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
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Sea Cruise Blues	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	05:32
The Hometown Band	Flying	Flying	03:50
Thrills	Party Inside My Mind	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:38
VLA (Vincent V.)	We Won't Let Each Other Go (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	04:43
Fyre	New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:42
Mantra	Stay	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	02:57
Mighty Pope	Tower of Strength	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	03:01
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Ian Thomas	Painted Ladies	ST	03:31
Roots Earth And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
Bells	Moody Manitoba Morning	Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning	03:15
Bruce Cockburn	Lovers in a Dangerous Time	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:07
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
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
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Etulu Etidlouie	Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:19
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
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
Pointed Sticks	Lies	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:37
France Joli	Baby Don't Stop Dancing	Come to Me // Let Go	07:50
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
Reign Ghost	Parable	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	02:13
Minotaur	Witch-Hunt	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	04:19
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Mike Jones Group	Each and Every Day	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:18
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Don Jewitt	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
Mary Saxton	Losing Control	Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die	02:04
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Winter)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:53
Crystal Castles	Love and Caring	Alice Practice	02:18
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
The Reaction	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
Mashmakhan	As The Years Go By	As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)	03:04
D.O.A.	Disco Sucks	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:39
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
Jerry Doucette	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
Bells	Stay Awhile	Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom	03:26
Mendelson Joe	Growing Pain	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	02:35
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
Pointed Sticks	Somebody's Mom	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	01:38
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	01:40
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
The Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
Alanis Obomsawin	Shibi (River of Dreams)	Indian Songs	02:07
Rush	The Spirit of Radio	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	04:59
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:46
Sphex	Time	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:49
Media	Girl I Want You	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	04:20
Copperpenny	Where is the Answer	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	04:20
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
Bonnie Dobson	Morning Dew	ST	03:20
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
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
Guess Who	Clock On The Wall	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	03:01
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Stiffs	Everyone Lies	The Stiffs	01:30
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Bruce Cockburn	The Gift	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	06:06
Bernie LaBarge	It's Real	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:43
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Dundas	Bloodshot in Your Eyes	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	02:43
Bureaucrats	Grown Up Age	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:35
Jay Telfer	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
Les Tallmud	Un Autre Ami	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:41
The 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	03:00
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Monique Leyrac	Mon pays	Mon pays	03:11
Munks	Long Time Waiting	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:15
Pointed Sticks	I'm Numb	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:11
Élan	Freedom Song	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:41
The Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
Secret V's	Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold	No Life Like It (EP)	02:33
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
Rough Trade	Highschool Confidential	Avoid Freud	03:14
Stiffs	Fuck You	Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp	02:23
Copperpenny	You're Still the One	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:29
Mike Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
Kilt	Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs	Kilt	03:33
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Stiffs	Homesick	The Stiffs	01:02
Anne Murray	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
Kilt	Wrecker's Den	Kilt	02:38
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
Russ Little	I Want to Make it With You (David Gates)	Deeper and Deeper	02:46
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Spirit of the West	The Rocks at Thieves Bay	ST	04:56
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Trans-X	Living On Video	Living On Video	05:56

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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