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
Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
Thrills	Party Inside My Mind	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:38
The Reaction	Waiting In Line	East End Rockers	04:51
Expedition to Earth	Time Time Time	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:55
k.d. lang	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
M.G. & the Escorts	Remembering	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:33
Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Try a Little Harder	Let Them In	02:42
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
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Dishrags	Past Is Past	Past Is Past (EP)	02:24
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
Stiffs	Homesick	The Stiffs	01:02
Joni Mitchell	Just Like This Train	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	04:24
Bells	Stay Awhile	Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom	03:26
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Private School	Sci-Fi	Lost in Action (EP)	03:32
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Copperpenny	Wine Song	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:04
Pointed Sticks	Lies	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:37
Freedom North	Fat Man	Doctor Tom b/w Fat Man (picture sleeve)	03:53
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
Munks	Heartaches Over My Head	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:26
Bonnie Dobson	Morning Dew	ST	03:20
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)	03:24
Anne Murray	Snowbird	This Way Is My Way	02:12
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	Sweet Sweet Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:59
Guess Who	Clock On The Wall	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	03:01
Mantra	Stay	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	02:57
Willie Thrasher	Wolves Don't Live By The Rules	Spirit Child	02:16
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
Stompin' Connors Tom	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Roots Earth And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
Monique Leyrac	Pendant que	Mon pays	03:26
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	03:24
Russ Little	I Want to Make it With You (David Gates)	Deeper and Deeper	02:46
Joni Mitchell	Help Me	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	03:22
Dick Damron	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
Russ Little	Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas)	Deeper and Deeper	03:03
Bells	Moody Manitoba Morning	Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning	03:15
Sidewinders (1)	Put The Blame On Me	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:02
Mike Woods	Alberta	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	03:49
D.O.A.	Nazi Training Camp	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:50
Thrills	Telephone	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:57
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Marie Hodgins	Dance For The Sun God	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	01:50
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
France Joli	Playboy	Come to Me // Let Go	08:02
Mingles	No Train Tonight	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	02:28
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Etulu Etidlouie	Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:51
Ian Tyson & Sylvia	Early Morning Rain	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:52
Joni Mitchell	You turn Me On, I'm a Radio	You turn Me On, I'm a Radio b/w Urge for Going (picture sleeve) (promo)	02:40
Partland Brothers	Soul City	Electric Honey	03:52
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	02:03
Twitch	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn)	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	02:58
Trooper	Two for the Show	Two For The Show	04:27
VLA (Vincent V.)	We Won't Let Each Other Go (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	04:43
Monique Leyrac	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
Rough Trade	Highschool Confidential	Avoid Freud	03:14
Punkin Machine	I Need You Tonight	I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight	05:38
Trooper	The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car	Two For The Show	03:00
Les Tallmud	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
Stiffs	Fuck You	Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp	02:23
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Rock and Roll Bitches	Welders Song	Wild West (EP)	02:34
Stompin' Connors Tom	Canada Day Up Canada Way	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	02:37
Tim Hus	Hurtin’ Albertan	Huskies & Huskvarnas	08:07
Collectors	She (Will-O'-The Wind)	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	03:53
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	Baby I Love You	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:22
Triton Warrior	Sealed In a Grave	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:36
Dolores Claman	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Captain Tractor	The Last Saskatchewan Pirate	East of Edson	04:10
Bruce Cockburn	The Gift	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	06:06
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	01:37
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
Spy's	Underground	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	03:18
Otis Gayle	We All Need Love	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	03:43
Bruce Cockburn	Maybe the Poet	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:53
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:51
Kilt	Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt	Kilt	04:28
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	01:56
Robert Maciag	You Make Me Feel So Good	I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good	03:12
Pointed Sticks	Somebody's Mom	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	01:38
Payola$	Eyes of a Stranger	No Stranger to Danger	04:57
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Anne Murray	I Just Fall in Love Again	New Kind of Feeling	02:49
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26

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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The Reaction - East End Rockers

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Trooper - Knock 'em Dead Kid

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

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

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Ian Thomas - 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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Russ Little - Deeper and Deeper

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Ray St. Germain - 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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Jean Leloup - L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié

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

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

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