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
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Guess Who Clock On The Wall Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Etulu Etidlouie Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Otis Gayle Sexy Eyes Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Private School Money Guns and Power Lost in Action (EP)
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Triton Warrior Satan's Train Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
L'infonie I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel
Twitch Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
Alan Gerber Tied On Tied On b/w Tied On
Sidewinders (1) Put The Blame On Me Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery
Bernie LaBarge Can't Hold On Forever Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Bob Williams I'm Alright (Part Two) I'm Alright
VLA (Vincent V.) I Gave My Heart (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Gruesomes Hey! Hey!
Sloan Underwhelmed (LP Version) Underwhelmed (promo)
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
Joe Kozak Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Reign Ghost Parable Long Day Journey b/w Parable
Copperpenny You're Still the One Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Otis Gayle We All Need Love Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Let's Get Together Let Them In
Ocean Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Gratitude Loving You Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Haunted 1-2-5 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Etulu Etidlouie Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Ian & Sylvia Tyson Four Strong Winds Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)
Etulu Etidlouie Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Rock and Roll Bitches Broad Daylight Wild West (EP)
Bruce Cockburn Tokyo Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Monique Leyrac L'hiver Mon pays
Etulu Etidlouie Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Ronnie Hawkins Bo Didley Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Slow I Broke The Circle I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Roots Earth And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
La Révolution Française Québecois Québecois
Rush Fly by Night Fly By Night
Anne Murray Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Guido Basso Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Russ Little I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
Rush Tom Sawyer Moving Pictures
Ms. Dolly Gilmore No Man Like My Man No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man
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)
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Jerry Doucette Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
M.G. & the Escorts It’s Too Late A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
Élan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Ted Daigle No One Else Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Disillusion Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Jerry Doucette Nobody The Deuce is Loose
Jay Telfer Suite One Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Dolores Claman The Hockey Theme (Opening) The Hockey Theme
Freedom North Fat Man Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Bruce Cockburn Rainfall Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Arthur Scammel R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Hometown Band Flying Flying
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
Dishrags Tormented Past Is Past (EP)
Tim Hus Hurtin’ Albertan Huskies & Huskvarnas
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
Ronnie Hawkins Who Do You Love Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love
Rush Closer to the Heart A Farewell to Kings
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Mushroom Band Don't Come Down Don't Come Down b/w Nobody
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Joni Mitchell Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Gentle Touch Visitors Parking Only Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Joni Mitchell You turn Me On, I'm a Radio You turn Me On, I'm a Radio b/w Urge for Going (picture sleeve) (promo)
Willie Thrasher Wolves Don't Live By The Rules Spirit Child
Don Jewitt Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Bruce Cockburn If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Ian Thomas Pilot Glider
Spoons My Job After the Institution b/w My Job
Jerry Doucette Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Sue Hansen Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Guido Basso Anna’s Theme Put Your Hand in the Hand
Bob Williams I'm Alright (Part One) I'm Alright
Russ Little Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Lisa Lougheed Run With Us Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Bernie LaBarge Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Painted Ship And She Said Yes Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Bruce Cockburn If a Tree Falls If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift

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

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)

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