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
Spirit of the West	Save This House	Save This House	02:55
Alanis Obomsawin	Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens)	Indian Songs	00:57
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
Ian Thomas	Time is the Keeper	Glider	04:14
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	01:40
Kilt	Dylan's Ghost	Kilt	02:23
Guess Who	Clock On The Wall	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	03:01
Gypsy	The Market	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	02:30
Etulu Etidlouie	Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:29
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Bernie LaBarge	Can't Hold On Forever	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:24
Gentle Touch	One Way Ride	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:46
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Haunted	Eight O'Clock This Morning	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:20
Trooper	We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time)	Knock 'em Dead Kid	03:34
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
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17
Media	Girl I Want You	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	04:20
Kilt	Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow	Kilt	03:34
Painted Ship	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld)	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:54
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Dundas	Bloodshot in Your Eyes	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	02:43
Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
Joe Kozak	Hillbilly Rock	Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me	01:48
Patti Jannetta	Don't You Want My Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:26
Underworld	Go Away	Bound b/w Go Away	02:49
France Joli	Playboy	Come to Me // Let Go	08:02
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
The Reaction	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Partland Brothers	Soul City	Electric Honey	03:52
Etulu Etidlouie	Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:19
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	Sweet Sweet Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:59
Copperpenny	Bad Manners	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:05
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
Al Oster	Midnight Sun Rock	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	01:47
Plan Nine	I Ain't No Robot	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:36
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
Tim Hus	Hurtin’ Albertan	Huskies & Huskvarnas	08:07
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
Mingles	I'm Gonna Miss You	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	03:17
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
Russ Little	I Want to Make it With You (David Gates)	Deeper and Deeper	02:46
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let Them In	Let Them In	02:33
The Fringe	Plastic People	Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown	02:12
Mashmakhan	As The Years Go By	As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)	03:04
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
Shawne Jackson	Just as Bad as You	Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man	02:33
Private School	Sci-Fi	Lost in Action (EP)	03:32
Bruce Cockburn	If a Tree Falls	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	05:44
Painted Ship	I Told Those Little White Lies	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:39
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
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Together	Let Them In	02:50
Viletones	Rebel	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:09
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
Ocean	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Kilt	I Was Made for Loving You	Kilt	03:19
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
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
Tiaras	Foolish Girl	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:34
Dick Damron	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02
Tiaras	Surprise!	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:25
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
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
Pointed Sticks	What Do You Want Me To Do?	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	02:27
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
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
Jack Cornell	Like the Clouds	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	03:27
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
Rush	Freewill	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	05:24
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
Ian Thomas	The Runner	The Runner	03:24
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Monique Leyrac	Mon pays	Mon pays	03:11
Sugluk	Ballad of the Running Girl	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:11
Ian Thomas	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	02:03
Les Tallmud	Un Autre Ami	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:41
Guido Basso	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	03:16
Sphex	Time	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:49

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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Bum - A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day

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Diodes - Released

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