maandag 10 maart 2008

Ça Plane Pour Tous


After listening to Thee Headcoatees' cover of Plastic Bertrand's smash Ça Plane Pour Moi I thought: did more girls cover this? Yes, they did. Take leatherclad Swiss girlband Tears. Or pophiphop-star Leila K. Or German rockers Paula (featuring Elke Brauweiler). But the boys are present too, as are a bunch of penguins. If you check Allmusic.com, you'll find even more versions (anybody has the versions by Aluminum Babe? Annie Dufresne? Or the Spanish version by Manic Hispanic?). Bring 'm on! I will play a few no doubt this Saturday @ Soirée Gainsbourg in Antwerp. See an English translation of the lyrics here.
By the way, you know that rumour has it that not Roger/Plastic Bertrand, but composer Lou Deprijck himself sang Ça Plane?

Plastic Bertrand - Ça Plane pour Moi (CLIP)
Sonic Youth - Ça Plane pour Moi
Tears - Ça Plane pour Moi (CLIP)
Spider Nick & the Maddogs - Ça Plane pour Moi
Les Sans Culottes - Ça Plane pour Moi
Presidents of the USA - Ça Plane pour Moi
Pigloo - Ça Plane pour Moi (CLIP)
Paula - Ça Plane pour Moi
Leila K. - Ça Plane pour Moi
Humphries - Ça Plane pour Moi (recommended!)
Thee Headcoatees - Ça Plane pour Moi
LTNO & The Dead Sexy - Ça Plane pour Moi
The Boss Hoss - Ça Plane pour Moi
Telex - Ça Plane pour Moi
Elton Motello - Jet Boy Jet Girl (same music, different lyric, see here)
Richard Thompson - Ça Plane pour Moi (merci Patrick)
Richard Gotainer - Ça Plane pour Moi (merci Fred)

10 opmerkingen:

  1. Came across this:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_Boy,_Jet_Girl

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  2. Roger Marie Francois Jouret was the drummer on the session but he looked the most like a punk rocker so he became Plastic Bertand to promote the single.

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  3. Also saw this (acapella?)

    http://www.encyclopedisque.fr/disque/15480.html

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  4. standard absolu des années punk en france (ou plutot de ce que l'on a cru etre le punk)
    commencer par une suipercherie pour finir par etre un tube-culte il fallait le faire

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  5. Zazie covered this song during the Zizanie Tour in 2003 (but just the months spent in Bataclan, not in Zénith afterwards).

    But I can't remember if there's any live mp3 ...

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  6. I see you used a part of my translation too ;^)
    there are more cover versions of "ça plane pour moi"
    - Set De Choeur (a folky version)
    - Plastichke (as "ça gaze pour moi" in Brussels dialect)
    - Los Banditos (partially in German)
    - De Strangers (as "Punk" in Antwerp dialect)
    - The Damned (as "Jet boy jet girl")
    - Captain Sensible (as "Jet boy jet girl")
    - Dutronic (but only live, but maybe I still have a recording somewhere)
    (see also http://www.geocities.com/dutronic/garbage26.html)

    ciao
    Dirk Ungawa

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  7. see here :
    http://musilangagetm.blogspot.com/
    top moumoutte - 13 track 19 and enjoy !
    Fred.

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  8. the same backing track was also Jet Boy Jet Girl by Elton Motello who engineered the original session

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