Another Girl, Another Planet#Blink-182

It was recorded on a 16-track analogue Studer 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, assisted by Ian Maidman, and later worked on and mixed at Basing Street Studios by Robert Ash.{{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}}

The track was not a chart 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.{{Cite web|url=https://nztop40.co.nz/|title=The Official New Zealand Music Chart|website=Nztop40.co.nz|access-date=2 October 2021}}{{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" by the Psychedelic Furs to promote the compilation album, Sound of the Suburbs, and appeared in the UK Singles Chart for two weeks, peaking at No. 57.{{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}}{{cite book

| first= David

| last= Roberts

| year= 2006

| title= British Hit Singles & Albums

| edition= 19th

| publisher= Guinness World Records Limited

| location= London

| isbn= 1-904994-10-5

| page= 407}}

AllMusic describes it as "Arguably, the greatest rock single ever recorded".{{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}}

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".{{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}} In March 2005, Q magazine placed the song at number 83 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.{{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}}

The song is widely believed to be about heroinAndrew Stafford, Something to Believe In, University of Queensland Press, 2019

"A fantastic song with an amazing guitar line," enthused Tim Wheeler of Northern Irish rock 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 being high. It was Peter Perrett's heroin-heavy drawl that eventually gave it away".{{cite magazine|first= Tim |last= Wheeler |author-link= Tim Wheeler |title= Sci-fi rocks |magazine= Q |date= August 2007 |page= 117}} 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".{{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}}

The song's title was used as the name of 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 (1996), Me Without You (2001), D.E.B.S. (2004), Paul (2011), and Her Smell (2018).{{cn|date=December 2024}}

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| type = promo

| artist = Blink-182

| album = Greatest Hits

| released = 2005

| recorded = Late 2004

| studio = Larrabee Sound Studios (Los Angeles, California)

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| genre = Pop punk

| length = 2:42

| label = Universal

| writer = Peter Perrett

| producer = * Mark Hoppus

• Tom DeLonge
• Travis Barker

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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 album.

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