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One hit wonders; Martha and the muffins
Topic Started: May 20 2012, 04:59 PM (1,756 Views)
gordonthearab May 20 2012, 04:59 PM Post #1
Craig Brewster
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 32 years ago a canadian band called Martha and the Muffins had a song in the charts called Echo beach.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEQkIEkxm7k&feature=related

Here is them in 2010.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuJurIOYiaM

They still sound good.
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Cobardon May 20 2012, 11:54 PM Post #2
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 I know that Chesil Beach is far away in time.

Anyway, fine song, of my (our) era, that one. Frightening to think it was 32 years ago. Sounds ages ago when you say that.


Because it is. :cry:
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Conan the Destroyer May 21 2012, 09:19 AM Post #3
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 Bloody hell, that new version sounds ace.
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Skeletor May 21 2012, 11:17 AM Post #4
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 I have to disagree there, for me the old version is better. This just encapsulates what's happened to music, everything is a re-release or a cover sapped of all it's energy. This song doesn't make sense that slow, Echo Beach has somehow turned from an optimistic desire to some sullen, forgotten memory. Depressing. The modern music scene needs a kick up its self-pitying arse.
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Naebody May 21 2012, 11:32 AM Post #5
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Skeletor
May 21 2012, 11:17 AM
I have to disagree there, for me the old version is better.

True.

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The modern music scene needs a kick up its self-pitying arse.


Cockwash.

Anyone buy the 2002 remix album with 13 remixes of Echo Beach, by KLF, Watershell, Gabriel Le Mar, Ostinato etc ... No? Well you can still get it here. There are worse ways to spend £5.99.
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Conan the Destroyer May 21 2012, 01:01 PM Post #6
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 I didn't say the new one was better, I said it was "ace". As was the original.
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Skeletor May 22 2012, 10:09 AM Post #7
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 The disagreement was that I think the new one's shite. I blame it on the old c*nts who run the commercial biz. They've had enough cos they got the rock, the punk, the funk, the early 90s dance and want to get something else as mainstream, meanwhile us young guns who didn't get that stuff fancy something with some energy.
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Conan the Destroyer May 22 2012, 10:25 AM Post #8
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Skeletor
May 22 2012, 10:09 AM
The disagreement was that I think the new one's shite. I blame it on the old c*nts who run the commercial biz. They've had enough cos they got the rock, the punk, the funk, the early 90s dance and want to get something else as mainstream, meanwhile us young guns who didn't get that stuff fancy something with some energy.
Maybe it's not for you then?
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Cobardon May 22 2012, 01:08 PM Post #9
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May 22 2012, 10:09 AM
The disagreement was that I think the new one's shite. I blame it on the old c*nts who run the commercial biz. They've had enough cos they got the rock, the punk, the funk, the early 90s dance and want to get something else as mainstream, meanwhile us young guns who didn't get that stuff fancy something with some energy.
Y'know, I'm beginning to get quite sceptical that you really are Ann. Not sure she's capable of feigning such hip talk as that. Hip replacement talk, yes, but...
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Skeletor May 22 2012, 04:37 PM Post #10
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Conan the Destroyer
May 22 2012, 10:25 AM
Skeletor
May 22 2012, 10:09 AM
The disagreement was that I think the new one's shite. I blame it on the old c*nts who run the commercial biz. They've had enough cos they got the rock, the punk, the funk, the early 90s dance and want to get something else as mainstream, meanwhile us young guns who didn't get that stuff fancy something with some energy.
Maybe it's not for you then?
What gave it away?
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gordonthearab May 29 2012, 06:39 PM Post #11
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 Another one hit wonder is this from Sylvia in 1974.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7aPp-4z-uw

Y Viva Espana i wonder what she is doing now.
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reekie May 29 2012, 07:36 PM Post #12
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gordonthearab
May 29 2012, 06:39 PM
Another one hit wonder is this from Sylvia in 1974.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7aPp-4z-uw

Y Viva Espana i wonder what she is doing now.
Well, I know what that song was doing at the stroke of midnight, Hogmanay 2001 (going into 2002).
It was getting played at a dinner dance I was at in Tunisia, that's what.
Weird doesn't begin to describe it.

Oh, and the guy I was sat next to was not only from Dundee but a bluenose.
An horrific, environmental-bubble hell of a night.
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yasser May 30 2012, 11:57 AM Post #13
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gordonthearab
May 29 2012, 06:39 PM
Another one hit wonder is this from Sylvia in 1974.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7aPp-4z-uw

Y Viva Espana i wonder what she is doing now.
Just followed your link Gordon. Noticed another one hit wonder, Joe Dolce 'shutup ya face' from 1980

Ah they just don't makem like that anymore :fisted:
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gordonthearab May 30 2012, 12:59 PM Post #14
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 Another of these annoying summer songs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFzyYYZsxGc&feature=related

Las Ketchup song.
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Naebody May 31 2012, 06:18 PM Post #15
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 What about no-hit wonders?

I'm looking for someone whose fame is out of whack with their actual sales figures. It has to be someone who's known principally as a recording artist (so, not Naomi Campbell). Long-term sales are included (so, not Velvet Underground) as are compilations (so, not Bob Marley) and compilation appearances (so, not The Ramones). I want a list of people everyone's heard of, but no-one's actually paid to hear their music.

For example, I've been trying to work out why Paloma Faith is famous. Highest charting single is a UK number 7, with all the others in double figures. Nothing against the lady, but who is she?
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