I’m a 62 year old American from the Detroit area - Thank God the signals from CBC Radio and Television from Windsor carried over the river! I felt obliged to shop in Canada 🇨🇦 just to pay my fair share to support the CBC. Got great beer from the Beer Store so I guess it was a double bonus - not to mention getting “double doubles” at Timmy’s! 😂😎
One of my all-time fav bands of the '80s. I'm 63 now and still listening. Recently had eye surgery so those vid moments in the clinic have new meaning for me!
This song could only be from early 1983. It has that particular style. The same style as Sweet Dreams by Eurythmics for instance. It's amazing how you can narrow it down so much to a particular period of time.
For 30 years I looked for them... I only heard this song twice back in 1984 and thought they were called m+m ... what suffering I've gone through... sounds great even 35 years later.
the first twenty seconds still sending shivers through my whole body. like waves of longing for an era long gone by but still sending emotions from a parallel timeline
Such a great song. The syncopation, sax solo, propulsive rhythm and lyrics, etc. M + M created so much great music: Echo Beach, This is the Ice Age, Women around the World at Work. Song in My Head. Take me back, please!
Один красивый юноша познакомил меня с этой группой, когда я ещё жила в Омске. Это он заставил меня полюбить культуру 80-хх и этот блестящий альбом. Люди, в Сибири тоже слушали вашу музыку! ❤️❤️❤️
man Toronto has changed so much since this video. This is a great song. I love the sound, it has a B52's vibe to it, many early M+M songs have a B52's vibe no? It's no wonder M+M and the B52's are two of my favourite bands.
I bought this lp back when it was current and it still holds up. Listened to the whole thing for the first time in many,many years a few weeks back. I'm 51 now. Where did the yrs go? lol. Thanks.
Amazing video, a time-warp to 1983, excellent new-wave song still today! Sending wishes of wellness to Martha after reading about your battle with Parkinson's, thank-you for your beautiful music.
It's the scenes in the cemetery that make this video for me. The time lapse photography of the ice melting on the mausoleum as Martha sings: Every day it's tomorrow and I never know what tomorrow will be Every day it's tomorrow and I feel someone move close to me Gives me chills every time. I have got to go back to Toronto and find it.
It's not a cemetery. It's the Guild Inn grounds in Guildwood, Toronto, Ontario, Canada! The surrounding Guild Park and Gardens is notable for a sculpture garden consisting of the rescued facades and ruins of various demolished downtown Toronto buildings such as bank buildings, the old Toronto Star building and the Granite Club. The park is situated on the Scarborough Bluffs with views of Lake Ontario. They hold community and private events there, or you can just go and walk about.
Found a used copy of this album at Cellophane Square in Bellingham Washington in 1984. Immediately fell in love with M+M and soon had This is the Ice Age (and eventually all of the others.) I had a radio show at KUGS at the time and both albums got lots of play on my show No Wave Art. Walking Into Walls, Several Styles of Blonde Girls Dancing, Swimming, & Casualties of Glass were among my top favorites.
It's soooo cool seeing Toronto again the way it was in the early 80's. The Gardner, the TD towers. There are dozens of condo towers all along that highway now adding to the forest of skyscrapers.
@tankmodeler: You are so right! I live in a condo, looking west. The old Inglis sign (shown at 0:20) was later replaced with a neon version. It's right in front of me, although all that's left of it now is the metal frame. It literally slays me to see these old views of Toronto.
I've been to Toronto twice in my life (from England) for about 3 days on each occasion, in July 1997 and October 2015. But it feels like I've been there much longer than 6 days. It looked very mysterious in 1983 on this video. The main difference between 1997 and 2015 was the fact that in 2015 there were lots of apartment blocks next to the CN Tower whereas in 1997 the CN Tower was pretty much the only tall building on the lakeshore. Also the Sky Dome stadium had a different name in 2015. In 1997 we went on a tour of the stadium.
I could watch and listen to this for hours. Post-punk perfection. Hope that big hipster site like Pitchfork would get the 30th anniversary albums to listen to, those millenials needs to know there is other brilliant new wave bands than the talking heads or devo.
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The first time I heard this song, I almost crashed my car trying to get to a 7/11 phone booth to call the radio statio to find out who the artist is - I can play this song all day long
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I bought this album going on my Intuition and it became my favorite album; I often played tracks from it on my radio show on KUGS in Bellingham on my show No Wave Art in 1984; my radio name was Art Official. ...oops....sorry for the Ego Punch (without the Judy) :D.... I LOVE M&M!!
Yes, that sound has a surreal quality to it, I have seen this effect used in time travel movies as time catches up there is this dragging sound a bit slower that real time a bit layered that just sounds wicket!
I agree DANSEPARC was their finest moments. the tension is here like in none of hteir other albums .Fanastic Album! dark and liht converge on this one trac. I think it was more from the engineer who worked with them.Daniel Lanois is supposedly a genius so maybe they quieted his strains and tendencies .Too Bad ! Thisis a fantastic track too!
I lost my mind, when i first seen the video of this one late night on CityLimits with host Christopher Ward when i was 14...I fell in love with this song and the group..However, Is it just me or does Martha Johnson looked the best she ever looked with that final shot of the eye exam when she backed away and turned her head...Oh my good, i never seen anything so beautiful and so delicious even today..I really never noticed her back then and i wonder why???
I saw M+M on this tour at this bizarre little club in a strip mall in suburban Chicago (Niles?). I know Martha and Mark check comments periodically. Do you remember that place and that gig? (P.S. You tore it up.)
McGreevys~Superb Gig!, & Not Beginings in Schaumburg. Jim Carrol toured 2nd Album there Also, signed my friend MJ's used Paperback "Jim Carrol, used too",
I’m from Canada, born in the 70’s and I just discovered them. I’m a happy camper.
I discovered this video on Much More Music in the 2000s when I was in my teens
I'm British & 75 and been listening to them since "Goodness know's when" ? ? ? and still playing them extra loud. LOL.....
Hi N, much of it was shot at the Guild Inn in Scarborough, just east of Toronto as well as various Toronto locations.
MatM
I’m a 62 year old American from the Detroit area - Thank God the signals from CBC Radio and Television from Windsor carried over the river! I felt obliged to shop in Canada 🇨🇦 just to pay my fair share to support the CBC. Got great beer from the Beer Store so I guess it was a double bonus - not to mention getting “double doubles” at Timmy’s! 😂😎
The best song and album of my 80's era. Love this jazzy, cool music
As the son, nephew and cousin of optometrists, I love this video.
One of my all-time fav bands of the '80s. I'm 63 now and still listening. Recently had eye surgery so those vid moments in the clinic have new meaning for me!
I’m 55 and had no clue Martha Ladly was in the Associates! mind blown 🤯 listen to them if you’ve not heard😎
I realize it’s M Johnson lead singer
Martha anf The Muffins are part of my life since 1980. I loved this album
One of the best songs from one of the best groups of the New Wave Era
This song could only be from early 1983. It has that particular style. The same style as Sweet Dreams by Eurythmics for instance. It's amazing how you can narrow it down so much to a particular period of time.
For 30 years I looked for them... I only heard this song twice back in 1984 and thought they were called m+m ... what suffering I've gone through... sounds great even 35 years later.
They subsequently called themselves M+M, then went back to the full name I believe...
the first twenty seconds still sending shivers through my whole body. like waves of longing for an era long gone by but still sending emotions from a parallel timeline
Such a great song. The syncopation, sax solo, propulsive rhythm and lyrics, etc. M + M created so much great music: Echo Beach, This is the Ice Age, Women around the World at Work. Song in My Head. Take me back, please!
Mark Gane is Canada's David Byrne.
Один красивый юноша познакомил меня с этой группой, когда я ещё жила в Омске. Это он заставил меня полюбить культуру 80-хх и этот блестящий альбом.
Люди, в Сибири тоже слушали вашу музыку! ❤️❤️❤️
Always love a music video steeped in Toronto psycho-geography and throw in some minimalist surrealism and I ain’t reaching for the Rogers Cable box
I can never decide whether I prefer this or Black Stations, White Stations.
Summer of 1982 I graduated from high school. could not get this off my Walkman. Incredible
man Toronto has changed so much since this video. This is a great song. I love the sound, it has a B52's vibe to it, many early M+M songs have a B52's vibe no? It's no wonder M+M and the B52's are two of my favourite bands.
Nothing like the B52's ! Maybe mix of Talking Head's & Roxy Music.
This still makes my heart beat just a little bit faster even after twenty five years.
Can I go back to 1983? IT is scary how fast the time has gone!!!
Love this song, love this band like forever!
TomCattt
I bought this lp back when it was current and it still holds up. Listened to the whole thing for the first time in many,many years a few weeks back. I'm 51 now. Where did the yrs go? lol. Thanks.
Martha is lovely !
Amazing video, a time-warp to 1983, excellent new-wave song still today! Sending wishes of wellness to Martha after reading about your battle with Parkinson's, thank-you for your beautiful music.
Really good, still holds up today...
It's the scenes in the cemetery that make this video for me.
The time lapse photography of the ice melting on the mausoleum as Martha sings:
Every day it's tomorrow and I never know what tomorrow will be
Every day it's tomorrow and I feel someone move close to me
Gives me chills every time.
I have got to go back to Toronto and find it.
It's not a cemetery. It's the Guild Inn grounds in Guildwood, Toronto, Ontario, Canada! The surrounding Guild Park and Gardens is notable for a sculpture garden consisting of the rescued facades and ruins of various demolished downtown Toronto buildings such as bank buildings, the old Toronto Star building and the Granite Club. The park is situated on the Scarborough Bluffs with views of Lake Ontario. They hold community and private events there, or you can just go and walk about.
Awesome! This song gets in my head every couple of months. Love the sax. This is the first time I've noticed the m+m channel. Cool!
Found a used copy of this album at Cellophane Square in Bellingham Washington in 1984. Immediately fell in love with M+M and soon had This is the Ice Age (and eventually all of the others.) I had a radio show at KUGS at the time and both albums got lots of play on my show No Wave Art. Walking Into Walls, Several Styles of Blonde Girls Dancing, Swimming, & Casualties of Glass were among my top favorites.
OMG there was a cellophane square in seattle back then... where i shopped...
@@joedillon6814 The Seattle store was almost as awesome as the Bellingham store!
It's soooo cool seeing Toronto again the way it was in the early 80's. The Gardner, the TD towers. There are dozens of condo towers all along that highway now adding to the forest of skyscrapers.
@tankmodeler: You are so right! I live in a condo, looking west. The old Inglis sign (shown at 0:20) was later replaced with a neon version. It's right in front of me, although all that's left of it now is the metal frame. It literally slays me to see these old views of Toronto.
Yes! Great blast from the past!
I've been to Toronto twice in my life (from England) for about 3 days on each occasion, in July 1997 and October 2015. But it feels like I've been there much longer than 6 days. It looked very mysterious in 1983 on this video. The main difference between 1997 and 2015 was the fact that in 2015 there were lots of apartment blocks next to the CN Tower whereas in 1997 the CN Tower was pretty much the only tall building on the lakeshore. Also the Sky Dome stadium had a different name in 2015. In 1997 we went on a tour of the stadium.
I could watch and listen to this for hours. Post-punk perfection. Hope that big hipster site like Pitchfork would get the 30th anniversary albums to listen to, those millenials needs to know there is other brilliant new wave bands than the talking heads or devo.
Great Producer made Even better with a great Band, 👂👂 the results! It's a 💯 Canadian product: Original Smart Finest Rich of Hi quality like 🍁 syrup from Quebec!
The 80s was great!
great song from a great time of music. love the sax and guitar work
Great tune.
I love this song and all your songs. so...inclusion of the Optometry?
beautiful!
Thanks for posting thiswhat a wonderful band and I've always followed them.
The first time I heard this song, I almost crashed my car trying to get to a 7/11 phone booth to call the radio statio to find out who the artist is - I can play this song all day long
I have loved this song from the very first moment I heard it. Thank you very much for uploading the video in such great quality.
I am in love with everyone and everything right here. Particularly the guitarist and his awesome dance moves.
Very haunting tune, Martha looks hot in this clip.
Great song always. Got the Danseparc CD. Your video is soo much clearer then mine, but then I rendered it from a VCR tape. Keep up the great Music.
theme for great cities..
the hasty life with its own rithm.
Great song.
these people were (and are!) the MOST! , too bad the simpler souls can't figure it out !
Echo Beach got all the plaudits and rightly so but this is Martha's finest work.
Hello MatM fans! February 6, 2018 marks the 35th anniversary of MatM's 4th album release, 'DANSEPARC' on indie label Current Records. During February purchase a 'DANSEPARC' download or physical album for 50% off the regular price at CDBaby here: store.cdbaby.com/cd/marthamuffins
Cool. . . February 6th is my birthday!
Where now since that store closed? I'd be glad to pay full price.
cool track....shared to the Netshows Radio "Program 144" Playlist on youtube
I bought this album going on my Intuition and it became my favorite album; I often played tracks from it on my radio show on KUGS in Bellingham on my show No Wave Art in 1984; my radio name was Art Official. ...oops....sorry for the Ego Punch (without the Judy) :D....
I LOVE M&M!!
Yes, that sound has a surreal quality to it, I have seen this effect used in time travel movies as time catches up there is this dragging sound a bit slower that real time a bit layered that just sounds wicket!
Wow, I wrote that 9 years ago?
Guild Inn at the 0:55 mark..the final scenes in the movie The Skulls were filmed there
:-)
Kirk..in Montreal
yes the Guild Inn in south Scarborough at the top of the bluffs, very cool place. Scarborough is so under-rated just like this band.
I agree DANSEPARC was their finest moments. the tension is here like in none of hteir other albums .Fanastic Album! dark and liht converge on this one trac. I think it was more from the engineer who worked with them.Daniel Lanois is supposedly a genius so maybe they quieted his strains and tendencies .Too Bad ! Thisis a fantastic track too!
I lost my mind, when i first seen the video of this one late night on CityLimits with host Christopher Ward when i was 14...I fell in love with this song and the group..However, Is it just me or does Martha Johnson looked the best she ever looked with that final shot of the eye exam when she backed away and turned her head...Oh my good, i never seen anything so beautiful and so delicious even today..I really never noticed her back then and i wonder why???
....an she still is!
Thank you for this!
Awesome 80s 1983
~cool...greetings from 2 musicians (sitar & tanpura) from germany........(maria&harald,the nectar of the night)...~
Hey there M & H, thanks for listening!
+Martha and the Muffins ~YEAH~...
David Lynch would probably be a fan of this video.
Idole
super hip
I was wondering if dance park is near echo beach 🏖️ cause I'm planning a trip.
...just around the corner...
Yes you can!
Still waiting for the extended version of this song to be uploaded onto youtube
th-cam.com/video/JJs6r-OC5yw/w-d-xo.html
Would love to learn the bass line to this tune !!
i find this video so hypnotic..where is that park?
Alex Lifeson turned me on to this-
I saw M+M on this tour at this bizarre little club in a strip mall in suburban Chicago (Niles?). I know Martha and Mark check comments periodically. Do you remember that place and that gig? (P.S. You tore it up.)
McGreevys~Superb Gig!, & Not Beginings in Schaumburg. Jim Carrol toured 2nd Album there Also, signed my friend MJ's used Paperback "Jim Carrol, used too",
@@danthefan5378 Jim Carroll didn't know how to spell his own last name? Rest In peace Jim Carroll. Recovery to Martha Johnson.
One last.
Martha did the optometrist thing years before Justin Timberlake.
My love for Martha And The Muffins is without peer.... but DAMN those kids did not know how to dress.
It was in this vid that I discovered that Martha was actually a babe
i do not approve of the fade out immediately after introducing interesting synth sound