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{{Short description|1978 new wave song by English band The Only Ones}}
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{{Infobox song
| name       = Another Girl, Another Planet
| cover      = Onlyonesgirl.jpg
| alt        =
| type       = single
| artist     = [[the Only Ones]]
| album      = [[The Only Ones (album)|The Only Ones]]
| B-side     = "Special View"
| released   = 1978
| recorded   = April 1978
| studio     = * [[Escape Studios]] ([[Egerton, Kent]])
* [[Basing Street Studios]] (London)
| venue      =
| genre      = 
* [[New wave music|New wave]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/best-songs-1978-new-wave-post-punk-singles-spotify-playlist-a8385766.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/best-songs-1978-new-wave-post-punk-singles-spotify-playlist-a8385766.html |archive-date=2022-05-07 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Playlist: 10 best new wave singles of 1978|last=Ross|first=Graeme|date=7 June 2018|website=[[The Independent]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name="AllMusic Kellman">{{AllMusic |class=album|id=mw0000230540|title= Various Artists - ''New Wave Hits of the '70s and '80s'' (2002) Review|last= Kellman|first= Andy|access-date= December 1, 2024}}</ref>
* [[power pop]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FCQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA147|title=Billboard|date=1979|publisher=[[Nielsen Holdings|Nielsen Business Media, Inc.]]|volume=91|page=147|issn=0006-2510|issue=41}}</ref>
| length     = 3:02
| label      = [[Columbia Records|Columbia]]
| writer     = [[Peter Perrett]]
| producer   = * The Only Ones
* Robert Ash
| prev_title = Lovers of Today
| prev_year  = 1977
| next_title = The Whole of the Law
| next_year  = 1978
| misc       = {{External music video|header=Official audio|{{YouTube|ilDD5SeHxXE|"Another Girl, Another Planet"}}}}
}}
"'''Another Girl, Another Planet'''" is a song by the English [[Rock music|rock]] band [[the Only Ones]]. It is the second track on their debut studio album, ''[[The Only Ones (album)|The Only Ones]]'', released in 1978. The song is the band's most successful and has since been covered by several other performers.

== Recording ==
It was recorded on a [[Multitrack recording|16-track]] analogue [[Studer]] [[Tape recorder|tape machine]] and an ex-[[Steve Marriott]] Helios mixing console at Escape Studios, a residential facility in [[Egerton, Kent]], England, by engineer and producer [[John Burns (audio engineer)|John Burns]], assisted by [[Jennifer Maidman|Ian Maidman]], and later worked on and mixed at [[Basing Street Studios]] by Robert Ash.<ref>{{cite web|last=Buskin |first=Richard |url=http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul07/articles/classictracks_0707.htm |title=CLASSIC TRACKS: The Only Ones: 'Another Girl, Another Planet' |publisher=[[Sound on Sound]] |date=27 April 2007 |access-date=13 October 2016}}</ref>

== Chart performance ==
The track was not a [[record chart|chart]] [[Hit song|hit]] upon its initial release in 1978. Its first chart appearance was 7 June 1981, at No. 44, for one week, on the New Zealand chart.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nztop40.co.nz/|title=The Official New Zealand Music Chart|website=Nztop40.co.nz|access-date=2 October 2021}}</ref>{{citation needed|reason=Not for 1st appearance but for that NZ chart|date=March 2016}} It was re-released in the UK in January 1992, backed with "[[Pretty in Pink (song)|Pretty in Pink]]" by [[the Psychedelic Furs]] to promote the [[compilation album]], ''Sound of the Suburbs'', and appeared in the [[UK singles chart|UK Singles Chart]] for two weeks, peaking at No. 57.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://collectorsfrenzy.com/details/290606394928/The_Only_Ones__Psychedelic_Furs_RARE_vinyl_7_single|title=CollectorsFrenzy - The Only Ones / Psychedelic Furs RARE vinyl 7" single|date=18 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150118060919/http://collectorsfrenzy.com/details/290606394928/The_Only_Ones__Psychedelic_Furs_RARE_vinyl_7_single|access-date=2 October 2021|archive-date=2015-01-18}}</ref><ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums">{{cite book
| first= David
| last= Roberts
| year= 2006
| title= [[British Hit Singles & Albums]]
| edition= 19th
| publisher= [[Guinness World Records|Guinness World Records Limited]]
| location= London
| isbn= 1-904994-10-5
| page= 407}}</ref>

== Recognition ==
[[AllMusic]] describes it as "Arguably, the greatest rock single ever recorded".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/song/another-girl-another-planet-mt0002099863|title=Another Girl, Another Planet - The Only Ones - Listen, Appearances, Song Review - AllMusic|author=Andy Claps|work=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=18 January 2015}}</ref>

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".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/festive50lists.htm#All%20time%20festive%2050%20-%20%20Year%202000|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060405115334/http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/festive50lists.htm#All%20time%20festive%2050%20-%20%20Year%202000|url-status=usurped|archive-date=April 5, 2006|title=Rocklist.net...John Peel's Festive 50's - 1977 - 2003 .....|publisher=Rocklistmusic.co.uk|access-date=18 January 2015}}</ref> In March 2005, ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]'' magazine placed the song at number 83 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/qlistspage3.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060224054627/http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/qlistspage3.htm |url-status=usurped |archive-date=February 24, 2006 |title=Rocklist.net...Q Magazine Lists |website=Rocklistmusic.co.uk |access-date=13 October 2016}}</ref>

The song is widely believed to be about [[heroin]]<ref>Andrew Stafford, ''Something to Believe In'', University of Queensland Press, 2019</ref>
"A fantastic song with an amazing guitar line," enthused [[Tim Wheeler]] of Northern Irish rock band [[Ash (band)|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 [[Substance intoxication|being high]]. It was Peter Perrett's heroin-heavy drawl that eventually gave it away".<ref>{{cite magazine|first= Tim |last= Wheeler |author-link= Tim Wheeler |title= Sci-fi rocks |magazine= [[Q (magazine)|Q]] |date= August 2007 |page= 117}}</ref> In an interview in 2015 Perrett declared that the song has been actually inspired by a girl and that it is not about heroin, nevertheless admitting that he always enjoyed "writing ambiguous lyrics that could be taken on two or three different levels".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.uncut.co.uk/features/peter-perrett-wasnt-drugs-time-addicted-sex-99985 |author=Pinnock, Tom |title=Peter Perrett: "It wasn't about drugs{{nbsp}}... at that time, I was more addicted to sex"|date=13 April 2017|website=[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]}}</ref>

== In popular culture ==
The song's title was used as the name of [[Another Girl Another Planet (film)|a 1992 American independent film]] directed by [[Michael Almereyda]], though the song does not appear in the film. It does appear, though, in six films and their soundtracks:  ''[[That Summer!]]'' (1979), ''[[Different for Girls (film)|Different for Girls]]'' (1996), ''[[Me Without You (film)|Me Without You]]'' (2001), ''[[D.E.B.S. (2004 film)|D.E.B.S.]]'' (2004), [[Paul (2011 film)|''Paul'']] (2011), and ''[[Her Smell]]'' (2018).{{cn|date=December 2024}}

== Cover versions ==
=== Blink-182 ===
{{Infobox song
| name     = Another Girl Another Planet
| cover    =
| alt      =
| border   = yes
| type     = promo
| artist   = [[Blink-182]]
| album    = [[Greatest Hits (Blink-182 album)|Greatest Hits]]
| released = 2005
| recorded = Late 2004
| studio   = Larrabee Sound Studios ([[Los Angeles]], [[California]])
| venue    =
| genre    = [[Pop punk]]
| length   = 2:42
| label    = [[Universal Music Group|Universal]]
| writer   = Peter Perrett
| producer = * [[Mark Hoppus]]
* [[Tom DeLonge]]
* [[Travis Barker]]
}}
The American rock band [[Blink-182]] recorded a cover version of this song for the opening track of Travis Barker's [[MTV]] reality show ''[[Meet the Barkers]]''. It was later released in 2005 as the closing track on their ''[[Greatest Hits (Blink-182 album)|Greatest Hits]]'' album.

{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! scope="col" | Chart (2005)
! scope="col" | Peak<br />position
|-
! scope="row" | US [[Pop 100]] (''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'')<ref name="can1">
{{cite magazine
| title       = Pop – Pop 100
| volume = 117
| issue= 47
|page = 54
| magazine      = [[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]
| date        = 19 November 2005
| url        = https://books.google.com/books?id=5RQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA54
| publisher   = Nielsen Business Media, Inc.
| access-date  = 21 March 2016
}}
</ref>
| style="text-align:center;" | 99
|}

== References ==
{{Reflist|30em}}

== External links ==
* {{discogs master|type=single|490207}}

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[[Category:Songs containing the I–V-vi-IV progression]]