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
Painted Ship	I Told Those Little White Lies	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:39
Winston Hewitt	You're My Boopsie	You're My Boopsy	04:39
Mendelson Joe	Oh Travene	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	03:41
Etulu Etidlouie	Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:29
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	01:37
Copperpenny	You're Still the One	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:29
Twitch	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn)	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	02:58
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
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
Dishrags	Tormented	Past Is Past (EP)	01:06
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)	02:26
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
Pointed Sticks	What Do You Want Me To Do?	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	02:27
Dundas	Can't You Hear Me	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	06:01
Wade Hemsworth	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
Otis Gayle	We All Need Love	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	03:43
Patti Jannetta	Rules of Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:46
Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Media	Girl I Want You	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	04:20
Mary Saxton	Losing Control	Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die	02:04
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
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
Rabble	Golden Girl	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:04
Rush	Circumstances	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	03:44
Underworld	Bound	Bound b/w Go Away	03:15
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
Russ Little	I Want to Make it With You (David Gates)	Deeper and Deeper	02:46
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
United Empire Loyalists	Afraid of the Dark	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	01:59
Copperpenny	Wine Song	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:04
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Saga	On The Loose	On The Loose b/w Framed	04:12
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	King Size	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:12
Stiffs	Homesick	The Stiffs	01:02
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
Shawne Jackson	Just as Bad as You	Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man	02:33
Mushroom Band	Don't Come Down	Don't Come Down b/w Nobody	02:40
Ian Thomas	The Runner	The Runner	03:24
Jay Telfer	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Ocean	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Jerry Doucette	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Private School	I Wanna Know	Lost in Action (EP)	02:30
Yvonne Moore	Hit & Run Lover	Hit & Run Lover	00:17
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
Twitch	Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	02:40
Subhumans	Firing Squad	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:07
Rod Williams & Super 8	War	War b/w War Version	03:16
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Crystal Castles	Dolls	Alice Practice	01:29
D.O.A.	Royal Police	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:14
Alanis Obomsawin	NBAW (Hush - Sleep)	Indian Songs	02:14
Stompin' Tom Connors	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Lisa Lougheed	Hold Back Tomorrow	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:18
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Bernie LaBarge	Dream Away	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:48
Kilt	Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs	Kilt	03:33
Rod Williams & Super 8	War Version	War b/w War Version	03:36
Ian Thomas	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Private School	Money Guns and Power	Lost in Action (EP)	03:12
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Mashmakhan	As The Years Go By	As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)	03:04
Jack Cornell	Like the Clouds	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	03:27
Ian Thomas	Painted Ladies	ST	03:31
Guido Basso	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	03:16
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Mike Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
France Joli	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Spirit of the West	Save This House	Save This House	02:55
VLA (Vincent V.)	I Gave My Heart (Club Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	04:32
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
Thrills	Telephone	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:57
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich)	People Of The Ice	02:37
Debbie Myers	Strong Enough to Bend	Strong Enough to Bend	02:44
Mary Saxton	Sad Eyes	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	03:05
Tim Hus	Hurtin’ Albertan	Huskies & Huskvarnas	08:07
The Reaction	Waiting In Line	East End Rockers	04:51
Dick Damron	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02
The Collectors	She (Will-O'-The Wind)	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	03:53
The Hometown Band	Flying	Flying	03:50
Stompin' Tom Connors	Canada Day Up Canada Way	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	02:37
Viletones	Rebel	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:09
Bonnie Dobson	Morning Dew	ST	03:20
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Gratitude	Loving You	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:15
Alanis Obomsawin	Shibi (River of Dreams)	Indian Songs	02:07
Craig Farraway	After All	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	04:18
Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	02:03

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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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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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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