plastic bertrand - classic or dud?

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we all love plastic bertrand - or do we? - but he hasn't had his own thread yet.

it only just occurred to me last week that plastic bertrand might have any songs other than 'ca plane pour moi' - so i downloaded as many as i could find on soulseek and every single one of them is great! (ok with the possible exceptions 'asterix est la!', 'jacques cousteau' and 'ping pong' - but with titles like that who cares what they sound like) how could someone with so much good material have been consigned to one hit wonder status?

― minna (minna), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 22:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Can only say I've heard "Ca Plane," but that is a classic. Even as "Jet Boy, Jet Girl."

TMFTML
http://intonation.blogspot.com

― TMFTML (TMFTML), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 23:20 (twenty-three years ago)

as a side question, does anyone know whether any of his records have been released on cd?

― minna (minna), Thursday, 17 October 2002 00:04 (twenty-three years ago)

"Pogo Pogo" is grebt

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 17 October 2002 00:14 (twenty-three years ago)

On CD? I doubt it, although I could be wrong. His LP isn't all that easy to find, either.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 17 October 2002 00:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Further investigation has determined that whilst An 1 is unavailable on CD, he does have a couple of compilations in digital format. And quite a substantial discography to boot.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 17 October 2002 00:39 (twenty-three years ago)

yay! thanks jim i will have to put my hunting hat on and find me some plastic bertrand plastic, for these reasons:

*super cool ("wop-doo-wop, super cool!")
*bambino (manic mandolin-like instrument, possibly a mandolin.)
*stop ou encore (chic copycat disco funk (!!))
*sha la la la lee ("she is the queen of the solarium/she's gone to sleep on aluminium")
*sans amour (sounds like bizarre belgian early 80s infomercial)
*le monde est merveilleux (has this awesome four seasons/beach boys round robin at the end)
*pogo pogo
*tout petit la planete (spacey synths and vocoders!)
*hula hop (more doo-wop flava)
*le petit tortillard (maraccas and woo-woos!)
*major tom (well actually this sounds like billy idol singing in french)
*sentimentale moi (this is a soppy ballad with cooing saxophones and slide guitar and it should be terrible but i still like it in the context of the other stuff. i dunno maybe it's the way his cartoonish nasal french destroys all the kenny g ambience.)

― minna (minna), Thursday, 17 October 2002 01:12 (twenty-three years ago)

is he still alive?

― minna (minna), Thursday, 17 October 2002 01:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I put "Telephone a Telephone Mon Bijou" on a mix a few months ago.

― Jody Beth Rosen, Thursday, 17 October 2002 01:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I have the "An 1" album... classique bertrand! "Pogo Pogo" is amazing.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 17 October 2002 01:57 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/covers/plasticb.jpg

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 17 October 2002 01:58 (twenty-three years ago)

who was it that said royksopp were shite? cause they were right. i should have listened.

― keith (keithmcl), Thursday, 17 October 2002 02:10 (twenty-three years ago)

it could have been almost anyone. and indeed they are right.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 17 October 2002 02:14 (twenty-three years ago)

also classic: the midi version of ca plane pour moi on this page

― minna (minna), Thursday, 17 October 2002 02:18 (twenty-three years ago)

'Tout petit la planete' is fantastic 70's space disco

― Paul R, Thursday, 17 October 2002 07:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Damn if only i didn't have this measly download limit.

Minna was this inspired that ad with 'ca plane pour moi' on it? Can't remember what it's for or what it's like but I sing along whenever it comes on.

― Keith McD (Keith McD), Thursday, 17 October 2002 08:50 (twenty-three years ago)

He's still alive. Apparently he runs an art gallery. I am trying to find some records of his here in Belgium (to upload somewhere) but I can't find ANY! He tried a comeback a few years ago but without success.

― nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 17 October 2002 10:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Minna was this inspired that ad with 'ca plane pour moi' on it?

hehe, not directly, but it could have been a subliminal thing... there were several contributing factors:

*i put ca plane pour moi on a mix cd for my mum (by request)
*a few days later the guy who came to fix my window spotted michael jackson's 'off the wall' and we started talking about music: he loves off the wall and the cover art reminds him of his favourite record of all time: ca plane pour moi/pogo pogo. he picked his up for a dollar at a garage sale.

i bet my mum asked for the song cos of the ad!

― minna (minna), Thursday, 17 October 2002 14:48 (twenty-three years ago)

''He's still alive. Apparently he runs an art gallery.''

indeed he is. saw it on eurothrash.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 17 October 2002 14:51 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

hey, so why the heck does this website (below) say "ca plane pour moi" went to #39 in billboard? sounded absurd to me, and i checked my joel whitburn book, and indeed it is nowhere to be found. unless the website means in england. assuming england even has a billboard hot 100, which i don't think it does. how big a hit was it there anyway? and how big a hit was "jet boy jet girl" there? that one wasn't a hit in the u.s., either, except in gay discos i believe. anyhow:

http://www.comicgenius.com/DiscoFever/disco_profiles/plastic_bertrand/plastic_bertrand_profile.htm

― xhuxk, Thursday, 7 July 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

He came to Montreal last year and put on an amazing show in a club. The crowd went so nuts the floor was litterally bouncing up and down like a trampoline. When Nina Hagen came to the same place a couple of months later they asked us not to jump for security reasons.

Search: Most of Minna's list (not too keen on "Sentimentale-moi" and "Le monde est merveilleux"), also "Slave to the Beat" (Plastiiiiiiic!) and "Téléphone à Téléphone Mon Bijou".

― Seb (Seb), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

"Stop ou encore" was unbelievably big in Montreal, way more than "Ca plane pour moi" ever was. 9 year-old kids would sing it in schoolyards and such.

"Ca plane" hit #49 in Billboard, not #39 - still pretty goddamn impressive, I think, though I wish it would have gone top 40 like Edith Piaf's "La vie en rose".

― Patrick (Patrick), Friday, 8 July 2005 04:49 (twenty years ago)

He was the king of the divan.

― moley (moley), Friday, 8 July 2005 06:47 (twenty years ago)

PLASTIC BERTRAND still alive & performing?

That's made my day! Now, how about a double bill with Metal Urbain?

― Soukesian, Friday, 8 July 2005 07:37 (twenty years ago)

You really should hear "Le Petit Tortillard" - it chugs, man...

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 8 July 2005 09:07 (twenty years ago)

Plastic Bertand is still alive (with a brand new young face but a body of his age), and has been pathetic on the french real tv program "LA FERME CELEBRITES" (that Jordy won).

― snowballing (snowballing), Friday, 8 July 2005 09:12 (twenty years ago)

'tout petit la planete' is so the other best one along with ca plane. big brooding dark and galaxious.

― Affectian (Affectian), Friday, 8 July 2005 09:16 (twenty years ago)

I prefer Anne Bertrand or Bertrand Russell. Yoko Ono sucks.

― Stoned Fella, Friday, 8 July 2005 11:10 (twenty years ago)

oh no he is on la ferme?! man that show is painful.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 8 July 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

I have the LP, "Le Petit Tortillard" is fucking awesome. What is a tortillard?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 8 July 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

it's a train i think. like a little train.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 8 July 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

Plastic B and Jordy were on La Ferme??

― Baaderonixx le Belge (Fabfunk), Friday, 8 July 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

it's a train i think. like a little train.

Indeed it is. Hence the chugging.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 8 July 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

http://www.france-amerique.com/articles/2010/07/26/plastic_bertrand_n_a_pas_chante_ca_plane_pour_moi.html

!!!

― kim cardassian (s1ocki), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 13:32 (fifteen years ago)

WTF!

― seandalai, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 13:54 (fifteen years ago)

Le chanteur n'a jamais nié avoir fait du play-back. Mais Lou Deprijck, dont les motivations financières semblent à peine dissimulées, va plus loin. Selon lui, il aurait également chanté les chansons de Plastic Bertrand "jusqu’au quatrième album où on s’est disputé." "Je suis à l’origine de son succès. Même son nom, c’est moi qui l’ai choisi (...) Plastic a fait, à l’époque, des essais de voix, mais ça ne donnait rien… Il a une voix entre Michou et Hervé Vilard !", renchérit-il.

http://www.metrofrance.com/info/ca-ne-plane-plus-pour-plastic-bertrand/mjgz!H4DDOPE3tpdY/

Apparently Bertrand was Milli-Vanilli-ing all the way up to his fourth album...

― seandalai, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:00 (fifteen years ago)

Say it ain't so, Plastic

― Jeff W, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:09 (fifteen years ago)

oh, he did, in 2006, and the Belgian courts agreed

http://fillessourires.com/?tag=plastic-bertrand

― Jeff W, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:21 (fifteen years ago)

ha - so the music was Elton Motello and the singing was Lou Deprijck!

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:47 (fifteen years ago)

it's beautiful in a KLF kind of way

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:48 (fifteen years ago)

twelve years pass...

In 'you could have knocked me over with a feather' news, the guest judge this week on Drag Race Belgique? Mr. Plastic B himself. He was looking GREAT, rocking a silver fox look, and was absolutely into it all.

https://ds.static.rtbf.be/article/image/1920x1080/f/3/4/d6c651ddcd97183b2e40bc464231c962-1678896867.png

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 18 March 2023 02:26 (two years ago)

So still the king of the divan, then?

― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 18 March 2023 02:39 (two years ago)

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