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
Joni Mitchell	You turn Me On, I'm a Radio	You turn Me On, I'm a Radio b/w Urge for Going (picture sleeve) (promo)	02:40
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
D.O.A.	Nazi Training Camp	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:50
Demics	New York City	New York City b/w Blue Boy	04:32
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Alanis Obomsawin	Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War)	Indian Songs	02:02
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
Bonnie Dobson	Morning Dew	ST	03:20
Spirit of the West	The Rocks at Thieves Bay	ST	04:56
Northern Pikes	Teenland	Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)	04:01
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Spirit of the West	Save This House	Save This House	02:55
Pointed Sticks	Somebody's Mom	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	01:38
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Alanis Obomsawin	Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens)	Indian Songs	00:57
Viletones	Rebel	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:09
Etulu Etidlouie	Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:42
Wade Hemsworth	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Freedom North	Fat Man	Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)	03:53
Tim Hus	Hurtin’ Albertan	Huskies & Huskvarnas	08:07
Alanis Obomsawin	Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks)	Indian Songs	01:58
Gale Garnett	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Winston Hewitt	You're My Boopsie	You're My Boopsy	04:39
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin II	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:59
Ron Baumber	Duncan and the Devil	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	02:52
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Viletones	Screaming Fist	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:04
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
The Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
Jean Leloup	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	03:19
The Ugly Ducklings	Nothin'	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	02:35
Secret V's	Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold	No Life Like It (EP)	02:33
Guido Basso	Anna’s Theme	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:47
Patti Jannetta	Rules of Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:46
Jenny Rock	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Summer)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:43
Joni Mitchell	Big Yellow Taxi	Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)	02:15
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
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
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ullulimat (I Think of You Always)	People Of The Ice	01:43
Debbie Myers	Strong Enough to Bend	Strong Enough to Bend	02:44
Rough Trade	Highschool Confidential	Avoid Freud	03:14
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	Work Song	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:14
Jack Cornell	Like the Clouds	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	03:27
Rush	Circumstances	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	03:44
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Shawne Jackson	Just as Bad as You	Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man	02:33
Spy's	Underground	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	03:18
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
Rod Williams & Super 8	War	War b/w War Version	03:16
Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
Viletones	Possibilities	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:32
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	07:36
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Jerry Doucette	Mama Let Him Play	Mama Let Him Play	04:26
M.G. & the Escorts	Remembering	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:33
Nite Life	What's On Your Mind	What's On Your Mind b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)	03:46
Robert Maciag	You Make Me Feel So Good	I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good	03:12
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Winter)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:53
Mendelson Joe	Growing Pain	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	02:35
Mendelson Joe	The Canada Song	No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song	03:14
Mingles	I'm Gonna Miss You	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	03:17
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Stompin' Tom Connors	I Am the Wind	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	03:35
France Joli	Baby Don't Stop Dancing	Come to Me // Let Go	07:50
The Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	02:01
Jay Telfer	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
Stompin' Tom Connors	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
Seeds of Time	Muskrat Rumble	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:48
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
L'infonie	I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel	Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel	02:00
Sugluk	Ballad of the Running Girl	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:11
Guido Basso	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Anne Murray	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Dishrags	Tormented	Past Is Past (EP)	01:06
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
Mighty Pope	Tower of Strength	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	03:01
Bruce Cockburn	If a Tree Falls	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	05:44
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
Yvonne Moore	Hit & Run Lover	Hit & Run Lover	00:17
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
The Reaction	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Russ Little	I Want to Make it With You (David Gates)	Deeper and Deeper	02:46
Klaatu	Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft	3:47 EST	07:17
Rush	Limelight	Moving Pictures	04:19
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Sea Cruise Blues	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	05:32
D.O.A.	Disco Sucks	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:39
Mighty Pope	Heaven on the Seventh Floor	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	02:46
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
Élan	Penticton Peaches	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:13
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14

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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