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
Jean Leloup	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	03:19
Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
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)	05:25
Monique Leyrac	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56
Triton Warrior	Satan's Train	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:08
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
Tiaras	Foolish Girl	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:34
Joni Mitchell	Big Yellow Taxi	Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)	02:15
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
Al Oster	Next Boat	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	02:46
Mushroom Band	Don't Come Down	Don't Come Down b/w Nobody	02:40
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
k.d. lang	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
Bruce Cockburn	Maybe the Poet	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:53
Anne Murray	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	01:40
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	King Size	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:12
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
Gentle Touch	One Way Ride	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:46
Stompin' Connors Tom	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Jenny Rock	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
Sugluk	Ballad of the Running Girl	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:11
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Tiaras	Surprise!	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:25
Bruce Cockburn	Incandescent Blue	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	04:38
Etulu Etidlouie	Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:19
Ian Thomas	The Runner	The Runner	03:24
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
United Empire Loyalists	Afraid of the Dark	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	01:59
Mendelson Joe	Growing Pain	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	02:35
France Joli	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
Mighty Pope	Tower of Strength	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	03:01
Mighty Pope	Heaven on the Seventh Floor	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	02:46
Demics	New York City	New York City b/w Blue Boy	04:32
Gratitude	Loving You	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:15
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17
Freedom North	Fat Man	Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)	03:53
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Painted Ship	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld)	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:54
Etulu Etidlouie	Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:51
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Bullrush	You've Sent Me Away	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	04:30
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)	02:43
Patti Jannetta	Rules of Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:46
Anne Murray	Bidin' my time	This Way Is My Way	02:37
Alanis Obomsawin	Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens)	Indian Songs	00:57
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Alanis Obomsawin	Shibi (River of Dreams)	Indian Songs	02:07
Stiffs	No Money	The Stiffs	01:26
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Stompin' Connors Tom	I Am the Wind	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	03:35
Robert Maciag	You Make Me Feel So Good	I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good	03:12
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Theresa's World (EP)	01:42
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home)	People Of The Ice	02:36
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
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	01:56
Mike Woods	Alberta	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	03:49
Shawne Jackson	Just as Bad as You	Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man	02:33
Fyre	David's Song	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:03
Élan	Penticton Peaches	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:13
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Jack Cornell	Like the Clouds	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	03:27
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
Stompin' Connors Tom	Canada Day Up Canada Way	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	02:37
Plan Nine	Fatal Femme	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:20
France Joli	Let Go	Come to Me // Let Go	09:26
Bernie LaBarge	Can't Hold On Forever	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:24
Ian Thomas	Painted Ladies	ST	03:31
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	02:25
D.O.A.	Royal Police	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:14
Sphex	Time	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:49
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
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
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
Hometown Band	Flying	Flying	03:50
Collectors	Lydia Purple	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	02:48
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
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	03:04
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Opening)	The Hockey Theme	00:56
Reign Ghost	Parable	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	02:13
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Bruce Cockburn	Wondering Where the Lions Are	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:42
Munks	Heartaches Over My Head	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:26
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Otis Gayle	We All Need Love	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	03:43
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)	02:42

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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Doug And The Slugs - Too Bad b/w The Move

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Checkerlads - Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)

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Bum - A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day

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Diodes - Released

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Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) - Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues

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Don Norman & the Other Four - Low Man b/w Mustang Sally

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

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Private School - Lost in Action (EP)

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