“Another Girl, Another Planet” by The Only Ones

"Another Girl, Another Planet" sits second on the Only Ones' 1978 debut, The Only Ones, and it's the song the band will always be remembered by. They cut it at Escape Studios, a live-in setup in Egerton, Kent, with John Burns engineering and producing on a 16-track Studer and a Helios desk that once belonged to Steve Marriott; Robert Ash finished and mixed it at Basing Street Studios. What came out is a rush of chiming, tumbling guitars and a vocal that sounds half lovesick and half out of orbit.

Nobody bit at first. It didn't chart anywhere until New Zealand took it to 44 in 1981, and a 1992 UK reissue, paired with the Psychedelic Furs' "Pretty in Pink" to plug the Sound of the Suburbs compilation, stalled at 57. The critics caught up anyway: AllMusic's Andy Claps called it a contender for the greatest rock single ever made, and John Peel's millennium Festive Fifty placed it at 18.

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