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	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
Russ Little	Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little)	Deeper and Deeper	03:05
Tim Hus	Hurtin’ Albertan	Huskies & Huskvarnas	08:07
The Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
Partland Brothers	Soul City	Electric Honey	03:52
Anne Murray	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
L'infonie	I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel	Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel	02:00
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Minotaur	Witch-Hunt	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	04:19
Triton Warrior	Sealed In a Grave	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:36
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Alanis Obomsawin	NBAW (Hush - Sleep)	Indian Songs	02:14
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
France Joli	Let Go	Come to Me // Let Go	09:26
Stiffs	21st Century	The Stiffs	02:18
Private School	Money Guns and Power	Lost in Action (EP)	03:12
A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:51
Willie Thrasher	Spirit Child	Spirit Child	04:05
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Eddie Spencer	If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)	You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)	02:48
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
The Modern Minds	Theresa's World	Theresa's World (EP)	01:56
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
Plan Nine	Go	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:03
Mendelson Joe	The Canada Song	No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song	03:14
Ian Thomas	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
Guido Basso	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	03:16
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich)	People Of The Ice	02:37
Stumpwater	Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	03:33
The Bureaucrats	Grown Up Age	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age	03:35
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Early Morning Rain	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:52
Punkin Machine	I Need You Tonight	I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight	05:38
Twitch	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn)	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	02:58
Russ Little	Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas)	Deeper and Deeper	03:03
Copperpenny	Get Away	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:17
The Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age	03:20
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Triton Warrior	Satan's Train	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:08
Spy's	Underground	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	03:18
Twitch	Things	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	03:37
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46
The Bed Time Story	Feel the Sun	Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun	02:21
Trooper	The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car	Two For The Show	03:00
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	No Man Like My Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:42
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
Marie Hodgins	Yesterday’s Dreams	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	02:38
Gentle Touch	One Way Ride	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:46
Pluton and Humanoids	World Invaders	World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)	06:44
Les Tallmud	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
Al Oster	Next Boat	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	02:46
Thrills	Telephone	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:57
Copperpenny	Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	05:12
Rock and Roll Bitches	Welders Song	Wild West (EP)	02:34
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
Jenny Rock	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
Guido Basso	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
Kilt	Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt	Kilt	04:28
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
April Wine	Say Hello	Harder.....Faster	02:59
Chilliwack	Lonesome Mary	Lonesome Mary b/w Ridin'	03:04
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Etulu Etidlouie	Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:56
Jerry Doucette	Down The Road	Mama Let Him Play	03:35
D.O.A.	Nazi Training Camp	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:50
Marie Hodgins	Dance For The Sun God	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	01:50
Winston Hewitt	You're My Boopsie	You're My Boopsy	04:39
Jerry Doucette	Mama Let Him Play	Mama Let Him Play	04:26
Bullrush	I Want To Be Set Free	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	03:14
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Opening)	The Hockey Theme	00:56
Willie Thrasher	Silent Inuit	Spirit Child	04:36
Lisa Lougheed	Hold Back Tomorrow	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:18
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Anne Murray	Bidin' my time	This Way Is My Way	02:37
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
The Reaction	Waiting In Line	East End Rockers	04:51
Sue Hansen	Sucking Up to You	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:24
Mike Woods	Alberta	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	03:49
Expedition to Earth	Time Time Time	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:55
Willie Thrasher	Wolves Don't Live By The Rules	Spirit Child	02:16
Rush	Limelight	Moving Pictures	04:19
The Hometown Band	Flying	Flying	03:50
La Révolution Française	Québecois	Québecois	04:46
Jay Telfer	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
Don Norman & the Other Four	Mustang Sally	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	03:22
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Les Tallmud	Un Autre Ami	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:41
Kilt	Fisherman's Blues	Kilt	03:50
Élan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	02:01
Gratitude	We are Here to Party	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:17
Etulu Etidlouie	Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:51
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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The Immortals - The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)

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Mary Saxton - Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart

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Mary Saxton - Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die

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The Modern Minds - Theresa's World (EP)

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The Collectors - Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)

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Kilt - Kilt

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Chilliwack - Lonesome Mary b/w Ridin'

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Craig Ruhnke - Give Me The Nightime b/w Give Me The Nightime (promo)

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Nomeansno - Oh Canaduh b/w New Age

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Russ Little - Deeper and Deeper

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Plan Nine - I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)

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222's - La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) b/w La poupee qui fait non (version instrumentale)

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Robert Maciag - I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good

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Tim Hus - Huskies & Huskvarnas

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The Munks - Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head

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The Haunted - 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning

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Len - You Can't Stop the Bum Rush

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Maurice & The Clichés - C'est la vie

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The Bureaucrats - Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age

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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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