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
Élan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
Bruce Cockburn	Tokyo	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	03:30
Power of Beckett	Back to Me	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:37
Stumpwater	Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	03:33
Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
The Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
Leonard Cohen	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
Marie Hodgins	Yesterday’s Dreams	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	02:38
Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:20
Sugluk	Ballad of the Running Girl	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:11
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
Ronnie Hawkins	Bo Didley	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:56
Bernie LaBarge	Dream Away	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:48
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Jay Telfer	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
Bruce Cockburn	If a Tree Falls	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	05:44
Captain Tractor	The Last Saskatchewan Pirate	East of Edson	04:10
Jenny Rock	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
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
Bruce Cockburn	Sahara Gold	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:34
Willie Thrasher	Wolves Don't Live By The Rules	Spirit Child	02:16
Les Tallmud	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Stiffs	21st Century	The Stiffs	02:18
Rod Williams & Super 8	War	War b/w War Version	03:16
Sugluk	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	05:25
Genèse	Je crois en moi	L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi	02:34
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ullulimat (I Think of You Always)	People Of The Ice	01:43
Subhumans	No Productivity	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:08
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Ron Baumber	Duncan and the Devil	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	02:52
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	02:01
Munks	Heartaches Over My Head	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:26
Mary Saxton	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Kilt	I Was Made for Loving You	Kilt	03:19
Stiffs	Fuck You	Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp	02:23
Bruce Cockburn	The Gift	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	06:06
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
Demics	New York City	New York City b/w Blue Boy	04:32
Stiffs	Dad's a Pig	The Stiffs	01:31
Lady	Whatever Happened to the Love	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love	02:41
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
Yvonne Moore	Hit & Run Lover	Hit & Run Lover	00:17
Stumpwater	Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	04:06
Alanis Obomsawin	NBAW (Hush - Sleep)	Indian Songs	02:14
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46
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
Rush	Tom Sawyer	Moving Pictures	04:36
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Élan	Freedom Song	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:41
Viletones	Rebel	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:09
The Reaction	On The Beach	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	05:58
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
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
Fyre	David's Song	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:03
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	01:56
Secret V's	Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold	No Life Like It (EP)	02:33
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
Stompin' Connors Tom	I Am the Wind	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	03:35
Don Norman & the Other Four	Mustang Sally	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	03:22
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
Ian Thomas	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Bruce Cockburn	Incandescent Blue	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	04:38
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
Joni Mitchell	Just Like This Train	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	04:24
Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
Ironhorse	What's Your Hurry Darlin'	Everything is Grey	04:30
Seeds of Time	Muskrat Rumble	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:48
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:46
Lady	You're Still the One	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love	03:04
Mike Woods	Alberta	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	03:49
Twitch	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn)	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	02:58
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
Viletones	Possibilities	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:32
Gypsy	The Market	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	02:30
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part One)	I'm Alright	03:57
A Passing Fancy	A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:37
Mantra	Stay	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	02:57
France Joli	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
Kilt	Dylan's Ghost	Kilt	02:23
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Summer)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:43
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17
Northern Pikes	Teenland	Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)	04:01
Underworld	Bound	Bound b/w Go Away	03:15
Collectors	She (Will-O'-The Wind)	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	03:53
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Ian Thomas	The Runner	The Runner	03:24
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	01:37
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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Doug And The Slugs - Too Bad b/w The Move

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Checkerlads - Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)

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Bum - A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day

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Diodes - Released

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Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) - Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues

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Don Norman & the Other Four - Low Man b/w Mustang Sally

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Slow - I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)

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Private School - Lost in Action (EP)

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Poppy Family - Which Way You Goin' Billy?

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