Far Away in Time was a 1987 CD compilation of tracks by Martha and the Muffins

Martha and the Muffins

Martha and the Muffins are a Canadian new wave band, active from 1977 to the present. Although they only had one major international hit single under their original band name, they had a number of hits in their native Canada, and the core members of the band also charted in Canada and...

. The compilation consisted of Metro Music

Metro Music

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. It also reached #37 in the U.S. on the Club Play Singles chart. ...

(the band's first album) in its entirety (tracks 1-10), plus four tracks from Trance and Dance

Trance and Dance

Trance and Dance was Martha and the Muffins' 1980 second album, and like the previous Metro Music was produced by Mike Howlett...

(tracks 12-15), two tracks from This is the Ice Age

This Is the Ice Age

This is the Ice Age was Martha and the Muffins' third album, released on LP and cassette in 1981. The track "Women Around the World at Work" was released as a single in the UK and Canada....

(tracks 16-17), and the non-album single "Insect Love" (track 11).

The album was compiled without any input from the band, and the poorly-researched liner notes by Mick Wall (in the 1993 re-issue) contain numerous errors about the history of the band's various line-ups, as well as several errors about the origins of the tracks on this compilation. The correct information is listed above.

Track listing