Another Girl, Another Planet
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| Single by The Only Ones | |||||||
| from the album The Only Ones | |||||||
| Released | 1978 | ||||||
| Format | Vinyl | ||||||
| Recorded | April 1978 | ||||||
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| Length | 3:02 | ||||||
| Label | Columbia | ||||||
| Writer(s) | Peter Perrett | ||||||
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"Another Girl, Another Planet" is a song by the English rock band The Only Ones, the second track on their first album, The Only Ones, released in 1978. The song has since been covered by several other performers.
Background and content
"Another Girl, Another Planet" is The Only Ones' most successful song and has been covered by several other artists. However, the track was not a chart hit upon its initial release in 1978. Its first chart appearance was in July 1981 – at No. 44, for one week, on the New Zealand chart. It was re-released in the UK in January 1992, backed with "Pretty in Pink" by The Psychedelic Furs to promote the compilation album, Sound of the Suburbs, and appeared in the UK Singles Chart for two weeks, peaking at No. 57.[1][2]
AllMusic describes it as "Arguably, the greatest rock single ever recorded".[3]
It was recorded on a 16-track analogue Studer tape machine and an ex Steve Marriot Helios mixing console at Escape Studios, a residential facility in Egerton, Kent, UK, by engineer/producer John Burns, assisted by Ian (now, Jennifer) Maidman, and later worked on and mixed at Basing Street studios by Robert Ash.[4]
Recognition
The song was placed at number 18 in John Peel's all-time Festive Fifty millennium edition and when playing it in 1980's Festive Fifty, he introduced it as an "artful little caprice".[5]
In March 2005, Q magazine placed the song at number 83 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.
In popular culture
The song's title was used as the name of a 1992 American independent movie directed by Michael Almereyda,[6] though the song does not appear in the film. It does appear, though, in four films and their soundtracks: That Summer! (1979), Different for Girls (1996),[7] Me Without You (2001), and D.E.B.S. (2004)
Blink-182 version
| "Another Girl Another Planet" | |
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| Promotional single by Blink-182 from the album Greatest Hits | |
| Released | 2005 |
| Format | CD single |
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Late 2004 Larrabee Sound Studios (Los Angeles, California) |
| Genre | Pop punk |
| Length | 2:42 |
| Label | Universal |
| Writer | Peter Perrett |
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Blink-182 recorded a cover of this song for the opening track of Travis Barker's MTV reality show Meet the Barkers. It was later released in 2005 on their Greatest Hits album.
Charts
| Chart (2005) | Peak position |
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| US Pop 100 (Billboard)[8] | 99 |
Other covers
Other cover versions have been recorded by;
- Greg Kihn in 1986.
- The Replacements recorded as the B-side of one of their final singles, "Achin' to Be", in 1989.
- The Lightning Seeds' single "Ready or Not" had it as a B-side.
- The Mighty Lemon Drops, on the 1991 album Just Say Anything
- The Mushuganas had a cover on their self-titled album in 1998.
- Belle and Sebastian
- Ex-Hefner member Jack Hayter
- The London Punkharmonic Orchestra released Symphony Of Destruction: Punk Goes Classical, an album of late 1970s punk/new wave songs redone in classical arrangements, including "Another Girl, Another Planet".
- The Nutley Brass recorded an easy-listening, brass-band synthesiser version.
- The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain have covered it in their pseudo-twenties, seven-ukulele-and-voice style, as featured on their compilation album Top Notch.
- The Wimmins' Institute released a mashup of the song with "Let It Go", with which it shares a chord progression, in 2015, with an accompanying video.[9]
References
- ↑ Archived January 18, 2015, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 407. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
- ↑ Andy Claps. "Another Girl, Another Planet - The Only Ones - Listen, Appearances, Song Review - AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
- ↑ http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul07/articles/classictracks_0707.htm
- ↑ "Rocklist.net...John Peel's Festive 50's - 1977 - 2003 .....". Rocklistmusic.co.uk. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
- ↑ "Another Girl Another Planet (1992)". IMDb.com. 1 October 1992. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
- ↑ "Different for Girls (1996)". IMDb.com. 12 September 1997. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
- ↑ "Pop – Pop 100". Billboard (Nielsen Business Media, Inc.) 117 (47): 54. November 19, 2005. Retrieved March 21, 2016.
- ↑ Oram, Bob. "Brilliant and Barnstorming Blasts from Badass Wimmin". Morning Star. Retrieved 2016-04-28.
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