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
Elan	Freedom Song	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:41
Diehl, Alden	Fight On (Winter)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:53
Crystal Castles	Dolls	Alice Practice	01:29
Murray, Anne	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
Olliver, George	Shine	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:13
Copperpenny	Where is the Answer	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	04:20
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
Gentle Touch	One Way Ride	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:46
LaBarge, Bernie	Annie	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:52
Pointed Sticks	Lies	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:37
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Painted Ship	Frustration	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:57
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
Kilt	South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel	Kilt	02:46
Copperpenny	Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	05:12
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Bureaucrats	Grown Up Age	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:35
Stiffs	21st Century	The Stiffs	02:18
Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:20
Garnett, Gale	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
LaBarge, Bernie	It's Real	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:43
Tiaras	Surprise!	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:25
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Jackson, Shawne	Just as Bad as You	Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man	02:33
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Captain Tractor	The Last Saskatchewan Pirate	East of Edson	04:10
lang, k.d.	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Baumber, Ron	Duncan and the Devil	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	02:52
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
Thrasher, Willie	Spirit Child	Spirit Child	04:05
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Dishrags	Past Is Past	Past Is Past (EP)	02:24
Lady	Whatever Happened to the Love	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love	02:41
Witness Inc.	Another Side Of Her	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:42
Twitch	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn)	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	02:58
Jannetta, Patti	Don't You Want My Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:26
Private School	Sci-Fi	Lost in Action (EP)	03:32
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of)	Baby I Love You	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:22
Gentle Touch	Visitors Parking Only	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:45
Lady	You're Still the One	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love	03:04
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Trooper	The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car	Two For The Show	03:00
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
Kilt	The Drunken Dancer - Dinky Dorian's - Sleepy Maggie - McNab's Hornpipe	Kilt	03:18
Claman, Dolores	The Hockey Theme (Opening)	The Hockey Theme	00:56
VLA (Vincent V.)	I Gave My Heart (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	04:46
Murray, Anne	I Just Fall in Love Again	New Kind of Feeling	02:49
Richardson, Ron	Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	07:36
Plan Nine	Fatal Femme	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:20
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Ashby, Jim	Speed City (Acid Rock)	Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City	02:44
Pointed Sticks	Somebody's Mom	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	01:38
Expedition to Earth	Time Time Time	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:55
Cockburn, Bruce	Sahara Gold	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:34
Cockburn, Bruce	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
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
D.O.A.	Disco Sucks	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:39
Jannetta, Patti	Rules of Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:46
Punkin Machine	I Need You Tonight	I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight	05:38
Ugly Ducklings	Nothin'	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	02:35
Mushroom Band	Don't Come Down	Don't Come Down b/w Nobody	02:40
Bullrush	You've Sent Me Away	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	04:30
Ironhorse	What's Your Hurry Darlin'	Everything is Grey	04:30
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	When I Feel The Need For Love	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	06:33
Richardson, Ron	Ooh Wee Babe	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	06:46
Leyrac, Monique	Mon pays	Mon pays	03:11
Oster, Al	Next Boat	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	02:46
Mitchell, Joni	Just Like This Train	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	04:24
Mitchell, Joni	You turn Me On, I'm a Radio	You turn Me On, I'm a Radio b/w Urge for Going (picture sleeve) (promo)	02:40
Stiffs	Fuck You	Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp	02:23
Copperpenny	Taking My Heart	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:16
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
Phollop Willing P.A.	Sea Cruise Blues	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	05:32
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Bad Moon Rising	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	04:01
Tiaras	Foolish Girl	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:34
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Bells	Moody Manitoba Morning	Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning	03:15
Obomsawin, Alanis	Nookum (Reflections of an Elder)	Indian Songs	01:48
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	Sweet Sweet Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:59
Etidlouie, Etulu	Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:27
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play)	People Of The Ice	02:18
Fyre	David's Song	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:03
Sphex	Time	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:49
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Theresa's World (EP)	01:42
Rock and Roll Bitches	Someone Could Lose an Eye	Wild West (EP)	02:24
Mendelson Joe	Growing Pain	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	02:35
Mitchell, Joni	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Joli, France	Playboy	Come to Me // Let Go	08:02
Media	Girl I Want You	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	04:20
Reaction, The	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
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
Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36

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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