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
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	When I Feel The Need For Love	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	06:33
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Bells	Stay Awhile	Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom	03:26
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	03:24
Trooper	The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car	Two For The Show	03:00
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Kilt	I Was Made for Loving You	Kilt	03:19
Willie Thrasher	Spirit Child	Spirit Child	04:05
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
Nomeansno	Oh Canaduh	Oh Canaduh b/w New Age	01:59
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
Trooper	We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time)	Knock 'em Dead Kid	03:34
Underworld	Bound	Bound b/w Go Away	03:15
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	No Man Like My Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:42
Lisa Lougheed	Run With Us	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:28
Bruce Cockburn	Incandescent Blue	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	04:38
Russ Little	I Want to Make it With You (David Gates)	Deeper and Deeper	02:46
Mingles	No Train Tonight	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	02:28
Spirit of the West	The Rocks at Thieves Bay	ST	04:56
Stumpwater	Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	03:33
Kilt	The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe	Kilt	03:18
Crystal Castles	Dolls	Alice Practice	01:29
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
Guess Who	Clock On The Wall	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	03:01
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
Boys Brigade	The Passion of Love	ST	03:40
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
Evolution Expantion	Blow Up	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	02:39
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let's Get Together	Let Them In	02:04
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
Power of Beckett	Back to Me	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:37
D.O.A.	Nazi Training Camp	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:50
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	King Size	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:12
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
United Empire Loyalists	Afraid of the Dark	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	01:59
Mendelson Joe	Oh Travene	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	03:41
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
Subhumans	No Productivity	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:08
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
Russ Little	Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little)	Deeper and Deeper	03:05
Robert Maciag	You Make Me Feel So Good	I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good	03:12
Lisa Lougheed	Hold Back Tomorrow	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:18
Rod Williams & Super 8	War	War b/w War Version	03:16
Tiaras	Surprise!	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:25
A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:51
Witness Inc.	Visions of Vanessa	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:39
Guido Basso	Anna’s Theme	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:47
Private School	I Wanna Know	Lost in Action (EP)	02:30
Mantra	Stay	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	02:57
The Ugly Ducklings	That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind	Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)	02:43
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Rush	The Trees	Hemispheres	04:43
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let Them In	Let Them In	02:33
Les Tallmud	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
Willie Thrasher	Silent Inuit	Spirit Child	04:36
Mike Woods	Alberta	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	03:49
The Ugly Ducklings	Nothin'	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	02:35
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
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Try a Little Harder	Let Them In	02:42
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
Eddie Spencer	You're So Good to Me Baby	You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)	02:36
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)	03:24
Anne Murray	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
Dundas	Bloodshot in Your Eyes	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	02:43
Alan Gerber	Tied On	Tied On b/w Tied On	03:24
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	01:56
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Stiffs	21st Century	The Stiffs	02:18
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46
The Reaction	The Kid's Arrived	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	02:32
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
Rough Trade	Highschool Confidential	Avoid Freud	03:14
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
Ian Thomas	Time is the Keeper	Glider	04:14
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
Otis Gayle	We All Need Love	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	03:43
Kilt	Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt	Kilt	04:28
Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
Private School	Sci-Fi	Lost in Action (EP)	03:32
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
La Révolution Française	Québecois	Québecois	04:46
Rabble	Golden Girl	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:04
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
Plan Nine	In Sympathy With Poland	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:08
Joni Mitchell	Help Me	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	03:22
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
Ian Thomas	Painted Ladies	ST	03:31
Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	03:50
Willie Thrasher	Eskimo Named Johnny	Spirit Child	02:41
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
George Olliver	Shine	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:13
Bernie LaBarge	Dream Away	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:48
Lady	Whatever Happened to the Love	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	02:41

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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Don Jewitt - Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses

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