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
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	Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:51
Gentle Touch	Visitors Parking Only	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:45
Media	Endless Dream	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	03:19
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
D.O.A.	Royal Police	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:14
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
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
Rod Williams & Super 8	War Version	War b/w War Version	03:36
Ronnie Hawkins	Who Do You Love	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:41
Jay Telfer	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
The Ugly Ducklings	Just In Case You Wonder	Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)	02:28
Bernie LaBarge	Dream Away	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:48
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
Mike Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
Patti Jannetta	Don't You Want My Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:26
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
Seeds of Time	Muskrat Rumble	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:48
Mike Woods	Alberta	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	03:49
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Underworld	Bound	Bound b/w Go Away	03:15
Marie Hodgins	Dance For The Sun God	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	01:50
Debbie Myers	Strong Enough to Bend	Strong Enough to Bend	02:44
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home)	People Of The Ice	02:36
The Hometown Band	Flying	Flying	03:50
Kilt	Wrecker's Den	Kilt	02:38
Lisa Lougheed	Hold Back Tomorrow	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:18
Bruce Cockburn	If I Had a Rocket Launcher	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:58
k.d. lang	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
Lisa Lougheed	Run With Us	Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow	04:28
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
Guess Who	Clock On The Wall	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	03:01
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Monique Leyrac	Mon pays	Mon pays	03:11
Ron Baumber	Duncan and the Devil	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	02:52
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Try a Little Harder	Let Them In	02:42
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
The Bed Time Story	Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott)	Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun	03:00
Craig Farraway	After All	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	04:18
Copperpenny	Bad Manners	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:05
Doug And The Slugs	The Move	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:47
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
Trans-X	Living On Video	Living On Video	05:56
Dundas	Bloodshot in Your Eyes	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	02:43
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
The Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
Twitch	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn)	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	02:58
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Anne Murray	Snowbird	This Way Is My Way	02:12
Trooper	Two for the Show	Two For The Show	04:27
Bum	A Promise Is A Promise	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:02
Checkerlads	Shake Yourself Down	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:41
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
Thrills	Telephone	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:57
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Fyre	David's Song	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:03
Ian Thomas	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
George Olliver	Shine	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:13
Rush	Limelight	Moving Pictures	04:19
The Bureaucrats	Grown Up Age	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age	03:35
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
VLA (Vincent V.)	I Gave My Heart (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	04:46
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Etulu Etidlouie	Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:42
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	01:37
Mighty Pope	Tower of Strength	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	03:01
The Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	King Size	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:12
The Fringe	Plastic People	Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown	02:12
Yvonne Moore	Hit & Run Lover	Hit & Run Lover	00:17
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
Don Jewitt	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
Mendelson Joe	The Canada Song	No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song	03:14
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin'	Switchin'	06:17
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Sidewinders (1)	Cryin' Heartache Misery	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:08
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Together	Let Them In	02:50
Len	Steal My Sunshine	You Can't Stop the Bum Rush	04:25
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Midnight Angels	(I Wish) In the Moonlight	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	02:17
Nite Life	What's On Your Mind	What's On Your Mind b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)	03:46
The Reaction	Waiting In Line	East End Rockers	04:51
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	Sweet Sweet Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:59
Copperpenny	Where is the Answer	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	04:20
Stiffs	Homesick	The Stiffs	01:02
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
Plan Nine	In Sympathy With Poland	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:08
Kilt	Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt	Kilt	04:28
Gypsy	The Market	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	02:30

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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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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