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
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Klaatu	Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft	3:47 EST	07:17
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
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich)	People Of The Ice	02:37
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
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
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Russ Little	I Want to Make it With You (David Gates)	Deeper and Deeper	02:46
Genèse	Je crois en moi	L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi	02:34
Pluton and Humanoids	World Invaders	World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)	06:44
Copperpenny	Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	05:12
Punkin Machine	I Need You Tonight	I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight	05:38
Anne Murray	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Early Morning Rain	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:52
Pointed Sticks	What Do You Want Me To Do?	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	02:27
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Witness Inc.	Visions of Vanessa	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:39
Kilt	Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt	Kilt	04:28
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
Mighty Pope	Heaven on the Seventh Floor	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	02:46
Trooper	The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car	Two For The Show	03:00
Painted Ship	I Told Those Little White Lies	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:39
Joe Kozak	Hillbilly Rock	Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me	01:48
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Try a Little Harder	Let Them In	02:42
Guido Basso	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Kilt	The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe	Kilt	03:18
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
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Stiffs	Homesick	The Stiffs	01:02
Alanis Obomsawin	Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War)	Indian Songs	02:02
Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:20
Stiffs	21st Century	The Stiffs	02:18
A Passing Fancy	A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:37
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
Yvonne Moore	Hit & Run Lover	Hit & Run Lover	00:17
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Rush	The Trees	Hemispheres	04:43
Monique Leyrac	Mon pays	Mon pays	03:11
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Thrills	Telephone	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:57
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	04:32
Bruce Cockburn	If a Tree Falls	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	05:44
Sidewinders (1)	Put The Blame On Me	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:02
Spirit of the West	Save This House	Save This House	02:55
Ian Thomas	Painted Ladies	ST	03:31
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin II	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:59
Ronnie Hawkins	Who Do You Love	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:41
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
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
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
k.d. lang	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
Secret V's	Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold	No Life Like It (EP)	02:33
D.O.A.	Royal Police	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:14
Checkerlads	Shake Yourself Down	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:41
The Reaction	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
Monique Leyrac	Pendant que	Mon pays	03:26
Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Guess Who	Clock On The Wall	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	03:01
Lady	You're Still the One	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love	03:04
Spy's	Underground	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	03:18
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
Dishrags	Past Is Past	Past Is Past (EP)	02:24
Hometown Band	Flying	Flying	03:50
Stiffs	Fuck You	Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp	02:23
Freedom North	Fat Man	Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)	03:53
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
Modern Minds	Theresa's World	Theresa's World (EP)	01:56
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
Plan Nine	Go	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:03
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
Kilt	I Was Made for Loving You	Kilt	03:19
Thrills	Party Inside My Mind	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:38
Marie Hodgins	Dance For The Sun God	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	01:50
Bernie LaBarge	Dream Away	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:48
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Clint Ryan	It Hurts to be Lonely	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	02:40
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Winter)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:53
Private School	Money Guns and Power	Lost in Action (EP)	03:12
Bruce Cockburn	Sahara Gold	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:34
Tiaras	Surprise!	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:25
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
Joni Mitchell	You turn Me On, I'm a Radio	You turn Me On, I'm a Radio b/w Urge for Going (picture sleeve) (promo)	02:40
Stompin' Tom Connors	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Munks	Heartaches Over My Head	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:26
Ron Baumber	Keep it On the Tracks	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	03:08
Roots Earth And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Joni Mitchell	Help Me	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	03:22
Mashmakhan	As The Years Go By	As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)	03:04
Alanis Obomsawin	Shibi (River of Dreams)	Indian Songs	02:07
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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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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