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
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
Williams, Rod & Super 8	War	War b/w War Version	03:16
Basso, Guido	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers	Mr. Fortune	Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool	02:43
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Cornell, Jack	Like the Clouds	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	03:27
Farraway, Craig	After All	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	04:18
Media	Girl I Want You	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	04:20
Cockburn, Bruce	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
D.O.A.	Disco Sucks	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:39
Nite Life	What's On Your Mind	What's On Your Mind b/w What's On Your Mind (Instrumental)	03:46
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	Taking My Heart	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:16
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
Northern Haze	Qaina	ᓯᓈᒃᑐᖅ Sinnaktuq	03:23
Pointed Sticks	Somebody's Mom	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	01:38
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Plan Nine	In Sympathy With Poland	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:08
Punkin Machine	I Need You Tonight	I Need You Tonight // I Need You Tonight	05:38
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
Myers, Debbie	Strong Enough to Bend	Strong Enough to Bend	02:44
Cockburn, Bruce	Incandescent Blue	Tokyo b/w Incandescent Blue	04:38
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Crystal Castles	Love and Caring	Alice Practice	02:18
Jannetta, Patti	Rules of Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:46
Mitchell, Joni	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Woods, Mike	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Etidlouie, Etulu	Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:27
Trooper	We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time)	Knock 'em Dead Kid	03:34
Copperpenny	Bad Manners	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:05
222's	La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll)	La poupee qui fait non (She's a Doll) b/w La poupee qui fait non (version instrumentale)	02:42
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	Sweet Sweet Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:59
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
Oster, Al	Midnight Sun Rock	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	01:47
lang, k.d.	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Thomas, Ian	Pilot	Glider	05:11
Power of Beckett	Back to Me	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:37
Saga	On The Loose	On The Loose b/w Framed	04:12
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia	Early Morning Rain	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:52
St. Germain, Ray	Metis	ST	03:39
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
Underworld	Go Away	Bound b/w Go Away	02:49
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46
Cockburn, Bruce	The Gift	If a Tree Falls b/w The Gift	06:06
Chokolit Affair	Chokolit Groove	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	04:28
Media	Endless Dream	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	03:19
Partland Brothers	Soul City	Electric Honey	03:52
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin'	Switchin'	06:17
Underworld	Bound	Bound b/w Go Away	03:15
Damron, Dick	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02
Mingles	No Train Tonight	I'm Gonna Miss You b/w No Train Tonight	02:28
Helix	Billy Oxygen	Breaking Loose	04:23
Saxton, Mary	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Mantra	Stay	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	02:57
Cockburn, Bruce	If I Had a Rocket Launcher	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:58
Connors, Stompin' Tom	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
M.G. & the Escorts	Remembering	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:33
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
Modern Minds	Bungalow Rock	Theresa's World (EP)	01:42
Reaction, The	On The Beach	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	05:58
Woods, Mike	Alberta	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	03:49
Trans-X	Living On Video	Living On Video	05:56
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
Modern Minds	Theresa's World	Theresa's World (EP)	01:56
Mantra	San Francisco Morning	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	03:16
Kilt	Fisherman's Blues	Kilt	03:50
Mendelson Joe	Oh Travene	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	03:41
Tyson, Ian & Sylvia	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
Prism	Spaceship Superstar	ST	04:06
Cockburn, Bruce	Sahara Gold	Lovers in a Dangerous Time b/w Sahara Gold	04:34
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back)	People Of The Ice	03:14
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Stiffs	Dad's a Pig	The Stiffs	01:31
Painted Ship	And She Said Yes	Audience Reflections (From Polyana's Dreamworld) b/w And She Said Yes	02:35
Basso, Guido	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Stiffs	Fuck You	Last Call, Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988 comp	02:23
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
Rabble	Golden Girl	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:04
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
Painted Ship	I Told Those Little White Lies	Frustration b/w I Told Those Little White Lies	02:39
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
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
Thrills	Party Inside My Mind	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:38
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
Hodgins, Marie	Dance For The Sun God	Yesterday’s Dreams b/w Dance For The Sun God	01:50
Midnight Angels	(I Wish) In the Moonlight	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	02:17
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
United Empire Loyalists	Afraid of the Dark	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	01:59
Dunn, Willie	I Pity The Country	I Pity The Country b/w The Carver	02:55
Payola$	Eyes of a Stranger	No Stranger to Danger	04:57
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53
Jackson, Shawne	Just as Bad as You	Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man	02:33
Etidlouie, Etulu	Ikaumakatapuga Ukaujauvaninik (I Remember)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:29
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Connors, Stompin' Tom	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14

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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