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
Munks Heartaches Over My Head Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head
Ted Daigle No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
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)
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
France Joli Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Bruce Cockburn Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Gale Garnett We'll Sing in the Sunshine My Kind of Folk Songs
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Copperpenny Bad Manners Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Winston Hewitt You're My Boopsie You're My Boopsy
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Rush Freewill Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Alden Diehl Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
The Bed Time Story Feel the Sun Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Jolly Tambourine Man Apple Strudle Man Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka
Ron Baumber Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Monique Leyrac Pendant que Mon pays
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Russ Little Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Kilt Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt Kilt
Sue Hansen Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights That's All Right That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Orphan Baby Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Stompin' Tom Connors Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
The Hometown Band Flying Flying
The Fringe Plastic People Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown
George Olliver I May Never Get to See You Again I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Mike Jones Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Joni Mitchell Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Mingles No Train Tonight I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Bruce Cockburn Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold
Bonnie Dobson Morning Dew ST
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
Guido Basso Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Craig Farraway After All After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Stags You Know He Did Guess Who b/w You Know He Did
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of) Baby I Love You King Size b/w Baby I Love You
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Etulu Etidlouie Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Etulu Etidlouie Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
Russ Little Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas) Deeper and Deeper
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Dick Damron Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Trooper Santa Maria Two For The Show
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Guess Who One Day Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Modern Minds It's Gone Theresa's World (EP)
Jean Leloup L'Amour Est Sans Pitié L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié
Bruce Cockburn If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Jay Telfer Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Ted Daigle Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Jury Please Forget Her Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Mingles I'm Gonna Miss You I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Marie Hodgins Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
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)
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
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Ian Thomas The Runner The Runner
The Collectors Lydia Purple Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Trooper 3 Dressed Up As A 9 Flying Colors
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) Body Contact When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Rod Williams & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
The Bed Time Story Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move

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Underwhelmed (promo)

Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun

You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love

Lady - You're Still The One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love

Flying

Huskies & Huskvarnas

Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow

Lisa Lougheed (3)

Lisa Lougheed (2)

Lisa Lougheed (1)

45-Lisa Lougheed – Run With Us VINYL 02

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

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