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
Slow	Black Is Black	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:57
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne	Suzanne b/w The Partisan (picture sleeve)	03:50
Underworld	Bound	Bound b/w Go Away	03:15
k.d. lang	Friday Dance Promenade	Friday Dance Promenade b/w Damned Old Dog (picture sleeve)	02:28
Crystal Castles	Air War	Alice Practice	02:24
April Wine	Say Hello	Harder.....Faster	02:59
Trans-X	Living On Video	Living On Video	05:56
Joe Kozak	Hillbilly Rock	Hillbilly Rock b/w Call Me	01:48
Dishrags	Love Is Shit (It's Goodbye)	Past Is Past (EP)	01:19
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
49th Parallel	Citizen Freak	She Says b/w Citizen Freak	01:40
Ms. Dolly Gilmore	Sweet Sweet Man	No Man Like My Man b/w Sweet Sweet Man	06:59
Slow	I Broke The Circle	I Broke The Circle b/w Black Is Black (picture sleeve)	03:20
Ronnie Hawkins	Who Do You Love	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:41
Élan	Days Gone By	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	02:28
Anne Murray	Bidin' my time	This Way Is My Way	02:37
Seeds of Time	Muskrat Rumble	My Home Town b/w Muskrat Rumble (promo)	02:48
Stags	You Know He Did	Guess Who b/w You Know He Did	02:37
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Sugluk	Fall Away	Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy	02:49
Witness Inc.	Another Side Of Her	Visions of Vanessa b/w Another Side Of Her (picture sleeve)	03:42
Bruce Cockburn	Wondering Where the Lions Are	Wondering Where the Lions Are b/w Rainfall	03:42
Jury	Who Dat?	Please Forget Her b/w Who Dat?	02:15
Jerry Doucette	Nobody	The Deuce is Loose	03:29
Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired	Released	02:54
Bonnie Dobson	Morning Dew	ST	03:20
Arthur Scammel R.	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1	Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 1 // Squid-Jiggin' Ground Squid-Jiggin' Ground Part 2	02:03
Bed Time Story	Feel the Sun	Got to Find Someone (A Day in the Life of Steven Truscott) b/w Feel the Sun	02:21
Pierre Perpall	World Invaders	Pluton and Humanoids - World Invaders	06:44
Mendelson Joe	Oh Travene	Oh Travene b/w Growing Pain	03:41
Munks	Long Time Waiting	Long Time Waiting b/w Heartaches Over My Head	02:15
Spy's	Underground	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	03:18
Ritchie Knight & the Mid-Knights	That's All Right	That's All Right b/w Work Song (picture sleeve)	02:28
Les Tallmud	Avoir Raison	Avoir Raison b/w Un Autre Ami	02:15
Crystal Castles	Love and Caring	Alice Practice	02:18
The Reaction	Get The Rods Out	East End Rockers	03:32
Patti Jannetta	Don't You Want My Love	Rules of Love b/w Don't You Want My Love	03:26
A Passing Fancy	A Passing Fancy	I'm Losing Tonight b/w A Passing Fancy	02:37
Mendelson Joe	The Canada Song	No Trespassing b/w The Canada Song	03:14
Jim Ashby	Speed City (Acid Rock)	Speed City (Acid Rock) b/w Speed City	02:44
Skarecrow	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque	(We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)	03:18
VLA (Vincent V.)	We Won't Let Each Other Go (Radio Version) (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	I Gave My Heart b/w We Won't Let Each Other Go	04:43
Monique Leyrac	Mon pays	Mon pays	03:11
Ted Daigle	No One Else	Mary Lou b/w No One Else	02:46
Gratitude	We are Here to Party	Loving You // We Are Here To Party	06:17
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
Gypsy	The Market	Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market	02:30
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys	Want Me a Woman	Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel	01:59
Guess Who	One Day	Clock On The Wall b/w One Day (picture sleeve)	02:07
Kilt	Honest Gamble - Tripping Up the Stairs	Kilt	03:33
Willie Dunn	I Pity The Country	I Pity The Country b/w The Carver	02:55
Stompin' Connors Tom	The Hockey Song	And the Hockey Song	02:14
Minotaur	Burner	Burner b/w Witch-Hunt	03:24
Willie Thrasher	Eskimo Named Johnny	Spirit Child	02:41
Ronnie Hawkins	Bo Didley	Bo Didley b/w Who Do You Love	02:56
Genetic Control	Brave New World	First Impressions (EP)	01:26
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Let's Get Together	Let Them In	02:04
Stompin' Connors Tom	I Am the Wind	Canada Day, Up Canada Way b/w I Am the Wind	03:35
Collectors	Lydia Purple	Lydia Purple b/w She (Will-O'-The Wind)	02:48
Rabble	You Come on Too Strong	You Come on Too Strong b/w Golden Girl	02:18
Genèse	Je crois en moi	L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi	02:34
Trooper	Oh, Pretty Lady	Knock 'em Dead Kid	04:36
Power of Beckett	Back to Me	Lost Soul in Disillusion b/w Back to Me	02:37
Crystal Castles	Alice Practice	Alice Practice	02:12
Crack of Dawn	The Key	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:50
George Olliver	Shine	I May Never Get to See You Again b/w Shine	03:13
Spy's	Machine Shop	Underground b/w Machine Shop (white picture sleeve)	02:35
Kings	Switchin`	Switchin'	02:22
M.G. & the Escorts	Next to Nowhere	Next to Nowhere b/w Remembering	02:42
Stiffs	Oh Canaduh	The Stiffs	02:40
D.O.A.	Disco Sucks	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:39
Genetic Control	1984	First Impressions (EP)	01:36
Rush	The Spirit of Radio	Permanent Waves ("Dewey Defeats Truman", Coca Cola signs)	04:59
Subhumans	Oh Canaduh	Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh	02:10
Rod Williams & Super 8	War Version	War b/w War Version	03:36
Jolly Tambourine Man	Apple Strudle Man	Apple Strudle Man b/w Sweater In Sri Lanka	03:46
Rock and Roll Bitches	Wild West	Wild West (EP)	02:46
Private School	Money Guns and Power	Lost in Action (EP)	03:12
Mary Saxton	Losing Control	Losing Control b/w Is It Better To Live Or Die	02:04
Crack of Dawn	Mind Wrecker	The Key b/w Mind Wrecker	02:32
Sloan	Underwhelmed (LP Version)	Underwhelmed (promo)	04:46
Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth	Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time	02:31
Doug And The Slugs	Too Bad	Too Bad b/w The Move	03:50
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Élan	Teenage Party	Penticton Peaches (picture sleeve)	01:35
Spoons	After the Institution	After the Institution b/w My Job	02:49
Mighty Pope	Heaven on the Seventh Floor	Heaven on the Seventh Floor b/w Tower of Strength	02:46
Ron Baumber	Keep it On the Tracks	Duncan and the Devil b/w Keep it On the Tracks	03:08
Clint Ryan	Build Myself Around You	It Hurts to be Lonely b/w Build Myself Around You	03:20
Nomeansno	Oh Canaduh	Oh Canaduh b/w New Age	01:59
Checkerlads	Baby Send For Me	Baby Send For Me b/w Shake Yourself Down (picture sleeve)	02:11
Otis Gayle	We All Need Love	Sexy Eyes b/w We All Need Love	03:43
Alanis Obomsawin	Nookum (Reflections of an Elder)	Indian Songs	01:48
D.O.A.	Nazi Training Camp	Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)	01:50
Stiffs	Fuck You	The Stiffs	02:21
Thrills	Party Inside My Mind	Party Inside My Mind b/w Telephone	03:38
Tiaras	Surprise!	Foolish Girl b/w Surprise!	02:25
Russ Little	Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas)	Deeper and Deeper	03:03
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	I'm an Adult Now b/w She's So Young	04:24
Pelicans	New Wave	Pelicans b/w New Wave	01:53

MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Singles

Tracks

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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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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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