Metro Music

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Metro Music
Studio album by Martha and the Muffins
Released	1979
Genre	New Wave
Label	DinDisc
Producer	Mike Howlett
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Martha and the Muffins chronology
Metro Music (1979) Trance and Dance (1980)

Metro Music was Martha and the Muffins' first album, released in 1979. It contained the international hit single "Echo Beach", which reached #3 in Canada, #1 in Portugal, #5 in Australia and #10 in the UK charts in March 1980. "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 #69.

As DinDisc 1 (DID I) Metro Music was notable for being the first album ever released on the then-new DinDisc label^{[citation needed]}, followed soon after by the debut album from Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, numbered, appropriately enough, as DinDisc 2 (DID 2).

The cover image is a map of Toronto, the band's hometown.

Recorded at Manor Studio, England, in August 1979.

The entire Metro Music album also formed the first part of Martha and the Muffins' 1987 compilation Far Away in Time.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Echo Beach"
2. "Paint By Number Heart"
3. "Saigon"
4. "Indecision"
5. "Terminal Twilight"
6. "Hide and Seek"
7. "Monotone"
8. "Sinking Land"
9. "Revenge (Against the World)"
10. "Cheesies and Gum"