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
Munks	Long Time Waiting	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:15
Wade Hemsworth	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Kilt	Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow	Kilt	03:34
France Joli	Let Go	Come to Me // Let Go	09:26
Don Norman & the Other Four	Low Man	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	02:15
Mendelson Joe	Oh Travene	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	03:41
Munks	Heartaches Over My Head	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:26
Alanis Obomsawin	Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens)	Indian Songs	00:57
Al Oster	Next Boat	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	02:46
Bernie LaBarge	It's Real	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:43
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	02:01
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
The Ugly Ducklings	Just In Case You Wonder	Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)	02:28
Ronnie Hawkins	Bo Didley	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:56
Bernie LaBarge	Dream Away	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:48
Marie Hodgins	Dance For The Sun God	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	01:50
Saga	On The Loose	On The Loose b/w Framed	04:12
Underworld	Bound	Bound b/w Go Away	03:15
Crystal Castles	Dolls	Alice Practice	01:29
Sphex	Time	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:49
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
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
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Al Oster	Midnight Sun Rock	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	01:47
Sugluk	Ballad of the Running Girl	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:11
United Empire Loyalists	Afraid of the Dark	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	01:59
Stompin' Tom Connors	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
Lady	Whatever Happened to the Love	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	02:41
Alanis Obomsawin	Shibi (River of Dreams)	Indian Songs	02:07
D.O.A.	Nazi Training Camp	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:50
Copperpenny	You're Still the One	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:29
Doug And The Slugs	The Move	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:47
Checkerlads	Shake Yourself Down	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:41
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
Copperpenny	Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	05:12
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
Bruce Cockburn	Incandescent Blue	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	04:38
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	07:36
Fyre	New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:42
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	01:56
The Reaction	The Kid's Arrived	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	02:32
The Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Captain Tractor	The Last Saskatchewan Pirate	East of Edson	04:10
The Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
Joni Mitchell	Big Yellow Taxi	Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)	02:15
Kilt	I Was Made for Loving You	Kilt	03:19
A Passing Fancy	A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:37
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin II	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:59
Punkin Machine	I Need You Tonight	I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight	05:38
VLA (Vincent V.)	I Gave My Heart (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	04:46
Ian Thomas	Long Long Way	Long Long Way	05:00
Stompin' Tom Connors	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Eddie Spencer	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)	02:36
Stiffs	Fuck You	Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp	02:23
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	King Size	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:12
Ian Thomas	Time is the Keeper	Glider	04:14
Triton Warrior	Satan's Train	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:08
Witness Inc.	Visions of Vanessa	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:39
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let's Get Together	Let Them In	02:04
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17
Mary Saxton	Sad Eyes	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	03:05
Rush	Circumstances	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	03:44
Pointed Sticks	I'm Numb	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:11
Willie Thrasher	Eskimo Named Johnny	Spirit Child	02:41
Dick Damron	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
Bruce Cockburn	The Gift	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	06:06
Secret V's	Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold	No Life Like It (EP)	02:33
Dishrags	Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye)	Past Is Past (EP)	01:19
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
Roots Earth And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
Pointed Sticks	Lies	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:37
Stiffs	21st Century	The Stiffs	02:18
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Sidewinders (1)	Put The Blame On Me	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:02
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
Ron Baumber	Keep it On the Tracks	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	03:08
Élan	Penticton Peaches	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:13
Alanis Obomsawin	Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War)	Indian Songs	02:02
Sue Hansen	Sucking Up to You	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:24
Jerry Doucette	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
L'infonie	Come & Dance The OK LA!	Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel	03:04
Kilt	South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel	Kilt	02:46
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12

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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