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
Trooper	Two for the Show	Two For The Show	04:27
Evolution Expantion	Blow Up	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	02:39
Spirit of the West	Save This House	Save This House	02:55
D.O.A.	Royal Police	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	02:14
Genetic Control	Love Rat	First Impressions (EP)	02:04
Mantra	Stay	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	02:57
Stompin' Tom Connors	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Immortals	The Ultimate Warlord	The Ultimate Warlord // Warlord (Part II)	06:30
The Reaction	The Kid's Arrived	On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)	02:32
Ironhorse	What's Your Hurry Darlin'	Everything is Grey	04:30
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich)	People Of The Ice	02:37
Élan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
Mendelson Joe	Growing Pain	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	02:35
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Checkerlads	Shake Yourself Down	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:41
Jack Cornell	Happy Dreamer	Happy Dreamer b/w Like the Clouds	04:01
Dishrags	Past Is Past	Past Is Past (EP)	02:24
Sidewinders (1)	Cryin' Heartache Misery	Put The Blame On Me b/w Cryin' Heartache Misery	03:08
Genetic Control	Urban Cowboy	First Impressions (EP)	02:44
Lady	You're Still the One	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened To The Love	03:04
Rod Williams & Super 8	War Version	War b/w War Version	03:36
United Empire Loyalists	No, No, No	No, No, No b/w Afraid of the Dark	02:49
Rough Trade	Fashion Victim	Avoid Freud	04:06
Trans-X	Living On Video	Living On Video	05:56
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Bad Moon Rising	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	04:01
Kilt	I Was Made for Loving You	Kilt	03:19
Kings	This Beat Goes On - Switchin'	Switchin'	06:17
Private School	Sci-Fi	Lost in Action (EP)	03:32
M.G. & the Escorts	Remembering	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:33
Payola$	Eyes of a Stranger	No Stranger to Danger	04:57
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Ian Thomas	Right Before Your Eyes	Calabash	03:15
Ron Baumber	Duncan and the Devil	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	02:52
M.G. & the Escorts	A Someday Fool	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:37
Power of Beckett	Back to Me	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:37
Bullrush	I Want To Be Set Free	I Want To Be Set Free b/w You've Sent Me Away	03:14
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Men Without Hats	The Safety Dance	The Safety Dance	04:38
Mary Saxton	Losing Control	Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die	02:04
Seeds of Time	Muskrat Rumble	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:48
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin II	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:59
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
Joni Mitchell	Just Like This Train	Help Me b/w Just Like This Train (picture sleeve)	04:24
The Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age	03:20
Suspects	Over Exposed	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	04:29
Anne Murray	Bidin' my time	This Way Is My Way	02:37
Bells	Moody Manitoba Morning	Maxwells Silver Hammer b/w Moody Manitoba Morning	03:15
Super 8 Corporation	Set Me Free	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:30
Viletones	Possibilities	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:32
Super 8 Corporation	Free Version	Set Me Free (Dill Smith)	03:34
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	Work Song	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:14
Jay Telfer	Suite One	Time Has Tied Me b/w Suite One	03:06
Evolution Expantion	Blues Finding	Blow Up b/w Blues Finding	03:16
Bernie LaBarge	Can't Hold On Forever	Can't Hold On Forever b/w Annie	03:24
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Mushroom Band	Don't Come Down	Don't Come Down b/w Nobody	02:40
Dundas	Bloodshot in Your Eyes	Bloodshot In Your Eyes b/w Can't You Hear Me	02:43
Triton Warrior	Sealed In a Grave	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:36
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
Northern Pikes	Teenland	Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)	04:01
Pointed Sticks	Lies	Lies b/w I'm Numb	02:37
Rush	Circumstances	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	03:44
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
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
Genèse	Je crois en moi	L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi	02:34
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play)	People Of The Ice	02:18
Debbie Myers	Strong Enough to Bend	Strong Enough to Bend	02:44
Bruce Cockburn	Wondering Where the Lions Are	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:42
The Reaction	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
Teenage Head	Picture My Face	Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)	02:57
The Hometown Band	I'm Ready	Flying	03:36
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
The Bed Time Story	Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott)	Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun	03:00
George Olliver	I May Never Get to See You Again	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:38
The Collectors	She (Will-O'-The Wind)	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	03:53
Witness Inc.	Another Side Of Her	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:42
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Trooper	We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time)	Knock 'em Dead Kid	03:34
Don Norman & the Other Four	Low Man	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	02:15
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
Guido Basso	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Sikumiut (People of the Ice)	Utirumavunga (I Want to Go Back)	People Of The Ice	03:14
Gratitude	We are Here to Party	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:17
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
Stompin' Tom Connors	Canada Day Up Canada Way	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	02:37
Ted Daigle	Mary Lou	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:36
The Gruesomes	Hey!	Hey!	01:49
Clint Ryan	It Hurts to be Lonely	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	02:40
Jim Ashby	Speed City (Acid Rock)	Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City	02:44
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Orphan Baby	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	04:42
Demics	New York City	New York City b/w Blue Boy	04:32
Bruce Cockburn	If I Had a Rocket Launcher	If I Had a Rocket Launcher b/w Maybe the Poet	04:58
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	01:37

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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

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Len - You Can't Stop the Bum Rush

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Maurice & The Clichés - C'est la vie

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The Bureaucrats - Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age

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Jolly Tambourine Man - Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka

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Jerry Doucette - The Deuce is Loose

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Jerry Doucette - Mama Let Him Play

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Spoons - After the Institution b/w My Job

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Boys Brigade - ST

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The Gruesomes - Hey!

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Dolores Claman - The Hockey Theme

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Sloan - Underwhelmed (promo)

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

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

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The Hometown Band - Flying

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Tim Hus - Huskies & Huskvarnas

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Lisa Lougheed - Run With Us b/w Hold Back Tomorrow

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Kings - Switchin'

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Charlie Russell - The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II

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

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Fyre - David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges

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Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights - That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)

Rush - Moving Pictures

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Genetic Control - First Impressions (EP)

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Rush - Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)

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Rush - Hemispheres

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Rush - A Farewell to Kings

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Rush - Fly By Night

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

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

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