan Nine	Go	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:03
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
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
Bells	Stay Awhile	Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom	03:26
Sphex	Time	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:49
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
Len	Steal My Sunshine	You Can't Stop the Bum Rush	04:25
Plan Nine	Fatal Femme	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:20
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Freedom North	Fat Man	Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)	03:53
Bruce Cockburn	If a Tree Falls	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	05:44
Etulu Etidlouie	Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:29
Bernie LaBarge	It's Real	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:43
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:48
Mary Saxton	Sad Eyes	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	03:05
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Thrills	Telephone	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:57
Joni Mitchell	Just Like This Train	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	04:24
The Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
United Empire Loyalists	No, No, No	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	02:49
The Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
Trooper	Two for the Show	Two For The Show	04:27
Clint Ryan	It Hurts to be Lonely	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	02:40
Joni Mitchell	Help Me	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	03:22
Evolution Expantion	Blow Up	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	02:39
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
Viletones	Rebel	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:09
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
Bells	Moody Manitoba Morning	Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning	03:15
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Genèse	Je crois en moi	L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi	02:34
Punkin Machine	I Need You Tonight	I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight	05:38
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Al Oster	Next Boat	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	02:46
Boys Brigade	The Passion of Love	ST	03:40
Gratitude	Loving You	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:15
The Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Bad Moon Rising	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	04:01
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Kilt	The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe	Kilt	03:18
Kilt	Fisherman's Blues	Kilt	03:50
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
Winston Hewitt	You're My Boopsie	You're My Boopsy	04:39
Ian Thomas	Time is the Keeper	Glider	04:14
D.O.A.	Nazi Training Camp	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:50
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich)	People Of The Ice	02:37
M.G. & the Escorts	A Someday Fool	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:37
Monique Leyrac	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56
Dick Damron	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02
France Joli	Playboy	Come to Me // Let Go	08:02
Mushroom Band	Don't Come Down	Don't Come Down b/w Nobody	02:40
k.d. lang	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Summer)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:43
Power of Beckett	Back to Me	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:37
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
Stiffs	No Money	The Stiffs	01:26
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ullulimat (I Think of You Always)	People Of The Ice	01:43
Stiffs	Dad's a Pig	The Stiffs	01:31
Otis Gayle	Sexy Eyes	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	04:12
The Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
Don Norman & the Other Four	Mustang Sally	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	03:22
Anne Murray	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
Don Jewitt	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
Slow	I Broke The Circle	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:20
Copperpenny	Taking My Heart	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:16
Crystal Castles	Dolls	Alice Practice	01:29
M.G. & the Escorts	Remembering	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:33
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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Kilt - Kilt

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Chilliwack - Lonesome Mary b/w Ridin'

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Craig Ruhnke - Give Me The Nightime b/w Give Me The Nightime (promo)

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Nomeansno - Oh Canaduh b/w New Age

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Russ Little - Deeper and Deeper

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Plan Nine - I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)

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222's - La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) b/w La poupee qui fait non (version instrumentale)

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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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