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
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	When I Feel The Need For Love	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	06:33
Hemsworth, Wade	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun)	People Of The Ice	02:53
Mantra	San Francisco Morning	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	03:16
Etidlouie, Etulu	Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:51
Dishrags	Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye)	Past Is Past (EP)	01:19
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of)	Baby I Love You	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:22
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
lang, k.d.	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Jannetta, Patti	Don't You Want My Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:26
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Theresa's World (EP)	01:42
Evolution Expantion	Blow Up	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	02:39
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia	Early Morning Rain	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:52
Copperpenny	Taking My Heart	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:16
Mingles	I'm Gonna Miss You	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	03:17
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
United Empire Loyalists	No, No, No	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	02:49
lang, k.d.	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
Crystal Castles	Love and Caring	Alice Practice	02:18
April Wine	Say Hello	Harder.....Faster	02:59
Cohen, Leonard	The Partisan	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:24
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Bad Moon Rising	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	04:01
LaBarge, Bernie	Can't Hold On Forever	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:24
Midnight Angels	(I Wish) In the Moonlight	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	02:17
Hansen, Sue	Sucking Up to You	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:24
Stiffs	Everyone Lies	The Stiffs	01:30
Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
Moore, Yvonne	Hit & Run Lover	Hit & Run Lover	00:17
Fringe, The	Plastic People	Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown	02:12
Stumpwater	Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	03:33
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Gayle, Otis	Sexy Eyes	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	04:12
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
Earth, Roots And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
Reaction, The	The Kid's Arrived	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	02:32
Trooper	The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car	Two For The Show	03:00
Hewitt, Winston	You're My Boopsie	You're My Boopsy	04:39
Ryan, Clint	Build Myself Around You	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	03:20
Mashmakhan	As The Years Go By	As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)	03:04
D.O.A.	Royal Police	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:14
Dobson, Bonnie	Morning Dew	ST	03:20
Haunted	Eight O'Clock This Morning	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:20
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Sea Cruise Blues	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	05:32
Thrills	Telephone	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:57
Mendelson Joe	The Canada Song	No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song	03:14
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
Obomsawin, Alanis	Nookum (Reflections of an Elder)	Indian Songs	01:48
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
Baumber, Ron	Duncan and the Devil	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	02:52
Jones, Mike Group	Each and Every Day	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:18
Reaction, The	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
Sugluk	Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	02:35
Private School	Money Guns and Power	Lost in Action (EP)	03:12
Saxton, Mary	Losing Control	Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die	02:04
Munks	Heartaches Over My Head	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:26
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Private School	Sci-Fi	Lost in Action (EP)	03:32
Saxton, Mary	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
Thrasher, Willie	Silent Inuit	Spirit Child	04:36
Richardson, Ron	Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	07:36
Leyrac, Monique	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
Viletones	Possibilities	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:32
Media	Endless Dream	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	03:19
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Dundas	Bloodshot in Your Eyes	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	02:43
Oster, Al	Midnight Sun Rock	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	01:47
Copperpenny	Thinking of You	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:54
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Guess Who	Clock On The Wall	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	03:01
Basso, Guido	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Rock, Jenny	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
Bum	A Promise Is A Promise	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:02
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Stiffs	21st Century	The Stiffs	02:18
Media	Girl I Want You	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	04:20
Cockburn, Bruce	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Hus, Tim	Hurtin’ Albertan	Huskies & Huskvarnas	08:07
Joli, France	Let Go	Come to Me // Let Go	09:26
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Doug And The Slugs	The Move	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:47
Elan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
Mendelson Joe	Growing Pain	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	02:35
Connors, Stompin' Tom	Canada Day Up Canada Way	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	02:37
Collectors	She (Will-O'-The Wind)	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	03:53
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Basso, Guido	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	03:16
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
Olliver, George	I May Never Get to See You Again	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:38
Stiffs	Fuck You	Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp	02:23

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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