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
Ian Thomas	Time is the Keeper	Glider	04:14
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
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
Joni Mitchell	Big Yellow Taxi	Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)	02:15
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	01:40
Bullrush	You've Sent Me Away	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	04:30
Rush	Closer to the Heart	A Farewell to Kings	02:56
Nite Life	What's On Your Mind	What's On Your Mind b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)	03:46
France Joli	Playboy	Come to Me // Let Go	08:02
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
Crystal Castles	Dolls	Alice Practice	01:29
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
Stompin' Tom Connors	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
Guido Basso	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Etulu Etidlouie	Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:29
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Don Norman & the Other Four	Low Man	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	02:15
Tiaras	Surprise!	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:25
Tiaras	Foolish Girl	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:34
Trans-X	Living On Video	Living On Video	05:56
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
France Joli	Baby Don't Stop Dancing	Come to Me // Let Go	07:50
Sugluk	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	05:25
Fyre	David's Song	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:03
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Robert Maciag	You Make Me Feel So Good	I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good	03:12
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin'	Switchin'	06:17
Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Ocean	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Kilt	South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel	Kilt	02:46
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
Monique Leyrac	Mon pays	Mon pays	03:11
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	03:24
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	Sweet Sweet Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:59
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Rabble	Golden Girl	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:04
Dundas	Bloodshot in Your Eyes	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	02:43
Élan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
Plan Nine	In Sympathy With Poland	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:08
Bonnie Dobson	Morning Dew	ST	03:20
Alanis Obomsawin	NBAW (Hush - Sleep)	Indian Songs	02:14
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Try a Little Harder	Let Them In	02:42
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Sidewinders (1)	Put The Blame On Me	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:02
Mendelson Joe	Oh Travene	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	03:41
Bullrush	I Want To Be Set Free	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	03:14
The Ugly Ducklings	Nothin'	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	02:35
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	07:36
Otis Gayle	We All Need Love	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	03:43
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Witness Inc.	Another Side Of Her	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:42
Bernie LaBarge	Dream Away	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:48
Lisa Lougheed	Hold Back Tomorrow	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:18
Gentle Touch	Visitors Parking Only	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:45
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
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
Bernie LaBarge	It's Real	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:43
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Stumpwater	Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	03:33
Jerry Doucette	Down The Road	Mama Let Him Play	03:35
Doug And The Slugs	The Move	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:47
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home)	People Of The Ice	02:36
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
The Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
Underworld	Bound	Bound b/w Go Away	03:15
Checkerlads	Shake Yourself Down	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:41
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
Sphex	Time	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:49
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Media	Girl I Want You	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	04:20
Ian Thomas	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play)	People Of The Ice	02:18
Mike Woods	Alberta	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	03:49
Twitch	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn)	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	02:58
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
Rush	The Trees	Hemispheres	04:43
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
Craig Farraway	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Media	Endless Dream	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	03:19
D.O.A.	Nazi Training Camp	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:50
Sue Hansen	Sucking Up to You	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:24

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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Jerry Doucette - The Deuce is Loose

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Jerry Doucette - Mama Let Him Play

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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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Don Jewitt - Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses

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Jury - Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?

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Reign Ghost - Long Day Journey b/w Parable

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Doug And The Slugs - Too Bad b/w The Move

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Checkerlads - Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)

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