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
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Alanis Obomsawin	NBAW (Hush - Sleep)	Indian Songs	02:14
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
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
The Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
Anne Murray	I Just Fall in Love Again	New Kind of Feeling	02:49
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
Mike Jones Group	Each and Every Day	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:18
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Joni Mitchell	Just Like This Train	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	04:24
The Ugly Ducklings	Nothin'	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	02:35
Etulu Etidlouie	Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:27
Kilt	Fisherman's Blues	Kilt	03:50
Ronnie Hawkins	Bo Didley	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:56
Media	Endless Dream	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	03:19
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	Baby I Love You	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:22
Stompin' Tom Connors	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Pointed Sticks	What Do You Want Me To Do?	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	02:27
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Triton Warrior	Satan's Train	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:08
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
VLA (Vincent V.)	I Gave My Heart (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	04:46
Copperpenny	You're Still the One	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:29
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
Willie Dunn	I Pity The Country	I Pity The Country b/w The Carver	02:55
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
Alanis Obomsawin	Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks)	Indian Songs	01:58
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Jerry Doucette	Down The Road	Mama Let Him Play	03:35
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
Spirit of the West	The Rocks at Thieves Bay	ST	04:56
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
Trooper	Two for the Show	Two For The Show	04:27
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
D.O.A.	Disco Sucks	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:39
The Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age	03:20
D.O.A.	Royal Police	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:14
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
Ian Thomas	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
Bruce Cockburn	Incandescent Blue	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	04:38
Crystal Castles	Dolls	Alice Practice	01:29
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Al Oster	Next Boat	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	02:46
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)	03:24
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
k.d. lang	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
Mingles	I'm Gonna Miss You	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	03:17
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Crystal Castles	Love and Caring	Alice Practice	02:18
Rush	Closer to the Heart	A Farewell to Kings	02:56
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Theresa's World (EP)	01:42
The Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
Alan Gerber	Tied On	Tied On b/w Tied On	03:24
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Shawne Jackson	Just as Bad as You	Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man	02:33
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
La Révolution Française	Québecois	Québecois	04:46
Alanis Obomsawin	Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War)	Indian Songs	02:02
The Fringe	Plastic People	Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown	02:12
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back)	People Of The Ice	03:14
A Passing Fancy	A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:37
Pursuit of Happiness	She's So Young	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	03:43
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
Witness Inc.	Visions of Vanessa	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:39
Russ Little	Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas)	Deeper and Deeper	03:03
Jury	Please Forget Her	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:44
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
Nite Life	What's On Your Mind	What's On Your Mind b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)	03:46
Willie Thrasher	Eskimo Named Johnny	Spirit Child	02:41
Tim Hus	Hurtin’ Albertan	Huskies & Huskvarnas	08:07
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	06:46
Sue Hansen	Sucking Up to You	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:24
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
The Collectors	Lydia Purple	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	02:48
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
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	02:01
Chilliwack	Lonesome Mary	Lonesome Mary b/w Ridin'	03:04
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Kilt	South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel	Kilt	02:46
Bernie LaBarge	It's Real	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:43
Bullrush	I Want To Be Set Free	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	03:14
Bernie LaBarge	Can't Hold On Forever	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:24
April Wine	Say Hello	Harder.....Faster	02:59
The Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Dundas	Can't You Hear Me	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	06:01
Kilt	Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow	Kilt	03:34

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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