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
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Try a Little Harder	Let Them In	02:42
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Early Morning Rain	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:52
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Summer)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:43
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Bruce Cockburn	If a Tree Falls	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	05:44
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	01:37
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	Sweet Sweet Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:59
Mendelson Joe	Growing Pain	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	02:35
Etulu Etidlouie	Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:56
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
Copperpenny	Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	05:12
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
The Ugly Ducklings	Nothin'	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	02:35
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
Seeds of Time	Muskrat Rumble	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:48
Copperpenny	Taking My Heart	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:16
Checkerlads	Shake Yourself Down	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:41
Rush	Circumstances	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	03:44
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
Pluton and Humanoids	World Invaders	World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)	06:44
Triton Warrior	Satan's Train	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:08
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
Mantra	San Francisco Morning	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	03:16
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	07:36
France Joli	Let Go	Come to Me // Let Go	09:26
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Nomeansno	Oh Canaduh	Oh Canaduh b/w New Age	01:59
Captain Tractor	The Last Saskatchewan Pirate	East of Edson	04:10
Anne Murray	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
Reign Ghost	Parable	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	02:13
Craig Farraway	After All	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	04:18
Trooper	Santa Maria	Two For The Show	02:56
Bernie LaBarge	Can't Hold On Forever	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:24
Etulu Etidlouie	Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:27
Stiffs	Everyone Lies	The Stiffs	01:30
Plan Nine	Go	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:03
Ronnie Hawkins	Bo Didley	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:56
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Alanis Obomsawin	Nookum (Reflections of an Elder)	Indian Songs	01:48
Trooper	We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time)	Knock 'em Dead Kid	03:34
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
The Hometown Band	Flying	Flying	03:50
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
The Bureaucrats	Grown Up Age	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age	03:35
Clint Ryan	Build Myself Around You	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	03:20
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Subhumans	Firing Squad	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:07
Mike Woods	Alberta	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	03:49
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
Ocean	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Kilt	The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe	Kilt	03:18
France Joli	Playboy	Come to Me // Let Go	08:02
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
D.O.A.	Nazi Training Camp	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:50
Mendelson Joe	Oh Travene	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	03:41
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
Alanis Obomsawin	Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens)	Indian Songs	00:57
France Joli	Baby Don't Stop Dancing	Come to Me // Let Go	07:50
Gentle Touch	One Way Ride	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:46
Modern Minds	Theresa's World	Theresa's World (EP)	01:56
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	No Man Like My Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:42
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Boys Brigade	The Passion of Love	ST	03:40
Ron Baumber	Duncan and the Devil	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	02:52
Willie Thrasher	Eskimo Named Johnny	Spirit Child	02:41
The Collectors	Lydia Purple	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	02:48
Monique Leyrac	Pendant que	Mon pays	03:26
Joni Mitchell	Big Yellow Taxi	Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)	02:15
Ian Thomas	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
Media	Girl I Want You	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	04:20
Fyre	New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:42
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
Rush	Fly by Night	Fly By Night	03:22
Joni Mitchell	Help Me	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	03:22
Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
Ironhorse	What's Your Hurry Darlin'	Everything is Grey	04:30
Twitch	Things	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	03:37
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
Robert Maciag	You Make Me Feel So Good	I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good	03:12
Bernie LaBarge	Dream Away	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:48
Alanis Obomsawin	NBAW (Hush - Sleep)	Indian Songs	02:14
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
Gale Garnett	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
Bruce Cockburn	Incandescent Blue	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	04:38
Bruce Cockburn	If I Had a Rocket Launcher	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:58
Anne Murray	I Just Fall in Love Again	New Kind of Feeling	02:49
Ian Thomas	Time is the Keeper	Glider	04:14
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
Crystal Castles	Dolls	Alice Practice	01:29

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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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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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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