# I Think I Just Found My New Favorite Song

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-found-my-new-favorite-song/479014>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 29, 2008, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-found-my-new-favorite-song/479014 "2008-12-29T01:25:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![The\_Falling\_Reverend](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aca169/32.png) [@The\_Falling\_Reverend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Falling_Reverend)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-found-my-new-favorite-song/479014/1 "2008-12-29T01:25:30Z")

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Jet Boy Jet Girl, by… well whichever artist I’m in the mood for.

I believe this is the original

[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KAXvTvO0TI)

and then there is this other version that I love which was also the first time I heard the song (Thanks Mike!, oh yeah and that is various members of The Damned on stage as well.)

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/9K_KMUe02ew/hqdefault.jpg "The Briefs - "Jet Boy, Jet Girl" (Live) BYO Records") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K_KMUe02ew)

And probably my favorite version

[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfd0kEdcELk)

I don’t know what it is exactly about this song I just can’t stop listening to it. I know its not the subject matter since I don’t swing that way. Still a great song, whichever version it is.

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**Author:** ![nani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/58956e/32.png) [@nani](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nani)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-found-my-new-favorite-song/479014/2 "2008-12-29T04:24:06Z")

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The Damned did a cover of that. Straight cred with the indie crowd.

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**Author:** ![The\_Falling\_Reverend](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aca169/32.png) [@The\_Falling\_Reverend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Falling_Reverend)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-found-my-new-favorite-song/479014/3 "2008-12-29T05:01:54Z")

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> [@nani](#):
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> Straight cred with the indie crowd.

Isn’t that the same crowd who brought us a multitude of horrible pretentious bands and even worse fashion in the last few years ? I don’t think their credit is worth much anymore.

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**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-found-my-new-favorite-song/479014/4 "2008-12-29T05:28:31Z")

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> [@The\_Falling\_Reverend](#):
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> Isn’t that the same crowd who brought us a multitude of horrible pretentious bands and even worse fashion in the last few years ? I don’t think their credit is worth much anymore.

:dubious:  
Anyhoo, yeah it’s a fun song. KEXP plays the Plastic Bertrand version every so often–come to think of it, I’m not sure I ever actually heard the original version before clicking the link in the OP.