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
Alanis Obomsawin	Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War)	Indian Songs	02:02
Bullrush	You've Sent Me Away	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	04:30
Stiffs	No Money	The Stiffs	01:26
Guido Basso	Anna’s Theme	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:47
Ronnie Hawkins	Bo Didley	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:56
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
Patti Jannetta	Don't You Want My Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:26
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
Anne Murray	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
Ian Thomas	Time is the Keeper	Glider	04:14
Wade Hemsworth	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Munks	Long Time Waiting	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:15
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
Trooper	We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time)	Knock 'em Dead Kid	03:34
Captain Tractor	The Last Saskatchewan Pirate	East of Edson	04:10
Punkin Machine	I Need You Tonight	I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight	05:38
George Olliver	Shine	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:13
Bruce Cockburn	The Gift	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	06:06
Mary Saxton	Sad Eyes	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	03:05
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Gale Garnett	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
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
Etulu Etidlouie	Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:27
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Bruce Cockburn	If I Had a Rocket Launcher	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:58
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)	03:24
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Stiffs	Everyone Lies	The Stiffs	01:30
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Opening)	The Hockey Theme	00:56
Pointed Sticks	Lies	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:37
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
Mike Woods	Alberta	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	03:49
Plan Nine	I Ain't No Robot	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:36
Private School	I Wanna Know	Lost in Action (EP)	02:30
Copperpenny	Wine Song	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:04
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Etulu Etidlouie	Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:19
M.G. & the Escorts	A Someday Fool	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:37
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
Power of Beckett	Back to Me	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:37
D.O.A.	Disco Sucks	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:39
Monique Leyrac	Pendant que	Mon pays	03:26
Stiffs	Dad's a Pig	The Stiffs	01:31
Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
Mingles	I'm Gonna Miss You	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	03:17
Bruce Cockburn	Incandescent Blue	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	04:38
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Boys Brigade	The Passion Of Love	ST	03:40
Shawne Jackson	Just as Bad as You	Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man	02:33
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Early Morning Rain	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:52
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part One)	I'm Alright	03:57
The Reaction	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
Viletones	Screaming Fist	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:04
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Al Oster	Midnight Sun Rock	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	01:47
Copperpenny	Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	05:12
Media	Endless Dream	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	03:19
The Reaction	On The Beach	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	05:58
The Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
Otis Gayle	Sexy Eyes	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	04:12
Stiffs	Fuck You	Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp	02:23
Painted Ship	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld)	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:54
Rush	Limelight	Moving Pictures	04:19
Sugluk	Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	02:41
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
Rush	Freewill	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	05:24
Stumpwater	Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	03:33
Anne Murray	Snowbird	This Way Is My Way	02:12
Nomeansno	Oh Canaduh	Oh Canaduh b/w New Age	01:59
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
Ian Thomas	Painted Ladies	ST	03:31
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	01:37
Copperpenny	Taking My Heart	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:16
Subhumans	No Productivity	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:08
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Rod Williams & Super 8	War	War b/w War Version	03:16
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Kilt	The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe	Kilt	03:18
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
Jim Ashby	Speed City (Acid Rock)	Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City	02:44
Trans-X	Living On Video	Living On Video	05:56
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Sea Cruise Blues	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	05:32
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
Gratitude	Loving You	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:15
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun)	People Of The Ice	02:53
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Willie Thrasher	Silent Inuit	Spirit Child	04:36
Rush	Fly by Night	Fly By Night	03:22

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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