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
Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:20
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
Les Tallmud	Un Autre Ami	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:41
Dundas	Can't You Hear Me	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	06:01
Evolution Expantion	Blow Up	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	02:39
Bernie LaBarge	Annie	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:52
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich)	People Of The Ice	02:37
Debbie Myers	Strong Enough to Bend	Strong Enough to Bend	02:44
Payola$	Eyes of a Stranger	No Stranger to Danger	04:57
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Twitch	Things	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	03:37
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home)	People Of The Ice	02:36
Mike Jones Group	Each and Every Day	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:18
France Joli	Playboy	Come to Me // Let Go	08:02
M.G. & the Escorts	A Someday Fool	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:37
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part One)	I'm Alright	03:57
Pointed Sticks	Lies	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:37
Stiffs	Everyone Lies	The Stiffs	01:30
Plan Nine	I Ain't No Robot	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:36
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Captain Tractor	The Last Saskatchewan Pirate	East of Edson	04:10
Viletones	Rebel	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:09
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
Copperpenny	Where is the Answer	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	04:20
Alan Gerber	Tied On	Tied On b/w Tied On	03:24
Spirit of the West	The Rocks at Thieves Bay	ST	04:56
Witness Inc.	Visions of Vanessa	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:39
Munks	Heartaches Over My Head	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:26
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
Rock and Roll Bitches	Someone Could Lose an Eye	Wild West (EP)	02:24
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
La Révolution Française	Québecois	Québecois	04:46
Punkin Machine	I Need You Tonight	I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight	05:38
Seeds of Time	Muskrat Rumble	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:48
Media	Endless Dream	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	03:19
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
The Hometown Band	Flying	Flying	03:50
Kilt	Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs	Kilt	03:33
The Reaction	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
Joe Kozak	Hillbilly Rock	Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me	01:48
Copperpenny	Wine Song	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:04
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:51
Willie Thrasher	Eskimo Named Johnny	Spirit Child	02:41
Shawne Jackson	Just as Bad as You	Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man	02:33
Monique Leyrac	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56
Rush	Freewill	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	05:24
Thrills	Telephone	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:57
Ron Baumber	Duncan and the Devil	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	02:52
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
Élan	Freedom Song	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:41
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play)	People Of The Ice	02:18
Eddie Spencer	You're So Good to Me Baby	You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)	02:36
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	01:37
Ian Thomas	Long Long Way	Long Long Way	05:00
Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
Willie Thrasher	Wolves Don't Live By The Rules	Spirit Child	02:16
Rush	The Trees	Hemispheres	04:43
Haunted	Eight O'Clock This Morning	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:20
Guido Basso	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
Lisa Lougheed	Hold Back Tomorrow	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:18
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Bruce Cockburn	If a Tree Falls	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	05:44
Stompin' Tom Connors	Canada Day Up Canada Way	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	02:37
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Doug And The Slugs	The Move	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:47
Expedition to Earth	Time Time Time	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:55
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
Fyre	David's Song	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:03
Anne Murray	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
Etulu Etidlouie	Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:29
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Russ Little	Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little)	Deeper and Deeper	03:05
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
Kilt	Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow	Kilt	03:34
D.O.A.	Royal Police	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:14
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
Ocean	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
Spy's	Underground	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	03:18
Les Tallmud	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
Freedom North	Fat Man	Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)	03:53
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Summer)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:43
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:46
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
Copperpenny	You're Still the One	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:29
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin II	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:59
Underworld	Bound	Bound b/w Go Away	03:15
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
Alanis Obomsawin	Nookum (Reflections of an Elder)	Indian Songs	01:48
George Olliver	I May Never Get to See You Again	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:38

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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Tim Hus - Huskies & Huskvarnas

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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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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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