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
Painted Ship	I Told Those Little White Lies	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:39
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
VLA (Vincent V.)	We Won't Let Each Other Go (Club Extended Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	06:17
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Robert Maciag	You Make Me Feel So Good	I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good	03:12
M.G. & the Escorts	A Someday Fool	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:37
Bureaucrats	Grown Up Age	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:35
Kilt	The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe	Kilt	03:18
Mingles	I'm Gonna Miss You	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	03:17
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
Don Norman & the Other Four	Low Man	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	02:15
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Copperpenny	Get Away	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:17
Ian Thomas	Long Long Way	Long Long Way	05:00
Kilt	Wrecker's Den	Kilt	02:38
Tiaras	Surprise!	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:25
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Pursuit of Happiness	She's So Young	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	03:43
Kilt	Dylan's Ghost	Kilt	02:23
Clint Ryan	It Hurts to be Lonely	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	02:40
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
Rush	The Trees	Hemispheres	04:43
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Alanis Obomsawin	Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks)	Indian Songs	01:58
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	Work Song	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:14
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Bullrush	You've Sent Me Away	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	04:30
Freedom North	Fat Man	Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)	03:53
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	06:46
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	03:24
Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
Thrills	Party Inside My Mind	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:38
George Olliver	Shine	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:13
Patti Jannetta	Rules of Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:46
Underworld	Bound	Bound b/w Go Away	03:15
Stiffs	Homesick	The Stiffs	01:02
Etulu Etidlouie	Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:42
Media	Endless Dream	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	03:19
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:31
222's	La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll)	La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) b/w La poupee qui fait non (version instrumentale)	02:42
Kilt	I Was Made for Loving You	Kilt	03:19
Ron Baumber	Keep it On the Tracks	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	03:08
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Sea Cruise Blues	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	05:32
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
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
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Craig Farraway	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34
Modern Minds	Theresa's World	Theresa's World (EP)	01:56
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	01:40
Fyre	New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:42
VLA (Vincent V.)	We Won't Let Each Other Go (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	04:43
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Mantra	San Francisco Morning	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	03:16
Marie Hodgins	Yesterday’s Dreams	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	02:38
Rock and Roll Bitches	Welders Song	Wild West (EP)	02:34
Payola$	Eyes of a Stranger	No Stranger to Danger	04:57
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
Plan Nine	In Sympathy With Poland	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:08
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Joni Mitchell	Big Yellow Taxi	Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)	02:15
Rock and Roll Bitches	Someone Could Lose an Eye	Wild West (EP)	02:24
The Reaction	Waiting In Line	East End Rockers	04:51
Boys Brigade	The Passion Of Love	ST	03:40
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Doug And The Slugs	The Move	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:47
Mighty Pope	Heaven on the Seventh Floor	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	02:46
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
Mary Saxton	Losing Control	Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die	02:04
Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:20
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
Spirit of the West	The Rocks at Thieves Bay	ST	04:56
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	02:01
Bells	Moody Manitoba Morning	Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning	03:15
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Early Morning Rain	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:52
Tim Hus	Hurtin’ Albertan	Huskies & Huskvarnas	08:07
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
Underworld	Go Away	Bound b/w Go Away	02:49
Secret V's	Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold	No Life Like It (EP)	02:33
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Subhumans	No Productivity	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:08
Willie Thrasher	Eskimo Named Johnny	Spirit Child	02:41
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
Pointed Sticks	What Do You Want Me To Do?	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	02:27
Checkerlads	Shake Yourself Down	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:41
Bells	Stay Awhile	Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom	03:26
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:51

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) - Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues

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Don Norman & the Other Four - Low Man b/w Mustang Sally

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

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Private School - Lost in Action (EP)

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