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
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
The Ugly Ducklings	Nothin'	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	02:35
Bruce Cockburn	Sahara Gold	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:34
Pointed Sticks	Somebody's Mom	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	01:38
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Triton Warrior	Sealed In a Grave	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:36
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
Rush	Fly by Night	Fly By Night	03:22
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Media	Endless Dream	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	03:19
Evolution Expantion	Blow Up	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	02:39
Jack Cornell	Like the Clouds	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	03:27
George Olliver	Shine	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:13
Kilt	Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt	Kilt	04:28
Underworld	Go Away	Bound b/w Go Away	02:49
Dick Damron	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02
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
Dishrags	Tormented	Past Is Past (EP)	01:06
Captain Tractor	The Last Saskatchewan Pirate	East of Edson	04:10
France Joli	Playboy	Come to Me // Let Go	08:02
Guido Basso	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
D.O.A.	Royal Police	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:14
La Révolution Française	Québecois	Québecois	04:46
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home)	People Of The Ice	02:36
Modern Minds	Theresa's World	Theresa's World (EP)	01:56
Mingles	No Train Tonight	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	02:28
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Etulu Etidlouie	Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:56
Jerry Doucette	Mama Let Him Play	Mama Let Him Play	04:26
Ian Thomas	Time is the Keeper	Glider	04:14
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
Plan Nine	In Sympathy With Poland	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:08
Kilt	Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs	Kilt	03:33
Yvonne Moore	Hit & Run Lover	Hit & Run Lover	00:17
Joe Kozak	Hillbilly Rock	Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me	01:48
Clint Ryan	It Hurts to be Lonely	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	02:40
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	01:40
Tiaras	Foolish Girl	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:34
Copperpenny	Bad Manners	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:05
Bernie LaBarge	Can't Hold On Forever	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:24
Ian Thomas	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
Bruce Cockburn	Maybe the Poet	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:53
Stompin' Tom Connors	I Am the Wind	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	03:35
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part One)	I'm Alright	03:57
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
Mingles	I'm Gonna Miss You	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	03:17
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
Pursuit of Happiness	She's So Young	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	03:43
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Rod Williams & Super 8	War	War b/w War Version	03:16
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	Baby I Love You	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:22
Alanis Obomsawin	Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks)	Indian Songs	01:58
Partland Brothers	Soul City	Electric Honey	03:52
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	02:01
Rock and Roll Bitches	Welders Song	Wild West (EP)	02:34
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Monique Leyrac	Pendant que	Mon pays	03:26
Spy's	Underground	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	03:18
Ian Thomas	Long Long Way	Long Long Way	05:00
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
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
Kilt	The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe	Kilt	03:18
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
Bum	A Promise Is A Promise	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:02
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
Lady	You're Still the One	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	03:04
Ronnie Hawkins	Who Do You Love	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:41
Shawne Jackson	Just as Bad as You	Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man	02:33
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
Kilt	Wrecker's Den	Kilt	02:38
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Theresa's World (EP)	01:42
Patti Jannetta	Don't You Want My Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:26
Genèse	Je crois en moi	L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi	02:34
Sidewinders (1)	Cryin' Heartache Misery	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:08
Twitch	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn)	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	02:58
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
Private School	Money Guns and Power	Lost in Action (EP)	03:12
Mashmakhan	As The Years Go By	As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)	03:04
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
Dishrags	Past Is Past	Past Is Past (EP)	02:24
Painted Ship	I Told Those Little White Lies	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:39
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
Russ Little	Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas)	Deeper and Deeper	03:03
Subhumans	Firing Squad	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:07
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	No Man Like My Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:42
Bernie LaBarge	Annie	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:52
Monique Leyrac	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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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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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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