Another Girl, Another Planet
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| Single by The Only Ones | |||||||||
| from the album The Only Ones | |||||||||
| Released | 1978 | ||||||||
| Format | Vinyl | ||||||||
| Recorded | April 1978 | ||||||||
| Length | 3:02 | ||||||||
| Label | Columbia | ||||||||
| Writer(s) | Peter Perrett | ||||||||
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| "Another Girl Another Planet" | |
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| Promotional single by Blink-182 from the album Greatest Hits | |
| Released | 2005 |
| Format | CD single |
| Recorded | Late 2004 Larrabee Sound Studios (Los Angeles, California) |
| Genre | Pop punk |
| Length | 2:42 |
| Label | Universal |
| Writer(s) | Peter Perrett |
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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.
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.
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.
AllMusic describes it as "Arguably, the greatest rock single ever recorded".
The song was placed at number 18 in John Peel's all-time Festive Fifty millennium edition. Playing it in 1980's Festive Fifty, he introduced it as an "artful little caprice".
In March 2005, Q placed the song at number 83 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.
"A fantastic song with an amazing guitar line," enthused Tim Wheeler of Ash. "It took me a long time to figure out that it's about drugs – not a girl from another planet – and that space travel is a metaphor for being high. It was Peter Perrett's heroin-heavy drawl that eventually gave it away."
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