Who remembers Plastic Bertrand?

[Burma Jones]

Yam! Bam! mon chat Splash
Gît sur mon lit a bouffé sa langue
En buvant tout mon whisky quant à moi
Peu dormi, vidé, brimé
J'ai dû dormir dans la gouttière
Où j'ai eu un flash
Hou! Hou! Hou! Hou!
En quatre couleurs

Allez hop! un matin
Une louloute est venue chez-moi
Poupée de Cellophane
Cheveux chinois un sparadrap
Une gueule de bois a bu ma bière
Dans un grand verre en caoutchouc
Hou! Hou! Hou! Hou!
Comme un indien dans son igloo

Ça plane pour moi ça plane pour moi
Ça plane pour moi moi moi moi moi
Ça plane pour moi
Hou! Hou! Hou! Hou!
Ça plane pour moi


Allez hop! la nana quel panard!
Quelle vibration! de s'envoyer
Sur le paillasson
Limée, ruinée, vidée, comblée
You are the King of the divan!
Qu'elle me dit en passant
Hou! Hou! Hou! Hou!
I am the King of the divan


Ça plane pour moi ça plane pour moi
Ça plane pour moi moi moi moi moi
Ça plane pour moi
Hou! Hou! Hou! Hou!
Ça plane pour moi


Allez hop! t'occupe t'inquiète touche pas ma planète
It's not today
Quel le ciel me tombera sur la tête
Et que l'alcool me manquera
Hou! Hou! Hou! Hou!
Ça plane pour moi


Allez hop! ma nana s'est tirée
S'est barrée enfin c'est marre à tout casser
L'évier, le bar me laissant seul
Comme un grand connard
Hou! Hou! Hou! Hou!
Le pied dans le plat


Ça plane pour moi ça plane pour moi
Ça plane pour moi moi moi moi moi
Ça plane pour moi
Hou! Hou! Hou! Hou!
Ça plane pour moi
Ça plane pour moi ça plane pour moi
Ça plane pour moi moi moi moi moi

[Magrittes Pipe]

1. The only time I ever saw that LP, I bought it.

I see the single all the time, but a pristine copy of the full album? Damn.

It's really not very good outside of "Ça Plane pour Moi," though.

[gmoney]

2. Great song...

Something magical about it... still have no idea what the lyrics are all about. I think it's actually about living in poverty or something. I think it helps that I don't know the lyrics.

Sort of like Iggy's "Lust for Life" being a tremendously bouncy, fun musical performance, while the lyrics are all about his heroin habit. Again, they're so obscure, it's easy to put them aside.

Does that make me shallow? Or just lazy?

[Magrittes Pipe]

4. I love the "Lust for Life" as Carnival Cruise jingle.

Smack withdrawal = pleasure cruise?

All right! :bounce:

[khashka]

5. smack withdrawal = pleasure cruise?

Yeah pretty much the same thang.

But I loved it when Target used Devo's Beautiful World and totally did not get the irony.

I guess ad execs really do rock.

Khash.

[asthmaticeog]

3. That song kicks ass. n/t

[vi5]

6. What came first, that or Jet Boy Jet Girl?

It's the exact same tune and melody. I've always been curious.

[Squeech]

7. You call that a melody?

Except for the oooohs, it's a monotone...

But I do think "Ca Plane Pour Moi" is a hoot, and I dearly loved Richard Thompson doing a solo acoustic version.

[swag]

8. Checking in.

I still dig that 12" out of the vinyl rack now and then for a good whirl.

I think I also have the Damned's version of "Jet Boy/Jet Girl," but sold the Elton Motello album long ago.

[swag]

9. An answer on the "Ca Plane Pour Moi" "Jet Boy, Jet Girl" mystery?

http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/eltonmotello.htm

Subject: ELTON MOTELLO
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 12:05:16 +0200

THANK YOU FOR YOUR VERY KIND EMAIL. YES I AM ELTON MOTELLO NOT PLASTIC BERTRAND! HE USED SOME OF OUR BACKINGS FOR HIS FIRST ALBUM AS MIKE BUTCHER AND I WERE WORKING ON TRACKS FOR OUR ALBUM AND THE LOCAL MUSICIANS WERE NOT VERY AUTHENTIC.......!

I ORIGINALLY CAME TO BELGIUM TO WORK AS A RECORDING ENGINEER IN A STUDIO CALLED ' MORGAN ' STUDIOS A MAJOR STUDIO IN LONDON WHO DECIDED TO OPEN A EUROPEAN STUDIO IN BELGIUM.

I CAME OVER WITH MY ORIGINAL BAND "BASTARD "WITH THE LINE UP NOBBY GOFF--DRUMS DES --BASS BRIAN JAMES-- GUITAR ALAN WARD ---VOCALS

BRIAN WENT BACK TO ENGLAND AFTER 9 MONTHS TO FORM "THE DAMMED" WHICH WAS A COPY OF WHAT BASTARD WAS DOING BEFORE WITH NEW SONGS.>MIKE BUTCHER CAME IN TO REPLACE BRIAN ...AND WE BECAME ELTON MOTELLO.......

THE BAND WAS A BIT LOOSE...WITH NOBBY GOFF ON DRUMS MOSTLY BUT MY FRIEND "TWINK" EX PINK FAIRIES PLAYED DRUMS FOR A WHILE...

HOPE THIS CLEARS UP A FEW POINTS AND MISUNDERSTANDINGS