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
Patti Jannetta	Don't You Want My Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:26
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
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Opening)	The Hockey Theme	00:56
Thrills	Telephone	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:57
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Bernie LaBarge	Annie	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:52
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Copperpenny	Bad Manners	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:05
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
Trooper	We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time)	Knock 'em Dead Kid	03:34
France Joli	Let Go	Come to Me // Let Go	09:26
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	Sweet Sweet Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:59
Joe Kozak	Hillbilly Rock	Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me	01:48
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
Trans-X	Living On Video	Living On Video	05:56
The Collectors	She (Will-O'-The Wind)	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	03:53
Rock and Roll Bitches	Welders Song	Wild West (EP)	02:34
The Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
k.d. lang	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
Anne Murray	I Just Fall in Love Again	New Kind of Feeling	02:49
Sidewinders (1)	Cryin' Heartache Misery	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:08
Willie Dunn	I Pity The Country	I Pity The Country b/w The Carver	02:55
The Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age	03:20
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Nite Life	What's On Your Mind	What's On Your Mind b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)	03:46
Viletones	Possibilities	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:32
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
The Reaction	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Alanis Obomsawin	Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens)	Indian Songs	00:57
Otis Gayle	Sexy Eyes	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	04:12
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)	02:48
Kilt	I Was Made for Loving You	Kilt	03:19
Jerry Doucette	Down The Road	Mama Let Him Play	03:35
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
Copperpenny	Get Away	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:17
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Seeds of Time	Muskrat Rumble	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:48
Mingles	I'm Gonna Miss You	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	03:17
Roots Earth And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
Private School	Money Guns and Power	Lost in Action (EP)	03:12
Media	Girl I Want You	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	04:20
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
Media	Endless Dream	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	03:19
France Joli	Baby Don't Stop Dancing	Come to Me // Let Go	07:50
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Bad Moon Rising	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	04:01
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Joni Mitchell	Help Me	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	03:22
Monique Leyrac	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56
Bruce Cockburn	If I Had a Rocket Launcher	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:58
Bullrush	I Want To Be Set Free	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	03:14
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
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
Painted Ship	I Told Those Little White Lies	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:39
Twitch	Things	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	03:37
Sugluk	Ballad of the Running Girl	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:11
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
Stiffs	Everyone Lies	The Stiffs	01:30
The Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
Bells	Moody Manitoba Morning	Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning	03:15
Rush	The Spirit of Radio	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	04:59
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
The Reaction	Waiting In Line	East End Rockers	04:51
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Sea Cruise Blues	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	05:32
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
The Munks	Heartaches Over My Head	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:26
Les Tallmud	Un Autre Ami	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:41
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun)	People Of The Ice	02:53
Bernie LaBarge	It's Real	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:43
Élan	Penticton Peaches	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:13
Ron Baumber	Duncan and the Devil	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	02:52
Mike Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
The Ugly Ducklings	Just In Case You Wonder	Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)	02:28
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin II	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:59
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Ronnie Hawkins	Bo Didley	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:56
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let Them In	Let Them In	02:33
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
Mendelson Joe	Oh Travene	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	03:41
Kilt	Fisherman's Blues	Kilt	03:50
Jack Cornell	Like the Clouds	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	03:27
Winston Hewitt	You're My Boopsie	You're My Boopsy	04:39
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Jim Ashby	Speed City (Acid Rock)	Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City	02:44
Plan Nine	I Ain't No Robot	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:36
Ron Baumber	Keep it On the Tracks	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	03:08

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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Mary Saxton - Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart

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Mary Saxton - Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die

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The Modern Minds - Theresa's World (EP)

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The Collectors - Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)

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Kilt - Kilt

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Chilliwack - Lonesome Mary b/w Ridin'

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Craig Ruhnke - Give Me The Nightime b/w Give Me The Nightime (promo)

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Nomeansno - Oh Canaduh b/w New Age

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Russ Little - Deeper and Deeper

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Plan Nine - I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)

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222's - La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) b/w La poupee qui fait non (version instrumentale)

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Robert Maciag - I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good

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Tim Hus - Huskies & Huskvarnas

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The Munks - Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head

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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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Lisa Lougheed - Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow

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