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
Ashley MacIsaac	The Devil in the Kitchen	The Devil in the Kitchen b/w What an Idiot He Is (featuring Jale) (picture sleeve, clear blue vinyl)	02:26
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Bum	A Promise Is A Promise	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:02
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	06:46
Mantra	San Francisco Morning	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	03:16
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
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
Triton Warrior	Satan's Train	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:08
Jenny Rock	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Alanis Obomsawin	Shibi (River of Dreams)	Indian Songs	02:07
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
Ian Thomas	Painted Ladies	ST	03:31
Genèse	Je crois en moi	L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi	02:34
Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Pointed Sticks	I'm Numb	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:11
Mingles	No Train Tonight	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	02:28
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
Underworld	Bound	Bound b/w Go Away	03:15
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	No Man Like My Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:42
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Dundas	Bloodshot in Your Eyes	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	02:43
The Reaction	On The Beach	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	05:58
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
Twitch	Things	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	03:37
Etulu Etidlouie	Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:56
Pursuit of Happiness	She's So Young	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	03:43
Painted Ship	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld)	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:54
Monique Leyrac	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56
Mike Woods	Alberta	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	03:49
Bruce Cockburn	Wondering Where the Lions Are	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:42
Painted Ship	I Told Those Little White Lies	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:39
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	07:36
Robert Maciag	You Make Me Feel So Good	I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good	03:12
Ian Thomas	Time is the Keeper	Glider	04:14
Tim Hus	Hurtin’ Albertan	Huskies & Huskvarnas	08:07
Russ Little	Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little)	Deeper and Deeper	03:05
Spy's	Underground	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	03:18
Clint Ryan	Build Myself Around You	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	03:20
Rush	Freewill	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	05:24
Willie Thrasher	Eskimo Named Johnny	Spirit Child	02:41
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Demics	New York City	New York City b/w Blue Boy	04:32
Willie Thrasher	Wolves Don't Live By The Rules	Spirit Child	02:16
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
Bruce Cockburn	If I Had a Rocket Launcher	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:58
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
Anne Murray	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
Witness Inc.	Visions of Vanessa	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:39
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
D.O.A.	Royal Police	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:14
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Bad Moon Rising	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	04:01
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let Them In	Let Them In	02:33
Willie Thrasher	Spirit Child	Spirit Child	04:05
Checkerlads	Shake Yourself Down	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:41
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun)	People Of The Ice	02:53
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	Work Song	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:14
Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:31
Stiffs	Dad's a Pig	The Stiffs	01:31
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Subhumans	Firing Squad	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:07
Copperpenny	Get Away	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:17
Fyre	David's Song	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:03
Mighty Pope	Heaven on the Seventh Floor	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	02:46
Clint Ryan	It Hurts to be Lonely	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	02:40
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
Joni Mitchell	Help Me	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	03:22
Yvonne Moore	Hit & Run Lover	Hit & Run Lover	00:17
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
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
Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back)	People Of The Ice	03:14
Plan Nine	Fatal Femme	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:20
Guido Basso	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
Marie Hodgins	Dance For The Sun God	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	01:50
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
United Empire Loyalists	Afraid of the Dark	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	01:59
Ian Thomas	Long Long Way	Long Long Way	05:00
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	Sweet Sweet Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:59
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
Power of Beckett	Back to Me	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:37
Kilt	Wrecker's Den	Kilt	02:38
Marie Hodgins	Yesterday’s Dreams	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	02:38
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Early Morning Rain	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:52
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
Dishrags	Past Is Past	Past Is Past (EP)	02:24
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Anne Murray	Snowbird	This Way Is My Way	02:12
Trooper	We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time)	Knock 'em Dead Kid	03:34
Stompin' Tom Connors	Canada Day Up Canada Way	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	02:37
Jerry Doucette	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	02:01

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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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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Teenage Head - Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)

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