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
Copperpenny	Taking My Heart	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:16
Plan Nine	I Ain't No Robot	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:36
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Subhumans	No Productivity	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:08
Doug And The Slugs	The Move	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:47
Jerry Doucette	Down The Road	Mama Let Him Play	03:35
Haunted	Eight O'Clock This Morning	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:20
Jay Telfer	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
Dishrags	Past Is Past	Past Is Past (EP)	02:24
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:46
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
Pluton and Humanoids	World Invaders	World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)	06:44
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
Monique Leyrac	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56
Munks	Heartaches Over My Head	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:26
George Olliver	Shine	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:13
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
Kilt	South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel	Kilt	02:46
Tiaras	Surprise!	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:25
Bells	Stay Awhile	Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom	03:26
Élan	Penticton Peaches	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:13
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Painted Ship	I Told Those Little White Lies	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:39
Mary Saxton	Losing Control	Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die	02:04
Rush	The Trees	Hemispheres	04:43
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin'	Switchin'	06:17
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
The Reaction	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Monique Leyrac	Pendant que	Mon pays	03:26
Dishrags	Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye)	Past Is Past (EP)	01:19
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Sea Cruise Blues	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	05:32
Mingles	I'm Gonna Miss You	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	03:17
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Etulu Etidlouie	Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:19
Copperpenny	Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	05:12
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Stiffs	No Money	The Stiffs	01:26
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
Kilt	The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe	Kilt	03:18
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
Sue Hansen	Sucking Up to You	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:24
Stompin' Tom Connors	I Am the Wind	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	03:35
Guido Basso	Anna’s Theme	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:47
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
Bruce Cockburn	Sahara Gold	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:34
Lady	You're Still the One	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	03:04
Trooper	The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car	Two For The Show	03:00
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
Bruce Cockburn	If a Tree Falls	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	05:44
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Mingles	No Train Tonight	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	02:28
Viletones	Possibilities	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:32
Al Oster	Midnight Sun Rock	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	01:47
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	02:03
Wade Hemsworth	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Mike Jones Group	Each and Every Day	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:18
Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:31
Joe Kozak	Hillbilly Rock	Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me	01:48
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17
The Reaction	On The Beach	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	05:58
Debbie Myers	Strong Enough to Bend	Strong Enough to Bend	02:44
Alanis Obomsawin	Nookum (Reflections of an Elder)	Indian Songs	01:48
Power of Beckett	Back to Me	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:37
Midnight Angels	(I Wish) In the Moonlight	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	02:17
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
Rod Williams & Super 8	War	War b/w War Version	03:16
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
Triton Warrior	Sealed In a Grave	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:36
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Northern Pikes	Teenland	Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)	04:01
Rush	Circumstances	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	03:44
Painted Ship	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld)	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:54
Twitch	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn)	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	02:58
Expedition to Earth	Time Time Time	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:55
Ian Thomas	Long Long Way	Long Long Way	05:00
Lisa Lougheed	Hold Back Tomorrow	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:18
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	01:40
Rush	Closer to the Heart	A Farewell to Kings	02:56
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Bonnie Dobson	Morning Dew	ST	03:20
Bruce Cockburn	Maybe the Poet	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:53
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
Otis Gayle	Sexy Eyes	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	04:12
Kilt	Wrecker's Den	Kilt	02:38
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back)	People Of The Ice	03:14
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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Spoons - After the Institution b/w My Job

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Boys Brigade - ST

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Jolly Tambourine Man - Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka

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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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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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