ts: "ça plane pour moi" vs. "jet boy, jet girl"

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are you the king of the divan, or do you just like to kick and scream? do you prefer belgian concision or british redundancy? or that you can't understand what he's saying cause he's belgian v. "he gives me head"?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 12 February 2004 04:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Hah. I had forgotten all about the original Motello version of this song. So yeah, I have to go with The Damned one. At least it's memorable.

― may pang (maypang), Thursday, 12 February 2004 04:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Ca plane por moi is way way better

― Sym (shmuel), Thursday, 12 February 2004 04:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I had Ca plane pour moi on a cd, but I broke it. :, (

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 12 February 2004 04:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Explain the relationship between...

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 12 February 2004 04:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I have the Elton Motello version, it's the same backing track as Plastic Bertrand.

Incidently, my copy is the 'radio play' version (although not marked as such in any way) so the lines are "he gives me hell" and "the sight of him is such a high" .

As if they 'might' play it...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 12 February 2004 08:52 (twenty-two years ago)

the b-side of the elton motello single is 'pogo pogo' which was also done by plastic bertrand. now i'm totally confused!

― stirmonster, Thursday, 12 February 2004 08:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't be. That's the same backing track as well.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 12 February 2004 10:12 (twenty-two years ago)

i go with 'Ca Plane...' as I don't really know the other song

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 12 February 2004 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Ca Plane Pour Moi, because the words sound great even though I don't fully understand them. Jet Boy Jet Girl, because it was so out-there queer for its time.

Ca Plane was written by someone called Yvan Lacomblez, who also wrote a great Belgian punky-pop single called "Silex Pistols" by Too Much. He also wrote Plastic Bertrand's Belgian follow-up to Ca Plane, "Le Petit Tortillard", which is a terrific little piece of bubblegum with a dead catchy chugalug riff to it.

In Belgium, there was also a cash-in cover of Ca Plane called "Ca Gaze Pour Moi" by a jolly old geezer in a polo neck called Plastichke.

Let's forget all about the Chron Gen cover of Jet Boy, shall we?

― mike t-diva, Thursday, 12 February 2004 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

"Ca Plane," pour moi.

― Lee G (Lee G), Thursday, 12 February 2004 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Gotta be "Ca Plane," c'mon. (Which I once saw Ira Robbins' band Utensil play very very slowly in a medley with I think "Heroin.")

― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 12 February 2004 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

"Pogo Pogo"! (motello version)

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 12 February 2004 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

ça plane pour moi moi moi moi moi

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 February 2004 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Elton Motello et al

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 12 February 2004 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Hah! My old mate Larz has been here too!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 12 February 2004 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

ten months pass...

Platic Bertrand re-created the Elton Motello album and wrote different lyrics...The music is the same all 12 songs

― Virgillio Bassetti, Thursday, 30 December 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Plastic Bertand, by a mile. Top ten punk single, easy. Were the backing tracks really identical? I remember 'ca plan pour moi' being far more in your face . . maybe Bertrand's vocal sells it.

I've always wondered if this was intended as a Metal Urbain parody - the clipped vocal delivery and big dirty guitar sound is very reminiscent.

Trivia point - Eric Cantona had this played over the PA as he came out on the pitch for his first game after the ban for launching into the stands after a neo-nazi supporter who'd been shouting abuse at him.

― Soukesian, Thursday, 30 December 2004 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going to go with "Jet Boy, Jet Girl" if only for the line..."I could have cried with both my eyes!"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 30 December 2004 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

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