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
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	Work Song	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:14
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
Rush	Freewill	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	05:24
Willie Thrasher	Silent Inuit	Spirit Child	04:36
Crystal Castles	Love and Caring	Alice Practice	02:18
Bruce Cockburn	Maybe the Poet	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:53
Northern Pikes	Teenland	Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)	04:01
Jerry Doucette	Mama Let Him Play	Mama Let Him Play	04:26
Rock and Roll Bitches	Welders Song	Wild West (EP)	02:34
Stiffs	Everyone Lies	The Stiffs	01:30
Debbie Myers	Strong Enough to Bend	Strong Enough to Bend	02:44
Twitch	Things	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	03:37
Stiffs	Fuck You	Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp	02:23
Rough Trade	Highschool Confidential	Avoid Freud	03:14
Bells	Stay Awhile	Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom	03:26
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
The Ugly Ducklings	Just In Case You Wonder	Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)	02:28
Fyre	New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:42
Rabble	Golden Girl	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:04
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Stompin' Tom Connors	Canada Day Up Canada Way	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	02:37
Willie Thrasher	Spirit Child	Spirit Child	04:05
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
Punkin Machine	I Need You Tonight	I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight	05:38
Copperpenny	Taking My Heart	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:16
Demics	New York City	New York City b/w Blue Boy	04:32
Sphex	Time	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:49
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
Rush	The Trees	Hemispheres	04:43
Eddie Spencer	You're So Good to Me Baby	You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)	02:36
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
The Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
Guido Basso	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	03:16
Copperpenny	Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	05:12
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Etulu Etidlouie	Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:19
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)	02:41
Stompin' Tom Connors	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
Mingles	No Train Tonight	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	02:28
k.d. lang	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
Thrills	Telephone	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:57
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Rush	Limelight	Moving Pictures	04:19
Dishrags	Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye)	Past Is Past (EP)	01:19
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46
Bells	Moody Manitoba Morning	Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning	03:15
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Marie Hodgins	Yesterday’s Dreams	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	02:38
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Together	Let Them In	02:50
Mike Woods	Alberta	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	03:49
Trooper	Santa Maria	Two For The Show	02:56
Mary Saxton	Sad Eyes	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	03:05
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Try a Little Harder	Let Them In	02:42
The Collectors	Lydia Purple	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	02:48
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
Ian Thomas	Long Long Way	Long Long Way	05:00
Jerry Doucette	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
Twitch	Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	02:40
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
Dundas	Can't You Hear Me	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	06:01
Etulu Etidlouie	Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:42
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Jim Ashby	Speed City (Acid Rock)	Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City	02:44
Rush	The Spirit of Radio	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	04:59
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
Stiffs	21st Century	The Stiffs	02:18
Ironhorse	What's Your Hurry Darlin'	Everything is Grey	04:30
Les Tallmud	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
Al Oster	Next Boat	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	02:46
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
Shawne Jackson	Just as Bad as You	Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man	02:33
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Pointed Sticks	Somebody's Mom	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	01:38
Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	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
Alanis Obomsawin	Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks)	Indian Songs	01:58
Lisa Lougheed	Run With Us	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:28
Bernie LaBarge	Annie	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:52
Munks	Long Time Waiting	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:15
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
France Joli	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
Dishrags	Past Is Past	Past Is Past (EP)	02:24
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	07:36
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Monique Leyrac	Pendant que	Mon pays	03:26
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Winston Hewitt	You're My Boopsie	You're My Boopsy	04:39
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
Gratitude	We are Here to Party	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:17
Patti Jannetta	Rules of Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:46
Tim Hus	Hurtin’ Albertan	Huskies & Huskvarnas	08:07
Pointed Sticks	I'm Numb	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:11
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play)	People Of The Ice	02:18
Stumpwater	Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	03:33

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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The Haunted - 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning

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Len - You Can't Stop the Bum Rush

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Maurice & The Clichés - C'est la vie

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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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