Plastic Bertrand's "Ça Plane Pour Moi" vs. Telex's "Ça Plane Pour Moi" vs. Sonic Youth's "Ça Plane Pour Moi"

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Irreverent punk anthem vs. "hilariously dispassionate" electropop vs. feedback-drenched sweetness? It's one of my favorites so I'm interested to hear some feedback. In my opinion it's the original or nothing.

― Christopher Palmero (subsixty4lyf), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 04:49 (twenty years ago)

No Damned?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 04:50 (twenty years ago)

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

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 04:50 (twenty years ago)

I was only aware of the one's I'd listed

― Christopher Palmero (subsixty4lyf), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 04:51 (twenty years ago)

Or Elton Motello?

― Guymauve (Guymauve), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 05:22 (twenty years ago)

Ha, fine. Though Telex and Sonic Youth remade "Ça Plane Pour Moi", specifically. I'm just curious about potential comparisons between those three renditions.

― Christopher Palmero (subsixty4lyf), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 05:30 (twenty years ago)

thee headcoatees did a great version of this

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 05:30 (twenty years ago)

Telex, especially the delay on the beat kick-in.

― El Popo, Wednesday, 22 March 2006 06:10 (twenty years ago)

Either Plastic Bertrand or the Richard Thompson version, which has the added feature of him shouting, "Le Punk Belgique!" at the beginning.

― clotpoll (Clotpoll), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 06:32 (twenty years ago)

HE GIVES ME HEAD!
(Favorite track to put on mixes for homophobes).

― js (honestengine), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:10 (twenty years ago)

I like the Headcoatees one, too.

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:15 (twenty years ago)

sigh, I give up. I also lied: the correct answer to this thread is actually "The Presidents of the United States of America".

― Christopher Palmero (subsixty4lyf), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:23 (twenty years ago)

The Leila K. version is the best.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:29 (twenty years ago)

There's also an incredibly wide path of half-covers of this song, or at least liberal quoting -- DAT Politics' "Turn My Brain Off" is the latest I've heard.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 21:30 (twenty years ago)

theres a video for the plastic bertrand version of c'est plain pour moi' featuring mr bertrand jumping around a crowd of rich looking people.. its very strange.. saw it once on muchmoremusics 'retro dance party' at like 2 am.. thats when they played all the greatest videos.. dont know if they still do but seeing that was really great. has anybody else seen the video im talking about.. that was a while ago and my memories of it are fading..

― gwolfcow, Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:19 (twenty years ago)

i saw that video on vh1 classics a few months back.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:28 (twenty years ago)

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