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
Media	Girl I Want You	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	04:20
Checkerlads	Shake Yourself Down	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:41
Kilt	South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel	Kilt	02:46
The Collectors	Lydia Purple	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	02:48
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Rush	The Spirit of Radio	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	04:59
Rush	Closer to the Heart	A Farewell to Kings	02:56
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Underworld	Go Away	Bound b/w Go Away	02:49
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
Etulu Etidlouie	Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:51
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Ian Thomas	Long Long Way	Long Long Way	05:00
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
Stompin' Tom Connors	Canada Day Up Canada Way	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	02:37
Plan Nine	Go	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:03
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Debbie Myers	Strong Enough to Bend	Strong Enough to Bend	02:44
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
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Copperpenny	Get Away	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:17
Alanis Obomsawin	Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War)	Indian Songs	02:02
The Collectors	She (Will-O'-The Wind)	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	03:53
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
Painted Ship	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld)	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:54
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Mighty Pope	Tower of Strength	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	03:01
Rock and Roll Bitches	Someone Could Lose an Eye	Wild West (EP)	02:24
Ashley MacIsaac	The Devil in the Kitchen	The Devil in the Kitchen b/w What an Idiot He Is (featuring Jale) (picture sleeve, clear blue vinyl)	02:26
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Mendelson Joe	The Canada Song	No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song	03:14
The Reaction	On The Beach	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	05:58
Marie Hodgins	Yesterday’s Dreams	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	02:38
Payola$	Eyes of a Stranger	No Stranger to Danger	04:57
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
Bruce Cockburn	Maybe the Poet	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:53
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let's Get Together	Let Them In	02:04
Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
Mashmakhan	As The Years Go By	As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)	03:04
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
Willie Thrasher	Eskimo Named Johnny	Spirit Child	02:41
Don Jewitt	Northern Wind	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	03:06
Secret V's	Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold	No Life Like It (EP)	02:33
Munks	Heartaches Over My Head	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:26
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin'	Switchin'	06:17
D.O.A.	Disco Sucks	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:39
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
Evolution Expantion	Blow Up	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	02:39
Mushroom Band	Don't Come Down	Don't Come Down b/w Nobody	02:40
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Bruce Cockburn	The Gift	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	06:06
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	01:56
Bruce Cockburn	Lovers in a Dangerous Time	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:07
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Stompin' Tom Connors	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	King Size	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:12
Ian Thomas	The Runner	The Runner	03:24
Copperpenny	You're Still the One	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:29
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
Willie Dunn	I Pity The Country	I Pity The Country b/w The Carver	02:55
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Bad Moon Rising	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	04:01
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	03:24
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
Tiaras	Surprise!	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:25
France Joli	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
Jenny Rock	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
The Reaction	The Kid's Arrived	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	02:32
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
Stiffs	Fuck You	Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp	02:23
A Passing Fancy	A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:37
Mike Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
Craig Farraway	After All	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	04:18
Rush	Fly by Night	Fly By Night	03:22
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
Ocean	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Subhumans	No Productivity	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:08
Nomeansno	Oh Canaduh	Oh Canaduh b/w New Age	01:59
Munks	Long Time Waiting	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:15
Anne Murray	Bidin' my time	This Way Is My Way	02:37
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Try a Little Harder	Let Them In	02:42
Bruce Cockburn	If a Tree Falls	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	05:44
Kilt	Dylan's Ghost	Kilt	02:23
k.d. lang	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Wade Hemsworth	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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

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