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
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
The Munks	Long Time Waiting	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:15
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	02:03
Gale Garnett	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
Alanis Obomsawin	NBAW (Hush - Sleep)	Indian Songs	02:14
Al Oster	Midnight Sun Rock	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	01:47
Triton Warrior	Sealed In a Grave	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:36
Rush	The Trees	Hemispheres	04:43
Bullrush	I Want To Be Set Free	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	03:14
Jerry Doucette	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
Plan Nine	In Sympathy With Poland	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:08
Gentle Touch	Visitors Parking Only	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:45
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
Trooper	Santa Maria	Two For The Show	02:56
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	Work Song	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:14
Guido Basso	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Sphex	Time	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:49
Gypsy	The Market	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	02:30
Stompin' Tom Connors	Canada Day Up Canada Way	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	02:37
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
Rush	Circumstances	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	03:44
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let Them In	Let Them In	02:33
Alanis Obomsawin	Nookum (Reflections of an Elder)	Indian Songs	01:48
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin'	Switchin'	06:17
Ron Baumber	Duncan and the Devil	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	02:52
Trans-X	Living On Video	Living On Video	05:56
Mike Jones Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Mashmakhan	As The Years Go By	As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)	03:04
Spy's	Underground	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	03:18
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
Ian Thomas	The Runner	The Runner	03:24
Stiffs	21st Century	The Stiffs	02:18
Tiaras	Foolish Girl	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:34
Mushroom Band	Don't Come Down	Don't Come Down b/w Nobody	02:40
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Patti Jannetta	Rules of Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:46
Fyre	New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:42
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
The Reaction	Waiting In Line	East End Rockers	04:51
Kilt	Wrecker's Den	Kilt	02:38
The Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
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
Anne Murray	Snowbird	This Way Is My Way	02:12
Monique Leyrac	Pendant que	Mon pays	03:26
Russ Little	I Want to Make it With You (David Gates)	Deeper and Deeper	02:46
Underworld	Go Away	Bound b/w Go Away	02:49
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Dundas	Bloodshot in Your Eyes	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	02:43
The Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Copperpenny	Taking My Heart	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:16
Ian & Sylvia Tyson	Early Morning Rain	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:52
Bonnie Dobson	Morning Dew	ST	03:20
Dishrags	Tormented	Past Is Past (EP)	01:06
Jenny Rock	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
Lady	Whatever Happened to the Love	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	02:41
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
Gentle Touch	One Way Ride	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:46
Stumpwater	Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	03:33
Lady	You're Still the One	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	03:04
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Rock and Roll Bitches	Someone Could Lose an Eye	Wild West (EP)	02:24
Jim Ashby	Speed City (Acid Rock)	Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City	02:44
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
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
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
Craig Farraway	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34
Ian Thomas	Painted Ladies	ST	03:31
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Copperpenny	Bad Manners	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:05
Don Norman & the Other Four	Low Man	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	02:15
The Reaction	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:48
Mike Woods	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Alanis Obomsawin	Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks)	Indian Songs	01:58
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Rod Williams & Super 8	War Version	War b/w War Version	03:36
The Bureaucrats	Grown Up Age	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age	03:35
Otis Gayle	Sexy Eyes	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	04:12
Anne Murray	Bidin' my time	This Way Is My Way	02:37
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46
Mary Saxton	Losing Control	Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die	02:04
The Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
The Fringe	Plastic People	Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown	02:12
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Northern Pikes	Teenland	Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)	04:01
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
The Collectors	She (Will-O'-The Wind)	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	03:53

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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