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
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
VLA (Vincent V.)	We Won't Let Each Other Go (Club Extended Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	06:17
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
The Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
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
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Mantra	San Francisco Morning	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	03:16
Rush	Fly by Night	Fly By Night	03:22
Stiffs	Homesick	The Stiffs	01:02
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	03:50
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Rod Williams & Super 8	War	War b/w War Version	03:16
Expedition to Earth	Time Time Time	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:55
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:46
Partland Brothers	Soul City	Electric Honey	03:52
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Saga	On The Loose	On The Loose b/w Framed	04:12
Stompin' Tom Connors	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Anne Murray	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
Lisa Lougheed	Run With Us	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:28
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
Rabble	Golden Girl	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:04
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
Copperpenny	Taking My Heart	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:16
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
Mashmakhan	As The Years Go By	As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)	03:04
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
Bullrush	You've Sent Me Away	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	04:30
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
Les Tallmud	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
Jenny Rock	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
Plan Nine	I Ain't No Robot	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:36
Clint Ryan	Build Myself Around You	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	03:20
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Try a Little Harder	Let Them In	02:42
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
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
Private School	I Wanna Know	Lost in Action (EP)	02:30
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
Pointed Sticks	What Do You Want Me To Do?	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	02:27
Rock and Roll Bitches	Someone Could Lose an Eye	Wild West (EP)	02:24
Clint Ryan	It Hurts to be Lonely	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	02:40
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Kilt	Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow	Kilt	03:34
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)	03:24
Rod Williams & Super 8	War Version	War b/w War Version	03:36
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
Triton Warrior	Sealed In a Grave	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:36
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part One)	I'm Alright	03:57
Ronnie Hawkins	Who Do You Love	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:41
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Bells	Stay Awhile	Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom	03:26
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	01:56
Private School	Sci-Fi	Lost in Action (EP)	03:32
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin'	Switchin'	06:17
Yvonne Moore	Hit & Run Lover	Hit & Run Lover	00:17
Al Oster	Next Boat	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	02:46
Bernie LaBarge	Annie	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:52
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Theresa's World (EP)	01:42
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Secret V's	Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold	No Life Like It (EP)	02:33
Jerry Doucette	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Don Norman & the Other Four	Mustang Sally	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	03:22
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
The Reaction	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Plan Nine	Go	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:03
Bruce Cockburn	Maybe the Poet	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:53
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
France Joli	Baby Don't Stop Dancing	Come to Me // Let Go	07:50
Stiffs	Fuck You	Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp	02:23
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
Ron Baumber	Duncan and the Devil	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	02:52
Russ Little	Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little)	Deeper and Deeper	03:05
Willie Thrasher	Wolves Don't Live By The Rules	Spirit Child	02:16
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
Dundas	Bloodshot in Your Eyes	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	02:43
Ian Thomas	Long Long Way	Long Long Way	05:00
k.d. lang	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:20
Kilt	Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt	Kilt	04:28
Thrills	Telephone	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:57
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Anne Murray	Bidin' my time	This Way Is My Way	02:37
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let Them In	Let Them In	02:33
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Dishrags	Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye)	Past Is Past (EP)	01:19
Terry McManus	Carolyn (stereo)	Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)	02:40

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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