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
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
The Collectors	She (Will-O'-The Wind)	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	03:53
Ian Thomas	Long Long Way	Long Long Way	05:00
Tiaras	Foolish Girl	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:34
Stiffs	Homesick	The Stiffs	01:02
Ian Thomas	The Runner	The Runner	03:24
The Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
Reign Ghost	Parable	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	02:13
Don Jewitt	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
Sphex	Time	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:49
Freedom North	Fat Man	Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)	03:53
Alanis Obomsawin	Shibi (River of Dreams)	Indian Songs	02:07
Don Norman & the Other Four	Low Man	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	02:15
Etulu Etidlouie	Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:29
Lady	You're Still the One	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	03:04
Rod Williams & Super 8	War Version	War b/w War Version	03:36
Rush	Freewill	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	05:24
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
Twitch	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn)	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	02:58
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
France Joli	Playboy	Come to Me // Let Go	08:02
M.G. & the Escorts	Remembering	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:33
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Gentle Touch	One Way Ride	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:46
Maurice & The Clichés	It's All Talk	C'est la vie	03:18
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Ron Baumber	Duncan and the Devil	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	02:52
Russ Little	I Want to Make it With You (David Gates)	Deeper and Deeper	02:46
Mary Saxton	Sad Eyes	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	03:05
Slow	I Broke The Circle	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:20
k.d. lang	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
Robert Maciag	You Make Me Feel So Good	I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good	03:12
Kilt	Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs	Kilt	03:33
Jenny Rock	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
Jay Telfer	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin'	Switchin'	06:17
Bernie LaBarge	Dream Away	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:48
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Mike Jones Group	Each and Every Day	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:18
Roots Earth And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
Mingles	I'm Gonna Miss You	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	03:17
Bernie LaBarge	It's Real	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:43
Rock and Roll Bitches	Welders Song	Wild West (EP)	02:34
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
Witness Inc.	Another Side Of Her	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:42
Clint Ryan	It Hurts to be Lonely	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	02:40
Painted Ship	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld)	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:54
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
Rod Williams & Super 8	War	War b/w War Version	03:16
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Bruce Cockburn	Sahara Gold	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:34
Mashmakhan	As The Years Go By	As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)	03:04
The Hometown Band	Flying	Flying	03:50
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
Marie Hodgins	Dance For The Sun God	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	01:50
Demics	New York City	New York City b/w Blue Boy	04:32
The Bed Time Story	Feel the Sun	Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun	02:21
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
United Empire Loyalists	No, No, No	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	02:49
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
Alanis Obomsawin	Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War)	Indian Songs	02:02
Al Oster	Next Boat	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	02:46
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Stumpwater	Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	03:33
Monique Leyrac	Pendant que	Mon pays	03:26
Mighty Pope	Heaven on the Seventh Floor	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	02:46
Seeds of Time	Muskrat Rumble	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:48
Alanis Obomsawin	NBAW (Hush - Sleep)	Indian Songs	02:14
Rush	The Spirit of Radio	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	04:59
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Mushroom Band	Don't Come Down	Don't Come Down b/w Nobody	02:40
Ronnie Hawkins	Bo Didley	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:56
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Payola$	Eyes of a Stranger	No Stranger to Danger	04:57
Subhumans	Firing Squad	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:07
D.O.A.	Nazi Training Camp	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:50
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46
Mendelson Joe	Growing Pain	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	02:35
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Ian Thomas	Painted Ladies	ST	03:31
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let Them In	Let Them In	02:33
Bruce Cockburn	Maybe the Poet	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:53
Trooper	We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time)	Knock 'em Dead Kid	03:34
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	No Man Like My Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:42
Trans-X	Living On Video	Living On Video	05:56
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
Len	Steal My Sunshine	You Can't Stop the Bum Rush	04:25
Copperpenny	You're Still the One	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:29
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

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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