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
Kozak, Joe	Hillbilly Rock	Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me	01:48
Haunted	1-2-5	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:27
Jury	Please Forget Her	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:44
Pluton and Humanoids	World Invaders	World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)	06:44
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17
Mushroom Band	Don't Come Down	Don't Come Down b/w Nobody	02:40
Hemsworth, Wade	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Pointed Sticks	I'm Numb	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:11
Oster, Al	Midnight Sun Rock	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	01:47
Perpall, Pierre	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
Nite Life	What's On Your Mind	What's On Your Mind b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)	03:46
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Gratitude	Loving You	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:15
Mitchell, Joni	Big Yellow Taxi	Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)	02:15
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Ashby, Jim	Speed City (Acid Rock)	Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City	02:44
Stiffs	Dad's a Pig	The Stiffs	01:31
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Thrills	Telephone	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:57
Jones, Mike Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
Reign Ghost	Parable	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	02:13
Hewitt, Winston	You're My Boopsie	You're My Boopsy	04:39
Gypsy	The Market	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	02:30
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass	Try a Little Harder	Let Them In	02:42
Dundas	Can't You Hear Me	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	06:01
Obomsawin, Alanis	Shibi (River of Dreams)	Indian Songs	02:07
lang, k.d.	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
Underworld	Bound	Bound b/w Go Away	03:15
Diehl, Alden	Fight On (Winter)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:53
Demics	New York City	New York City b/w Blue Boy	04:32
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
Cornell, Jack	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
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
Saga	On The Loose	On The Loose b/w Framed	04:12
Stiffs	Fuck You	Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp	02:23
Murray, Anne	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
Farraway, Craig	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34
Bullrush	You've Sent Me Away	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	04:30
Daigle, Ted	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
Bum	A Promise Is A Promise	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:02
Woods, Mike	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
Ryan, Clint	It Hurts to be Lonely	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	02:40
Tallmud, Les	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun)	People Of The Ice	02:53
Joli, France	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
Little, Russ	I Want to Make it With You (David Gates)	Deeper and Deeper	02:46
Thrills	Party Inside My Mind	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:38
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Richardson, Ron	Ooh Wee Babe	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	06:46
Copperpenny	Where is the Answer	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	04:20
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
Pursuit of Happiness	She's So Young	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	03:43
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Theresa's World (EP)	01:42
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
Mendelson Joe	Oh Travene	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	03:41
Mingles	I'm Gonna Miss You	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	03:17
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Cockburn, Bruce	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
VLA (Vincent V.)	I Gave My Heart (Club Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	04:32
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	When I Feel The Need For Love	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	06:33
Élan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
Etidlouie, Etulu	Kimikaput Ukaguna Tujuamik (Tundra Friend)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:19
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Bad Moon Rising	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	04:01
Rush	Circumstances	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	03:44
Olliver, George	I May Never Get to See You Again	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:38
Collectors	She (Will-O'-The Wind)	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	03:53
Bells	Stay Awhile	Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom	03:26
Plan Nine	Fatal Femme	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:20
Connors, Stompin' Tom	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Leyrac, Monique	Mon pays	Mon pays	03:11
Norman, Don & the Other Four	Low Man	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	02:15
Joli, France	Playboy	Come to Me // Let Go	08:02
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
Dishrags	Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye)	Past Is Past (EP)	01:19
Thomas, Ian	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
Little, Russ	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Connors, Stompin' Tom	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
Dobson, Bonnie	Morning Dew	ST	03:20
Ugly Ducklings	Just In Case You Wonder	Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)	02:28
Obomsawin, Alanis	Nookum (Reflections of an Elder)	Indian Songs	01:48
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers	Mr. Fortune	Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool	02:43
Rock and Roll Bitches	Broad Daylight	Wild West (EP)	01:27
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Viletones	Screaming Fist	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:04
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	02:01
Spirit of the West	The Rocks at Thieves Bay	ST	04:56
Copperpenny	You're Still the One	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:29

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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