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
Élan	Penticton Peaches	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:13
Jerry Doucette	Down The Road	Mama Let Him Play	03:35
Saga	On The Loose	On The Loose b/w Framed	04:12
Robert Maciag	You Make Me Feel So Good	I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good	03:15
Otis Gayle	We All Need Love	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	03:43
Spy's	Underground	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	03:18
Gypsy	The Market	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	02:30
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
Copperpenny	You're Still the One	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:29
Eddie Spencer	If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)	You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)	02:48
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Ian Thomas	Painted Ladies	ST	03:31
Jenny Rock	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
Private School	Sci-Fi	Lost in Action (EP)	03:32
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Together	Let Them In	02:50
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	No Man Like My Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:42
Dundas	Bloodshot in Your Eyes	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	02:43
Spirit of the West	Save This House	Save This House	02:55
Expedition to Earth	Time Time Time	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:55
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
The Reaction	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Witness Inc.	Visions of Vanessa	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:39
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
United Empire Loyalists	Afraid of the Dark	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	01:59
Underworld	Bound	Bound b/w Go Away	03:15
Al Oster	Midnight Sun Rock	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	01:47
Painted Ship	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld)	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:54
Stiffs	Dad's a Pig	The Stiffs	01:31
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
The Ugly Ducklings	Nothin'	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	02:35
The Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age	03:20
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
Copperpenny	Wine Song	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:04
Copperpenny	Where is the Answer	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	04:20
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
Rock and Roll Bitches	Welders Song	Wild West (EP)	02:34
Les Tallmud	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
Pursuit of Happiness	She's So Young	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	03:43
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Captain Tractor	The Last Saskatchewan Pirate	East of Edson	04:10
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
The Munks	Long Time Waiting	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:15
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin'	Switchin'	06:17
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
Ian Thomas	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
Copperpenny	Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	05:12
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
Yvonne Moore	Hit & Run Lover	Hit & Run Lover	00:17
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
The Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
Ocean	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
Stumpwater	Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	03:33
Trooper	Two for the Show	Two For The Show	04:27
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Sea Cruise Blues	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	05:32
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Guess Who	Clock On The Wall	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	03:01
Stompin' Tom Connors	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Twitch	Things	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	03:37
Mushroom Band	Don't Come Down	Don't Come Down b/w Nobody	02:40
Power of Beckett	Back to Me	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:37
Dishrags	Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye)	Past Is Past (EP)	01:19
Shawne Jackson	Just as Bad as You	Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man	02:33
Ian Thomas	Time is the Keeper	Glider	04:14
Patti Jannetta	Don't You Want My Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:26
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	Work Song	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:14
Northern Pikes	Teenland	Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)	04:01
Rush	Limelight	Moving Pictures	04:19
Kilt	I Was Made for Loving You	Kilt	03:19
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	01:40
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Len	Steal My Sunshine	You Can't Stop the Bum Rush	04:25
Bruce Cockburn	If a Tree Falls	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	05:44
Russ Little	I Want to Make it With You (David Gates)	Deeper and Deeper	02:46
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	02:03
Doug And The Slugs	The Move	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:47
Punkin Machine	I Need You Tonight	I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight	05:38
Bernie LaBarge	It's Real	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:43
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	01:37
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
Etulu Etidlouie	Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:51
Trooper	Santa Maria	Two For The Show	02:56
Élan	Freedom Song	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:41
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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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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