THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.

748-Martha and the Muffins-Echo Beach.

1980-Number 10 single.

Best Bit-At 1.23.There are blueberry muffins, apple muffins, cornmeal muffins, chocolate chip muffins,and if you venture in to the ‘Urban Dictionary,’ the meaning of muffin may make you blush.

Martha and the Muffins are a Canadian Rock band formed in Toronto, Ontario, in 1977, since 1983 they have also been known as ‘M+M.’ The band were formed by fellow students David Millar, and Mark Gane, lead singer and keyboardist Martha Johnson was soon asked to join, and the lineup was completed by Mark Gane’s brother Tim on drums, and bass player Carl Finkle. They chose their name to distance themselves from the aggressive names adopted by many Punk bands of that era.’Echo Beach’ is the bands only international hit, but in their home country of Canada, they had a further four top 40 singles in the 1980’s. The band is still active, as the now husband and wife Martha Johnson, and Mark Gane, work under that name, although there has been no new Album since 2010.

‘Echo Beach’ was written by Mark Gane, and as is mentioned in the lyrics (‘far away in time,’) there is no such place, it is somewhere the narrator would sometimes rather be, his ‘Happy Place.’The song was written when Gane’s was working in a dull job, part of his work was to check wallpaper for printing faults.

‘From nine till five I have to spend my time at work, the job is very boring I’m an office clerk.