MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

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
Élan Teenage Party Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Joni Mitchell Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Painted Ship Frustration Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies
Sue Hansen Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Northern Pikes Teenland Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)
Viletones Possibilities Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel
Slow Black Is Black I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
M.G. & the Escorts Next to Nowhere Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
Nomeansno Oh Canaduh Oh Canaduh b/w New Age
Al Oster Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) Sea Cruise Blues Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues
Rush Fly by Night Fly By Night
Élan Penticton Peaches Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Stompin' Tom Connors I Am the Wind Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind
Copperpenny Where is the Answer Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Etulu Etidlouie Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans b/w New Wave
Guido Basso Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Sugluk Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Trooper Two for the Show Two For The Show
Twitch Spunk Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk
VLA (Vincent V.) We Won't Let Each Other Go (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix) I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go
Bum A Promise Is A Promise A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Alanis Obomsawin Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Les Tallmud Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
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)
The Reaction The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Trooper The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car Two For The Show
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Monique Leyrac Mon pays Mon pays
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Ian Thomas Right Before Your Eyes Calabash
Jerry Doucette Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Poppy Family Which Way You Goin' Billy? Which Way You Goin' Billy?
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Subhumans Oh Canaduh Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Pelicans New Wave Pelicans b/w New Wave
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)
Ron Richardson Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Don Jewitt Northern Wind Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
France Joli Baby Don't Stop Dancing Come to Me // Let Go
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
Russ Little I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
Kilt Last Call Kilt
Ashley MacIsaac The Devil in the Kitchen The Devil in the Kitchen b/w What an Idiot He Is (featuring Jale) (picture sleeve, clear blue vinyl)
Sphex Leaving This Crazy City Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Copperpenny You're Still the One Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Bruce Cockburn Incandescent Blue Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue
Bruce Cockburn If I Had a Rocket Launcher If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Alanis Obomsawin Shibi (River of Dreams) Indian Songs
Kilt I Was Made for Loving You Kilt
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Dundas Bloodshot in Your Eyes Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me
Jack Cornell Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Painted Ship Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes
Joni Mitchell Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Bruce Cockburn Wondering Where the Lions Are Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Spirit of the West Save This House Save This House
United Empire Loyalists No, No, No No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Chokolit Affair Don't Touch My Funk Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk
Plan Nine Go I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Mike Jones Group Each and Every Day Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Guido Basso For Awhile Put Your Hand in the Hand
Jay Telfer Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
France Joli Playboy Come to Me // Let Go
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Sidewinders (1) Cryin' Heartache Misery Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Bonnie Dobson Morning Dew ST
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Ted Daigle Mary Lou Mary Lou b/w No One Else
Stiffs Homesick The Stiffs
k.d. lang Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Kilt The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe Kilt
Kings Switchin` Switchin'
Alden Diehl Fight On (Summer) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Plan Nine In Sympathy With Poland I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Helix Billy Oxygen Breaking Loose
Leonard Cohen Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Jerry Doucette Mama Let Him Play Mama Let Him Play
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Copperpenny Taking My Heart Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne
Roots Earth And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Etulu Etidlouie Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Charlie Russell The Bricklin The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II
Dishrags Past Is Past Past Is Past (EP)

Huskies & Huskvarnas

Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow

Lisa Lougheed (3)

Lisa Lougheed (2)

Lisa Lougheed (1)

45-Lisa Lougheed – Run With Us VINYL 02

Switchin'

Diodes' Paul Robinson @ Black Swan, Ottawa March 1978 courtesy Cameron Muir

The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II

Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool

David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges

That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)

Moving Pictures

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

First Impressions (EP)

Genetic Control

1985-02-17_Dead End + Genetic Control_Larry_s (Toronto)_ticket_+

Genetic Control_First Impressions_+

1980-07_DOA_Toronto_flyer

1983-01-03_DOA_Pier (Raleigh, NC)_flyer_+

1984-09-28_DOA + Abrasive Wheels + Battalion Of Saints + Killroy_Olympic Audit (LA, CA)_flyer_+

Rush – Moving Pictures (3)

Rush – Moving Pictures (2)

Rush – Moving Pictures (1)

Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)

Paula Turnhbull - Rush fromt cover model

Rush - Permanent Waves (Dewey Defeats Truman, Coca Cola signs) (5)

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