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
Jean Leloup L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Genetic Control Brave New World First Impressions (EP)
Sugluk Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Monique Leyrac Tout mais pas ca Mon pays
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Dick Damron Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Joni Mitchell Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Prism Spaceship Superstar ST
Al Oster Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
k.d. lang Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
Bruce Cockburn Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Anne Murray Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
49th Parallel Citizen Freak She Says b/w Citizen Freak
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of) King Size King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Kilt Come on Eileen Kilt
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Stompin' Connors Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Jenny Rock Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté
Sugluk Ballad of the Running Girl Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Bruce Cockburn Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Etulu Etidlouie Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Ian Thomas The Runner The Runner
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Mendelson Joe Growing Pain Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain
France Joli Come to Me Come to Me // Let Go
Mighty Pope Tower of Strength Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Demics New York City New York City b/w Blue Boy
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Crystal Castles Alice Practice Alice Practice
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Hometown Band I'm Ready Flying
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Rock and Roll Bitches Broad Daylight Wild West (EP)
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Etulu Etidlouie Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Suspects Over Exposed Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France
Jay Telfer Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
The Ugly Ducklings That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)
Patti Jannetta Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Anne Murray Bidin' my time This Way Is My Way
Alanis Obomsawin Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Ian Thomas Hold On The Runner
Alanis Obomsawin Shibi (River of Dreams) Indian Songs
Stiffs No Money The Stiffs
Genetic Control Love Rat First Impressions (EP)
Stompin' Connors Tom I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Robert Maciag You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Theresa's World (EP)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
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)
Arthur Scammel R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Mike Woods Alberta Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Shawne Jackson Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Élan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Jack Cornell Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Jack Cornell Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Stompin' Connors Tom Canada Day Up Canada Way Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
France Joli Let Go Come to Me // Let Go
Bernie LaBarge Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Ian Thomas Painted Ladies ST
Anne-Marie Murray The Streets of Old St. John's The Streets of Old St. John's b/w Has Love Gone Out of Style
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Checkerlads Baby Send For Me Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
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)
Ted Daigle No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
L'infonie Come & Dance The OK LA! Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel
Bruce Cockburn Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Dolores Claman The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
Russ Little Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
Élan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Bruce Cockburn Wondering Where the Lions Are Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Otis Gayle We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
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)

Switchin'

Diodes' Paul Robinson @ Black Swan, Ottawa March 1978 courtesy Cameron Muir

The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II

Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool

David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges

That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)

Moving Pictures

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

First Impressions (EP)

Genetic Control

1985-02-17_Dead End + Genetic Control_Larry_s (Toronto)_ticket_+

Genetic Control_First Impressions_+

1980-07_DOA_Toronto_flyer

1983-01-03_DOA_Pier (Raleigh, NC)_flyer_+

1984-09-28_DOA + Abrasive Wheels + Battalion Of Saints + Killroy_Olympic Audit (LA, CA)_flyer_+

Rush – Moving Pictures (3)

Rush – Moving Pictures (2)

Rush – Moving Pictures (1)

Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)

Paula Turnhbull - Rush fromt cover model

Rush - Permanent Waves (Dewey Defeats Truman, Coca Cola signs) (5)

Rush - Permanent Waves (Dewey Defeats Truman, Coca Cola signs) (3)

Rush - Permanent Waves (Dewey Defeats Truman, Coca Cola signs) (2)

Rush - Permanent Waves (Dewey Defeats Truman, Coca Cola signs) (1)

Hemispheres

Rush - A Farewell to Kings (3)

Rush - A Farewell to Kings (2)

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