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
Kilt	Fisherman's Blues	Kilt	03:50
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Pointed Sticks	I'm Numb	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:11
Reaction, The	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
Leyrac, Monique	L'hiver	Mon pays	02:39
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
Thrasher, Willie	Eskimo Named Johnny	Spirit Child	02:41
Scammel, Arthur R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	02:03
Woods, Mike	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Obomsawin, Alanis	Comaw Skanooch (Syllabic Song of War)	Indian Songs	02:02
Reaction, The	Waiting In Line	East End Rockers	04:51
Murray, Anne	I Just Fall in Love Again	New Kind of Feeling	02:49
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	Body Contact	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	05:24
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
Etidlouie, Etulu	Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:29
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
Sugluk	Little Boy	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:43
Mighty Pope	Heaven on the Seventh Floor	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	02:46
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
Jury	Please Forget Her	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:44
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
Dishrags	Tormented	Past Is Past (EP)	01:06
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
Olliver, George	I May Never Get to See You Again	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:38
Twitch	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn)	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	02:58
Etidlouie, Etulu	Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:27
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Ashby, Jim	Speed City (Acid Rock)	Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City	02:44
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Theresa's World (EP)	01:42
Jackson, Shawne	Just as Bad as You	Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man	02:33
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Plan Nine	I Ain't No Robot	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	02:36
Gentle Touch	One Way Ride	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:46
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich)	People Of The Ice	02:37
Obomsawin, Alanis	NBAW (Hush - Sleep)	Indian Songs	02:14
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
Reaction, The	On The Beach	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	05:58
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass	Together	Let Them In	02:50
lang, k.d.	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
Kilt	Dylan's Ghost	Kilt	02:23
Bureaucrats	Grown Up Age	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:35
Basso, Guido	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	03:16
Doug And The Slugs	The Move	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:47
Fyre	New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:42
Thomas, Ian	Long Long Way	Long Long Way	05:00
Dobson, Bonnie	Morning Dew	ST	03:20
Trooper	Two for the Show	Two For The Show	04:27
Crystal Castles	Love and Caring	Alice Practice	02:18
Damron, Dick	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
Stiffs	Fuck You	Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp	02:23
Claman, Dolores	The Hockey Theme (Closing Big Band March)	The Hockey Theme	02:15
Jannetta, Patti	Don't You Want My Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:26
Earth, Roots And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
Kilt	Wrecker's Den	Kilt	02:38
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Joli, France	Baby Don't Stop Dancing	Come to Me // Let Go	07:50
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
Copperpenny	Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	05:12
Connors, Stompin' Tom	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Bed Time Story	Feel the Sun	Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun	02:21
Trans-X	Living On Video	Living On Video	05:56
Thomas, Ian	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
Plan Nine	Go	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:03
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
Murray, Anne	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
Evolution Expantion	Blow Up	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	02:39
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:46
Hansen, Sue	Sucking Up to You	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:24
Leyrac, Monique	Pendant que	Mon pays	03:26
L'infonie	I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel	Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel	02:00
Little, Russ	Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas)	Deeper and Deeper	03:03
Ryan, Clint	It Hurts to be Lonely	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	02:40
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
Plan Nine	In Sympathy With Poland	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:08
Lady	Whatever Happened to the Love	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love	02:41
Mingles	No Train Tonight	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	02:28
Little, Russ	Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little)	Deeper and Deeper	03:05
Stiffs	Homesick	The Stiffs	01:02
Dishrags	Past Is Past	Past Is Past (EP)	02:24
Bum	A Promise Is A Promise	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:02
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
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
Media	Endless Dream	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	03:19
Obomsawin, Alanis	Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks)	Indian Songs	01:58
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
Thrasher, Willie	Silent Inuit	Spirit Child	04:36
St. Germain, Ray	Metis	ST	03:39
Cohen, Leonard	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Gratitude	We are Here to Party	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:17
Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18

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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