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
Anne Murray	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
Viletones	Possibilities	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:32
Rush	The Spirit of Radio	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	04:59
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	King Size	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:12
Mary Saxton	Sad Eyes	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	03:05
Don Jewitt	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
The Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
Jim Ashby	Speed City (Acid Rock)	Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City	02:44
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
Stiffs	Everyone Lies	The Stiffs	01:30
Pointed Sticks	What Do You Want Me To Do?	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	02:27
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Lady	You're Still the One	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	03:04
Willie Thrasher	Silent Inuit	Spirit Child	04:36
Stompin' Tom Connors	Canada Day Up Canada Way	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	02:37
Boys Brigade	The Passion of Love	ST	03:40
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
Etulu Etidlouie	Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:29
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Russ Little	Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas)	Deeper and Deeper	03:03
Mendelson Joe	Growing Pain	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	02:35
Lisa Lougheed	Run With Us	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:28
Bum	A Promise Is A Promise	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:02
Willie Thrasher	Spirit Child	Spirit Child	04:05
Mighty Pope	Tower of Strength	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	03:01
Rod Williams & Super 8	War Version	War b/w War Version	03:36
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Etulu Etidlouie	Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:27
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Winter)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:53
Jerry Doucette	Mama Let Him Play	Mama Let Him Play	04:26
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
Jay Telfer	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
Copperpenny	Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	05:12
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	03:50
Crystal Castles	Dolls	Alice Practice	01:29
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Alan Gerber	Tied On	Tied On b/w Tied On	03:24
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home)	People Of The Ice	02:36
M.G. & the Escorts	A Someday Fool	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:37
Mighty Pope	Heaven on the Seventh Floor	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	02:46
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
Copperpenny	Taking My Heart	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:16
Punkin Machine	I Need You Tonight	I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight	05:38
Stompin' Tom Connors	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
Bruce Cockburn	The Gift	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	06:06
Mendelson Joe	The Canada Song	No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song	03:14
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
Copperpenny	You're Still the One	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:29
Viletones	Screaming Fist	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:04
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin'	Switchin'	06:17
Ronnie Hawkins	Bo Didley	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:56
Kilt	The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe	Kilt	03:18
Nite Life	What's On Your Mind	What's On Your Mind b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)	03:46
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Twitch	Things	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	03:37
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Ian Thomas	Painted Ladies	ST	03:31
Maurice & The Clichés	It's All Talk	C'est la vie	03:18
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	01:40
D.O.A.	Nazi Training Camp	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:50
A Passing Fancy	A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:37
Stompin' Tom Connors	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Jerry Doucette	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
Gale Garnett	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
Kilt	South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel	Kilt	02:46
The Subhumans	No Productivity	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:08
M.G. & the Escorts	Remembering	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:33
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
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
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
Lady	Whatever Happened to the Love	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	02:41
Triton Warrior	Sealed In a Grave	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:36
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
France Joli	Let Go	Come to Me // Let Go	09:26
The Hometown Band	Flying	Flying	03:50
Rush	The Trees	Hemispheres	04:43
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Dishrags	Past Is Past	Past Is Past (EP)	02:24
France Joli	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
Saga	On The Loose	On The Loose b/w Framed	04:12
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Painted Ship	I Told Those Little White Lies	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:39
The Reaction	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Private School	I Wanna Know	Lost in Action (EP)	02:30
The Ugly Ducklings	Nothin'	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	02:35
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
L'infonie	Come & Dance The OK LA!	Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel	03:04

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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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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