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
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
Alden Diehl	Fight On (Summer)	Fight On (Winter) b/w Fight On (Summer)	02:43
Bum	A Promise Is A Promise	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:02
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
Bureaucrats	Feel the Pain	Feel The Pain b/w Grown Up Age (picture sleeve)	03:20
Pelicans	Pelicans	Pelicans b/w New Wave	02:50
Dishrags	Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye)	Past Is Past (EP)	01:19
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
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Metro Music	03:37
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
Private School	Sci-Fi	Lost in Action (EP)	03:32
Chokolit Affair	Don't Touch My Funk	Chokolit Groove b/w Don't Touch My Funk	02:42
Bob Williams	I'm Alright (Part Two)	I'm Alright	03:43
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let Them In	Let Them In	02:33
Bum	Wedding Day	A Promise Is A Promise b/w Wedding Day	02:44
Nomeansno	Oh Canaduh	Oh Canaduh b/w New Age	01:59
Mary Saxton	Sad Eyes	Sad Eyes b/w Take My Heart	03:05
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Witness Inc.	Visions of Vanessa	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:39
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
France Joli	Come to Me	Come to Me // Let Go	07:12
Ian Tyson & Sylvia	Four Strong Winds	Early Morning Rain (picture sleeve)	03:29
Don Norman & the Other Four	Low Man	Low Man b/w Mustang Sally	02:15
L'infonie	Come & Dance The OK LA!	Come & Dance The OK LA! b/w I've Lost 15 Cents in the Cold Nose of a Bronzed Angel	03:04
Stompin' Connors Tom	Sudbury Saturday Night	Sudbury Saturday Night b/w Don Valley Jail	02:25
Russ Little	I Want to Make it With You (David Gates)	Deeper and Deeper	02:46
The Ugly Ducklings	Just In Case You Wonder	Just In Case You're Wondering b/w That's Just the Thought I Had in My Mind (mis-print)	02:28
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	02:03
Stiffs	Homesick	The Stiffs	01:02
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
Mantra	Stay	Stay b/w San Francisco Morning	02:57
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
Trooper	3 Dressed Up As A 9	Flying Colors	04:42
Tiaras	Foolish Girl	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:34
Checkerlads	Shake Yourself Down	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:41
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:46
Ray St. Germain	Metis	ST	03:39
k.d. lang	Rose Garden	Rose Garden b/w High Time for a Detour (picture sleeve)	03:19
49th Parallel	She Says	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	02:02
M.G. & the Escorts	It’s Too Late	A Someday Fool b/w It’s Too Late	02:19
The Reaction	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
Slow	I Broke The Circle	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:20
Sugluk	I Didn't Know	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	03:50
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Demics	New York City	New York City b/w Blue Boy	04:32
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Sea Cruise Blues	Orphan Baby b/w Sea Cruise Blues	05:32
Viletones	Screaming Fist	Screaming Fist b/w Possibilities/ I'm a Rebel	02:04
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Mike Jones Group	Each and Every Day	Each and Every Day b/w Funny Feeling	02:18
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
Willie Thrasher	Forefathers	Spirit Child	03:26
Jim Ashby	Speed City (Acid Rock)	Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City	02:44
Spoons	My Job	After the Institution b/w My Job	03:14
Joni Mitchell	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
Don Jewitt	Northern Wind	Northern Wind b/w Turn Down the Roses	03:06
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
Anne Murray	Snowbird	This Way Is My Way	02:12
Triton Warrior	Sealed In a Grave	Sealed In a Grave b/w Satan's Train	04:36
Northern Pikes	Teenland	Teenland b/w Heartaches Heartbreaks (Open Up) (picture sleeve)	04:01
Expedition to Earth	Time Time Time	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:55
Rush	The Trees	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	04:44
Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach	Echo Beach b/w Teddy the Dink	03:32
Stumpwater	Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman	Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times	03:33
Modern Minds	It's Gone	Theresa's World (EP)	02:03
Suspects	Raining Over France	Over Exposed b/w Raining Over France	02:55
Rush	Circumstances	The Trees b/w Circumstances (picture sleeve)	03:44
Modern Minds	Theresa's World	Theresa's World (EP)	01:56
Charlie Russell	The Bricklin	The Bricklin b/w The Bricklin II	02:56
Underworld	Bound	Bound b/w Go Away	03:15
Clint Ryan	Build Myself Around You	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	03:20
Alanis Obomsawin	Awsjagaw Nibin (My Spirit, It Weakens)	Indian Songs	00:57
Trans-X	Living On Video	Living On Video	05:56
Patti Jannetta	Rules of Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:46
France Joli	Playboy	Come to Me // Let Go	08:02
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Blue Steel	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	03:00
Guido Basso	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	03:16
Winston Hewitt	You're My Boopsie	You're My Boopsy	04:39
Ashley MacIsaac	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
Sue Hansen	Sucking Up to You	Sucking Up To You b/w Shut Up	03:24
Subhumans	Firing Squad	Firing Squad b/w No Productivity	03:07
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
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)	01:37
Ocean	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
The Ugly Ducklings	I Can Tell	Nothin' b/w I Can Tell	03:21
Ron Baumber	Keep it On the Tracks	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	03:08
Gentle Touch	One Way Ride	Visitors Parking Only b/w One Way Ride (picture sleeve)	02:46
Twitch	Spunk	Mess'n With The Bull (Gets The Horn) b/w Spunk	03:27
Les Tallmud	Un Autre Ami	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:41
Dick Damron	Gonna Have a Party	Gonna Have a Party b/w Rockin' Baby	02:02
Kilt	Wrecker's Den	Kilt	02:38
Kilt	Dylan's Ghost	Kilt	02:23
Reign Ghost	Long Day Journey	Long Day Journey b/w Parable	03:14
Rush	Limelight	Moving Pictures	04:19
Crasher (Gladston Murray)	Bad Moon Rising	Amazon b/w Bad Moon Rising	04:01
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
Lady	Whatever Happened to the Love	You're Still the One b/w Whatever Happened to the Love	02:41
Al Oster	Next Boat	Next Boat b/w Midnight Sun Rock	02:46

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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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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