Another Girl, Another Planet

"Another Girl, Another Planet"
Single by The Only Ones
from the album The Only Ones
Released	1978
Format	Vinyl
Recorded	April 1978
Genre	Punk rock new wave
Length	3:02
Label	Columbia
Writer(s)	Peter Perrett
Producer(s)	The Only Ones Robert Ash
The Only Ones singles chronology
"Lovers of Today" (1977) "Another Girl, Another Planet" (1978) "The Whole of the Law" (1978)
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"Another Girl, Another Planet" is the most successful song by the English rock band The Only Ones. It is the second track on their first album, The Only Ones, released in 1978. The song has since been covered by several other performers.

Recording

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.^[1]

Chart performance

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.^[2][3]

Recognition

AllMusic describes it as "Arguably, the greatest rock single ever recorded".^[4]

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.^[6]

In popular culture

The song's title was used as the name of a 1992 American independent movie directed by Michael Almereyda,^[7] though the song does not appear in the film. It does appear, though, in five films and their soundtracks: That Summer! (1979), Different for Girls (1996),^[8] Me Without You (2001), D.E.B.S. (2004) and Paul (2011).

Cover versions

Blink-182

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.

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.
• The Libertines performed the song live in 2004,^[10] and lead singer Pete Doherty has also performed the song with his other band Babyshambles^[11] and solo.
• 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.^[12]

References

External links

• Allmusic Track Review for The Only Ones original
• Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics