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“Ca Plane Pour Moi” by Plastic Bertrand

From the album An 1 (1978)

“Ca Plane Pour Moi” by Plastic Bertrand appears on 24 radio countdowns from 8 stations between 1988 and 2026. It was first released in 1978 on the album An 1. Its best result is #200 on the WLIR Top 200 Songs of All-Time (1988). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,198 alternative song of all time.

24countdowns
8stations
#200best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
1988–2026years charted

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"Ça plane pour moi", the 1977 song from Belgian musician Plastic Bertrand, is the most gloriously ridiculous punk single of the lot. Lou Deprijck wrote the music and produced it, Yves Lacomblez supplied the French words, and the backing track had already done a turn that same year under Elton Motello's "Jet Boy, Jet Girl".

It's buzzsaw guitars and a manic, rattling vocal, topped with a four-note hook straight out of the Beach Boys and Four Seasons songbook. Some called it punk, some called it new wave, some called it a send-up of the whole business, and all of them could be right. The title is a French idiom that roughly means "this works for me", or literally "it is gliding for me". It later landed on An 1, and it reached No. 8 on the UK Singles Chart in mid-1978, beating every cover that followed.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

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All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1988 456 Live 105 Live 105 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1988) 501
1988 200 WLIR / WDRE WLIR Top 200 Songs of All-Time (1988) 200
1992 500 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1992) 500
1999 651 CD101 CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 2000
2000 651 CD101 CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) 2001
2001 632 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2002 632 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2002 1083 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) 2002
2003 632 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2003 636 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) 2044
2004 632 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2005 633 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2007 1468 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 1394 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 1405 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2010 1436 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 1499 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 1557 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2014 1614 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013
2019 526 KEXP KEXP Listeners' Favorite Songs of All Time 627
2022 816 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '70s 908
2022 481 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time 1055
2025 255 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 800 Mood Booster Songs 800
2026 308 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs You Discovered on The Colorado Sound 1055

Also listed as: A Plane Pour Moi.

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