99 Red Balloons

Yea, it is a great song, I always feel like a Captain Kirk when I listen to it.

For some reason that songs always reminds me of "The Wedding Singer",
it was such a short clip of Drew Barrymore singing in front of her
mirror.. but, my goodness how it stuck.

[Edited on Dec 05, 2003 by awkward]

It's my ring tone also Clara.

oh I love that song. it was an mp3 that I downloaded from napster like, 3-4 years ago, and I still have that mp3, 2 computers later.

awkward, you make me feel soooo old... I need a nap.

Sorry, but fuck you as you've gotten 99 Luftballoons stuck in my head again..

Fucker.

this song starts out my new mix cd...the german version....followd by Joan Jett's crimson and clover.....the combination of those 2 songs make me drool

Goldfinger's version is WAY cooler!

7 Seconds' version is better but nothing beats Nena's original.



[Edited on Dec 05, 2003 by brakums]

I love that song! did nena just disappear? I should check vh1 where are they now.

she was the one who started the stereotype of hairy german women when she sung on a tv show over here....

my ex boyfriend lives in holland and apparently she's still pretty popular there.
www.nena.de

Not to sound like the American I am, but does she have an English site? I would love to see what she has done and maybe buy some albums.

PS. Yes, I can run the site through google or bablefish, but I would a nice translation.

[Edited on Dec 06, 2003 by Mullen]

Ha. Always makes me think of German class in highschool, having to sing along to some crappy version of it taped off of German radio...

neunundneunzig Luftballons...

7 seconds version is much much better than goldfingers

the most fantastic stripper in the whole entire world danced for me to that song on my 21st birthday. so it holds a special place in heart....

I agree.

Telus, the phone company in these here parts, has a TV commercial spot these days using this song. Their advertising campaign for their mobility division has been the same since before it was acquired from Clearnet years and years ago... they use animals in front of whitescreens, with recognizable songs with relevant lyrics playing in the background... This latest one really doesn't make much sense though. It shows a bunch of red baloons floating up past the camera, and then there are pigs strapped to the balloons that also float up past the camera... the tagline is something about saying what you could never say in words, and the commercial turns out to be for cell phones with built in digital cameras... I suppose it's supposed to be a reference to "When pigs fly..." but it's pretty weak. it annoys the hell out of me every time it comes on.

Hast Du etwas Zeit fuer mich
singe ich ein Lied fuer Dich
von 99 Luftballons
auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont...

Heh, the song is in Vice City.

AND ON MY COMPUTER

...and playing right now.




I'm spent.

[Edited on Dec 07, 2003 by qzlxno]

7 Seconds rendition is the one I remember!!

Nena was HOT! So was Kim Wilde and Debbie Harry

it translated itself and jumped onto my 80s mix cd for Keith's CD swap

i luv that song!! every time i see balloons...i think of it! it haunts me on a daily basis.. on in a good way