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
Stiffs	Everyone Lies	The Stiffs	01:30
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Kilt	Wrecker's Den	Kilt	02:38
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
Jerry Doucette	Down The Road	Mama Let Him Play	03:35
Lady	You're Still the One	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	03:04
Freedom North	Fat Man	Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)	03:53
Plan Nine	Fatal Femme	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:20
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Joni Mitchell	You Turn Me On I'm a Radio	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	02:39
Saga	On The Loose	On The Loose b/w Framed	04:12
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Ian Thomas	The Runner	The Runner	03:24
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	No Man Like My Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:42
Willie Dunn	I Pity The Country	I Pity The Country b/w The Carver	02:55
Dundas	Bloodshot in Your Eyes	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	02:43
Stompin' Tom Connors	Canada Day Up Canada Way	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	02:37
Lisa Lougheed	Run With Us	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:28
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
Evolution Expantion	Blow Up	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	02:39
Twitch	Things	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	03:37
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Gentle Touch	One Way Ride	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:46
Gale Garnett	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
Jerry Doucette	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
Mushroom Band	Don't Come Down	Don't Come Down b/w Nobody	02:40
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Minotaur	Witch-Hunt	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	04:19
Doug And The Slugs	The Move	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:47
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46
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
Ian Thomas	Long Long Way	Long Long Way	05:00
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)	03:24
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Yvonne Moore	Hit & Run Lover	Hit & Run Lover	00:17
Stompin' Tom Connors	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Rod Williams & Super 8	War	War b/w War Version	03:16
VLA (Vincent V.)	We Won't Let Each Other Go (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	04:43
Painted Ship	I Told Those Little White Lies	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:39
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
Thrills	Party Inside My Mind	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:38
Subhumans	No Productivity	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:08
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
Private School	Money Guns and Power	Lost in Action (EP)	03:12
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
Clint Ryan	It Hurts to be Lonely	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	02:40
Russ Little	Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little)	Deeper and Deeper	03:05
Plan Nine	Go	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:03
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Plan Nine	I Ain't No Robot	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:36
Alanis Obomsawin	Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens)	Indian Songs	00:57
The Reaction	Waiting In Line	East End Rockers	04:51
Stompin' Tom Connors	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Copperpenny	Where is the Answer	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	04:20
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
Bernie LaBarge	Annie	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:52
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
Willie Thrasher	Silent Inuit	Spirit Child	04:36
Joni Mitchell	Just Like This Train	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	04:24
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	03:24
Mighty Pope	Heaven on the Seventh Floor	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	02:46
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
The Reaction	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Alanis Obomsawin	Nookum (Reflections of an Elder)	Indian Songs	01:48
Les Tallmud	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
Punkin Machine	I Need You Tonight	I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight	05:38
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
Tiaras	Foolish Girl	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:34
Private School	Sci-Fi	Lost in Action (EP)	03:32
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
The Fringe	Plastic People	Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown	02:12
The Ugly Ducklings	Nothin'	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	02:35
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich)	People Of The Ice	02:37
Stompin' Tom Connors	I Am the Wind	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	03:35
Patti Jannetta	Don't You Want My Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:26
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Early Morning Rain	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:52
Tiaras	Surprise!	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:25
Otis Gayle	We All Need Love	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	03:43
Media	Girl I Want You	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	04:20
Sugluk	Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	02:41
Munks	Long Time Waiting	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:15
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
Rush	Limelight	Moving Pictures	04:19
M.G. & the Escorts	Remembering	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:33
Etulu Etidlouie	Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:19
Pointed Sticks	Lies	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:37
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Alan Gerber	Tied On	Tied On b/w Tied On	03:24
Pursuit of Happiness	She's So Young	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	03:43
Guido Basso	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	03:16
Pointed Sticks	What Do You Want Me To Do?	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	02:27

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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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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