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
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Sea Cruise Blues	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	05:32
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
Gentle Touch	Visitors Parking Only	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:45
Fyre	New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:42
Freedom North	Fat Man	Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)	03:53
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Crystal Castles	Dolls	Alice Practice	01:29
Private School	I Wanna Know	Lost in Action (EP)	02:30
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play)	People Of The Ice	02:18
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
The Fringe	Plastic People	Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown	02:12
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Captain Tractor	The Last Saskatchewan Pirate	East of Edson	04:10
Gypsy	The Market	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	02:30
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Doug And The Slugs	The Move	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:47
Kilt	The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe	Kilt	03:18
Checkerlads	Shake Yourself Down	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:41
Mike Jones Group	Each and Every Day	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:18
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Nite Life	What's On Your Mind	What's On Your Mind b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)	03:46
Alanis Obomsawin	Nookum (Reflections of an Elder)	Indian Songs	01:48
Guess Who	Clock On The Wall	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	03:01
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Viletones	Possibilities	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:32
D.O.A.	Nazi Training Camp	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:50
The Collectors	She (Will-O'-The Wind)	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	03:53
Willie Thrasher	Eskimo Named Johnny	Spirit Child	02:41
Kilt	I Was Made for Loving You	Kilt	03:19
Ronnie Hawkins	Who Do You Love	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:41
Kilt	Dylan's Ghost	Kilt	02:23
Nomeansno	Oh Canaduh	Oh Canaduh b/w New Age	01:59
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Rough Trade	Highschool Confidential	Avoid Freud	03:14
Rod Williams & Super 8	War Version	War b/w War Version	03:36
Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Twitch	Things	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	03:37
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
Bernie LaBarge	Annie	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:52
Tiaras	Foolish Girl	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:34
United Empire Loyalists	No, No, No	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	02:49
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)	02:39
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
Secret V's	Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold	No Life Like It (EP)	02:33
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Don Jewitt	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
Patti Jannetta	Don't You Want My Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:26
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
Jerry Doucette	Mama Let Him Play	Mama Let Him Play	04:26
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Summer)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:43
Guido Basso	Anna’s Theme	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:47
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
Jack Cornell	Like the Clouds	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	03:27
Rush	Limelight	Moving Pictures	04:19
Bernie LaBarge	Can't Hold On Forever	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:24
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home)	People Of The Ice	02:36
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Etulu Etidlouie	Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:56
Alanis Obomsawin	Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens)	Indian Songs	00:57
Ocean	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
Twitch	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn)	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	02:58
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Bum	A Promise Is A Promise	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:02
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Midnight Angels	(I Wish) In the Moonlight	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	02:17
Gratitude	We are Here to Party	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:17
The Reaction	On The Beach	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	05:58
Rush	Circumstances	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	03:44
Triton Warrior	Satan's Train	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:08
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
Guido Basso	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	03:16
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
Alanis Obomsawin	Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks)	Indian Songs	01:58
Don Norman & the Other Four	Low Man	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	02:15
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
Northern Pikes	Teenland	Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)	04:01
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
Dick Damron	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02
Demics	New York City	New York City b/w Blue Boy	04:32
Jury	Please Forget Her	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:44
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
Robert Maciag	You Make Me Feel So Good	I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good	03:12
Copperpenny	Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	05:12
Roots Earth And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	03:50
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27

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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