Is there any way you can delete this? Isn't it a bit repetitive, tive, tive, tive.....

This is the correct artwork and the name of the LP it is from is Metro Music released in 1980....

Good heavens. I hope I never hear this again.

not impressed with this.

What!?!?! currently rated at 5.9? I thought everybody likes Muffins. . . 

Maybe it is because the tune is hard wired into my brain from my youth but this is a solid 10.

This is bad!

 kivings wrote: 
Wasn't this one a John Peel favourite?

My sister was a student at OCA and used to room with one of the muffins (the other Martha...yes there were 2 of them when this song was recorded). I recall jamming with the sax player at her place once or twice. I first saw them perform at the University College Pub ("Reznikoff's") just before they went to the UK in the summer of 1980 and made it big with this song. The song is so simple and playful, which is why I guess a number of listeners don't like it... but it was a cutting edge style at the time.. yeah like Romeo Void.. New Order and their peers. Song brings back memories of windsurfing at Cherry Beach with Toronto's skyline as the backdrop! Yummy!

 PigLatin wrote: 

I agree with you guys. Love this thread and there were other songs by this group that were just as fun.

 Yellowstone40 wrote: 
I just rated this song a 9.  I must be nostalgic.  A classic to my ears. 

Jian Ghomeshi, host of Q on CBC Radio 1 (http://www.cbc.ca/q/), had a very good interview with Martha and Mark Gane on the release of the new Martha and the Muffins album "Delicate".  Podcast is available (try http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/qpodcast_20100202_26861.mp3 or search the Q website).

Jian is the host for that infamous Billy Bob Thornton interview (http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/qpodcast_20090408_14110.mp3 or hit YouTube for the video; the radio interview is more impressive, since dead-air is much more noticeable without those annoying pictures)

A very nice memory of times past.  Went to Amazon to get the track.

This song sucked so much that it made me go to Pandora for 1/2 an hour .. El sucko rama for sure . Yeeeccckk !!

This somehow reminds me of Romeo Void's "Never say Never". 

Great memories of this band circa 1980s.  First heard them on my college radio station WBNY Buffalo State College.

 apd wrote: 

Newport Beach CA was referred to as Echo Beach in the 80's by a surf company called Quicksilver. My guess is that is the reference.

 MrCaps wrote: 

I hope to all hell that this was said in jest. If not, Mr. Caps please bust out a map.

yuck

Remember seeing them play this at the Camden Palace, must have been around 1979?
Great fun band and a very cool Sax player

OK - Love this - totally reminds me of early 80's Canadian Pop music, because of ConCan - 1/3 or Canadian Radio has to be of Canadian content - so - for the longest time all we heard was Edmonds Fitzgerlad and Snowbird and American woman -

When this came out, we had something a little funner, actually hip (for the time) and it was my introduction to Ska in sorts - Martha and the Muffins were a nice fresh change from the 70's music that we were forced to listen to for so very long :)

Thanks RP

 Zep wrote: 
I still miss Weasel and Nisi.  Great memories with this song.

During the last part of the song we all here couldn't help hearing "Echo B*tch" instead of "Echo Beach". Bit of a quality decline after Led Zeppelin's Down By the Seaside.. :-)

 horstman wrote: 
That groaner barely makes the definition of joke but it did make me laugh...keep it up horstman.

This song tied with Anne Murray's " can i have this dance"    for single of the year in 1981 in the Canadian Juno awards... its a classic guilty 80's pleasure.  No DOOT ABOOT IT!  

One of a better New Wave years. Yearly 80's.. From Canada if i remind... a f..... time long ago

This is the beach where Ian met the bunnymen!

 anotherlistener wrote: 
Lots of old WHFS listeners in these boards.

Woot! I <3 Martha & the Muffins.

 MrCaps wrote: 
They do in Toronto.
I bought this single in Britain and I think it had a picture sleeve, showing a map of Toronto harbour. There isn't a beach called "Echo Beach" here, but I think it's about Sunnyside Beach, just down the street from where I'm sitting right now.

WOW Another HFS early 80's time capsule.