Newly discovered awesome song

[Go_Blue88]

99 Luftballoons by Nena. Man I dunno what that chick is singing about, but she's great. I can't get it out of my head.

[PoBoy321]

[ QUOTE ]
You and I in a little toy shop
Buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got
Set them free at the break of dawn
Til one by one, they were gone
Back at base bugs in the software
Flash the message, something's out there
Floating in the summer sky
99 red balloons go by

99 red balloons
Floating in the summer sky
Panic bells it's red alert
There's something here from somewhere else
The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky as 99 red balloons go by

99 Decision street
99 ministers meet
To worry, worry, super flurry
Call the troops out in a hurry
This is what we've waited for
This is it boys, this is war
The president is on the line
As 99 red balloons go by

99 knights of the air
Ride super high tech jet fighters
Everyone's a super hero Everyone's a Captain Kirk
With orders to identify
To clarify, and classify
Scramble in the summer sky
99 red balloons go by

99 dreams I have had In every one a red balloon
It's all over and I'm standing pretty
In this dust that was a city
If I could find a souvenir
Just to prove the world was here
And here is a red balloon
I think of you, and let it go

[/ QUOTE ]

It's about nuclear proliferation.

[Seadood228]

I remember that video when I was growing up overseas. I was soooo ready to rub one out until she lifted up her arms. Took me a few weeks to recover.

[theweatherman]

I remember when Goldfinger covered the song on one of their albums (stomping grounds it think). I also remember when it was featured on one of the radio stations in GTA: Vice City. Needless to say it is a cool song, but about 2 decades old.

[imported_CaseClosed326]

Get the english version, and the goldfinger one. Very good song.

[MyTurn2Raise]

did you miss the eighties?

[whiskeytown]

as others have said, the original version in German - the english translation is my fav. - Red Balloons -

it was ok - I wasn't blown away by it like Safety Dance, though - /images/graemlins/grin.gif

RB

[daveymck]

I remember when it came out being an old fart, there are also quite a few decent punk covers of the song knocking about.

It is also the most hardest somg on Donky Kong Jungle beat on gamecub, with the drum things anyway.