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[Rexxy]

From http://www.marthaandthemuffins.com/home_set.htm

"ICE AGE" UPDATE

Warren Stewart, Director of Catalogue Marketing at EMI Music Canada, has
confirmed that MatM's third and most sought-after album THIS IS THE ICE AGE

will be reissued on CD in spring 2005. Originally released in 1981, this was
the first of three ground-breaking albums that MatM recorded with Daniel
Lanois, legendary producer of U2, Peter Gabriel, Brian Eno and Bob Dylan,
among others.

In addition to the original track listing, two bonus cuts from the same
recording sessions will be included: TWENTY-TWO IN CINCINATTI and I'M NO GOOD
AT CONVERSATION , both originally released on vinyl as B-sides. More ICE AGE
info coming soon.

 

[Rexxy]

My cousin tried to convince me Echo Beach was written about the strip of sand outside of the Playroom at Burleigh.

But after a while we worked out the geography is wrong. Being on the east coast you can only see the sun come up.

(where is Canadian Steve when you need him?????)

 

[CanadianSteve]

From the website you linked, T-Rex:

ECHO BEACH From the album "METRO MUSIC" 1980


While I was a student at the Ontario College of Art, I got a job one summer at a paint and wallpaper factory. Whenever the huge wallpaper presses made errors in the printing run, it was my job to separate the good
wallpaper from the stuff that had been damaged or misprinted. It was the kind of job where your head didn't have to know what your hands were doing, which allowed me to think and daydream for hours at a time. I often
thought of places I had been or would like to be - anywhere but there! It was there that the germ of the song was born. Since the idea of a wallpaper quality control checker was too obscure for the lyrics, I used an
office clerk which seemed more universal.

Most of the second verse was inspired by a summer's evening spent at Sunnyside Beach on the shoreline of Lake Ontario in Toronto. The lake and beach could have been in the middle of nowhere while the city behind
became a "surrealistic sight".

While Echo Beach did not exist for me as a real location, I used it as a symbol of the place everyone wants to escape to when they're not where they want to be.

Mark Gane

BTW, I didn't know they were Canadian till I read this thread just now.

BTW, the picture of the lake amid forests on that site's homepage is a classic Canadian scene.

 

[Rexxy]

Thats a beautiful shot. CAnada must be a very pretty place. Although I didnt see any moose.8)

Steve I have heard Lake Ontario looks a bit like Tullebudgera Creek. Maybe Willow might know.

Its a cracking song BTW.

From the website you linked, T-Rex:

ECHO BEACH From the album "METRO MUSIC" 1980


While I was a student at the Ontario College of Art, I got a job one summer at a paint and wallpaper factory. Whenever the huge wallpaper presses made errors in the printing run, it was my job to separate the good
wallpaper from the stuff that had been damaged or misprinted. It was the kind of job where your head didn't have to know what your hands were doing, which allowed me to think and daydream for hours at a time. I often
thought of places I had been or would like to be - anywhere but there! It was there that the germ of the song was born. Since the idea of a wallpaper quality control checker was too obscure for the lyrics, I used an
office clerk which seemed more universal.

Most of the second verse was inspired by a summer's evening spent at Sunnyside Beach on the shoreline of Lake Ontario in Toronto. The lake and beach could have been in the middle of nowhere while the city behind
became a "surrealistic sight".

While Echo Beach did not exist for me as a real location, I used it as a symbol of the place everyone wants to escape to when they're not where they want to be.

Mark Gane

BTW, I didn't know they were Canadian till I read this thread just now.

BTW, the picture of the lake amid forests on that site's homepage is a classic Canadian scene.

 

[CanadianSteve]

If you could look through the binoculars in the picture you could probably see moose running around among the trees.

You probably know this, but the lake in the picture is not Lake Ontario. Lake Ontario is one of the Great Lakes - it's huge.