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
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Scammel, Arthur R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	01:56
Trooper	Two for the Show	Two For The Show	04:27
Basso, Guido	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Ashby, Jim	Speed City (Acid Rock)	Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City	02:44
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
St. Germain, Ray	Metis	ST	03:39
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back)	People Of The Ice	03:14
Kilt	Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt	Kilt	04:28
Ironhorse	What's Your Hurry Darlin'	Everything is Grey	04:30
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Etidlouie, Etulu	Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:29
Mendelson Joe	Growing Pain	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	02:35
Doug And The Slugs	The Move	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:47
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Trooper	Santa Maria	Two For The Show	02:56
Rush	Circumstances	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	03:44
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Reaction, The	On The Beach	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	05:58
Mingles	I'm Gonna Miss You	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	03:17
Richardson, Ron	Ooh Wee Babe	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	06:46
Haunted	Eight O'Clock This Morning	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:20
lang, k.d.	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Murray, Anne	I Just Fall in Love Again	New Kind of Feeling	02:49
Pointed Sticks	What Do You Want Me To Do?	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	02:27
Trooper	We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time)	Knock 'em Dead Kid	03:34
Dundas	Can't You Hear Me	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	06:01
Obomsawin, Alanis	Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War)	Indian Songs	02:02
Underworld	Bound	Bound b/w Go Away	03:15
Kilt	Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow	Kilt	03:34
Midnight Angels	(I Wish) In the Moonlight	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	02:17
Crystal Castles	Love and Caring	Alice Practice	02:18
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Elan	Penticton Peaches	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:13
Joli, France	Playboy	Come to Me // Let Go	08:02
Punkin Machine	I Need You Tonight	I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight	05:38
Gayle, Otis	Sexy Eyes	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	04:12
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
lang, k.d.	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
Cockburn, Bruce	Incandescent Blue	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	04:38
Kilt	Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs	Kilt	03:33
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46
Cockburn, Bruce	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Stiffs	21st Century	The Stiffs	02:18
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
Murray, Anne-Marie	The Streets of Old St. John's	The Streets of Old St. John's b/w Has Love Gone Out of Style	02:25
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
Gratitude	Loving You	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:15
Private School	Sci-Fi	Lost in Action (EP)	03:32
Diehl, Alden	Fight On (Winter)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:53
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Telfer, Jay	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
Cockburn, Bruce	Lovers in a Dangerous Time	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:07
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
Thomas, Ian	Painted Ladies	ST	03:31
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Etidlouie, Etulu	Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:51
Subhumans	Firing Squad	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:07
Damron, Dick	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02
Reaction, The	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
Richardson, Ron	Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	07:36
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Reaction, The	Waiting In Line	East End Rockers	04:51
Doucette, Jerry	Down The Road	Mama Let Him Play	03:35
Mitchell, Joni	Big Yellow Taxi	Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)	02:15
Saxton, Mary	Sad Eyes	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	03:05
Claman, Dolores	The Hockey Theme (Opening)	The Hockey Theme	00:56
Copperpenny	Get Away	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:17
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home)	People Of The Ice	02:36
Thomas, Ian	Time is the Keeper	Glider	04:14
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Mitchell, Joni	Help Me	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	03:22
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
Baumber, Ron	Keep it On the Tracks	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	03:08
Bureaucrats	Grown Up Age	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:35
Jannetta, Patti	Rules of Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:46
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
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:20
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
lang, k.d.	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers	Mr. Fortune	Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool	02:43
Tiaras	Foolish Girl	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:34
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
Kilt	Wrecker's Den	Kilt	02:38
Reaction, The	The Kid's Arrived	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	02:32
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
Doucette, Jerry	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Hometown Band	Flying	Flying	03:50
Witness Inc.	Another Side Of Her	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:42
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
Obomsawin, Alanis	Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks)	Indian Songs	01:58
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04

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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