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
Secret V's	Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold	No Life Like It (EP)	02:33
Bernie LaBarge	Annie	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:52
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
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
Media	Girl I Want You	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	04:20
Sugluk	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	05:25
Otis Gayle	We All Need Love	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	03:43
Witness Inc.	Visions of Vanessa	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:39
Rush	Circumstances	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	03:44
Don Norman & the Other Four	Mustang Sally	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	03:22
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
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
Pursuit of Happiness	She's So Young	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	03:43
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
Trooper	Santa Maria	Two For The Show	02:56
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Opening)	The Hockey Theme	00:56
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Plan Nine	I Ain't No Robot	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:36
Munks	Long Time Waiting	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:15
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
Monique Leyrac	Pendant que	Mon pays	03:26
Bullrush	You've Sent Me Away	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	04:30
Les Tallmud	Un Autre Ami	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:41
Anne Murray	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
Nomeansno	Oh Canaduh	Oh Canaduh b/w New Age	01:59
The Fringe	Plastic People	Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown	02:12
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
Jerry Doucette	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Gentle Touch	One Way Ride	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:46
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
The Reaction	On The Beach	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	05:58
Power of Beckett	Back to Me	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:37
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Mike Woods	Alberta	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	03:49
Spirit of the West	Save This House	Save This House	02:55
George Olliver	Shine	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:13
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	02:03
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
Rush	Freewill	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	05:24
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play)	People Of The Ice	02:18
Kilt	I Was Made for Loving You	Kilt	03:19
Dishrags	Past Is Past	Past Is Past (EP)	02:24
Rush	The Trees	Hemispheres	04:43
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	No Man Like My Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:42
Mendelson Joe	Growing Pain	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	02:35
Munks	Heartaches Over My Head	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:26
Les Tallmud	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin'	Switchin'	06:17
Stiffs	No Money	The Stiffs	01:26
Willie Dunn	I Pity The Country	I Pity The Country b/w The Carver	02:55
D.O.A.	Nazi Training Camp	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:50
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part Two)	I'm Alright	03:43
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
Rod Williams & Super 8	War	War b/w War Version	03:16
Witness Inc.	Another Side Of Her	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:42
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Jay Telfer	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
Trans-X	Living On Video	Living On Video	05:56
Mary Saxton	Sad Eyes	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	03:05
Copperpenny	Get Away	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:17
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Rough Trade	Highschool Confidential	Avoid Freud	03:14
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	03:24
The Ugly Ducklings	That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind	Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)	02:43
Minotaur	Witch-Hunt	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	04:19
Mantra	Stay	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	02:57
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
Copperpenny	Bad Manners	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:05
Wade Hemsworth	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Ron Baumber	Keep it On the Tracks	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	03:08
Expedition to Earth	Time Time Time	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:55
Freedom North	Fat Man	Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)	03:53
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
Ocean	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	Baby I Love You	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:22
Spy's	Underground	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	03:18
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Willie Thrasher	Spirit Child	Spirit Child	04:05
Otis Gayle	Sexy Eyes	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	04:12
Rock and Roll Bitches	Welders Song	Wild West (EP)	02:34
Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun)	People Of The Ice	02:53
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
Ian Thomas	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
Crystal Castles	Dolls	Alice Practice	01:29
Underworld	Bound	Bound b/w Go Away	03:15
M.G. & the Escorts	Remembering	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:33
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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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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