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| JBarDom (Mexico) | Posted: Oct 15, 2010 - 20:27 Is there any way you can delete this? Isn't it a bit repetitive, tive, tive, tive..... |
| DaveInVA (In a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA) | Posted: Jun 10, 2010 - 07:24  This is the correct artwork and the name of the LP it is from is Metro Music released in 1980.... |
| dvwtwo | Posted: Jun 10, 2010 - 07:06 Good heavens. I hope I never hear this again. |
| rachlan (nyc) | Posted: Jun 10, 2010 - 07:05 not impressed with this. |
| Poacher (Brighton, UK) | Posted: Jun 10, 2010 - 07:04 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. |
| More_Cowbell (Northern IL) | Posted: Jun 10, 2010 - 07:04 This is bad! |
| Albert1967 (Leusden, the Netherlands) | Posted: Jun 10, 2010 - 07:03 kivings wrote: I just rated this song a 9. I must be nostalgic. A classic to my ears. Wasn't this one a John Peel favourite? |
| patmvcr | Posted: Apr 07, 2010 - 20:10 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! |
| Skarp (Crooked River Ranch, Or) | Posted: Apr 07, 2010 - 20:06 PigLatin wrote: I still miss Weasel and Nisi. Great memories with this song. I agree with you guys. Love this thread and there were other songs by this group that were just as fun. |
| kivings (Oakville Ontario) | Posted: Mar 07, 2010 - 05:07 Yellowstone40 wrote: This song sucked so much that it made me go to Pandora for 1/2 an hour .. El sucko rama for sure . Yeeeccckk !! I just rated this song a 9. I must be nostalgic. A classic to my ears. |
| lag (Calgary) | Posted: Feb 03, 2010 - 17:52 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) |
| jhinrich (Kaneohe, HI) | Posted: Feb 03, 2010 - 17:23 A very nice memory of times past. Went to Amazon to get the track. |
| Yellowstone40 (Yellowstone National Park) | Posted: Feb 03, 2010 - 17:15 This song sucked so much that it made me go to Pandora for 1/2 an hour .. El sucko rama for sure . Yeeeccckk !! |
| Jelani (Home of the freak, land of the vague) | Posted: Feb 03, 2010 - 17:13 This somehow reminds me of Romeo Void's "Never say Never". |
| bmcgrath | Posted: Feb 03, 2010 - 17:13 Great memories of this band circa 1980s. First heard them on my college radio station WBNY Buffalo State College. |
| SmackDaddy (San Diego) | Posted: Sep 30, 2009 - 23:02 apd 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. 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. |
| SmackDaddy (San Diego) | Posted: Sep 30, 2009 - 23:01 MrCaps wrote: Do they have beaches in Canada? I hope to all hell that this was said in jest. If not, Mr. Caps please bust out a map. |
| sfoster66 (Haida Gwaii, BC, Canada) | Posted: Aug 30, 2009 - 11:01 yuck |
| DavidS_UK (Central England, UK) | Posted: May 27, 2009 - 08:26 Remember seeing them play this at the Camden Palace, must have been around 1979? Great fun band and a very cool Sax player |
| huebdoo (San Fran) | Posted: May 27, 2009 - 08:21 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 |
| PigLatin (They are pigs, these Romans) | Posted: May 27, 2009 - 08:19 Zep wrote: Lots of old WHFS listeners in these boards. I still miss Weasel and Nisi. Great memories with this song. |
| stevendejong | Posted: Mar 25, 2009 - 03:54 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.. :-) |
| peter_james_bond (Lunenburg, NS) | Posted: Feb 21, 2009 - 15:34 horstman wrote: This is the beach where Ian met the bunnymen!  That groaner barely makes the definition of joke but it did make me laugh...keep it up horstman.  |
| JerrytheMoose | Posted: Feb 21, 2009 - 14:59 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! |
| grandkrok | Posted: Feb 21, 2009 - 14:55 One of a better New Wave years. Yearly 80's.. From Canada if i remind... a f..... time long ago  |
| horstman (Syracuse, New York) | Posted: Feb 21, 2009 - 14:50 This is the beach where Ian met the bunnymen! |
| Zep (Kissing) | Posted: Feb 21, 2009 - 14:49 anotherlistener wrote: WOW Another HFS early 80's time capsule. Lots of old WHFS listeners in these boards. |
| hughtwg (NoVA) | Posted: Nov 18, 2008 - 16:51 Woot! I <3 Martha & the Muffins. |
| apd (Toronto, On) | Posted: Sep 16, 2008 - 13:45 MrCaps wrote: Do they have beaches in Canada? 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. |
| anotherlistener | Posted: Sep 16, 2008 - 13:43 WOW Another HFS early 80's time capsule. |
| IceNine (Toronto, ON) | Posted: Jul 15, 2008 - 08:43 What a coincidence hearing this today... I just read this article in the National Post yesterday: (click here) |
| curtsusu (Cactus Country, Arizona) | Posted: Jul 15, 2008 - 08:37 Ja300Mes wrote: This song was a common play on Vin Scelsa's slot on WNEW-FM...and I don't think I've heard it since then. Thanks!
...IMHO, he was the best disc jockey ever!... |
| Excelsior | Posted: Jul 15, 2008 - 08:37 Dylan76 wrote: After Zepplin? A solid 1.
Heck, it would be a solid 1 after Journey. |
| Dylan76 (government office cubicle) | Posted: Jul 15, 2008 - 08:36 After Zepplin? A solid 1. |
| EssexTex (Enjoying the Texas heat) | Posted: May 13, 2008 - 09:30 westslope wrote: Is this Canadian? Nice....
Deep in the bush....he he hey Beavis...I'm glad I fell for it before discovering this is Canadian. hehe Wonder where the hell I was when this came out? Deep in the bush? Lost in an isolated 3rd world country? Or was I simply living in Québec? |
| mikexican | Posted: May 13, 2008 - 09:29 Can we have some Junior Brown/Surf Medley next? Puh-leeze?!!! |
| timc (Waterloo, ON (2512 miles/4043 km from Paradise, CA)) | Posted: May 13, 2008 - 09:29 Unfortunately, as cancon, this gets too much airplay on my radio as it is. It's kind of fun but not that much fun. |
| mano (Oahu) | Posted: May 13, 2008 - 09:28 Great Pick. An Oldie from my Chico State daze. |
| westslope (BC coast) | Posted: Mar 11, 2008 - 09:45 Is this Canadian? Nice.... I'm glad I fell for it before discovering this is Canadian. hehe Wonder where the hell I was when this came out? Deep in the bush? Lost in an isolated 3rd world country? Or was I simply living in Québec? |
| doctec (Northeastern U.S.) | Posted: Mar 11, 2008 - 09:44 Shades of both Blondie and Blotto ... more info on Blotto: (click here) |
| raga (Italy - Como) | Posted: Mar 11, 2008 - 09:41 At the beginning it reminds me Men at Work |
| mnuisance (Half Moon Bay, CA) | Posted: Jan 08, 2008 - 11:05 Echo Beach -- faraway in time. I'll say. I used to dance to this one at a groovy dance club in the warehouse district of San Francisco in the early 80s. The club was called -- Echo Beach. Them was some times, I tells ya!  |
| ScottishWillie (Lanarkshire) | Posted: Jan 08, 2008 - 11:04 ChardRemains wrote: This song has not survived the years well.
I beg to differ. |
| UltraNurd (Boston, MA) | Posted: Jan 08, 2008 - 11:03 I don't know why, but saxophones are always a few points off for me. |
| Frater_Kork (Uppsala, Sweden) | Posted: Jan 08, 2008 - 11:01 Coulda sworn it was an obscure Blondie track. Nice new aquaintance for me. =) |
| Ja300Mes (North Fork, Long Island) | Posted: Nov 06, 2007 - 16:29 This song was a common play on Vin Scelsa's slot on WNEW-FM...and I don't think I've heard it since then. Thanks! |
| skikel (hickory/nc) | Posted: Oct 06, 2007 - 05:51 My wife could name that song in two notes..... she loves M&M Whatever. Good seg to Rockaway Beach! |
| keller1 (Taco Bell is a phone company in Mexico) | Posted: Sep 04, 2007 - 21:06 Good tune, albeit kinda stiff. Guess it WAS the 80s. I'll give it a home team 7. |
| theGOOT (Giessen, Germany) | Posted: Jun 18, 2007 - 02:25 make it stop.  |
| penkle | Posted: Jun 02, 2007 - 13:18 Great to hear Martha & the Muffins played, though this is not one of their better songs. |