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
Thomas, Ian	The Runner	The Runner	03:24
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home)	People Of The Ice	02:36
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Theresa's World (EP)	01:42
lang, k.d.	High Time for a Detour	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	04:06
Fyre	David's Song	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:03
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Rush	Fly by Night	Fly By Night	03:22
Copperpenny	Boogie Woogie	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:27
M.G. & the Escorts	Remembering	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:33
Doucette, Jerry	Mama Let Him Play	Mama Let Him Play	04:26
Élan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
Mendelson Joe	Growing Pain	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	02:35
Underworld	Go Away	Bound b/w Go Away	02:49
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Expedition to Earth	Time Time Time	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:55
Tiaras	Foolish Girl	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:34
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Ryan, Clint	Build Myself Around You	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	03:20
Reaction, The	The Kid's Arrived	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	02:32
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Sea Cruise Blues	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	05:32
Farraway, Craig	After All	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	04:18
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
Telfer, Jay	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
Thomas, Ian	Painted Ladies	ST	03:31
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Dobson, Bonnie	Morning Dew	ST	03:20
Tiaras	Surprise!	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:25
Genèse	Je crois en moi	L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi	02:34
Thrasher, Willie	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
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
Etidlouie, Etulu	Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:27
Little, Russ	I Want to Make it With You (David Gates)	Deeper and Deeper	02:46
Plan Nine	Fatal Femme	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:20
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
Baumber, Ron	Duncan and the Devil	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	02:52
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
Leloup, Jean	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	L'Amour Est Sans Pitié b/w L'Amour Est Sans Pitié	03:19
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Jury	Please Forget Her	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:44
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)	03:24
Sphex	Leaving This Crazy City	Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City	03:28
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin'	Switchin'	06:17
LaBarge, Bernie	Can't Hold On Forever	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:24
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:46
Hometown Band	Flying	Flying	03:50
Élan	Penticton Peaches	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:13
Mendelson Joe	Oh Travene	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	03:41
Rush	Circumstances	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	03:44
Cockburn, Bruce	If I Had a Rocket Launcher	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:58
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
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
Basso, Guido	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	03:16
Jones, Mike Group	Funny Feeling	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:02
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Kilt	Wrecker's Den	Kilt	02:38
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Bad Moon Rising	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	04:01
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Earth, Roots And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Jackson, Shawne	Just as Bad as You	Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man	02:33
Murray, Anne-Marie	The Streets of Old St. John's	The Streets of Old St. John's b/w Has Love Gone Out of Style	02:25
Subhumans	Death to the Sickoids	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	01:59
Murray, Anne	Snowbird	This Way Is My Way	02:12
Pointed Sticks	Lies	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:37
Joli, France	Baby Don't Stop Dancing	Come to Me // Let Go	07:50
Little, Russ	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Trooper	The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car	Two For The Show	03:00
Ryan, Clint	It Hurts to be Lonely	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	02:40
Claman, Dolores	The Hockey Theme (Opening)	The Hockey Theme	00:56
Doucette, Jerry	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
Mitchell, Joni	Help Me	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	03:22
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
Richardson, Ron	Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	07:36
April Wine	Say Hello	Harder.....Faster	02:59
Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
Pointed Sticks	I'm Numb	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:11
Mashmakhan	As The Years Go By	As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)	03:04
Trans-X	Living On Video	Living On Video	05:56
Maciag, Robert	You Make Me Feel So Good	I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good	03:12
Copperpenny	Bad Manners	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:05
Dishrags	Tormented	Past Is Past (EP)	01:06
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
Jewitt, Don	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Thrasher, Willie	Eskimo Named Johnny	Spirit Child	02:41
Connors, Stompin' Tom	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Woods, Mike	Alberta	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	03:49
Moore, Yvonne	Hit & Run Lover	Hit & Run Lover	00:17
Stiffs	No Money	The Stiffs	01:26
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59

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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