it only just occurred to me last week that plastic bertrand might have any songs other than 'ca plane pour moi' - so i downloaded as many as i could find on soulseek and every single one of them is great! (ok with the possible exceptions 'asterix est la!', 'jacques cousteau' and 'ping pong' - but with titles like that who cares what they sound like) how could someone with so much good material have been consigned to one hit wonder status?
― minna (minna), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 22:36 (twenty years ago) link
TMFTMLhttp://intonation.blogspot.com
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― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 17 October 2002 00:31 (twenty years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 17 October 2002 00:39 (twenty years ago) link
*super cool ("wop-doo-wop, super cool!")*bambino (manic mandolin-like instrument, possibly a mandolin.)*stop ou encore (chic copycat disco funk (!!))*sha la la la lee ("she is the queen of the solarium/she's gone to sleep on aluminium")*sans amour (sounds like bizarre belgian early 80s infomercial)*le monde est merveilleux (has this awesome four seasons/beach boys round robin at the end)*pogo pogo*tout petit la planete (spacey synths and vocoders!)*hula hop (more doo-wop flava)*le petit tortillard (maraccas and woo-woos!)*major tom (well actually this sounds like billy idol singing in french)*sentimentale moi (this is a soppy ballad with cooing saxophones and slide guitar and it should be terrible but i still like it in the context of the other stuff. i dunno maybe it's the way his cartoonish nasal french destroys all the kenny g ambience.)
― minna (minna), Thursday, 17 October 2002 01:12 (twenty years ago) link
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― minna (minna), Thursday, 17 October 2002 02:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Paul R, Thursday, 17 October 2002 07:35 (twenty years ago) link
Minna was this inspired that ad with 'ca plane pour moi' on it? Can't remember what it's for or what it's like but I sing along whenever it comes on.
― Keith McD (Keith McD), Thursday, 17 October 2002 08:50 (twenty years ago) link
― nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 17 October 2002 10:08 (twenty years ago) link
hehe, not directly, but it could have been a subliminal thing... there were several contributing factors:
*i put ca plane pour moi on a mix cd for my mum (by request)*a few days later the guy who came to fix my window spotted michael jackson's 'off the wall' and we started talking about music: he loves off the wall and the cover art reminds him of his favourite record of all time: ca plane pour moi/pogo pogo. he picked his up for a dollar at a garage sale.
i bet my mum asked for the song cos of the ad!
― minna (minna), Thursday, 17 October 2002 14:48 (twenty years ago) link
indeed he is. saw it on eurothrash.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 17 October 2002 14:51 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.comicgenius.com/DiscoFever/disco_profiles/plastic_bertrand/plastic_bertrand_profile.htm
― xhuxk, Thursday, 7 July 2005 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link
Search: Most of Minna's list (not too keen on "Sentimentale-moi" and "Le monde est merveilleux"), also "Slave to the Beat" (Plastiiiiiiic!) and "Téléphone à Téléphone Mon Bijou".
― Seb (Seb), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link
"Ca plane" hit #49 in Billboard, not #39 - still pretty goddamn impressive, I think, though I wish it would have gone top 40 like Edith Piaf's "La vie en rose".
― Patrick (Patrick), Friday, 8 July 2005 04:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― moley (moley), Friday, 8 July 2005 06:47 (seventeen years ago) link
That's made my day! Now, how about a double bill with Metal Urbain?
― Soukesian, Friday, 8 July 2005 07:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 8 July 2005 09:07 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Baaderonixx le Belge (Fabfunk), Friday, 8 July 2005 13:17 (seventeen years ago) link
Indeed it is. Hence the chugging.
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 8 July 2005 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.france-amerique.com/articles/2010/07/26/plastic_bertrand_n_a_pas_chante_ca_plane_pour_moi.html
!!!
― kim cardassian (s1ocki), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 13:32 (twelve years ago) link
WTF!
― seandalai, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 13:54 (twelve years ago) link
Le chanteur n'a jamais nié avoir fait du play-back. Mais Lou Deprijck, dont les motivations financières semblent à peine dissimulées, va plus loin. Selon lui, il aurait également chanté les chansons de Plastic Bertrand "jusqu’au quatrième album où on s’est disputé." "Je suis à l’origine de son succès. Même son nom, c’est moi qui l’ai choisi (...) Plastic a fait, à l’époque, des essais de voix, mais ça ne donnait rien… Il a une voix entre Michou et Hervé Vilard !", renchérit-il.
Apparently Bertrand was Milli-Vanilli-ing all the way up to his fourth album...
― seandalai, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
Say it ain't so, Plastic
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:09 (twelve years ago) link
oh, he did, in 2006, and the Belgian courts agreed
http://fillessourires.com/?tag=plastic-bertrand
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
ha - so the music was Elton Motello and the singing was Lou Deprijck!
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:47 (twelve years ago) link
it's beautiful in a KLF kind of way
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
In 'you could have knocked me over with a feather' news, the guest judge this week on Drag Race Belgique? Mr. Plastic B himself. He was looking GREAT, rocking a silver fox look, and was absolutely into it all.
https://ds.static.rtbf.be/article/image/1920x1080/f/3/4/d6c651ddcd97183b2e40bc464231c962-1678896867.png
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 18 March 2023 02:26 (one week ago) link
So still the king of the divan, then?
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 18 March 2023 02:39 (one week ago) link