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
Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
Checkerlads	Shake Yourself Down	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:41
Painted Ship	I Told Those Little White Lies	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:39
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
D.O.A.	Disco Sucks	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:39
Cockburn, Bruce	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Ryan, Clint	Build Myself Around You	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	03:20
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun)	People Of The Ice	02:53
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Crystal Castles	Love and Caring	Alice Practice	02:18
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Stiffs	Dad's a Pig	The Stiffs	01:31
Connors, Stompin' Tom	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Joli, France	Playboy	Come to Me // Let Go	08:02
Myers, Debbie	Strong Enough to Bend	Strong Enough to Bend	02:44
Private School	I Wanna Know	Lost in Action (EP)	02:30
Jury	Please Forget Her	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:44
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Earth, Roots And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
Saxton, Mary	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich)	People Of The Ice	02:37
VLA (Vincent V.)	We Won't Let Each Other Go (Club Extended Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	06:17
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers	Mr. Fortune	Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool	02:43
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Spirit of the West	Save This House	Save This House	02:55
Mingles	I'm Gonna Miss You	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	03:17
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	03:24
Obomsawin, Alanis	Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks)	Indian Songs	01:58
Etidlouie, Etulu	Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:29
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of)	Baby I Love You	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:22
Jannetta, Patti	Rules of Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:46
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	Sweet Sweet Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:59
Expedition to Earth	Time Time Time	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:55
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Little, Russ	I Want to Make it With You (David Gates)	Deeper and Deeper	02:46
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
Spy's	Underground	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	03:18
Rock, Jenny	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
Knight, Ritchie & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
Copperpenny	You're Still the One	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:29
Saxton, Mary	Losing Control	Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die	02:04
Bureaucrats	Grown Up Age	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:35
Dishrags	Tormented	Past Is Past (EP)	01:06
Williams, Bob	I'm Alright (Part One)	I'm Alright	03:57
Hodgins, Marie	Dance For The Sun God	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	01:50
LaBarge, Bernie	It's Real	Dream Away b/w It's Real	03:43
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass	Let Them In	Let Them In	02:33
Plan Nine	Fatal Femme	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:20
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
Saxton, Mary	Sad Eyes	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	03:05
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Pluton and Humanoids	World Invaders	World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)	06:44
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Thrasher, Willie	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Spencer, Eddie	If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)	You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)	02:48
United Empire Loyalists	No, No, No	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	02:49
Woods, Mike	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Hoover, Jayson (The Trials Of)	King Size	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:12
LaBarge, Bernie	Annie	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:52
Connors, Stompin' Tom	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Ryan, Clint	It Hurts to be Lonely	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	02:40
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
Oster, Al	Midnight Sun Rock	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	01:47
A Passing Fancy	A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:37
Copperpenny	Sitting On a Poor Man's Throne	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	05:12
Connors, Stompin' Tom	Canada Day Up Canada Way	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	02:37
Damron, Dick	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
Copperpenny	Taking My Heart	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:16
Dishrags	Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye)	Past Is Past (EP)	01:19
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
lang, k.d.	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
Farraway, Craig	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia	Early Morning Rain	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:52
Viletones	Rebel	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:09
Motherlode	When I Die	When I Die	03:17
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
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
Richardson, Ron	Ooh Wee Babe	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	06:46
Rough Trade	Highschool Confidential	Avoid Freud	03:14
Farraway, Craig	After All	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	04:18
Thomas, Ian	The Runner	The Runner	03:24
Captain Tractor	The Last Saskatchewan Pirate	East of Edson	04:10
Etidlouie, Etulu	Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:56
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
Kilt	I Was Made for Loving You	Kilt	03:19
Kilt	Dream of Death - Forfar Hunt	Kilt	04:28
Pointed Sticks	Lies	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:37
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Collectors	She (Will-O'-The Wind)	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	03:53
Boys Brigade	The Passion Of Love	ST	03:40
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass	Let's Get Together	Let Them In	02:04
Demics	New York City	New York City b/w Blue Boy	04:32

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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