Metro Music
Metro Music is the debut album by Canadian new wave band Martha and the Muffins. It was released in 1980 on the record label Dindisc. The album contains the single "Echo Beach", which became an international hit single for the band.
The cover image design by Peter Saville is a map of Toronto, the band's hometown, and is based on a map from the National Topographic System of Canada.
The entire Metro Music album also formed the first part of Martha and the Muffins' 1987 compilation Far Away in Time.
Release
As DinDisc 1 , Metro Music was notable for being the first album ever released on the then-new Dindisc label, followed soon after by the first album from Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, numbered, appropriately enough, as DinDisc 2 .The album's first single, "Echo Beach", became a hit single in several countries, reaching number three in Canada, number one in Portugal, number five in Australia and number 10 in the United Kingdom in March 1980. It also reached number 37 in the United States on the Club Play Singles chart. "Saigon" was released as a follow-up single in the UK a few months later, but failed to chart. In Canada, the follow-up single was "Paint by Number Heart" — it climbed to number 69. The album itself was certified gold in Canada on September 1, 1980; "Echo Beach" was certified gold there on the following October 1.
Track listing
Personnel
- Martha Johnson – keyboards, vocals
- Martha Ladly – keyboards, trombone, vocals
- Mark Gane – synthesizer, guitar
- Carl Finkle – bass
- Tim Gane – drums
- Andy Haas – saxophone
Chart performance
| Chart | Peak position |
| UK Album Chart | 34 |
| U.S. Billboard 200 | 186 |
Singles
| Single | Chart | Position |
| "Echo Beach" | Canada | 3 |
| "Echo Beach" | Australia | 5 |
| "Echo Beach" | UK Singles Chart | 10 |
| "Echo Beach/Paint By Number Heart" | Billboard Club Play Singles | 37 |