Who originally did the song "99 Red Balloons"?

[coloradodem2005]

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[Beware the Beast Man]

1. Nena

[Sanity Claws]

3. Wasn't it originally in German?

[Beware the Beast Man]

5. Yes, "99 Luftballoons"

[Lady Freedom]

7. Ja! Sein ist Deutsch!

And the best version too! But I'm a little bias!

[KurtNYC]

8. She performed at last year's Einheit festival

at the Brandenburg Tor. Still sounds great.

[Lady Freedom]

11. here in german

99 Luftballons- (Original Version in German)


Hast du etwas Zeit für mich
Dann singe ich ein Lied für dich
Von 99 Luftballons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont
Denkst du vielleicht g'rad an mich
Singe ich ein Lied für dich
Von 99 Luftballons
Und das sowas von sowas kommt

99 Luftballons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont
Hielt man für Ufos aus dem All
Darum schickte ein General
'Ne Fliegerstaffel hinterher
Alarm zu geben wenn's so wär
Dabei war'n dort am Horizont
Nur 99 Luftballons

99 Düsenflieger
Jeder war ein grosser Krieger
Hielten sich für Captain Kirk
Das gab ein grosses Feuerwerk
Die Nachbarn haben nichts gerafft
Und fühlten sich gleich angemacht
Dabei schoss man am Horizont
Auf 99 Luftballons

99 Kriegsminister
Streichholz und Benzinkanister
Hielten sich für schlaue Leute
Witterten schon fette Beute
Riefen: Krieg und wollten Macht
Man wer hätte das gedacht
Das es einmal so weit kommt
Wegen 99 Luftballons

Wegen 99 Luftballons

99 Luftballons

99 Jahre Krieg
Liessen keinen Platz für Sieger
Kriegsminister gibt's nicht mehr
Und auch keine Düsenflieger
Heute zieh ich meine Runden
Seh' die Welt in Trümmern liegen
Hab' 'nen Luftballon gefunden
Denk' an dich und lass' ihn fliegen

[Lady Freedom]

12. here in English

99 Red Balloons

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
'till one by one they were gone
Back at base, sparks in the software
Flash the message "something's out there"
Floating in the summer sky
Ninety nine red balloons go by

Ninety nine 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
And focusing it on the sky
The ninety nine red balloons go by

Ninety nine decisions treat
Ninety nine ministers meet
To worry, worry, super scurry
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 Ninety nine red balloons go by

Ninety nine 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
Ninety nine red balloons go by

As ninety nine red balloons go by

Ninety nine 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

[Wickerman]

2. wasn't it Nena?

as 99 Luft Balloons? Then they rerecorded an English version?

[tsakshaug]

4. yes

have both versions on my computer.
Nothing sounds quite like german singing....
at least to my ears

[Beer Snob-50]

6. Half the album was in german

and half in English. It was a very good album.

[aden_nak]

9. 99 Luftballoons rocks.

I used to have it all memorized, phonetically.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

10. Just heard a crapped-out version in a JC Penney commercial yesterday.

The commercial was for Black Monday (Valentine's Day) and I thought that the background music sounded familiar. After a few seconds, I realized it was a man singing "99 Luftballons" (The English version, of course.)


It's a FREAKING SONG ABOUT NUCLEAR WAR and some twit on Madison Avenue decided "Hey! It's a catchy song about nuclear armageddon...let's make it a love song!"

:eyes::mad::eyes::mad::eyes: