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
Kilt	Fisherman's Blues	Kilt	03:50
Gratitude	We are Here to Party	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:17
Ronnie Hawkins	Bo Didley	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:56
Triton Warrior	Sealed In a Grave	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:36
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
Joe Kozak	Hillbilly Rock	Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me	01:48
Bernie LaBarge	Annie	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:52
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
Stumpwater	Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	04:06
Etulu Etidlouie	Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:29
Nomeansno	Oh Canaduh	Oh Canaduh b/w New Age	01:59
Les Tallmud	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
Ian Thomas	Painted Ladies	ST	03:31
Rabble	Golden Girl	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:04
Alanis Obomsawin	Nookum (Reflections of an Elder)	Indian Songs	01:48
Russ Little	Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little)	Deeper and Deeper	03:05
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
Bruce Cockburn	The Gift	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	06:06
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
L'infonie	Come & Dance The OK LA!	Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel	03:04
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
Al Oster	Midnight Sun Rock	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	01:47
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
VLA (Vincent V.)	I Gave My Heart (Club Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	04:32
Private School	I Wanna Know	Lost in Action (EP)	02:30
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part One)	I'm Alright	03:57
Élan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
Kilt	I Was Made for Loving You	Kilt	03:19
The Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age	03:20
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:51
Ian Thomas	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
Stompin' Tom Connors	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Sidewinders (1)	Cryin' Heartache Misery	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:08
Kilt	Wrecker's Den	Kilt	02:38
Monique Leyrac	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56
Jay Telfer	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
Partland Brothers	Soul City	Electric Honey	03:52
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Expedition to Earth	Time Time Time	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:55
Stiffs	No Money	The Stiffs	01:26
Russ Little	Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas)	Deeper and Deeper	03:03
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	Work Song	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:14
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17
Modern Minds	Theresa's World	Theresa's World (EP)	01:56
Dishrags	Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye)	Past Is Past (EP)	01:19
Stompin' Tom Connors	I Am the Wind	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	03:35
Rock and Roll Bitches	Welders Song	Wild West (EP)	02:34
k.d. lang	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
Craig Farraway	After All	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	04:18
Terry McManus	Carolyn (stereo)	Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)	02:40
Twitch	Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	02:40
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Fyre	David's Song	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:03
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let's Get Together	Let Them In	02:04
Plan Nine	Fatal Femme	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:20
Kilt	The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe	Kilt	03:18
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	06:46
Rush	Circumstances	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	03:44
Demics	New York City	New York City b/w Blue Boy	04:32
Media	Endless Dream	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	03:19
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
Yvonne Moore	Hit & Run Lover	Hit & Run Lover	00:17
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	03:50
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	Sweet Sweet Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:59
Gypsy	The Market	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	02:30
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
Power of Beckett	Back to Me	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:37
The Fringe	Plastic People	Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown	02:12
Don Norman & the Other Four	Mustang Sally	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	03:22
Mingles	I'm Gonna Miss You	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	03:17
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
Viletones	Screaming Fist	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:04
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Trooper	Two for the Show	Two For The Show	04:27
Stiffs	Dad's a Pig	The Stiffs	01:31
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Fyre	New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:42
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
The Ugly Ducklings	That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind	Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)	02:43
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
Tim Hus	Hurtin’ Albertan	Huskies & Huskvarnas	08:07
Alan Gerber	Tied On	Tied On b/w Tied On	03:24
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	No Man Like My Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:42
Kilt	South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel	Kilt	02:46
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	02:03
The Subhumans	No Productivity	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:08
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part Two)	I'm Alright	03:43

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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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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