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
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Lady	You're Still the One	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	03:04
Kilt	Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt	Kilt	04:28
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
M.G. & the Escorts	A Someday Fool	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:37
Copperpenny	Wine Song	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:04
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Anne Murray	I Just Fall in Love Again	New Kind of Feeling	02:49
France Joli	Let Go	Come to Me // Let Go	09:26
Sidewinders (1)	Cryin' Heartache Misery	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:08
Joni Mitchell	Just Like This Train	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	04:24
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)	02:40
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Ian Thomas	Painted Ladies	ST	03:31
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
Stompin' Tom Connors	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Plan Nine	In Sympathy With Poland	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:08
Wade Hemsworth	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Élan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
Gentle Touch	Visitors Parking Only	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:45
Willie Thrasher	Spirit Child	Spirit Child	04:05
The Reaction	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Copperpenny	Get Away	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:17
Rabble	Golden Girl	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:04
Alanis Obomsawin	NBAW (Hush - Sleep)	Indian Songs	02:14
Élan	Penticton Peaches	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:13
Willie Thrasher	Eskimo Named Johnny	Spirit Child	02:41
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
Saga	On The Loose	On The Loose b/w Framed	04:12
Northern Pikes	Teenland	Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)	04:01
Dishrags	Past Is Past	Past Is Past (EP)	02:24
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Together	Let Them In	02:50
Lisa Lougheed	Hold Back Tomorrow	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:18
Bruce Cockburn	Sahara Gold	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:34
Plan Nine	Fatal Femme	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:20
Subhumans	Firing Squad	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:07
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Klaatu	Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft	3:47 EST	07:17
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
Craig Farraway	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34
D.O.A.	Nazi Training Camp	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:50
Les Tallmud	Un Autre Ami	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:41
Payola$	Eyes of a Stranger	No Stranger to Danger	04:57
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let Them In	Let Them In	02:33
Etulu Etidlouie	Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:42
Marie Hodgins	Yesterday’s Dreams	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	02:38
The Bed Time Story	Feel the Sun	Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun	02:21
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
Jerry Doucette	Mama Let Him Play	Mama Let Him Play	04:26
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Ron Baumber	Keep it On the Tracks	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	03:08
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
Pluton and Humanoids	World Invaders	World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)	06:44
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
Rod Williams & Super 8	War	War b/w War Version	03:16
Sidewinders (1)	Put The Blame On Me	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:02
D.O.A.	Disco Sucks	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:39
Jim Ashby	Speed City (Acid Rock)	Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City	02:44
Rush	The Trees	Hemispheres	04:43
Bernie LaBarge	It's Real	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:43
Stiffs	Homesick	The Stiffs	01:02
Private School	I Wanna Know	Lost in Action (EP)	02:30
Mantra	San Francisco Morning	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	03:16
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let's Get Together	Let Them In	02:04
Twitch	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn)	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	02:58
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
Stiffs	Dad's a Pig	The Stiffs	01:31
k.d. lang	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
Jenny Rock	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	Baby I Love You	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:22
Guido Basso	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:20
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	07:36
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
The Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
La Révolution Française	Québecois	Québecois	04:46
Guido Basso	Anna’s Theme	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:47
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Summer)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:43
Subhumans	No Productivity	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:08
Secret V's	Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold	No Life Like It (EP)	02:33
Bells	Stay Awhile	Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom	03:26
Guido Basso	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	03:16
Mingles	No Train Tonight	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	02:28
Plan Nine	Go	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:03
Kilt	I Was Made for Loving You	Kilt	03:19
Anne Murray	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Thrills	Telephone	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:57
Viletones	Rebel	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:09
Alanis Obomsawin	Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks)	Indian Songs	01:58
Gratitude	We are Here to Party	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:17
Russ Little	Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little)	Deeper and Deeper	03:05
Marie Hodgins	Dance For The Sun God	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	01:50
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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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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Jolly Tambourine Man - Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka

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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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April Wine - Harder.....Faster

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