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.

Captain Tractor - East of Edson

Reaction

Bureacrats - Feel the Pain b/w Grown Up Age

Nomeansno - Oh Canaduh b/w New Age

Arthur Scammel - Squid Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2

Frankie

Private School - Lost in Action (EP)

Second and longest-lasting lineup, l-r: Ed Clynton, Dave Tupper, Kenny Shields, Allen Ayers and Les Bateman (kneeling)

Witness ad

The Fringe - Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown

Elan - Penticton Peaches (insert)

Joni Mitchell - Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)

Leonard Cohen - Suzanne b/w The Partisan

Pelicans - Pelicans b/w New Wave insert

Kings - Switchin' to Glide b/w My Habit (promo)

Rabble - You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl

k.d. lang - Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)

Natalie Pollock & John Turner

Guess Who - Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)

Bob Williams - I'm Alright (Part One) b/w I'm Alright (Part Two)

Rick Buckthorp

The Fringe

The Fringe

'Stompin' Tom Connors - Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail

MG & the Escorts 1967 promo from RPM Magazine November 11, 1967

Slow - I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)

Rock and Roll Bitches Kenny MacKay at Edmonton Library gig Jan 17, 1981. photo courtesy Rose Kapp

Skarecrow - (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Oster, Al Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
M.G. & the Escorts A Someday Fool A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late
lang, k.d. Rose Garden Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Murray, Anne-Marie The Streets of Old St. John's The Streets of Old St. John's b/w Has Love Gone Out of Style
Baumber, Ron Keep it On the Tracks Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Reaction, The On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Elan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
LOI (Lois Ramdeen) When I Feel The Need For Love When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Jannetta, Patti Don't You Want My Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Blue Steel Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Kilt The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe Kilt
Toulouse Toulouse What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse
Connors, Stompin' Tom Sudbury Saturday Night Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
Subhumans Firing Squad Firing Squad b/w No Productivity
Spencer, Eddie 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)
Modern Minds Theresa's World Theresa's World (EP)
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Reaction, The Waiting In Line East End Rockers
Hansen, Sue Shut Up Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Power of Beckett Back to Me Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me
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
Spoons After the Institution After the Institution b/w My Job
A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Underworld Go Away Bound b/w Go Away
Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Tiaras Foolish Girl Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Private School Sci-Fi Lost in Action (EP)
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Boys Brigade The Passion Of Love ST
Earth, Roots And Water Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version
Damron, Dick Rockin' Baby Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby
Lady You're Still the One You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love
Mantra San Francisco Morning Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Gentle Touch One Way Ride Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)
Telfer, Jay Time Has Tied Me Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One
Immortals The Ultimate Warlord The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)
Stiffs Oh Canaduh The Stiffs
Mitchell, Joni Just Like This Train Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)
Rush Circumstances The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Etidlouie, Etulu Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Kilt Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs Kilt
Pointed Sticks Lies Lies b/w I'm Numb
Crystal Castles Dolls Alice Practice
Bureaucrats Feel the Pain Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
D.O.A. Nazi Training Camp Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Captain Tractor The Last Saskatchewan Pirate East of Edson
Diodes Tired of Waking Up Tired Released
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Obomsawin, Alanis Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens) Indian Songs
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Saxton, Mary Sad Eyes Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Kilt Dylan's Ghost Kilt
Jack J Looking Forward to You Looking Forward to You
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Hansen, Sue Sucking Up to You Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up
Plan Nine Fatal Femme I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Mitchell, Joni You Turn Me On I'm a Radio Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Saxton, Mary Take My Heart Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Trans-X Living On Video Living On Video
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
Oster, Al Next Boat Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Witness Inc. Another Side Of Her Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Haunted Eight O'Clock This Morning 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning
Martha And The Muffins Echo Beach Metro Music
Pointed Sticks I'm Numb Lies b/w I'm Numb
Elan Days Gone By Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Mitchell, Joni You turn Me On, I'm a Radio You turn Me On, I'm a Radio b/w Urge for Going (picture sleeve) (promo)
Jury Who Dat? Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass Try a Little Harder Let Them In
Tallmud, Les Avoir Raison Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Obomsawin, Alanis Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks) Indian Songs
Witness Inc. Visions of Vanessa Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)
Ugly Ducklings I Can Tell Nothin' b/w I Can Tell
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War Version War b/w War Version
Mitchell, Joni Urge for Going Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)
Cornell, Jack Like the Clouds Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Ashby, Jim Speed City (Acid Rock) Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City
Rock and Roll Bitches Someone Could Lose an Eye Wild West (EP)
Jewitt, Don Turn Down the Roses Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses
Secret V's Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold No Life Like It (EP)
Doug And The Slugs Too Bad Too Bad b/w The Move
Etidlouie, Etulu Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Murray, Anne Snowbird This Way Is My Way
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Rock, Jenny Mal Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté

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