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
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Sea Cruise Blues	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	05:32
The Reaction	On The Beach	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	05:58
Stompin' Tom Connors	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Élan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
Fyre	David's Song	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:03
Seeds of Time	Muskrat Rumble	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:48
Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	03:50
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
Painted Ship	I Told Those Little White Lies	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:39
The Subhumans	No Productivity	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:08
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
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
Pointed Sticks	Lies	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:37
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
Crystal Castles	Love and Caring	Alice Practice	02:18
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
The Munks	Long Time Waiting	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:15
Checkerlads	Shake Yourself Down	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:41
Bruce Cockburn	Lovers in a Dangerous Time	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:07
The Munks	Heartaches Over My Head	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:26
Rush	The Trees	Hemispheres	04:43
Ronnie Hawkins	Who Do You Love	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:41
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Summer)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:43
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Viletones	Rebel	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:09
Private School	Money Guns and Power	Lost in Action (EP)	03:12
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
Mary Saxton	Sad Eyes	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	03:05
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Joni Mitchell	Help Me	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	03:22
Underworld	Go Away	Bound b/w Go Away	02:49
The Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Joni Mitchell	Big Yellow Taxi	Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)	02:15
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
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Bruce Cockburn	Sahara Gold	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:34
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
Media	Girl I Want You	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	04:20
Anne Murray	I Just Fall in Love Again	New Kind of Feeling	02:49
Bernie LaBarge	Annie	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:52
The Reaction	The Kid's Arrived	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	02:32
Debbie Myers	Strong Enough to Bend	Strong Enough to Bend	02:44
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Copperpenny	You're Still the One	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:29
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Patti Jannetta	Rules of Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:46
Painted Ship	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld)	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:54
Russ Little	Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas)	Deeper and Deeper	03:03
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	Sweet Sweet Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:59
Otis Gayle	We All Need Love	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	03:43
Dishrags	Tormented	Past Is Past (EP)	01:06
Clint Ryan	Build Myself Around You	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	03:20
Alanis Obomsawin	Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War)	Indian Songs	02:02
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
Jay Telfer	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
France Joli	Let Go	Come to Me // Let Go	09:26
Marie Hodgins	Yesterday’s Dreams	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	02:38
Bruce Cockburn	The Gift	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	06:06
Anne Murray	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
The Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Stiffs	Homesick	The Stiffs	01:02
Ron Baumber	Duncan and the Devil	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	02:52
Don Norman & the Other Four	Mustang Sally	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	03:22
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
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Stompin' Tom Connors	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)	03:24
Midnight Angels	(I Wish) In the Moonlight	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	02:17
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Nite Life	What's On Your Mind	What's On Your Mind b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)	03:46
The Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
The Reaction	Waiting In Line	East End Rockers	04:51
Private School	Sci-Fi	Lost in Action (EP)	03:32
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	01:40
Gale Garnett	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
Copperpenny	Bad Manners	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:05
k.d. lang	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
Jury	Please Forget Her	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:44
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:48
Guido Basso	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Bernie LaBarge	Dream Away	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:48
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
The Modern Minds	Theresa's World	Theresa's World (EP)	01:56
Alanis Obomsawin	Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks)	Indian Songs	01:58
The Fringe	Plastic People	Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown	02:12
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun)	People Of The Ice	02:53
Sphex	Time	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:49
Bum	A Promise Is A Promise	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:02
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
Monique Leyrac	Tout mais pas ca	Mon pays	01:56

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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Mary Saxton - Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart

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Mary Saxton - Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die

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The Modern Minds - Theresa's World (EP)

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The Collectors - Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)

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Kilt - Kilt

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Chilliwack - Lonesome Mary b/w Ridin'

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Craig Ruhnke - Give Me The Nightime b/w Give Me The Nightime (promo)

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Nomeansno - Oh Canaduh b/w New Age

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Russ Little - Deeper and Deeper

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Plan Nine - I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)

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222's - La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) b/w La poupee qui fait non (version instrumentale)

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Robert Maciag - I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good

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Tim Hus - Huskies & Huskvarnas

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The Munks - Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head

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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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Lisa Lougheed - Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow

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