Jet Boy Jet Girl and Ca Plane Pour Moi.
Which was done first, and what's the meaning of Ca Plane Pour Moi and how does Jet Boy Jet Girl relate to it? Is JBJG simply a cover?
Thanks,
Davlo
― Davlo (Davlo), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 01:00 (twenty-two years ago)
ca plane pour moi was first. the damned covered it with capt. sensible taking liberty with the lyrics.
ca plane pour moi means "this life's for me"
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 02:14 (twenty-two years ago)
I always thought it was "Jeff Boy Jeff Girl," since I only heard it on the radio.
― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 02:32 (twenty-two years ago)
".... the damned covered it with capt. sensible taking liberty with the lyrics"
Actually it's not at all clear which version came first. The music was written by a guy called Elton Motello who, prior to hooking up with Plastic Bertrand, had been a member of a band called Bastard with Brian James (later of The Damned). He subsequently joined another band called The Softies and it was at this time that he wrote the "Jet Boy Jet Girl" lyrics.
The Softies were briefly joined by Captain Sensible (during The Damned's 1978 hiatus) and recorded Jet Boy Jet Girl as a single. The Captain also recorded the song for a John Peel session with his next band, King.
The version of Jet Boy Jet Girl originally found on the 'B' side of The Damned's single Wait For The Blackout (and subsequently on innumerabke Damned comp.s) is not, in fact, by The Damned at all but is the version from the Captain Sensible And The Softies single.
After the success of Ca Plane Pour Moi, Elton Motello also released Jet Boy Jet Girl as a single himself (with a backing band that included Twink and Brian James) in a picture sleeve that calls it "the original English title for Ca Plane Pour Moi....
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 08:15 (twenty-two years ago)
Oh sorry, missed ".... and what's the meaning of Ca Plane Pour Moi"
Literally "that glides for me"; could be taken to mean something relatively innocuous like "that's cool with me" but is / was also apparently a drug-culture expression meaning something more like "that gets me high".
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 10:28 (twenty-two years ago)
I *KNEW* there was something deeply mysterious about this! Thanks for clearing things up - somewhat.
― Davlo (Davlo), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)
well well... i guess i'll just stick to my early 90s emo and math rock trivia from on.
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)
I know far, far more meaningless trivia about The Damned and everything related to them than can possibly be considered healthy.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 13:45 (twenty-two years ago)
seven months pass...
two weeks pass...
Super Stupid Tuesday deems this the new candidate for "87% pretty much the most important thread ILM has ever justified its usefulness for" thread.
― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)
one year passes...
For what it's worth, I had the Elton Motello single some 6 months before Plastic Bertrand's single was a hit here.
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)
five months pass...
see also:
chron gen - jet boy jet girl
two man sound - bad boy bad girl
sonic youth - ca plane pour moi
all great.
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 20 September 2005 11:37 (twenty years ago)