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
Pointed Sticks	Somebody's Mom	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	01:38
Mitchell, Joni	Help Me	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	03:22
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	02:01
Rough Trade	Highschool Confidential	Avoid Freud	03:14
Damron, Dick	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02
Diehl, Alden	Fight On (Winter)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:53
MacIsaac, Ashley	The Devil in the Kitchen	The Devil in the Kitchen b/w What an Idiot He Is (featuring Jale) (picture sleeve, clear blue vinyl)	02:26
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Sea Cruise Blues	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	05:32
Stiffs	Everyone Lies	The Stiffs	01:30
Joli, France	Let Go	Come to Me // Let Go	09:26
Minotaur	Witch-Hunt	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	04:19
D.O.A.	Nazi Training Camp	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:50
Power of Beckett	Back to Me	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:37
Viletones	Screaming Fist	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:04
Thomas, Ian	Long Long Way	Long Long Way	05:00
Mitchell, Joni	Big Yellow Taxi	Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)	02:15
April Wine	Say Hello	Harder.....Faster	02:59
Plan Nine	In Sympathy With Poland	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:08
Media	Endless Dream	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	03:19
Garnett, Gale	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
Bed Time Story	Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott)	Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun	03:00
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Little, Russ	Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas)	Deeper and Deeper	03:03
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	Sweet Sweet Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:59
Elan	Freedom Song	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:41
Basso, Guido	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Expedition to Earth	Time Time Time	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:55
Mendelson Joe	The Canada Song	No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song	03:14
Etidlouie, Etulu	Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:56
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
Captain Tractor	The Last Saskatchewan Pirate	East of Edson	04:10
Twitch	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn)	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	02:58
Gentle Touch	One Way Ride	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:46
Elan	Penticton Peaches	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:13
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Subhumans	No Productivity	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:08
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
Cockburn, Bruce	Maybe the Poet	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:53
Ironhorse	What's Your Hurry Darlin'	Everything is Grey	04:30
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Punkin Machine	I Need You Tonight	I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight	05:38
Etidlouie, Etulu	Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:27
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
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
Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Munks	Heartaches Over My Head	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:26
Mantra	Stay	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	02:57
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
Jury	Please Forget Her	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:44
Private School	Sci-Fi	Lost in Action (EP)	03:32
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
Stumpwater	Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	04:06
Painted Ship	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld)	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:54
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
Painted Ship	I Told Those Little White Lies	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:39
Pointed Sticks	What Do You Want Me To Do?	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	02:27
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
Lady	You're Still the One	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love	03:04
Twitch	Things	Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401	03:37
Dobson, Bonnie	Morning Dew	ST	03:20
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Triton Warrior	Satan's Train	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:08
D.O.A.	Royal Police	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:14
Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
Partland Brothers	Soul City	Electric Honey	03:52
Underworld	Bound	Bound b/w Go Away	03:15
lang, k.d.	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Pointed Sticks	Lies	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:37
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
Mendelson Joe	Oh Travene	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	03:41
Farraway, Craig	After All	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	04:18
Telfer, Jay	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	03:24
Sugluk	Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	02:41
M.G. & the Escorts	Remembering	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:33
Fyre	New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:42
Thomas, Ian	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Trans-X	Living On Video	Living On Video	05:56
D.O.A.	Disco Sucks	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:39
Lady	Whatever Happened to the Love	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love	02:41
Leyrac, Monique	Pendant que	Mon pays	03:26
Cockburn, Bruce	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Tiaras	Foolish Girl	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:34
April Wine	I Like To Rock	Harder.....Faster	04:22
Connors, Stompin' Tom	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
United Empire Loyalists	Afraid of the Dark	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	01:59
Copperpenny	Bad Manners	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:05
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Maciag, Robert	You Make Me Feel So Good	I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good	03:12
Modern Minds	Theresa's World	Theresa's World (EP)	01:56
Connors, Stompin' Tom	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

FEATURED

Poppy Family - Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)

FEATURED

Gentle Touch - Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)

FEATURED

Demics - New York City b/w Blue Boy

FEATURED

Reaction, The - East End Rockers

FEATURED

Trooper - Knock 'em Dead Kid

FEATURED

Williams, Bob - I'm Alright

FEATURED

Mantra - Stay b/w San Francisco Morning

FEATURED

Haunted - 1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning

FEATURED

Mighty Pope - Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength

FEATURED

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

FEATURED

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

FEATURED

Thomas, Ian - The Runner

FEATURED

Mingles - I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight

FEATURED

Northern Haze - ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq

Loverboy - Get Lucky

FEATURED

Little, Russ - Deeper and Deeper

FEATURED

St. Germain, Ray - ST

FEATURED

Hometown Band - Flying

FEATURED

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

FEATURED

A Passing Fancy - I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy

FEATURED

49th Parallel - She Says b/w Citizen Freak

FEATURED

Trooper - Two For The Show

FEATURED

Jury - Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?

FEATURED

Prism - ST

FEATURED

Expedition to Earth - Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time

FEATURED

Leloup, Jean - L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié

FEATURED

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

FEATURED

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

Tracks

Comments