Martha & The Muffins - Echo Beach

[skimmball]

sweet..

[mrsnupcup]

...superb toon...

[donottawaguitar]

YES

[SuperMegaUberGenius]

Squeeze now that is love

[SuperMegaUberGenius]

2012 works like 2033

watch?v=MTdijghUWm4&feature=r­­elated

waiting for the winds of change to scrape the clouds away

waiting for the rainbows' end to cast it's gold your way

[Owenbowen56]

I agree! I'm 47, and this is way better than the crap thats out there today. M+M were damn cool.

[conkeroonee]

amazing song..i'm 52 and this is better than anything that bands are producing today.

[pgconn]

Love this, for its yearning for escape to the beauty of nature.

And alienation from work.

[dexterxan]

the last two words ....SOME DAY

[AngryPostmanSthlm2]

Hmm got 2 comments but can not even find my own :P

@ Awesome7163 - Sry i didnt mean to be racist (what ever i wrote)

@ MrStupidboy66 - lol, im with you all the way..couldnt say it better my self (how is it possible its even get recorded)

nevertheless..this song still rocks totally ;)

[PowerTheQwerty]

@AngryPostmanSthlm2 future referance, to find your comments click on all comments, then click "Ctrl F" and type your username. Thus should find your comments instantly.

[asia911]

Damn, Canadian totally ROCKS in the 80s!

[swedeseed]

this may well be the greatest pop song ever..

[TheMoveonsoulclub]

I want this song played at my funeral. Reminds me of being young, free and looking forward to the rest of my life.

[stezyrezy]

am i the only one who doesn,t get the female Jim Morrison comment? stezyrezy

[SuperBigbird14]

fantastic tune,takes me back big time x

[dangermouse1964]

WOW.......fantastic, forgot how good this is

[80sfaan]

Sounds like a female Jim Morrison, very good voice, very good song

[stezyrezy]

@80sfaan ????? seriously don,t get your comment.stezyrezy

[p97154]

I feel old now.

[StNige]

@p97154 Don't worry, it's nothing a month on Echo beach won't put right mate

[TheMoveonsoulclub]

@StNige You have soul my man.

[sarahwacky]

:) ahh ive got some amazing rebelious memories with this tune :P

[WhitewashTheThird]

pure genius!

[lordsalisbury1]

My dad's favourite CHOON! He used to listen to this all the time when I was a kid, and I struggle to find fault with it.

[frank02111]

Yes this was spring break 1980, Daytona ,Fla drinking age 18 you guys fill in the rest!!!!

[newey1965]

love it. 80's rule



[PombinhoMarg]

Ohh so gooood memories!!..

[CraigHn1]

Definitely "the business"!!!!!!!!!!!

[tilly5tot]

Classic song!!!

[tilly5tot]

what a timeless classic song!!!

[dataghost196]

Best thing to do while blares out on the radio? Clip down the Don Valley Parkway @ about 100kmh...

[awesome7163]

@dataghost196 wow, living on the edge eh? 100km/hr

[dataghost196]

@awesome7163 If you only knew that the DVP was also known at various times of day as the Don Valley Parkinglot then you'd understand why 100kmh would be a big deal...

[TheRantingCabbie]

@dataghost196 Don Valley Parkinglot. Yeah, all those people trying to get home to "Asiancourt." Hey, remember the Huber Hump? I did that fucker at about a buck 40 once. Daaaaamn.

[dataghost196]

@TheRantingCabbie Ouch...buck 40? Were you suddenly airbourne?

[TheRantingCabbie]

@dataghost196 I think my back wheels caught air a little bit. Then I thought "nope, aint doing that again."

[moecreek70]

timeless song, i never get bored of this tune

[Stormdragonbrisvagas]

Intellectual Surf Music...

[Hot80s]

but i cant help it...im a romantic TOOL.

[Sublimity2007]

Class

[TheHitDetector]

A brilliant track

[catrinvincent]

After I saw the tempo changes in Cars - Gary Numan, I decided this was the way forward.

[lornebaby]

great song thanks



[w1ll10]

The intro Guitar is amazing!!

[molbystwin]

@w1ll10

Indeed.... great tune

[celebiboy123]

80s was the best decade ever.

[arsenal2873]

@celebiboy123 no m8 the 70es

[crapple009]

@celebiboy123 Despite John Lennon's assassination, for me, the first half of the 80's was a pretty cool and fun time. However, the second half was just too "slick", big-haired and musically- conservative for me. Give me the late70's/early 80's (even the mid-60's) anyday.

[celebiboy123]

@crapple009 True.True.

[SuperSimonuk]

@crapple009 the late eighties was a preview of the future, this future, nothing has really changed since the late eighties in music

[kallyfest]

wow , quel souvenirs ! nous sortions du disco avec nos pantalons jaunes serins en satin

[bunsomatic]

Excellent Saxamaphone playing!! ♥♥♥

[cjwright79]

This has a similar vibe to Love is a Battlefield. I prefer this frankly.

[mipepitomi]

ONE OF THE BEST INTRO

[Mystashyft]

I always think of Wasaga beach when i hear this.Good times gone by.

[HowardBile]

in Alberta would hear this song and think of Muskoka

[fabbers3o14159]

gotta love boom 97.3

plays the BEST music :D

[crushedz]

A song delivered.Kinda like that.

[yumyum39]

Wow 17 again (a long time ago!)

[MrOldborris]

class

[MCGreeka]

dose any one kno what the synth is at the begging its driving me mad !!!!

[Parnic46]

I was at Echo Beach,but I won't tell you were it is!

[DannyFox06]

@Parnic46 Far away in time, is my guess.

[Csaboska]

If you like this, you might like

Odett Van az a pillanat

[DerFlatulator6]

do { Echo beach } loop

[Timetraveller2208]

This was issued in the UK in Jan 1980; I remember because I'd just joined the Royal Marines.

[mikegbb]

H f s played this in dc...good old days

[BossmanSmeg]

@goats7000 so true(im 14)

[allways28]

@BossmanSmeg bored of hearing old old people are. hey im 12 and i love chuck barry!! no one cares

[berlinmitte10117]

Cancun mate! Cheers Russ, thanks for the memories buddy.

[Giantgodzillaman23]

The sax will be easy to recreate, just make friends with a decent sax player! :D

[thetarafae]

One of my all time favourites...

[Galfadez]

@goats7000 I seriously don't care how old you are mate.

[Jimster666]

@Galfadez it had to be said.

[hughh20]

Cars is far superior.

[SlowCh33t4h]

I never heard of this song till music tech.

[u2feeder]

haha all the comments are to do with Music Tech

[maccbird]

Listen to this choon at full VOLUME!!!! One of the best 80s tracks EVER!!!!! LOVES IT - ECHO BEACH ALL THE WAY!!!!!!! :D

[MikeyyBoy94]

Thank god for being able to record 4 live tracks... or else the saxaphone would be a bitch :/

[Pianomanwes]

@MikeyyBoy94 actually, you're only allowed to record 3 live tracks. sorry :/

[c0nver5e]

music tech guys... you do know you can do use up to 3 audio tracks!! so I'm doing this song and recording the sax solo!! ;) couldn't really be arsed with all the synth editing and stuff that would have been needed for Cars!!

[RaimundoCampeao]

gosto muito...

[Tedza0]

fuck this Im doing cars

[blahwoozle]

for any guitarist watching this: A0, B1, B0 G0, B3, G0 B3 G0 D0 G0 B0, A0, B1, B0 G0, B3, G0 B3 G0 D0 G0 G0. . . . yOU'RE WELCOME :)

[TheGoldUnicorn]

@blahwoozle gah thank you.

[teeboneeeeeeeeee]

i heard a cover of this song a few years ago acoustic style with male vocals, anyone know of any good covers?

[FantasyFreakOhMiGosh]

quite glad my music tech teacher knows someone who has this guitar part nailed :)

[Sock1122]

well basically I'm stumped a to which song I want to do.

The tempo in cars seems to be all over the place (much more so than in this track) however the Sax solo in this is bound to cause a great deal of hastle.

[Bradderio]

gunna smash A2 music tech with this song!

[kgunessee]

@Bradderio SAME! :D

[PatrickJaneFan]

I love how all Year 13 Music Tech students have descended on this XD This would be easier than cars because it's more Organic?

[ClockworkFacility1]

@PatrickJaneFan cars is out of time with itself.

[PatrickJaneFan]

@ClockworkFacility1 I don't quite understand what that means...

[fuggindoosh]

im 12 and i just turned 12 and i got a bunch of money for my birthday but this song is so much better than any other song my friends listen to they listen to crappy music

[fralexjames]

think gary numan will be easier..? thoughts? guitar could be hard.. not to mention the sax solo

[chazbonleolion]

@fralexjames our music tech class have all agreed we're doing cars because of the insane sax solo in echo beach! there is more technology needed in cars, but echo beach will be harder to get a sound close enough to the original

[Zorlak108]

bring on the music tech A2 students!!!

[1371whelan]

aussie aussie aussie.. oi oi oi

[swimminglad100]

Thumbs up if this is better than Colourless Colour

[fralexjames]

@swimminglad100 you are so right haha

[LucyAmyBeard]

@swimminglad100 All summer, that song haunted me.

[CREGGANMAN1]

@swimminglad100 Absolute thumbs up even though I don't know and don't want to know, what "Colourless Colour" is.

[LightsAthia]

unlike la roux, i wouldnt mind listening to this song 20 times a day and singing it in my sleep such a good tune

[olafthebard]

Cars will be easier to re-create I think, and I prefer it as a song :P

[craziness00]

Looking forward to remaking this for A-Level Music Tech!

[AbdultheImpailler]

I remember that summer and this song like it was yesterday....good times!!!!

[LongevityRecordsUK]

Amazing song so modern! check out rawcuss TV fantasies on youtube

[zarathustra2k1]

@goats7000 Well said, young'un! =]

[Mauvegroove]

we have to recreate this on a sequencer as part of the 2011 Edexcel music tech syllabus - i'm a happy, happy man

[joejoesatchimo]

@Mauvegroove Thank God it's not La Roux again!

[Dub1Up]

@joejoesatchimo that sax solo is going to be a biiiitch

[bruvy]

chooooooon - thanks Jack FM for bringin' this back into my life ahaha

[BrynnBilou2000]

Four simple letters describe this song. Those letters are; "E-P-I-C." ;D

[DietmarSchillinger]

Riffs and hooks that was essence of the 80's, why you ask ?

Because it makes you feel frickin fantastic.

[MsCloudy67]

@goats7000 one of my favourite songs from the 80s. and i'm an aussie and yeah i agree the 3 countries you mention, we all appreciate genuine talent

[GothicPower666]

good song Mate 

[helpanna]

I use modern bands as toilet paper and dance to the wonderful sound of Martha and the Muffins.....fucking rocks!!!

[RollyRandles]

@goats7000 im only 14 :D

[smeevix]

great song..still after all these years :)

[redloup]

oh man I forgot how f****ing good those times were!!!!!

[MrNIO888]

im 36 and just enjoy the music without say how old i am!!lol!!

[canadademon]

Just saw Sloan play a cover of this, at Echo Beach (in Ontario Place) :-D

[jevring]

Doesn't this riff sound like the starcraft music?

[schetta01]

das war das non plus ultra

[huubie1]

I think Gabriella Cilmi's cover of this song is way better

[redloup]

@huubie1 impossible!!!!!!!!!!!!

[quincee33]

Where is Echo Beach?

[CoaloilGasenturf]

Me & my band are learning this :D (I'm 14 xD )

[1Atomtan]

@goats7000 And most are trying to copy this ear and claim it being new.

[MrErn25]

This sounds as fresh as it did the first time I heard it 30 years ago

[teldered]

Blondie meets Madness

[rrshadow2]

@goats7000 by being so young you missed out on Sooooo Much Amazing Music in the early 1980s Dubbed "New Wave" So great Great Stuff back then!

[dimitriosmichael]

love this tune, from sooo long ago, just thought of it again today, used to listen to it in Adelaide :)

[Iluvweed99]

Such a classy, classic and amazing song :) ;).

[berky1]

First time I heard this song was in my car on WBCN-FM Boston, MA USA which was the greatest rock station at that time upon leaving Nantasket Beach in Hull, MA. I was driving over a bridge by the Quincy shipyard and nearly lost myself cranking it up loud!!! Stopped on the other side of the bridge at a Dairy Queen for an ice cream to celebrate a great summer tune.

[dimitriosmichael]

@berky1 good job berky, a friend of mine introd me to it at a party in adelaide

[TheDyllmeister]

@goats7000 I couldn't possibly agree with you more. Nothing compares

[ZeevMacklin]

4 Sticks Drummer

watch?v=njsMIZGGAgU

[ChryslerVoyager1991]

I understand always bitch not beach!!!

[BurntOfferings]

Thumbs up if Retro Sunday nights on 102.1 The Edge exposed you to this song.

[nuttyFOyaye]

This tune is so great.

[littlewolf60]

I was partying my ass off when this song came out.

[franzzzle]

i love grind punkmetal skacore thrash nwobhm crust n still llove these new wavers

[MrFloater53]

blast from the past..cuty voice..great sax

[TheTonewallader]

This is a great tune!

[MegaSteviebhoy]

An iconic 8os song

[WilzoHD]

15 years before I was born, and I love it :)

[gkelly3103]

Released 11 years before my time, but love this song so much!

[ppaulmorris]

I always come back to this when I choose my top ten of all time.

[surfertom007]

One of Canada's best early-mid new wave offerings, this tune still rocks 30 years later

[whitfan27]

lol I was the bass player in a band that covered this song...this was the only song that i used to pelvic thrust all the way through...it just has the greatest groove to it. Also our mediocre guitarist could paly this song so perfectly, it was great fun.

[richwat16]

Heard this the other day... hadnt heard it for ages but didnt know who it was by ... i now know.. tune!

[73kdt]

such a great song, still love it

[spamspamsham]

i bored my brothers and sisters playing this endlessly, top song.

[mazzy505]

Echo Beach..... punked out to this song for a long time.. Saw them perform in Boston... Love This Song.. Touches my Soul... Far away in time...

[LazgomaN1]

I have no idea why this song is in my phones "find music" library.

[jeroenae]

ne goeien ouwe voor te cruisen, zit wel op de bus maar das geen erg - ze rijdt goe door en dakramen staan verticaal open. Bena toch :)

[123alyssarox]

@BlindCharade

shes my cousin :)

[souk766]

BELLE!



[georgejacktheripper]

this tune was comlemeneted very well in my faves by ''the passions'' im in love with a german filmstar but the pricks removed it for some reason or other.

[ChloeGalt123]

what a absolutly fantastic tune :))))))

[inphanta]

I've always liked this song. <3

[noot909]

its stuck in my mind forever.... why? i don't know.

[ChloeGalt123]

this song kicks ass

[Sloppify]

One of my favorites. The guitar is so cool. Catchy and moody at the same time, with a great beat.

[wabbitsBear]

@acerb45666555 Shhh... Me too!

[mccallwildrose]

forgot how much I enjoyed this song

[100BABOLAT]

@acerb45666555 I know, same here, industrial rock myself but my goodness the riff at the beginning is completely addictive...GO CANADA!

[AtzeReinholdS]

Element: Rise Up !

[quadralerium]

Ahhh, the map of the Toronto waterfront......Metro Music...Metro Toronto before it was called the GTA....eh...

[ferple1]

Great song i had the last bit of this song stuck in my head all weekend. Eco beach sounds as good if not better then our australian beaches.

[Sootytailpipes]

god I love this song

[NewYorkDontLoveMe]

I wish it was instrumental, I hate the singing, I just adore the guitar riff

[erniegannsmate]

First time I heard this was in Oz...coming back from a day at Palm Beach Sydney. Thanks for the memory.

[gigigirl0]

Pure brilliant!!!!

[AlrightBert]

It looks like from the statistical map that The UK , Canada and Australia are the only countries that appreciate good music!!!!!

[junita2000]

@AlrightBert Um...what happened to the statistics of my small country the Netherlands,,,Amsterdam...this group was known there ♥, I was there ..I know..hahahaha, it was the same time I think of the modettes, and Ska/punk-time in Amsterdam...so.....

How does it work those statistics...only English speaking countries worldparts...?

[ToomuchBTUstoday]

@junita2000 Niet te veel van aantrekken eh...met een korreltje zout inemen anders de smaak er ook nog uit :D

[yesitmakesyoulookfat]

@AlrightBert

hey damn it nebraska looves this to death :)

[WALTKRIEG]

@AlrightBert We are from english heritage countries.

[dudebearpig05]

@AlrightBert yes and proof of that is not only this band but also neil young <3

[fergusof]

@dudebearpig05 And lets not forget Joni Mitchell, Bruce Cockburn, Leonard Cohen, Guess Who -- and on and on.