For Mike, Galmin and others with German viewpoint...

Rev9Volts · Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 1327

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Remember Nena and 99 Luftbaloons... Prolly not Galmin as he is prolly too young. :wgrin

an american thread on her and of course thread strays into hairy armpits.... :ohno

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Galmin · The King has spoken! Joined: 30 Dec 2001 Posts: 1711

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Remember Nena and 99 Luftbaloons... Prolly not Galmin as he is prolly too young.

Hmpff! Of course i 'remember' Nena, she's still has a career, you know. A couple of years ago she sang a duet with Kim Wilde(!)

Oh and she's shaved those ominous pits now, it seems.

The theme in the original lyrics is "99".

As in 99 ballons taken for UFO's and 99 combatjets were sent up to intercept, then 99 warministers saw their chance and generated 99 years of war. After these 99 years there is no more warministers and no combatjets, though incredibly enough Nena finds a pristine ballon in the city ruins and let it fly... ugh

In the German lyrics there is no Captain Kirk. Sorry.

Rev9Volts · Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 1327

RonOnGuitar · Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 1916

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In the German lyrics there is no Captain Kirk. Sorry.

I thought I remembered the good Captain referenced to in the original, German version. This page seems to confirm that and it also matches your "song summary" pretty well.

Nena - 99 Luftballons/99 Red Balloons

I remember the end of the video; where she finds the last balloon and then she lets it float away, I believe.

Simple song to play, mostly 4 chords if memory serves (E F# A B ?).

Galmin · The King has spoken! Joined: 30 Dec 2001 Posts: 1711

Wha? Yer right, Ron. There is a Kirk reference in the lyrics. Funniest thing is, I never heard it. Wenn Nena Berlinert kann's keine Sau verstehen.

Edited by: Galmin at: 6/12/05 21:50