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
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Al Oster	Midnight Sun Rock	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	01:47
France Joli	Let Go	Come to Me // Let Go	09:26
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
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
Bernie LaBarge	Can't Hold On Forever	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:24
United Empire Loyalists	No, No, No	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	02:49
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Bruce Cockburn	If a Tree Falls	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	05:44
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Sugluk	Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	02:35
Monique Leyrac	Mon pays	Mon pays	03:11
Nite Life	What's On Your Mind	What's On Your Mind b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)	03:46
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin II	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:59
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
Viletones	Possibilities	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:32
Rush	Circumstances	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	03:44
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
Rabble	Golden Girl	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:04
Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
Dundas	Can't You Hear Me	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	06:01
Willie Thrasher	Silent Inuit	Spirit Child	04:36
Mike Jones Group	Each and Every Day	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:18
Rush	Limelight	Moving Pictures	04:19
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:51
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
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
D.O.A.	Disco Sucks	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:39
Klaatu	Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft	3:47 EST	07:17
United Empire Loyalists	Afraid of the Dark	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	01:59
Mantra	Stay	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	02:57
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Bruce Cockburn	Incandescent Blue	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	04:38
Viletones	Rebel	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:09
Dishrags	Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye)	Past Is Past (EP)	01:19
Fyre	New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:42
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
Pointed Sticks	Lies	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:37
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
Bruce Cockburn	Wondering Where the Lions Are	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:42
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
Joni Mitchell	Help Me	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	03:22
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
Stumpwater	Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	04:06
Sugluk	Ballad of the Running Girl	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:11
Gentle Touch	One Way Ride	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:46
Mary Saxton	Losing Control	Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die	02:04
The Bed Time Story	Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott)	Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun	03:00
Freedom North	Fat Man	Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)	03:53
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Guido Basso	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	03:16
Anne-Marie Murray	The Streets of Old St. John's	The Streets of Old St. John's b/w Has Love Gone Out of Style	02:25
Stiffs	Fuck You	Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp	02:23
Bum	A Promise Is A Promise	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:02
Painted Ship	I Told Those Little White Lies	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:39
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Rush	The Spirit of Radio	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	04:59
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Stiffs	Homesick	The Stiffs	01:02
Jay Telfer	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
Private School	Sci-Fi	Lost in Action (EP)	03:32
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
Stompin' Tom Connors	Canada Day Up Canada Way	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	02:37
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
Thrills	Telephone	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:57
Partland Brothers	Soul City	Electric Honey	03:52
Stumpwater	Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	03:33
Kilt	Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow	Kilt	03:34
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
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Willie Dunn	I Pity The Country	I Pity The Country b/w The Carver	02:55
M.G. & the Escorts	Remembering	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:33
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
Les Tallmud	Un Autre Ami	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:41
The Collectors	Lydia Purple	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	02:48
Crystal Castles	Dolls	Alice Practice	01:29
Mary Saxton	Sad Eyes	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	03:05
Alanis Obomsawin	Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens)	Indian Songs	00:57
Pursuit of Happiness	She's So Young	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	03:43
Stiffs	Dad's a Pig	The Stiffs	01:31
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	01:40
Don Jewitt	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Rock and Roll Bitches	Welders Song	Wild West (EP)	02:34
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part One)	I'm Alright	03:57
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Sphex	Time	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:49
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
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
Mingles	I'm Gonna Miss You	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	03:17
Sidewinders (1)	Put The Blame On Me	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:02
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Anne Murray	Snowbird	This Way Is My Way	02:12
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
Twitch	Things	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	03:37

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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