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
Oster, Al	Midnight Sun Rock	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	01:47
M.G. & the Escorts	A Someday Fool	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:37
lang, k.d.	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Ukiaralumi (Winter Memories of Home)	People Of The Ice	02:36
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
Baumber, Ron	Keep it On the Tracks	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	03:08
Farraway, Craig	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34
Reaction, The	On The Beach	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	05:58
Elan	Freedom Song	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:41
LOI (Lois Ramdeen)	When I Feel The Need For Love	When I Feel The Need For Love // Body Contact	06:33
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
Jannetta, Patti	Don't You Want My Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:26
Hayden, Rudy (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Kilt	The Keeper - Plenty of Hornpipe	Kilt	02:44
Toulouse	Toulouse	What Would My Mama Say b/w Toulouse	04:31
Connors, Stompin' Tom	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
Subhumans	Firing Squad	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:07
Spencer, Eddie	You're So Good to Me Baby	You're So Good to Me Baby b/w If This is Love (I'd Rather be Lonely)	02:36
Modern Minds	Theresa's World	Theresa's World (EP)	01:56
Skarecrow	Oh Canada - Susie Que	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	02:50
Reaction, The	Waiting In Line	East End Rockers	04:51
Hansen, Sue	Shut Up	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:00
Power of Beckett	Back to Me	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:37
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	04:32
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:51
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	02:01
Underworld	Go Away	Bound b/w Go Away	02:49
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
Tiaras	Foolish Girl	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:34
Dishrags	Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye)	Past Is Past (EP)	01:19
Private School	Sci-Fi	Lost in Action (EP)	03:32
Mantra	Stay	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	02:57
Boys Brigade	The Passion Of Love	ST	03:40
Earth, Roots And Water	Johnnie Osborne - Right, Right Time	Right, Right Time b/w Right, Right Time Version	04:29
Damron, Dick	Rockin' Baby	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	01:26
Lady	You're Still the One	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love	03:04
Mantra	San Francisco Morning	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	03:16
Gentle Touch	One Way Ride	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:46
Telfer, Jay	Time Has Tied Me	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:39
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Mitchell, Joni	Just Like This Train	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	04:24
Rush	Circumstances	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	03:44
Kozak, Joe	Hillbilly Rock	Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me	01:48
Rabble	Golden Girl	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:04
Checkerlads	Shake Yourself Down	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:41
Etidlouie, Etulu	Kuviasuajut Kiasugujut (Crying For Joy)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:27
Kilt	Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs	Kilt	03:33
Pointed Sticks	Lies	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:37
Crystal Castles	Dolls	Alice Practice	01:29
Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:20
D.O.A.	Nazi Training Camp	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:50
Captain Tractor	The Last Saskatchewan Pirate	East of Edson	04:10
Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
Cockburn, Bruce	Maybe the Poet	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:53
Obomsawin, Alanis	Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens)	Indian Songs	00:57
Tiaras	Surprise!	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:25
Saxton, Mary	Sad Eyes	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	03:05
Murray, Anne	Shadows in the Moonlight	New Kind of Feeling	03:31
Hemsworth, Wade	The Blackfly Song	Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods	03:03
Kilt	Dylan's Ghost	Kilt	02:23
Jack J	Looking Forward to You	Looking Forward to You	08:08
Genèse	Je crois en moi	L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi	02:34
Hansen, Sue	Sucking Up to You	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:24
Plan Nine	Fatal Femme	I Ain't No Robot (EP) (picture sleeve)	03:20
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
Saxton, Mary	Take My Heart	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	02:04
Trans-X	Living On Video	Living On Video	05:56
Woods, Mike	Working Together	Working Together b/w Alberta (picture sleeve)	02:57
Motley, Frank & the Hitch-Hikers	Mr. Fortune	Mr. Fortune b/w I May Have Been a Fool	02:43
Oster, Al	Next Boat	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	02:46
Witness Inc.	Another Side Of Her	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:42
Haunted	Eight O'Clock This Morning	1-2-5 b/w Eight O'Clock This Morning	02:20
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
Pointed Sticks	I'm Numb	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:11
Elan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
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
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
McConnell, Rob and the Boss Brass	Try a Little Harder	Let Them In	02:42
Tallmud, Les	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
Idle Eyes	Tokyo Rose	ST	03:51
Obomsawin, Alanis	Ndayden (Gambling Songs - How Many Bone-sticks)	Indian Songs	01:58
Witness Inc.	Visions of Vanessa	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:39
Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
Reaction, The	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
Williams, Rod & Super 8	War Version	War b/w War Version	03:36
Mitchell, Joni	Urge for Going	Urge for Going b/w You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (picture sleeve)	05:04
Cornell, Jack	Like the Clouds	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	03:27
Ashby, Jim	Speed City (Acid Rock)	Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City	02:44
Rock and Roll Bitches	Someone Could Lose an Eye	Wild West (EP)	02:24
Jewitt, Don	Turn Down the Roses	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	04:06
Secret V's	Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold	No Life Like It (EP)	02:33
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Etidlouie, Etulu	Anaanaga Inujunimat (She Is Forever Gone)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	02:56
Murray, Anne	Snowbird	This Way Is My Way	02:12
Jannetta, Patti	Rules of Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:46
Rock, Jenny	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33

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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