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.

Tracks

Artist	Track	Title	Length
Media	Girl I Want You	Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream	04:20
Pointed Sticks	Somebody's Mom	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	01:38
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Dundas	Can't You Hear Me	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	06:01
Pointed Sticks	What Do You Want Me To Do?	What Do You Want Me To Do? b/w Somebody's Mom	02:27
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
Boys Brigade	The Passion Of Love	ST	03:40
Payola$	Eyes of a Stranger	No Stranger to Danger	04:57
Jenny Rock	Mal	Mal b/w Voyage entre nuit et clarté	02:33
Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:31
Willie Thrasher	Wolves Don't Live By The Rules	Spirit Child	02:16
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
Midnight Angels	(I Wish) In the Moonlight	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	02:17
Kilt	Johnny Bean Set: Cawdor Fair - Frank's Reel - Speed the Plow	Kilt	03:34
Dick Damron	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Summer)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:43
Gale Garnett	We'll Sing in the Sunshine	My Kind of Folk Songs	02:59
Joni Mitchell	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
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Bad Moon Rising	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	04:01
Copperpenny	You're Still the One	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	03:29
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
Kilt	Fisherman's Blues	Kilt	03:50
Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back)	People Of The Ice	03:14
Gypsy	Hooked on a Memory	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	03:23
Midnight Angels	I'm Sufferin'	I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)	01:58
Viletones	Rebel	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:09
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Trooper	Santa Maria	Two For The Show	02:56
Seeds of Time	My Home Town	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:53
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Mike Jones Group	Each and Every Day	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:18
Thrills	Telephone	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:57
Kilt	Last Call	Kilt	00:33
Robert Maciag	You Make Me Feel So Good	I Can't Help the Sunrise b/w You Make Me Feel So Good	03:12
France Joli	Let Go	Come to Me // Let Go	09:26
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
Ron Richardson	Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)	07:36
D.O.A.	Disco Sucks	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:39
Etulu Etidlouie	Utiliput (Coming Back) (C'est en revenant de rigaud)	Inuit Songs Composed and Sung by Etulu Etidloiee - Cape Dorset, N.W.T.	01:42
Bernie LaBarge	Can't Hold On Forever	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:24
Kilt	Come on Eileen	Kilt	03:16
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Fyre	David's Song	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:03
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	No Man Like My Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:42
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	03:24
La Révolution Française	Québecois	Québecois	04:46
Bells	Stay Awhile	Stay Awhile b/w Sing a Song of Freedom	03:26
D.O.A.	Woke Up Screaming	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:52
Craig Farraway	Wonder What She's Doing	After All b/w Wonder What She's Doing	03:34
D.O.A.	Royal Police	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:14
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
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
Power of Beckett	Lost Soul in Disillusion	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:03
Alan Gerber	Tied On	Tied On b/w Tied On	03:24
Ian Tyson & Sylvia	Early Morning Rain	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:52
Rock and Roll Bitches	Someone Could Lose an Eye	Wild West (EP)	02:24
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
Eddie Spencer	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
Gentle Touch	Visitors Parking Only	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:45
Witness Inc.	Another Side Of Her	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:42
Tim Hus	Hurtin’ Albertan	Huskies & Huskvarnas	08:07
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Ian Thomas	Time is the Keeper	Glider	04:14
Kilt	South Australia - Brenda Stubbert's Reel	Kilt	02:46
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
Pluton and Humanoids	World Invaders	World Invaders // World Invaders (Instrumental)	06:44
Klaatu	Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft	3:47 EST	07:17
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Copperpenny	Where is the Answer	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	04:20
Jayson Hoover (The Trials Of)	King Size	King Size b/w Baby I Love You	02:12
Trooper	We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time)	Knock 'em Dead Kid	03:34
Genèse	Je crois en moi	L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi	02:34
Gratitude	We are Here to Party	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:17
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
Fyre	New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges	03:42
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	02:03
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Sea Cruise Blues	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	05:32
Private School	Fuck You	Lost in Action (EP)	01:40
Bruce Cockburn	Rainfall	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:50
Slow	I Broke The Circle	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:20
Sugluk	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story)	Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)	05:25
Hometown Band	Flying	Flying	03:50
Twitch	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn)	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	02:58
Lady	Whatever Happened to the Love	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love	02:41
Shawne Jackson	Just as Bad as You	Just as Bad as You b/w He May Be Your Man	02:33
April Wine	Say Hello	Harder.....Faster	02:59
Poppy Family	Which Way You Goin' Billy?	Which Way You Goin' Billy? b/w Endless Sleep (picture sleeve)	03:24
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	Work Song	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:14
Copperpenny	Wine Song	Sittin' on a Poor Man's Throne	02:04
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	02:01
Crystal Castles	Love and Caring	Alice Practice	02:18
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Amazon	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	03:59
k.d. lang	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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Sidewinders (1) - Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery

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Jerry Doucette - The Deuce is Loose

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Jerry Doucette - Mama Let Him Play

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Teenage Head - Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)

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Ocean - Put Your Hand in the Hand

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Bob Williams - I'm Alright

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Guido Basso - Put Your Hand in the Hand

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April Wine - Harder.....Faster

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Don Jewitt - Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses

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Jury - Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?

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Reign Ghost - Long Day Journey b/w Parable

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Doug And The Slugs - Too Bad b/w The Move

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Checkerlads - Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)

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Bum - A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day

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Diodes - Released

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Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) - Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues

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Don Norman & the Other Four - Low Man b/w Mustang Sally

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

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Private School - Lost in Action (EP)

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Poppy Family - Which Way You Goin' Billy?

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

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Payola$ - No Stranger to Danger

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49th Parallel - She Says b/w Citizen Freak

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49th Parallel - She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)

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Bed Time Story - Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun

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Underworld - Bound b/w Go Away

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Al Oster - Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock

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

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

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Spoons - After the Institution b/w My Job

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