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
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
Evolution Expantion	Blow Up	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	02:39
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	02:00
Stompin' Tom Connors	I Am the Wind	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	03:35
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Trans-X	Living On Video	Living On Video	05:56
Mingles	No Train Tonight	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	02:28
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Tiaras	Surprise!	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:25
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Plan Nine	Go	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:03
Alanis Obomsawin	Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War)	Indian Songs	02:02
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Viletones	Rebel	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:09
M.G. & the Escorts	Remembering	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:33
Stompin' Tom Connors	Canada Day Up Canada Way	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	02:37
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
Ian Thomas	The Runner	The Runner	03:24
k.d. lang	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
Private School	I Wanna Know	Lost in Action (EP)	02:30
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
Lady	You're Still the One	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	03:04
Thrills	Party Inside My Mind	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:38
Triton Warrior	Sealed In a Grave	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:36
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
VLA (Vincent V.)	We Won't Let Each Other Go (Club Extended Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	06:17
Midnight Angels	(I Wish) In the Moonlight	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	02:17
Jerry Doucette	Down The Road	Mama Let Him Play	03:35
The Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
Les Tallmud	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
Mantra	San Francisco Morning	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	03:16
Plan Nine	Fatal Femme	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:20
Expedition to Earth	Time Time Time	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:55
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Joni Mitchell	Big Yellow Taxi	Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)	02:15
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back)	People Of The Ice	03:14
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Bad Moon Rising	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	04:01
Media	Endless Dream	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	03:19
Kilt	I Was Made for Loving You	Kilt	03:19
Rod Williams & Super 8	War Version	War b/w War Version	03:36
The Ugly Ducklings	Nothin'	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	02:35
Mushroom Band	Don't Come Down	Don't Come Down b/w Nobody	02:40
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	02:01
Roots Earth And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
Nite Life	What's On Your Mind	What's On Your Mind b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)	03:46
Stiffs	Dad's a Pig	The Stiffs	01:31
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let Them In	Let Them In	02:33
Monique Leyrac	Mon pays	Mon pays	03:11
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	02:03
Monique Leyrac	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56
Media	Girl I Want You	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	04:20
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
Copperpenny	Taking My Heart	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:16
Pointed Sticks	I'm Numb	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:11
Captain Tractor	The Last Saskatchewan Pirate	East of Edson	04:10
Clint Ryan	Build Myself Around You	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	03:20
The Munks	Heartaches Over My Head	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:26
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	01:40
Dick Damron	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02
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	04:46
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
k.d. lang	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
Jim Ashby	Speed City (Acid Rock)	Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City	02:44
Northern Pikes	Teenland	Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)	04:01
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	03:24
Sidewinders (1)	Cryin' Heartache Misery	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:08
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
Shawne Jackson	Just as Bad as You	Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man	02:33
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part One)	I'm Alright	03:57
Underworld	Bound	Bound b/w Go Away	03:15
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Craig Farraway	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
The Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
Minotaur	Witch-Hunt	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	04:19
Lisa Lougheed	Hold Back Tomorrow	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:18
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
La Révolution Française	Québecois	Québecois	04:46
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	Work Song	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:14
Mary Saxton	Losing Control	Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die	02:04
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
Bruce Cockburn	Lovers in a Dangerous Time	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:07
Mingles	I'm Gonna Miss You	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	03:17
Sugluk	Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	02:35
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
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part Two)	I'm Alright	03:43
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Opening)	The Hockey Theme	00:56

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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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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