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
Jerry Doucette	Mama Let Him Play	Mama Let Him Play	04:26
Underworld	Bound	Bound b/w Go Away	03:15
Twitch	Things	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	03:37
The Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
France Joli	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
The Modern Minds	Theresa's World	Theresa's World (EP)	01:56
Alan Gerber	Tied On	Tied On b/w Tied On	03:24
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	01:37
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
Terry McManus	Carolyn (stereo)	Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)	02:40
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	06:46
Rough Trade	Highschool Confidential	Avoid Freud	03:14
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
Plan Nine	Fatal Femme	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:20
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers	Mr. Fortune	Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool	02:43
Lisa Lougheed	Run With Us	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:28
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back)	People Of The Ice	03:14
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
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 Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Stiffs	Fuck You	Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp	02:23
Gratitude	Loving You	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:15
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
Etulu Etidlouie	Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:29
Rush	Fly by Night	Fly By Night	03:22
Dishrags	Past Is Past	Past Is Past (EP)	02:24
Midnight Angels	(I Wish) In the Moonlight	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	02:17
The Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
The Reaction	On The Beach	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	05:58
Guido Basso	Anna’s Theme	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:47
Spirit of the West	Save This House	Save This House	02:55
Don Jewitt	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Trooper	Santa Maria	Two For The Show	02:56
Jay Telfer	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
Stiffs	Homesick	The Stiffs	01:02
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Robert Maciag	You Make Me Feel So Good	I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good	03:15
United Empire Loyalists	No, No, No	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	02:49
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
Partland Brothers	Soul City	Electric Honey	03:52
George Olliver	Shine	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:13
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Rock and Roll Bitches	Welders Song	Wild West (EP)	02:34
Kilt	Wrecker's Den	Kilt	02:38
Copperpenny	You're Still the One	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:29
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
Rush	Limelight	Moving Pictures	04:19
Witness Inc.	Another Side Of Her	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:42
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play)	People Of The Ice	02:18
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Jerry Doucette	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
Stompin' Tom Connors	I Am the Wind	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	03:35
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
Slow	I Broke The Circle	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:20
Bells	Moody Manitoba Morning	Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning	03:15
Otis Gayle	Sexy Eyes	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	04:12
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	01:56
Dundas	Can't You Hear Me	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	06:01
Anne Murray	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
Sphex	Time	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:49
Élan	Penticton Peaches	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:13
Joe Kozak	Hillbilly Rock	Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me	01:48
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
D.O.A.	Royal Police	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:14
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:48
Painted Ship	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld)	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:54
Joni Mitchell	Big Yellow Taxi	Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)	02:15
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Rush	Closer to the Heart	A Farewell to Kings	02:56
Guido Basso	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	03:16
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
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
Kilt	The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe	Kilt	03:18
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part Two)	I'm Alright	03:43
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Summer)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:43
Media	Girl I Want You	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	04:20
Power of Beckett	Back to Me	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:37
Mary Saxton	Losing Control	Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die	02:04
Evolution Expantion	Blow Up	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	02:39
Stompin' Tom Connors	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
Willie Dunn	I Pity The Country	I Pity The Country b/w The Carver	02:55
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Viletones	Rebel	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:09

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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The Immortals - The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)

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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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