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
Underworld	Go Away	Bound b/w Go Away	02:49
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
Rock and Roll Bitches	Someone Could Lose an Eye	Wild West (EP)	02:24
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
Willie Thrasher	Silent Inuit	Spirit Child	04:36
Alanis Obomsawin	Nookum (Reflections of an Elder)	Indian Songs	01:48
Twitch	Things	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	03:37
Ron Baumber	Keep it On the Tracks	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	03:08
Stiffs	Everyone Lies	The Stiffs	01:30
Crystal Castles	Dolls	Alice Practice	01:29
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
Ron Baumber	Duncan and the Devil	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	02:52
George Olliver	Shine	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:13
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
Etulu Etidlouie	Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:56
Plan Nine	In Sympathy With Poland	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:08
Haunted	Eight O'Clock This Morning	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:20
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
Jean Leloup	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	03:19
Stompin' Tom Connors	I Am the Wind	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	03:35
Don Norman & the Other Four	Mustang Sally	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	03:22
Genèse	Je crois en moi	L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi	02:34
Sugluk	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	05:25
Willie Thrasher	Eskimo Named Johnny	Spirit Child	02:41
The Reaction	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Media	Girl I Want You	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	04:20
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	Work Song	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:14
Bureaucrats	Grown Up Age	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:35
Rough Trade	Highschool Confidential	Avoid Freud	03:14
Mighty Pope	Tower of Strength	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	03:01
Bernie LaBarge	It's Real	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:43
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
k.d. lang	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
Terry McManus	Carolyn (stereo)	Carolyn b/w Carolyn (promo)	02:40
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich)	People Of The Ice	02:37
Clint Ryan	It Hurts to be Lonely	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	02:40
France Joli	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:31
Thrills	Party Inside My Mind	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:38
Kilt	South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel	Kilt	02:46
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun)	People Of The Ice	02:53
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	02:01
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
Monique Leyrac	Pendant que	Mon pays	03:26
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin II	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:59
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
Subhumans	No Productivity	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:08
Sue Hansen	Sucking Up to You	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:24
Munks	Long Time Waiting	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:15
La Révolution Française	Québecois	Québecois	04:46
Copperpenny	Get Away	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:17
Stompin' Tom Connors	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Sugluk	Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	02:41
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back)	People Of The Ice	03:14
Northern Pikes	Teenland	Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)	04:01
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Bruce Cockburn	If a Tree Falls	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	05:44
Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
Boys Brigade	The Passion Of Love	ST	03:40
Mary Saxton	Losing Control	Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die	02:04
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	01:37
Ian Thomas	Time is the Keeper	Glider	04:14
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
Copperpenny	Taking My Heart	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:16
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17
Spirit of the West	Save This House	Save This House	02:55
Otis Gayle	Sexy Eyes	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	04:12
Bells	Moody Manitoba Morning	Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning	03:15
Dishrags	Tormented	Past Is Past (EP)	01:06
Craig Farraway	After All	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	04:18
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Anne Murray	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Nomeansno	Oh Canaduh	Oh Canaduh b/w New Age	01:59
Etulu Etidlouie	Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:29
Ian Thomas	Long Long Way	Long Long Way	05:00
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play)	People Of The Ice	02:18
Etulu Etidlouie	Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:19
L'infonie	I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel	Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel	02:00
Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
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
Willie Dunn	I Pity The Country	I Pity The Country b/w The Carver	02:55
The Collectors	Lydia Purple	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	02:48
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	King Size	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:12
Mingles	No Train Tonight	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	02:28
Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	03:50
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
United Empire Loyalists	No, No, No	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	02:49
Marie Hodgins	Dance For The Sun God	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	01:50
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	07:36

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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Jerry Doucette - The Deuce is Loose

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Jerry Doucette - Mama Let Him Play

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Teenage Head - Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)

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Ocean - Put Your Hand in the Hand

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Bob Williams - I'm Alright

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Guido Basso - Put Your Hand in the Hand

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April Wine - Harder.....Faster

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Don Jewitt - Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses

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Jury - Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?

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Reign Ghost - Long Day Journey b/w Parable

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Doug And The Slugs - Too Bad b/w The Move

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Checkerlads - Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)

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Bum - A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day

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Diodes - Released

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