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.

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

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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

Hamilon, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Demics - New York City b/w Blue Boy

London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Reaction, The - East End Rockers

St. John's, Newfoundland

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Trooper - Knock 'em Dead Kid

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Williams, Bob - I'm Alright

Montego Bay, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Mantra - Stay b/w San Francisco Morning

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

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

Chateauguy, Québec, 🇨🇦

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

Lucea, Jamaica → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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

Ottawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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

Cheraw, South Carolina, 🇺🇸 → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦 → Durham, North Carolina, 🇺🇸

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Thomas, Ian - The Runner

Hamilton, Ontario

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

Hamilton, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Northern Haze - ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq

Igloolik, Nunavut, 🇨🇦

Loverboy - Get Lucky

Calgary, Alberta - Vancouver, British Columbia

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Little, Russ - Deeper and Deeper

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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St. Germain, Ray - ST

St. Vital, Manitoba, 🇨🇦

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Hometown Band - Flying

Vancouver, British Columbia

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Lady - You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Northern Pikes - Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Media - Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream

Calgary, Alberta

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

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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49th Parallel - She Says b/w Citizen Freak

Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

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Trooper - Two For The Show

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Jury - Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?

Winnipeg, Manitoba, 🇨🇦

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Prism - ST

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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

Winnipeg, Manitoba, 🇨🇦

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

Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge, Québec City, Québec, 🇨🇦

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

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

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

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

Captain Tractor - East of Edson

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Bureacrats - Feel the Pain b/w Grown Up Age

Nomeansno - Oh Canaduh b/w New Age

Arthur Scammel - Squid Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2

Frankie

Private School - Lost in Action (EP)

Second and longest-lasting lineup, l-r: Ed Clynton, Dave Tupper, Kenny Shields, Allen Ayers and Les Bateman (kneeling)

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The Fringe - Plastic People b/w Nancy Brown

Elan - Penticton Peaches (insert)

Joni Mitchell - Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)

Leonard Cohen - Suzanne b/w The Partisan

Pelicans - Pelicans b/w New Wave insert

Kings - Switchin' to Glide b/w My Habit (promo)

Rabble - You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl

k.d. lang - Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)

Natalie Pollock & John Turner

Guess Who - Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)

Bob Williams - I'm Alright (Part One) b/w I'm Alright (Part Two)

Rick Buckthorp

The Fringe

The Fringe

'Stompin' Tom Connors - Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail

MG & the Escorts 1967 promo from RPM Magazine November 11, 1967

Rock and Roll Bitches Kenny MacKay at Edmonton Library gig Jan 17, 1981. photo courtesy Rose Kapp

Slow - I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)

Skarecrow - (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Kilt Wrecker's Den Kilt
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
LaBarge, Bernie Annie Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie
Stiffs Fuck You Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp
Mighty Pope Heaven on the Seventh Floor Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength
Pluton and Humanoids World Invaders World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)
Motherlode When I Die When I Die
Stiffs Everyone Lies The Stiffs
Moore, Yvonne Hit & Run Lover Hit & Run Lover
Scammel, Arthur R. Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2
Stiffs Homesick The Stiffs
Cohen, Leonard Suzanne Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers Mr. Fortune Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool
Jannetta, Patti Rules of Love Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love
Bullrush You've Sent Me Away I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Spirit of the West Save This House Save This House
Mantra Stay Stay b/w San Francisco Morning
Williams, Rod & Super 8 War War b/w War Version
Diehl, Alden Fight On (Winter) Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)
Kings This Beat Goes On - Switchin' Switchin'
Twitch Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 Things b/w Pick Up Is Illegal on 401
Hodgins, Marie Yesterday’s Dreams Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God
LaBarge, Bernie It's Real Dream Away b/w It's Real
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
Rough Trade Fashion Victim Avoid Freud
United Empire Loyalists Afraid of the Dark No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark
Checkerlads Shake Yourself Down Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)
Rabble You Come on Too Strong You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Seeds of Time My Home Town My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)
Farraway, Craig Wonder What She's Doing After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing
Modern Minds Bungalow Rock Theresa's World (EP)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back) People Of The Ice
Bureaucrats Grown Up Age Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)
Thrasher, Willie Spirit Child Spirit Child
Hemsworth, Wade The Blackfly Song Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods
Spy's Underground Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Idle Eyes Tokyo Rose ST
Payola$ Eyes of a Stranger No Stranger to Danger
Cockburn, Bruce The Gift If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift
Bullrush I Want To Be Set Free I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away
Thrasher, Willie Forefathers Spirit Child
Etidlouie, Etulu Kunilausimajakanik (Better Than Others Kissed) Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Jones, Mike Group Funny Feeling Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling
Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Safety Dance
Dishrags Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye) Past Is Past (EP)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Doucette, Jerry Down The Road Mama Let Him Play
Midnight Angels (I Wish) In the Moonlight I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Stiffs 21st Century The Stiffs
lang, k.d. Friday Dance Promenade Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)
LaBarge, Bernie Dream Away Dream Away b/w It's Real
Plan Nine I Ain't No Robot I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)
Murray, Anne Shadows in the Moonlight New Kind of Feeling
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)
Cockburn, Bruce Wondering Where the Lions Are Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall
Diodes Tired of Waking Up Tired Released
Reaction, The Trials In Error East End Rockers
Oster, Al Midnight Sun Rock Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock
Bum Wedding Day A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day
Woods, Mike Working Together Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home) People Of The Ice
Little, Russ Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings) Deeper and Deeper
A Passing Fancy A Passing Fancy I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy
M.G. & the Escorts Remembering Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering
Stiffs Fuck You The Stiffs
Reaction, The Get The Rods Out East End Rockers
Mingles I'm Gonna Miss You I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight
Triton Warrior Sealed In a Grave Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train
Gratitude We are Here to Party Loving You // We Are Here To Party
Elan Freedom Song Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)
Underworld Bound Bound b/w Go Away
Olliver, George Shine I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine
Trooper We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time) Knock 'em Dead Kid
Maciag, Robert You Make Me Feel So Good I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good
Cornell, Jack Happy Dreamer Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds
Mashmakhan As The Years Go By As The Years Go By b/w Gladwin (picture sleeve)
Mendelson Joe The Canada Song No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song
Genetic Control 1984 First Impressions (EP)
Private School I Wanna Know Lost in Action (EP)
Kilt South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel Kilt
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Crack of Dawn Mind Wrecker The Key b/w Mind Wrecker
Crystal Castles Love and Caring Alice Practice
Rock and Roll Bitches Wild West Wild West (EP)
D.O.A. Disco Sucks Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Saxton, Mary Sad Eyes Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart
Crystal Castles Air War Alice Practice
Kozak, Joe Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me
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
Richardson, Ron Ooh Wee Babe Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Tiaras Surprise! Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!
Rough Trade Highschool Confidential Avoid Freud
Cockburn, Bruce Maybe the Poet If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet
Sugluk Fall Away Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Rabble Golden Girl You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl
Jackson, Shawne Just as Bad as You Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man
Crasher (Gladston Murray) Bad Moon Rising Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising
Mitchell, Joni Big Yellow Taxi Big Yellow Taxi b/w Rainy Night House (picture sleeve)
Bells Moody Manitoba Morning Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning

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