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.

Artist	Track	Title	Length
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
Fringe, The	Plastic People	Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown	02:12
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Stiffs	Homesick	The Stiffs	01:02
Mighty Pope	Tower of Strength	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	03:01
Mighty Pope	Heaven on the Seventh Floor	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	02:46
Jury	Please Forget Her	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:44
Olliver, George	Shine	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:13
Oster, Al	Midnight Sun Rock	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	01:47
Dishrags	Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye)	Past Is Past (EP)	01:19
Elan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
Ironhorse	What's Your Hurry Darlin'	Everything is Grey	04:30
Gayle, Otis	Sexy Eyes	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	04:12
Maciag, Robert	You Make Me Feel So Good	I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good	03:12
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Kilt	Fisherman's Blues	Kilt	03:50
Payola$	Eyes of a Stranger	No Stranger to Danger	04:57
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
Dishrags	Tormented	Past Is Past (EP)	01:06
Lady	Whatever Happened to the Love	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love	02:41
Ocean	Put Your Hand In The Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Boys Brigade	The Passion Of Love	ST	03:40
Stiffs	Dad's a Pig	The Stiffs	01:31
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights	Work Song	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:14
Obomsawin, Alanis	Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens)	Indian Songs	00:57
Elan	Freedom Song	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:41
Spencer, Eddie	You're So Good to Me Baby	You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)	02:36
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Murray, Anne	Bidin' my time	This Way Is My Way	02:37
Basso, Guido	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Rabble	Golden Girl	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:04
Connors, Stompin' Tom	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Tallmud, Les	Un Autre Ami	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:41
Garnett, Gale	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
Etidlouie, Etulu	Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:19
Joli, France	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
Viletones	Screaming Fist	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:04
Rock and Roll Bitches	Welders Song	Wild West (EP)	02:34
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
Baumber, Ron	Duncan and the Devil	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	02:52
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
Leyrac, Monique	Mon pays	Mon pays	03:11
Jones, Mike Group	Each and Every Day	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:18
Thomas, Ian	Hold On	The Runner	03:44
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
Tallmud, Les	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
Triton Warrior	Satan's Train	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:08
Etidlouie, Etulu	Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:42
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of)	Baby I Love You	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:22
Hawkins, Ronnie	Who Do You Love	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:41
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
A Passing Fancy	A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:37
Nomeansno	Oh Canaduh	Oh Canaduh b/w New Age	01:59
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
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Joli, France	Playboy	Come to Me // Let Go	08:02
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17
D.O.A.	Disco Sucks	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:39
Connors, Stompin' Tom	I Am the Wind	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	03:35
Punkin Machine	I Need You Tonight	I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight	05:38
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
Mendelson Joe	The Canada Song	No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song	03:14
Bullrush	I Want To Be Set Free	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	03:14
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Theresa's World (EP)	01:42
Reaction, The	Trials In Error	East End Rockers	04:03
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	Sweet Sweet Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:59
Thrasher, Willie	Spirit Child	Spirit Child	04:05
Hodgins, Marie	Yesterday’s Dreams	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	02:38
A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:51
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Bureaucrats	Grown Up Age	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:35
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers	Mr. Fortune	Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool	02:43
Seeds of Time	Muskrat Rumble	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:48
Munks	Heartaches Over My Head	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:26
Richardson, Ron	Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	07:36
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Murray, Anne	I Just Fall in Love Again	New Kind of Feeling	02:49
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
Thrills	Party Inside My Mind	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:38
Painted Ship	I Told Those Little White Lies	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:39
Kilt	Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt	Kilt	04:28
Mitchell, Joni	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
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
Plan Nine	Fatal Femme	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:20
Little, Russ	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Doucette, Jerry	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
Joli, France	Baby Don't Stop Dancing	Come to Me // Let Go	07:50
Fyre	David's Song	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:03
D.O.A.	Nazi Training Camp	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:50
Etidlouie, Etulu	Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:29
Mantra	Stay	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	02:57
Claman, Dolores	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
Reaction, The	Waiting In Line	East End Rockers	04:51

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

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Poppy Family - Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)

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Gentle Touch - Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)

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Demics - New York City b/w Blue Boy

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Reaction, The - East End Rockers

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Trooper - Knock 'em Dead Kid

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Williams, Bob - I'm Alright

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Mantra - Stay b/w San Francisco Morning

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

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Mighty Pope - Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength

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Cockburn, Bruce - If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet

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Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers - Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool

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Thomas, Ian - The Runner

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Mingles - I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight

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Northern Haze - ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq

Loverboy - Get Lucky

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Little, Russ - Deeper and Deeper

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St. Germain, Ray - ST

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Hometown Band - Flying

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Lady - You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love

Northern Pikes - Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)

Media - Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream

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A Passing Fancy - I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy

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49th Parallel - She Says b/w Citizen Freak

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Trooper - Two For The Show

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Jury - Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?

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Prism - ST

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Expedition to Earth - Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time

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Leloup, Jean - L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié

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Jones, Mike Group - Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling

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Dunn, Willie - I Pity The Country b/w The Carver

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