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
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
Trooper	We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time)	Knock 'em Dead Kid	03:34
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
Stiffs	Dad's a Pig	The Stiffs	01:31
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
Wade Hemsworth	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Ian Thomas	Painted Ladies	ST	03:31
Tiaras	Foolish Girl	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:34
The Ugly Ducklings	Nothin'	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	02:35
Demics	New York City	New York City b/w Blue Boy	04:32
Media	Endless Dream	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	03:19
Media	Girl I Want You	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	04:20
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Mendelson Joe	The Canada Song	No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song	03:14
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Trooper	The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car	Two For The Show	03:00
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	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
Punkin Machine	I Need You Tonight	I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight	05:38
Kilt	Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt	Kilt	04:28
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Jenny Rock	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
Munks	Long Time Waiting	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:15
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
k.d. lang	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:20
Pursuit of Happiness	She's So Young	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	03:43
Captain Tractor	The Last Saskatchewan Pirate	East of Edson	04:10
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	01:40
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)	03:24
Jerry Doucette	Down The Road	Mama Let Him Play	03:35
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
Viletones	Rebel	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:09
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Anne-Marie Murray	The Streets of Old St. John's	The Streets of Old St. John's b/w Has Love Gone Out of Style	02:25
Fyre	David's Song	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:03
Boys Brigade	The Passion of Love	ST	03:40
Witness Inc.	Another Side Of Her	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:42
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Roots Earth And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
Mike Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Winter)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:53
Stompin' Tom Connors	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Clint Ryan	Build Myself Around You	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	03:20
Joni Mitchell	Just Like This Train	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	04:24
Mashmakhan	As The Years Go By	As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)	03:04
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Guido Basso	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
The Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Copperpenny	Wine Song	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:04
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers	Mr. Fortune	Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool	02:43
Guess Who	Clock On The Wall	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	03:01
Etulu Etidlouie	Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:56
Dishrags	Tormented	Past Is Past (EP)	01:06
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
Stiffs	Fuck You	Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp	02:23
Willie Thrasher	Silent Inuit	Spirit Child	04:36
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
Joni Mitchell	You Turn Me On I'm a Radio	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	02:39
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Willie Thrasher	Spirit Child	Spirit Child	04:05
Bum	A Promise Is A Promise	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:02
Rough Trade	Highschool Confidential	Avoid Freud	03:14
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Patti Jannetta	Rules of Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:46
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
Kilt	Dylan's Ghost	Kilt	02:23
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Sue Hansen	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
Élan	Freedom Song	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:41
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
Lady	Whatever Happened to the Love	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	02:41
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Robert Maciag	You Make Me Feel So Good	I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good	03:12
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Rabble	Golden Girl	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:04
Trans-X	Living On Video	Living On Video	05:56
Lady	You're Still the One	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	03:04
Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
Al Oster	Next Boat	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	02:46
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin'	Switchin'	06:17
France Joli	Baby Don't Stop Dancing	Come to Me // Let Go	07:50
Russ Little	Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little)	Deeper and Deeper	03:05
Crystal Castles	Dolls	Alice Practice	01:29
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	01:37
Mike Jones Group	Each and Every Day	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:18
Stiffs	Everyone Lies	The Stiffs	01:30
Ian Thomas	Time is the Keeper	Glider	04:14
Stumpwater	Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	03:33

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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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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